many people on another forum have asked me to make a tutorial. on how I draw dinosaurs. I might as well share it here as well
heres my first ever, step by step tutorial.
1)first things first, get some reference material.
unless you want you velociraptor to look more like a deinonychus or you spinosaurus to look more like a suchimimus, I suggest that if you want to make an accurate drawing, you need to get some reference material. this can easily get accomplished by looking at many skeletal mounts of the specific animal you want to depict ( or relatives if the animal you want to draw is based off of few remains). also look at skeletal drawing and even sculptures to inspire the desired look, pose, texture, coloring, etc of you creature.
another good idea is looking at our modern day dinosaurs. birds can conjure up a large array of poses that can easily translate to their ancient, multi-ton ancestry( just don't get overboard and start drawing a sue sized t-rex perched on a tree branch and say " if song birds can do it, why not a t-rex?" you might get away with that with a deinonychus, but I'm pretty sure people would start questioning you intellect if you did this seriously and not jokingly)
I have decided on drawing a torvosaurus for this tutorial. reasons being is because 1)it has a rather simple and recognizable theropod body platform, 2)I love megalosaurids, 3) torvosaurus is is a badass. so after a rather quick and easy search on google, this skeletal reconstruction caught my interest the most.
I like the pose it has. as well as how the perspective have his head looking larger and more terrifying then what it really is. so my overall drawing and pose would look similar to this. I might depict it running though. have it sanding on one foot, probably charging at a rival, or in pursuit of prey. it's up to you to decide.
you can go on and use and reference you want.
secondly, the anatomy is another crucial element. get a good image on how the animal can move and act. and know what it can and cannot do. it helps to look at the musculature of theropods and birds, as well as other animals.
in this case, god bless you scott Hartman
with this reference, you can correctly outline the possible contours for your theropod.
in the next step, we can start using pencils.