The Grand Compendium of Prehistoric Life

 

The Grand Compendium of Prehistoric Life,a new paleontology encyclopedia , published in late July 2026. .I am also one of the illustrators of this book. 1198 speices in The book, I drew 400 species . Among the Amazon sample pages,  Amphibians,Drepanosauromorpha , Therizinosaurus, Ambopteryx, Ceratopsians,Primates, Creodonts, and Belemnites are my works. The list of all of my art works for this book.

Sample images from Amazon.jp

ELEPHANTS and Their Fossil Relatives

 

Shu-yu Hsu, the illustrator of this book gave me.　

I've worked some works with Shu-yu Hsu.

Futabasaurus(Futabasuzukiryu) plastic model.

Chibanian sea and land scene restoration pictures for Natural History Museum and institute,Chiba.

Shu-yu Hsu himself is also in a image!

Ornitholestes

 Ornitholestes

When I was a child, Ornitholestes was  representative of small theropods.

Modeling Triceratops extra

Modeling Triceratops.

Extra

I painted the model by acrylic paint.

The acrylic paint I used is not commodity in the hundred-yen(0.8 US dollar) store. So I introduce this painted model as extra.

The last finish, put gloss on the eye by manicure gloss cort. Manicure gloss cort is sold in the hundred-yen store.

Modeling Triceratops finish

 Modeling Triceratops.

Sculpting dinosaur Triceratops by hundred-yen(0.8 US dollar) store materials and 10-20 minutes per a day.　No using metal wire and glue.

The modeling is finished.

The length 18cm.

This modeling method is based on the method I used when I was a junior high school student.

This example model are finised only the left harf side. For making right half side, please refer the articles from 9th day article. So It use about one month for making the whole body.

About coloring

Acrylic paint or poster color are good for the coloring.

Recently acrylic paint and poster color are sold in the hundred-yen(0.8 US dollar) store.

Modeling Triceratops 20-21

Modeling Triceratops.

20-21th day

Carve the scales on the skin. At first, wet the clay a little to make soft the surface of clay. Next, carve the scales by the tip of spatulas.

After dried the clay, remove shavings by brush. And then stroking the scales by wet brush to smooth the scales shape.

Modeling Triceratops 19

  

Modeling Triceratops.

19th day

Put the protrusions on the body surface.