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Archaeopteryx lithographica in flight. From the 2002 holiday card.

Sinosauropteryx prima, a Chinese feathered dinosaur. 2003 card.

2005 card. Incidentally, these are done using pen and ink to get the outlines, and then colored using Adobe Photoshop. If you use the "desaturate" command a lot, you can get more muted colors than you're used to seeing in computer graphics. Along with blocks of color and a few gradients, I've tried to recapture the look of a Japanese woodprint or Ivan Bilibin illustration. The "add noise" filter does a nice job of injecting some chaos into an otherwise orderly and too-perfect illustration. The human eye doesn't like images which are too perfect.

This is a Blepsias I did for a Friday Harbor fish class T-shirt. Blepsias is a cool little sculpin, olive colored with silver spots and huge fins. Its undulating movements and olive-yellow color make it look like waving seaweed, to complete the charade, the silver spots reflect the water around them so that they look like holes in the seaweed! A very cool disguise. I never did get a T-shirt tho.

Sinemys gamera, a turtle from the Cretaceous of Mongolia... and friend to children.

Random graphic from a paper on functional morphology.

Dickinsonia costata, a weird... something or other from the Precambrian Ediacaran fauna. From the same paper on functional morphology.

Illustration of a Cretaceous bird wrist. The upper part is done using graphite and pencil stumps, the lower part is done on Adobe Illustrator.

Dromaeosaurus albertensis. This image was created by using Adobe Illustrator to trace over illustrations and photographs of bones, and then rescaling them to fit.

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