A fair number of these, maybe 50 or 100, are practically birds, mesozoic birds, which - by all accounts, should-and-do count as theropod dinosaurs, so they're included
That's half-ish the plan-ish, there's rather little market for the kind of illustration/guide I'm making though, since it's neither high science nor silly childrens book, but somewhere in between. I'm offering very little, apart from the drawings themselves, and my own personal musings about each species.
The drawings are also in a guide-style, like in a bird-watchers book, so they aren't too exciting or riveting (they all face left, and are all walking or running. To offer a bit of a uniqueness, they all have mouths closed, which means I immediately alienate all kids ), so, it narrows the marketability a bit more
Sure, I mean, dino-spaz-kids on my dA have allready expressed interest, but 20 people doesn't exactly translate to "a market"
Either way, I'm doing it. I don't have anything better to do, and then I've covered all my "dream bases", a novel (check), a graphic novel (in planning), a dino book (in the works)
Sure, that's the default fall-back. Everything I make is inherently fringe-products anyway. My biggest error is having written my novels in Norsk, meaning I am again down to like... a potential market of 50 norwegian autistic doofuses. With the dino-project, and very likely also the graphic novel, I'll do it in English, like a sellout whore