Re: Spanish dinosaur website

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>

> I was really impressed by some of this artwork on a spanish site.
> Especially that of Raúl Martín. The Compsognathus with horseshoe crabs
> almost looks like a photograph.
>
> http://web.jet.es/dmnia/dart/dartfs_rama.htm

As HP Varner already pointed out, although this guy is a talented artist, he 
displays very little originality from what I've seen of his work in 
"National Geographic Dinosaurs."  Again, like HP Varner said, his terribly 
obvious usage of (notably) Paul's and Henderson's style is somewhat 
disturbing to an artist like me.  (Yes, I too am guilty of imitating their 
styles in my previous works, but I like to think I've grown since then.)  I 
mean, here are two of the world's greatest paleolife artists who have spent 
their lives trying to perfecting their own unique methods, and along comes 
this guy who has learned to imitate their technique brush stroke for brush 
stroke and who can sell his work for half the price.  It's depressing.
It's obvious that he was "inspired" by the _T. rex_ from Jurassic Park, too.

Jordan Mallon

http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/

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