Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Portrait of Robert Bakker

I did this portrait of paleontologist Robert Bakker to illustrate an article in a science magazine using oil wash over pencil.


Bakker has been a proponent of the hypothesis that dinosaurs were warm-blooded, smart, fast, and adaptable. He published a 1968 paper on dinosaur endothermy and wrote the book, The Dinosaur Heresies in 1986, which helped establish a scientific rationale for both Jurassic Park and Dinotopia.

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3 comments:

  1. Adam RexAugust 18, 2023 at 11:23 AM

    In an oil wash like this, do you use any opaque oil?

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  2. James GurneyAugust 18, 2023 at 11:34 AM

    Hey, Adam, love your work.
    On this one the oil is all transparent, with some of the beard hairs, etc scratched out. But I've always got the white if I need to cover up a goof.

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  3. RotM_81August 21, 2023 at 11:01 PM

    So happy to see this, as someone who grew up admiring both Bakker and you. When I was a teenager, I had an advertisement he did for Rockport shoes and Dinotopia stuff hanging in my bedroom.

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