Moreover, there are now dozens, perhaps hundreds, of budding artists working out their dinosaurs and mammoths and trilobites online and offering their services to researchers and museums just for the chance to have something of theirs used. Most researchers have enough on their plates without having to deal with detailed requests for help on tyrannosaur or abelisaur anatomy and while I know of few researchers who would turn such a request down flat, one does occasionally get most unreasonable requests. This is great for those wanting to break into the field, but naturally it has brought tension too.
Where even 10 years ago it was probably hard to get anyone outside of the ranks of publishers and researchers to have heard of you, or seen what you can do, it's becoming ever easier to mail prospective clients and send them a link to your online portfolio and have people share that information. Increasingly though, thanks to the internet we're seeing ever more people being able to gather information on palaeoart and prehistoric animals, get feedback from researchers and push their art in front of those who might pay for it. I know of artists who were working as technical illustrators for scientists and were in a position to have a go at the odd life reconstruction and things went from there, there have been wildlife illustrators who were drafted in because they could do animals properly, "normal" artists who found a flair for it or drove themselves into the field, and those who simply got a call out of the blue and asked if they fancied trying their hand at dinosaurs. As blogger Autistic Hoya puts it: I don't "have" autism, my dog is not named Autism.As for how people get into the field, well this naturally varies. We also use identity-first language ("autistic people" not "people with autism") as identity-first language is generally the preference of the autistic self-advocate community. We do not allow surveys aimed solely at parents and caregivers of autistic people, as this subreddit is aimed at autistic people ourselves (and those questioning if they themselves are autistic), not our neurotypical family members and caregivers.
#Dinosaur sketch arm mods
Please message the mods first if you have a research or survey request for participants, and we will let you know if we think it is appropriate to post here.
We have just established a new rule about research and survey requests. Its creation was inspired by the following twitter thread, which caused countless 'Aha!' moments for undiagnosed autistic adults: This subreddit is for #actuallyAutistic folks to talk about what it feels like to be autistic. So many autistic adults go undiagnosed their whole lives, and a large part of the reason why is that the diagnostic criteria are written in clinical, dehumanizing terms.
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