#tethydraco

Drew this

The scale is a little weird but do this by myself at night

You ever fall in love with a prehistoric animal not because of other reconstructions but because of your own?

can we go back to Simurghia yet

Discount Pteranodont (jk love you tethydraco)

The child predator

Some old art of my "dinosaur-human coexistence" concept, featuring characters OTHER than the protagonists!

These characters are Maria and her son Davey. They run an inn that Ben sometimes stays in during his travels. Maria's companion is a Tetrapodophis named Fourfeet and Davey's is a Rahonavis named Cloudy, whom he's trying to teach how to talk.

The next pair are Ren (blue hair and pronouns) and Irwin (blond hair). Ren is a person living on an island to the east of the continent working to become a veterinarian. They actually become Ben's love interest when he and Windryder crash land in front of their family's home. Their companion is a Leptoceratops. Irwin is a boy who lives on an island to the west of the continent and he and Ben get wrapped up in an adventure involving pirates. His companion is an elasmosaur named Nessarose.

These two are Alon and Typhoon. Alon is Ben's grandfather and a fisherman who trains pterosaurs to fish with him like cormorants. His main pterosaur is Typhoon, an albino pteranodontid (originally meant to just straight up be a Pteranodon, but I'm thinking of changing him to a Tethydraco) who's been with him for nearly forty years.

And this image is just a better picture of Ren, since I feel like the one with their Leptoceratops friend didn't show enough detail.

1) Coelourosaurs (all the Tyrannosaurs, raptors, and Therizinosaurs that we see in the show) are majestic and beautiful. Every motion they make, from the careful stalking of the Velociraptor, to the skittish movements of the Mononykus, is deliberate and graceful. There's an intelligence behind all of their eyes, which reveals itself whenever they mourn, hunt, commit arson, or aspire. If I met a Coelourosaur in real life, it would come out of that encounter a changed and more soulful man.

2) Pterosaurs are fucking freaks. Those motherfuckers have the audacity to walk everywhere like screwed-up little mutant humans (like us, they're plantigrades), with beaks so goddamn large that they can make percussion a part of how they communicate. Their eyes have seen god and know that he died, and they revel in that. And don't even get me started on Azhdarchids (the tall ones). Deadass dragons of chaos, with the largest being as tall as a Giraffe. Hatzegopteryx would crush me in it's beak and swallow me whole, and there'd be nothing I could do about that.