This small portrait was painted over a period of seven months, partly due to laziness, but mostly because I hated it. I would come back to it about once a month, try something new, feel very “blah” about whatever I did, and then abandon it. It underwent many phases, the only thing staying true throughout the whole process being Laura’s resemblence to some sort of megalomaniac dictator. She started out very Nero-esque, then went through a sort of Egyptian pharoah phase, moved on to Native American warrior, and settled at time traveling Mongolian feudal lord.
The dinosaurs were taken from the glorious comic book series Dinosaurs for Hire, as seen here. The comic is literally about dinosaurs for hire–as mercenaries, of course. It features muscular anthropomorphic dinosaurs, beautiful blondes, and a healthy share of violence–definitely worth checking out.
