Rough sauropod studies

Some VERY ROUGH pencil sketches & explorations of sauropod dinosaurs, hopefully in preparation for future art projects. I've been studying them as best I can lately, especially through the blogs & other work of researchers like Darren Naish, Mike Taylor & Matt Wedel.

Sauropod manus & pes

Skeletal features of Camarasaurus

Portrait sketch of a mamenchisaurid, heavily inspired by Brian Engh's portrait of Dystrophaeus.

Concept for some sort of infographic/artwork of mamenchisaurids.

Idea depicting the forest ecosystem of mamenchisaurids in Late Jurassic China, highlighting things like flora, contemporary herbivores & niche partitioning.

Sketches of various fossils preserving the structure of sauropod integument.