The Abominable Snow Tyrant

"The Abominable Snow Tyrant"

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi. An acrylic painting of Nanuqsaurus I worked on during the run up to my finals in the fall. 

This was inspired by a shirt I got by The Mountain of an American bison in the snow. This is probably my first successful attempt at depicting a frozen body of water. I wanted to make the tyrannosaur look like she was avoiding stepping on the potentially thin ice as she looks for water to drink. 

I had some issues with the visible breath as it looked fine when I had painted but ended up looking very different after I had applied my matte fixative. Not wanting to do any further damage, i decided to add the breath in Photoshop. 

I wanted to post this on Christmas but I was not happpy with the original scan of the painting I did.

Completed in mid Decembner 2017.

Done using acrylic paint, watercolor pencils and Photoshop CC.