Dinosaur Taxidermy: Dilophosaurus!

 I've been wanting to make dinosaur busts for years now! Teaching a paper mache unit to 8th-Graders finally gave me the kick in the pants I needed to get started.

Here's a making-of video:

Also, here are the student projects!

Spinosaurus

 

Since the flat tail was discovered this year, I wanted to sculpt one of these

before someone else beat me to it!

The Beast from Twenty-thousand Fathoms watercolor

Concept art for a future project.

Etecoons and Dachoras

 

 

 

One of the cool things about Super Metroid is the number of hidden features you are left to find on your own without any hints. For instance, among the exotic fauna you meet in the planet's caves there are two which, rather than trying to kill you, simply want to help you out of their dens by teaching you new abilities.

This past month I discovered Kayakasaurus, a sculptor who uses similar methods to those I used to make Sophia, but on a whole 'nother level! His video on sculpting the Kelenken persuaded me to give feathers a try, though I have always been daunted by them.

"The Man in the Iron Pail Mask Watching the Bats"

Thanks to a birthday gift from my girlfriend, and the posthumous instruction of Bob Ross, I've taken up oil painting now! Consider this a piece of concept art for a future project.

Watercolors!

I've been playing with watercolors, and having a lot of fun! Here's my favorite woman in the world, and my favorite dinosaur.

Cadborosaurus

I'm getting back into colored pencils, and also cryptozoology.