Dinosaur Christmas Santa out in the snow

Dinosaur Christmas Santa out in the snow

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This digital illustration of a Dinosaur Santa was created in Oct 2013. It is painted to A4 size in photoshop, and shows a Dinosaur, based around a T-Rex, dressed as Santa Claus stomping through the winter snow. He is carrying a large sack on his back, full of gifts for lots of little dinosaurs. As well as the usual red costume the Dinosaur Santa is also donning a pair of half moon glasses and a big white beard. The full moon gives some illumination to the scene and the Northern lights in the sky provide a colourful backdrop.

Dinosaur Christmas Santa out in the snow

Christmas Card 2009 dinosaur carol singers

Dinosaur Carol Singers

This was painted in photoshop very late 2009. It was the christmas card for that year. As you can see I have had fun with the 'Dickensian' traditional christmas, and it is always nice to research clothes of the period. Very few were printed out and sent. Instead it was mostly sent via an email attachment. 

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This was painted in photoshop to A5 size during 2011. I like to portray dinosaurs in more contemporary settings than pre 65million years ago. The combination of a victorian themed christmas adds more humour in to the strange mix. I did some basic research in to the clothes of the era and the rest is typical of what one finds on a commercial christmas card.

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Community dinosaur policeman

Dinosaur chasing jeep

Dinosaur chasing jeep was painted in September 2005, and is a comic reaction to the 'jurassic park' film a few years previously. It is painted, in photoshop at quite a small size. It was one of the first images I painted but now as a standard any image would be at least twice the size.
'Community dinosaur policeman' was painted in july 2010.

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Dinosaur chasing jeep

This illustrates a cartoon cartoon tyrannosaurus rex chasing an escaping jeep with frightened occupant. The T rex has his tongue hanging out in anticipation of a meal. This painting is based on the film 'Jurassic Park'.
Painted in 2008. 

Dinosaur Community Policeman helping youngster
This illustration of a Dinosaur as a community police man is again the idea of changing a human, in a mundane activity and replacing them with a animal, or in this case a dinosaur. The species in this case is a Triceratops, and is comforting a young biped dinosaur over its broken toy, in an urban setting. Of course some is spent on reference for the clothing that a typical community policeman would wear. The illustration is painted in photoshop to a 8" x 10" format. These types of images are not drawn on paper first, but sketched out on the computer until a refined drawing is produced. The painting, using traditional methods of painting, in a virtual enviroment, are painted underneath the drawing on a separate photoshop layer, until such time the drawing can be abandoned. Other similar dinosaur paintings can be see on this site. Painted in 2010. 

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