Dinosaur Scene Sketches (Patreon)

So back in 2017 and 2018 I was on a bit of a dinosaur art binge and I had a lot of ideas for unconventional situations and interactions, or just obscure species, in terms of palaeoart. If you've seen my DeviantArt gallery, you'll notice I did in fact put a lot of them down, but there were a lot more ideas that I didn't get to. The first three were three I didn't get to, the last one I actually did.

1. Allosaurus hunting Gargoyleosaurus. Gargoyleosaurus was one of two ankylosaur species known from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation; it's neither dubious, nor fragmentary, and in fact known from good remains, but for whatever reason everyone seems to forget that it exists, or that ankylosaurs as a whole existed before the Cretaceous. So I portrayed it here being hunted by a predator stereotypically shown hunting thyreophorans, although this is a wildly different thyreophoran than it's normally seen with.

2. Suchomimus getting mobbed by a herd of Lurdusaurus. Not too much to say here except the obvious, it's based on scenes of crocodiles being mobbed by bloats of hippos, but they're equivalent dinosaurs now.

3. Yutyrannus having caught and killed a Repenomamus for its young. This one inverts the very popular palaeo-meme of the dinosaur-eater Repenomamus, although I've found it's already been done in that awful documentary Mammals vs. Dinosaurs, but with Dilong instead (because Yutyrannus hadn't been discovered yet).

4. An azhdarchid pterosaur snatches away a Gargantuavis chick from its parent. This one I actually did do a good copy version of, ironically, considering it's the least developed scene. The motivation for the scene was just a depiction of a bird and a pterosaur interacting, and I like Gargantuavis so I used it for the scene (another similar idea I had was for an interaction between a pterosaur and a mammal, which is another situation that's extremely uncommonly depicted, but I never drew out that one).