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Licensing & commissions

The reconstructions on this site are available to license, and I take on new commissions when a project needs a skeletal, muscle or life reconstruction that doesn't yet exist.

Looking for prints or merchandise? A shop is on the way — I expect to open it in fall 2026. For now, image licensing and commissions are handled right here.

License an existing image

Any reconstruction in the galleries can be licensed for a museum exhibit, a book or journal, a documentary, a classroom, or the web. Tell me which taxon and how you'd like to use it, and I'll send a quote and a secure payment link.

Commission new work

Have a specimen, a new taxon, or a specific view that isn't here yet? I produce original skeletal reconstructions and color life restorations to spec, worked up from the fossil material and the current literature.

Use as reference

Skeletal reconstructions combine hard anatomical data with careful inference and artistic rendering, so they fall into something of a gray area. The science in them, the pose, the position of bones are not mine to own, and I want it used. If you want to adopt a similar pose for your own artwork or skeletal, that's fine (but kindly credit me). What's copyrighted is the image itself: You can't reproduce the actual drawing — in a book, an exhibit, a product — without a license. I never charge when they are used as non-commercial references, but commercial reproduction needs permission. Either way I'd always rather you get in touch first — I genuinely enjoy hearing how the work gets used.

Fair Use

Many countries (including the United States) observe Fair Use copyright permissions for educational non-profit use. So if you are writing a review of my website, or are an instructor teaching a course at a public school or university, you may make incidental use of my images (with credit). But if you are using them in a YouTube post that allows monetization, or engaging in an activity that you could reasonably be paid for (e.g. designing a display for a museum) that usually falls outside of fair use. Which doesn't mean you can't use my images, just that you need permission. I'm usually pretty reasonable, especially with academic or outreach applications, so if you are in doubt at all please drop me a line first.

Where my work appears

For two decades my reconstructions have appeared in museum exhibits, textbooks and popular-science books, documentaries, and the peer-reviewed literature. A selection:

Institutions

  • American Museum of Natural History, New York
  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  • Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
  • Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas
  • Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland
  • Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana
  • Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, Alberta
  • Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City
  • Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center, Colorado
  • Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Thermopolis
  • Tate Geological Museum, Casper, Wyoming
  • University of Wyoming Geological Museum, Laramie

Books

  • ABC Dinosaurs — American Museum of Natural History
  • All Yesterdays — Conway, Kosemen & Naish
  • Dinosaur Paleobiology — Stephen L. Brusatte
  • The Complete Dinosaur — Indiana University Press
  • Dinosaurs: How to Draw Thunder Lizards — Steve Miller

A note on scientific use

I license my work widely for research, education, museums, and media. I don't license it to organizations that misrepresent or campaign against science. The work exists to make real science clearer, and that comes first.