Dinosaur Teacher

No, not a teacher who still teaches the way they did 45 years ago.
Why we as artist, like dinosaurs so much. Some of us anyway. I have a keen interest in illustrating dinosaurs. Why? There seems to be such a fascination with these creatures which we develop at a young age. Especially for those who love to draw. My first drawings as a child were of dinosaurs. I can remember learning to color "in the lines" in a dinosaur coloring book. Who cares? No one. Only those who also like this as a subject. But, because we found something we were awed by so long ago brought us to hand drawn lines on paper. That helped us develop the skills necessary to build other images of form and structure. You had to make the dinosaur look REAL. Shadows, perspective, movement. Then you had to place him in a real looking environment. Then... imaginations began to soar.
And they are still soaring higher than ever.