Artwork

I started teaching myself scientific illustration in 1998, mainly as an attempt to learn cranial anatomy for the Palaeobiology MSc that I was starting the following year. My initial attempts were pretty awful.

Illustrated here are some drawings that I am reasonably happy with. I was especially pleased that my reconstructions of Colepiocephale were used in Don Glut's Dinosaurs: the encyclopedia, supplement 4 (2006).

While the quality of my reconstructions is nowhere near as high as other artists, I do take some pride in the accuracy of my dinosaur feet (although there aren't many on show here). Greg Paul's artwork is a good place to start if you want to see feet drawn well: ie. not like elephants.

(Left) Closeup headshot of Colepiocephale lambei (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauria). I drew this for my good friend Dr Robert Sullivan for the press release on his naming of this new genus in 2003

(Below) Full body reconstruction of Colepiocephale, although the holotype comprises only a partial skull.

Cervical 3 or 4 of a juvenile Mamenchisaurus sp.

Cervical 15 of a large adult Mamenchisaurus sp.

I was never totally happy with this drawing of Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis . The narial area is inaccurate, and the nodes around the eye have the wrong arrangement. I was going to alter it to be more correct... maybe I will one day...

This is one of my early efforts. A 1998 attempt at a Velociraptor reconstruction.
The hand is oriented incorrectly, and I drew this in the days before it was customary to clothe your maniraptors in feathers (remember those days?).