
They all generally agree that to draw a dinosaur from fossils is helped by having an understanding of muscle placement and drawing same before putting on a skin. In this book, editor Steve White has brought together ten artists who specialise in such art together to show their work with interviews about their work, amply shown, technique and influences. In other words, it brings them to life in much the same way that space artists use the information from astronomers to give realistic presentations of other planets. Currie points out in the first introduction to the book ‘Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart’, artists brings flesh and bone to fossils. It seems it isn’t just ordinary people who have a fascination with moving dinosaurs and illustrations of such.
