RobbieSKatz

Hi, all. I'm not new to dA (I had a profile a while ago, but it was unfortunately supermegahacked), but I wanted to have a fresh start and a place where I could display my artwork. I know they aren't high-quality, but I am currently on foreign exchange with Rotary in northeastern Brasil, and I, of course, couldn't bring my scanner and my tablet with me; camera, pen, and pencil will be my media for a while.

I have always been interested in animals. For my entire life, I've been reading, drawing, researching, and writing about them. Whales, hippopotami, ratites, bovids, you name it. I'm obsessed, and will remain so for the rest of my life.

However, one group of animals has an extremely special place with me: dinosaurs. As long as I've been able to draw, write, and read, I've been creating dinosaur-related art. If I'm not mistaken, that'd be about fifteen years of this stuff. Of course, I like to think I've improved.

In my school, I'm known for being encyclopedic about them. I wear shirts displaying Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus, and the original three genera in Owen's Dinosauria. I'm a fanatic, and everyone knows. This may draw snickers and sneers, but in this day and age, when we're finding out more about these animals than ever before, I say there's no reason not to love them. The advent of dino-feathers, [what seems like] a new ceratopsid emerging every week, giant bounds in paleoart, writing, and research, and, of course, new documentaries are all testament to the ever-growing wonder, marvel, and awe associated with dinosaurs. It has been 225,000,000 years since their start, and they will never die.

I hope you enjoy my art, which will, one day, be cleaner and digitally colored and fancy. I also suggest checking out a community project (link below) entitled The Paleo Handbook, a collection of amateur (and not-so-amateur) paleontologists and paleontographers (including myself) who are working to create a comprehensive, believable, and detailed field guide to all things extinct.

Enjoy!