A mother Tyrannosaurus rex escorts her hatchlings in her jaws through the misty jungle of Late Cretaceous North America, circa 67 million years ago. Much like a mother crocodile, she is every bit as gentle and doting a parent as she is a ferocious apex predator.
I’ve always been partial to the idea of tyrannosaurids and other theropod dinosaurs taking good care of their young, as portrayed in The Lost World: Jurassic Park for example. Not only would it be consistent with their living relatives, birds and crocodilians, but it gives their personalities more dimension than simply having them be savage brutes all the time.
By the way, please do check out the different coloring technique I used for this artwork. Normally I use strong black outlines like you would see in most comic books, but this time I wanted outlines that “blended” in better with the colors, which I achieved by lowering the opacity of my outline (or “inks”) layer halfway.