Emperor Dinobot's Art

[EmperorDinobot]

Nov 4, 2009 18:12:21 GMT Griffin said:

Should the Efraasia's head be smaller? I'm not familiar with that species I'm just judging by the proportions I know from sauropods in general.

On your colored one. I would def use shading to give it more depth. Other than that your stuff is great as always. Love the fact that you made the Nigersaurus a color scheme other than the same green almost every other reconstruction has made it. Very refreshing.

With Efraasia I went with proportions found in other early sauropodomorphs. Maybe not with the bigger ones, but with the smaller ones. I took a lot of artistic license with Efraasia.

[EmperorDinobot]

i made moar!


guess what this is and i will draw a request.

[sbell]

Nov 21, 2009 12:59:22 GMT EmperorDinobot said:

i made moar!


guess what this is and i will draw a request.

As in, it's a Nyctosaurus?

[stoneage]

How could he fly with that big head dress on his head?

[Griffin]

Same could be said for Tapejara. There's one scientist who thinks that prerosaurs with sail crests could actually land on the water and move around using their crests and wings like the sails on a boat. Weird stuff.

[EmperorDinobot]

Hey it's possible. Nyctosaurus, at least this species lost the clawed fingers on each er...hand. These animals really couldn't stay airborne for too long (flight only used to get from place to place), and probably did spend most of their lives on ground, or maybe floating on water like ducks and many other birds do today. It's very possible that these things used their huge crests as boating sails, since they already used them in flight.

Then again, I'm not much of a pterosaur expert.

[Griffin]

Well the part that really confuses scientists is that the crests don't seem adapted for flight, at least the way we have thus far imagined it. Think about it. If you have a big sail thing on the back of your head, when you turn your head to the left, the sail will act like a rudder, making your body rotate in the opposite direction, right. So in theory, the animal would have to look left if it wanted to go right and look right if it wanted to go left. One would assume that the animal would want to be able to see where it was going, which makes this whole situation confusing. The sailboat theory makes sense and may explain why they were built the way they were.

[stoneage]

Nov 22, 2009 0:39:56 GMT EmperorDinobot said:

Hey it's possible. Nyctosaurus, at least this species lost the clawed fingers on each er...hand. These animals really couldn't stay airborne for too long (flight only used to get from place to place), and probably did spend most of their lives on ground, or maybe floating on water like ducks and many other birds do today. It's very possible that these things used their huge crests as boating sails, since they already used them in flight.

Then again, I'm not much of a pterosaur expert.

Boating Sails!!! Then how would they see where they were going? Ifthey turned their heads right then they would go left etc.

[Griffin]

Nov 22, 2009 1:35:27 GMT stoneage said:

Nov 22, 2009 0:39:56 GMT EmperorDinobot said:

Hey it's possible. Nyctosaurus, at least this species lost the clawed fingers on each er...hand. These animals really couldn't stay airborne for too long (flight only used to get from place to place), and probably did spend most of their lives on ground, or maybe floating on water like ducks and many other birds do today. It's very possible that these things used their huge crests as boating sails, since they already used them in flight.

Then again, I'm not much of a pterosaur expert.

Boating Sales!!! Then how would they see where they were going? Ifthey turned their heads right then they would go left etc.

Thats what makes it puzzling. See my above post. The wings may have helped while "sailing" as well. But as far as flying goes the animals theoretically wouldn't have been looking where they were going.

[paleoferroequine]

Nyctosaurus didn't have a soft tissue component to the bony crest or at least none has been found.

[EmperorDinobot]

who knows dude, it's a strange pterosaur.

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

None has been found, but it still could have had it...

Cool drawing emp

[Horridus]

I hadn't heard of this pterosaur before now so I had quick look on Wikipedia and found this artist's impression:

It looks weirder WITHOUT the theoretical soft tissue!

[EmperorDinobot]

trust not in wikipedia. trust the force.

[Horridus]

Nov 30, 2009 7:03:11 GMT EmperorDinobot said:

trust not in wikipedia. trust the force.

It's good for getting a rough idea of certain things....just don't use it for information on anything controversial...or as an academic reference.

[EmperorDinobot]

I wanted to draw something non dinosaurian. This is an Orthosuchus.

[EmperorDinobot]

Not Ornithosuchus. Orthosuchus. Two different animals.
Besides, Ornithosuchus is indeed a fatarse. I would never make a skinny one.

[EmperorDinobot]

Geosaurus

Rhomaleosaurus version II (far more accurate than my cartoony one lol)

I am the Almighty Shonisaurus from the Shoshone Mountains and I am here to reclaim all your fish and squid and seafood...

Tribute to Ducky's voice actress Judith Barsi (RIP)

[Griffin]

very nicely done!

[[][][]cordylus[][][]]

My only quibble is that shoni's fins should be all roughly the same size, but still very good job!