This week’s Illustration Friday topic is “Prehistoric”, so here is a love letter to girls who love dinosaurs, who can still name the dinosaurs from Land Before Time when they see the old Pizza Hut toys adorning the tow-bar of the car ahead, who stepped from Disney to Michael Crichton (my scary movie sequence went Pinocchio* –> Jurassic Park), and fell in love with science (and Jeff Goldblum).
It’s also practice at doing pieces from the ground up on the computer (although the texture is from some coffee-stained paper). I still prefer to work in physical media but Illustration Friday is an opportunity to train myself in new areas as well as test ideas and do trial runs.
*Although I should note the similarities are strong: a kindly old man with a history of puppetry attempting to recreate nature; life finding a way; theme park islands with a very dark side; pursuit by giant beasts… I may actually have to rethink my whole reading of Jurassic Park now. And reread it, of course.
Kathleen Jennings 
I still have my littlefoot and spike Pizza Hut puppets!!
I feel like you’ve made this illustration just for me :)
:) Littlefoot! Cera and Petrie!
Cera and Ducky were always my favourites :)
Definitely a dinosaur geekgirl. Jurassic Park is still one of my all-time favourite books and movie.
I adore the texturing in the image and the colour palette is devine.
Great work, Kathleen!
This is lovely–very torn-paper collage-y.
Thank you!
I would love to see a video of how you create these – if you ever have the time. I am fascinated by digital process
Don’t know if you saw, but I did do a video for the following week!
This is just so good!!
Oh, thank you!
Dinotopia all the way. I must have borrowed that book at least a dozen times when I was at school. And I love what the coffee stains have done to the texture. :)
:) Thanks!