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April 19, 2012
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Having recently drawn a jungle scene, my thoughts drifted to one of my favorite Disney movies, Tarzan...in my humble opinion, that had the most visually arresting jungle backdrops I've ever seen in film, live-action as well as 2D animated. The jungles look appropriately gnarly, tangled, and overgrown, exactly as jungles should be, and there were also spectacular waterfalls and mountains. But don't take my word for it, see for yourself: [link]

I would absolutely kill to draw my dinosaurs' backgrounds like the jungles in Tarzan. Even though the ecosystem depicted in the movie is supposed to be the late Holocene Congo Basin, I've always loved to imagine the Age of Dinosaurs as looking like that, or at least having the same verdant, primeval quality. I once read a complaint on a paleoart message board that too much paleoart depicts dinosaurs in relatively barren environments, and I couldn't agree more. While some dinosaurs did live in deserts and prairies, most would have needed a lot of vegetation to sustain themselves, so forests and woodlands would have been logical environments for them anyway.

I need more practice drawing forests.
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