#creature drawing

WHAZAAAAAAAA Sorry for the lack of posts. University has been a constant agony and I’m stuck designing pixelated houses (hey, not complaining, medieval peasant houses are surprisingly fun to draw. Might post the in the future.)

For now, here are some WIPS of prehistoric critters I’ve been drawing. Are they accurate? No, not really. Wanted to go for a Primeval style. Although I might remove Styracosaurus’ second smaller horn, or maybe alter it slightly. Idk.

Spinosaurus mirabilis is a large extinct species of spinosaurid theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian), around 95 million years ago, discovered in the Farak Formation of Niger. It belongs to the genus Spinosaurus and was formally named in 2026 by Paul Sereno and colleagues. Like other members of its genus, it possessed a long, low snout, a scimitar‑shaped midline crest on the skull, and a large sail formed by elongated neural spines along its back.

Fossils of S. mirabilis were collected from two main localities—Iguidi and Jenguebi—during expeditions in 2000, 2019, and 2022. The holotype, MNBH JEN1, includes a fragmentary skull with premaxilla, maxillae, nasal crest, part of the dentary, and several teeth. Additional specimens from Jenguebi (JEN2–9) preserve vertebrae, limb fragments, and isolated teeth, while Iguidi material consists mostly of isolated tooth crowns and vertebral fragments. Some bones were initially misidentified as belonging to other theropods, such as Carcharodontosaurus or Sigilmassasaurus, before being reassigned to S. mirabilis in its formal description.