Zallinger - Draw A Dinosaur Day

So today is Draw A Dinosaur Day - it's that simple - draw a dinosaur and send it over to drawadinosaurday.com.  In honor of this momentous day, I'd like to mention one of my early influences... Rudolph F. Zallinger, who is probably best known for his Age Of Reptiles mural on display at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.  He illustrated an Giant Golden Book as well that I still have from my childhood days.  Maybe later I will post a few photos from it.  His work is stunning.  I wish I could paint as well as him!

Here is a drawing I did (a while ago) in colored pencil.  A similar version of this (which has long since been lost) won in an art contest sponsored by the US Postal Service to design a dinosaur stamp.