Kamidu

Dino-Might (Kinda...)

Added 2023-05-12 14:08:19 +0000 UTC

Can you tell it’s my first time attempting a wrestling grapple? I almost gave up on this several times but I preserved. Not quite at the point where I’d like to be, but to save a long-winded whinge, I’ll just say that my aim going forward is to improve more action-heavy scenes in colour.

So, context for this piece:

In an attempt to emulate the success of the Turtles in the late 1980s/early 90s, along came the Extreme Dinosaurs in 1997, based on a short run of action figures from a toy company. The series only lasted one season and in fact merged with its more successful counterpart, Street Sharks before the programming block it aired on vanished in the early 2000s; the originating company folded and its parent corporation filed for insolvency in 2009. I don’t have any memory of this show at all to be honest and I’ve no idea if it’s viewable anywhere these days (officially) or who even has the rights to them.

Anyway, in the 37th episode of the Dinosaurs, Tiptoe through the Tulips, the antagonists, the Raptors, hijack a cargo ship transporting the titular flowers being kept alive by a growth chemical, which in turn made them grow big. The protagonists arrive too late and have to figure out how to deal with their oversized adversaries. That’s it.

I slightly re-imagined the scenario… T-Bone is the orange T-Rex; Bad Rap is the other whom I presume is some kind of velociraptor? Oddly enough, Bad Rap changed colours the longer the series went on; he was originally a deep mauve to match his toy design, who wore far heavier-reinforced ‘braces’… I think.

Boy, are these guys difficult to draw… but I tried. Good golly, did I try (I also can't draw tulips or the equipment used in lab-grown plants nowadays 😓). Enjoy.