The Day Has Finally Arrived!

My last two drawings as a 22 year old: A Taurovenator violantei and my DragonBall OC Kota Hudson riding the Flying Nimbus.

At long last it's finally finished. Since August me and @chukapower.bsky.social have been collaborating on this art piece discussing the different details ans all. Here my OC Kota is slowly becoming a kid again while being apart of a get together with Bulma and her friends.

Finally finished the WIP. Featuring my OC powering up so hard that he ends up piercing the veil between life and death and channeling the spirits of his ancestors and several spirit animals with the main three being a Panther, A Tyrannosaurus Rex, and a Dragon.

A WIP that I first started earlier today. It's inspired by the intro for the movie Sinners that came out earlier this year. I'll continue on it tomorrow morning.

Making sure the soft tissues and framework were not just copies of Orangutan tissues was of the utmost importance. That extends into the coloration as well. Enjoy the most recent reconstruction, along with 3 others from a few years ago🦧

At a forest clearing, you're greeted by the guardian, the wise old man of the forest, Gigantopithecus blacki. Recent commission of the big guy, inspired by #prehistoricplaneticeage. Although this guy is a Pongine-->

Ultimately, I would revisit the facial tissue a few years later, adding more extensive narial carilage and prominent nasolabial muscles (and corresponding mystacial pad). This is important to note, as many mammal reconstructions undersell just how much tissue is present, aiding the animals in life

Once the dental, skeletal base and it's muscular landmarks were created, the rest of the animal could come to life. The pattern chosen after much trial and error, would reflect the predatory nature of this species, living along the forest floor and understory.

Reconstructing a hypothetical adult took a lot of digging through literature surrounding the anatomy and build of related Proviverrine and Sinopine Hyaenodonts. This would inform the proportions, build of the muscles and key anatomical traits displayed in these families.

Lesmesodon edingeri, a cat sized Hyaenodont from the #Messel Pit. We only have 4 fossils from this species, all still suckling age. Would be an early horse’s nightmare as an adult though (dissection in thread) #sciart (done in 2021)

Did a Nanotyrannus lethaeus restoration also btw.

Nanotyrannus lethaeus

Nanotyrannus lancensis

Sorry If I haven't posted anything here in a while. I've been a bit busy with school work and preparing for finals. But anyhow I've managed to do a restoration based on a paper from October 30th that finally proved the validity of Nanotyrannus. So I drew N. lancensis.

On this day, 120 years ago, the tyrant king was named and crowned. This creature has inspired millions in the fields of science, fiction, and art of all kinds. I tip my hat to you. #Tyrannosaurusrex

I hope I'm not too late. I'd like to wish a Happy 120th Birthday to the Tyrant Lizard King itself🎂🎈💯🔥 #tyrannosaurus #tyrannosaurusrex #tyrantlizardking #dinosaur #dinosaurs #Tyrannosauroidea #eutyrannosauria #pantyrannosauria

Saurophaganax arises from its slumber . . . #Saurophaganax #paleoart #dinosaur

This past sunday, I learned that it was the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the Giganotosaurus and I quickly decided to do my own take of the animal. I haven't drawn much of the animal in the past so I'm glad I was able to draw it again both to honor Ruben Carolini and improve my art skills.

The other week a newly described Iguanodontian from the Early Cretaceous of England was described named Istiorachis macarthurae. So I did an illustration reading the paper first and closely following the skeletal and I even used Argus Monitors (Varanus panoptes) as a good reference for color scheme.

It feels like I haven't posted anything on here in a while, so I'll just show off this illustration of my OC Kota's 2nd transformation along with a sketch from @chukapower.bsky.social showing off the sketch he made yesterday. #dragonball #dragonballz #anime #dragonballoc #dragonballdaima

Mirasaura #paleoart

New post and #paleoart at #Patreon: countershading in Psittacosaurus: was it _definitely_ for camouflage? Not everyone is convinced. Read the discussion, see this piece in hi-res and check out the WIPs at www.patreon.com/posts/gettin.... #dinosaur #sciart #fossil #paleontology

New at #Patreon: discussion of this scene of Sinosauropteryx waiting out a feeding Yutyrannus for carcass access. Or - hold on - are they waiting for their parent to feed them? Behold, the compsognathid identity dispute, now #paleoart flavoured! #sciart #dinosaurs www.patreon.com/posts/132334...

van der Linden, T.T.P. et al. 2025. Introduction to Diplodocoidea. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(2):a27. palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025...

A big shout out to @chukapower.bsky.social for making this artwork for me featuring my OC Kota meeting the Briefs for the first time with Piccolo & Yamcha in the background along with the rest of West City. The background colors are inspired by some vapourwave art that I've seen before.

Finished headshot commission! I’m having a lot of fun doing colorful shading :) #art #artcommission #digitalart #dinosaurart #dinosaur #giganotosaurus #giganotosaurusart

If you're looking for something fun to do, I've a few coloring sheets available on Ko-fi! ko-fi.com/pauloleite/s... #dinosaur #paleoart #coloringsheet #art

WIP of new Yutyrannus/Yixian Formation #paleoart that I'm working on. That psittacosaur will be fine, btw, he's just resting. (Sad to say this post is partly motivated by my art - like that of so many artists - being accused of being AI. AI doesn't have WIPs, folks) #dinosaurs #paleontology #sciart

More carboniferous bugs

Just finished a Stegotherium drawing specifically the species S. notohippidensis, which was described in a 2009 paper. It comes from the Santa Cruz formation of the Santacrucian stage of the Miocene epoch 17.5-16.3 MYA. I used the Nine-Banded Armadillo for reference as they're closely related.

I know I'm three days late and I haven't drawn anything in a few months because of school and stuff but I decided to draw an Ingentia prima for #internationaldinosaurday. I couldn't access the paper that formally described it so I used @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social blog post for reference.

Hey guys, sorry If I haven't posted on this account for the past few months. This entire semester has been nothing but hell for me right now and I haven't been able to get any drawing done since January. To make things worse I recently got scammed and I can't sign into my Twitter account.

Sorry if I haven't responded in so long. But here's my illustration of the newly described Tameryraptor, the new Egyptian Carcharodontosaur.

I aim to do a drawing of the newly described Carcharodontosaur Tameryraptor later this weekend now that it's the start of the new semester on my campus.

Quick sketch of the new (old) carcharodontosaur, Tameryraptor. #paleoart #sciart

These are sketches I made on the day the Tameryraptor talk was given at EAVP 2021 in Italy. #paleoart #sciart #tameryraptor #theropod

...and UK readers can can join @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on Digging for Britain next Wednesday (Jan 8th) on BBC2 at 20:00 for a closer look. Finally, thanks to @richardjbutler.bsky.social and @kirstymedgar.bsky.social for inviting me to restore this amazing find!

There will be a lot more to say about this site in the near future, as it's still under study. A technical paper is in the works and this will clarify the full extent, identifications and relationships of the trackways and their makers. For now, you can read more here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

We don't, of course, know the exact timing of these animals walking alongside one another. They may have never encountered each other, and the sauropod may have stopped for any number of reasons. But we felt the two noticing one another was a fun speculation to play with in the artwork.

The second shows details of an imagined interaction between two trackmakers. The large cetiosaur stopped at one point, putting a hand down out of sequence with the walking prints. We also know that the megalosaur crossed the cetiosaur tracks, deforming sediments already disturbed by the sauropod.

The first image shows the quarry as it would have appeared in the Jurassic. The environment may have been similar to the Florida Keys, with vast lime mudflats alongside lagoons. There was little or no vegetation, and the dinosaurs were walking along emergent or only shallowly submerged ground.

To create the art of the site, I sculpted 3D models of our likely trackmakers and dropped them into scans of the trackways to use as reference. I've never done any work in 3D before, so my models were crude, but very useful for conceptualising the two paintings.

Only one theropod trackway has been uncovered, and it might be from the OG dinosaur, Megalosaurus (another ID from geological context). Size estimates are complicated because of the nature of the sediment, but this was probably a large, not mid-sized theropod.

The prints are individually large, too. The sauropod tracks are from big (though not giant) animals, probably adult Cetiosaurus given the particulars of the location and Middle Jurassic age. Some were big enough to squelch the sediment as they walked, creating displacement rims.

With several animals walking around, the tracks cross in places and we can gauge, sometimes, who proceeded first. We also have individuals stopping and starting. Some also meander, with one sauropod trackway earning the nickname of the "drunk sauropod" because it wobbled about so much!

The big deal with the tracksite is the dimensions. It's a huge site, hundreds of metres long, and we haven't found the edges. Other long tracks found elsewhere in the quarry suggest we've only scratched the surface of its full extent. This is a rare UK dinosaur "megatracksite".