Illustrations for Mega Rex
I made these images for the book "Mega Rex: A Tyrannosaurus Named Scotty" by Dr. W. Scott Persons IV, released from Harbour Publishing in 2020. The ever-excellent Beth Zaiken did amazing work on most of the illustrations for the book, but I had the exciting opportunity to work on some of the smaller black and white and line drawings. The images presented here are a selection from the 18 that I did for the book.
On the publisher's site: https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/w-scott-persons/products/9781550179057
"Ascent of T. rex"
This image depicts the lineage connecting animals like Prolacerta, Marasuchus, Tawa, Tanycolagreus, Dryptosaurus, and Gorgosaurus to Tyrannosaurus.
Ancestral Amniote
The image shows a hypothetical early amniote, an ancestral form that led eventually to both Tyrannosaurus and humans, enjoying an insect snack.
Homo habilis
H. habilis was a tool-making hominin that lived between 2.1 and 1.5 million years ago. The book talks about H. habilis as a lesson in binomial nomenclature and evolutionary relationships.
Glacialisaurus, Stegosaurus, Spinosaurus, Muttaburrasaurus, and Amargasaurus
This image shows some of the vast diversity within the Dinosauria; none of these dinosaurs lived in the same time or place as each other.
"Raptor Snack"
This image depicts a tyrannosaurid consuming a dromaeosaurid.