This is an Alvarezsaurus, a dinosaur that lived approximately 86 – 83 million years ago. I illustrated this animal because I’ve decided to take up the Animal Alphabets art challenge again. A refresher of how this art challenge works: The people who run the official Animal Alphabets twitter account name a specific animal to draw each week, and the artists post their completed work on Mondays at 19:30 GMT. The animals name corresponds to each letter of the alphabet, so at the end of the exercise I should have 26 animals to show.

The sub-theme for this round of Animal Alphabets is extinct animals. One of the challenges of the endangered animals series was gathering enough photo reference material to get the details correct. I’m betting there will be little to no photo references for these animals, and I can’t quite decide if that’s going to be a good thing or a bad thing yet. In the case of the Alvarezsaurus it was quite a freeing feeling to not have photo reference I must say.