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by Brian Vitocruz (Author)
Learn how to accurately draw your favorite prehistoric creatures, with this full-color drawing guide filled with realistic step-by-step instructions and fun facts about T. rexes, stegosauruses, triceratops, and more.
Crack open your sketchbook, grab your pens and pencils, and get ready to turn your thoughts of the most epic dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles ever into beautiful and scientifically accurate drawings. In easy-to-follow, step-by-step detail, Drawing Dinosaurs teaches you all the tricks and techniques you'll need to create 19 of your own amazing dinosaurs, marine and flying reptiles, including tips on:
How to break down a creatures' body into basic, easy-to-draw shapes
How to consider a light source and body shape when shading
How to draw dinos in different poses
And so much more!
This book also features detailed fun facts about each animal, including what time period they lived in, where they were located, and their most distinguishing features, so you can be fully immersed in this prehistoric world. As you begin drawing all your favorite prehistoric creatures, remember you have the freedom to let your imagination run wild or strive to make something as close to what current science has to offer; the choice is yours!
Author Biography
Brian Vitocruz is an artist that has an extensive catalog of paleo art and creature design with both 2D and 3D works. Self-taught before graduating from California State University Northridge with a degree in art and animation, he now has multiple online shops where he sells 3D figures, prints, t-shirts, and other merchandise.
His work will also be featured in an upcoming documentary Why Dinosaurs? Inspired by the likes of James Gurney, John Bell, and John Gurche, his focus on the prehistoric has continued to imbue his love of ancient life into his work to create hundreds of both scientifically accurate and sci-fi pieces that celebrate some of the many life forms that have inhabited the earth.
