Animatronic Dinosaurs: Summer 2026

As we all know, summer means life-sized robot dinosaurs! This year we had a Dinos Alive exhibit in Oakland, and the ongoing Dinos Rule! installation at the San Francisco Zoo. I’ll show you some big montages first, then individual spreads below the fold.

Dinos Alive was an indoor exhibit with crazy colored lighting and some quirks in the dinosaur design, so I did a fair bit of revision and invention in the drawing process.

Dinos Rule! has been extended into January, so I’ll be going back again. The dinosaurs are state-of-the-art models constructed by Dino Don, Inc., and they’re displayed outdoors in the SF Zoo’s gardens, so they didn’t need much reinterpretation.

Right, let’s see those full size…

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SFOB Hot Rods

There’s a monthly classic & custom car meetup out by San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, and when my schedule permits, I love getting out there to draw some vintage cars with Douglas Gorney and his Sunset Sketchers group. Here are a few recent outings, from January 2023…

February 2023, which was all about patina cars…

And a long-awaited return to the beach in June 2023.

Quick Studies Workshop

To my delight, my old school has started running in-person figure drawing workshops again, so I’ve been abusing my alumni privileges to crash the occasional Quick Studies session. These are all one, two, and three-minute drawings of humans in the proverbial “state of nature.”

The season started off with the wonderful Dragonfly on February 22. I’ll add more sessions here as I gradually scan them.

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