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Post by arioch on May 12, 2011 21:17:51 GMT
Oh yes...I didn´t post the updated version from DA. I already edited it. At first it was meant to be a Tenontosaurus smashing a Deinonychus following the latest line of dromies being stomped, hence the 5th finger that I forgot to clean up. I think this idea was better, I´m a bit sick of gigantic hadrosaurs desperately fleeing from way smaller theropods, even if those are tyrannosaurs. Nonsense! And now another asian dino: Therizinosaurus. Btw I expected a strongest reaction to that turkey like Gigantoraptor. What, no booing? ;D |
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Post by Radman on May 12, 2011 21:56:23 GMT
Samurai-saurus! (or is it Wolverine-saurus, a la X-Men) !
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Post by zopteryx on May 13, 2011 0:23:20 GMT
These look awsome Arioch!!! I like the position of the feathers on the Therizinosaurus.
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on May 13, 2011 1:41:05 GMT
I'm not sure what it is..but the arms look a bit awkward. :?
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Post by arioch on May 13, 2011 1:54:10 GMT
Thanks! I'm not sure what it is..but the arms look a bit awkward. :? What do you mean?  Meanwhile, a small update on the raging Torosaurus.  |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on May 13, 2011 4:26:29 GMT
Well..if I knew exactly I could have told you..lol I think maybe it's lack of definition under the feathers...the right hand also looks like it's facing up...it's prob not how you drew it..but it just appears that way to me.
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Post by arioch on May 13, 2011 4:51:19 GMT
Yep both hands are slightly facing up. When theropod arms extend forward palm of the hand tend to go up and inward. Maybe i didnt got the angle completely right or made them too long. . You must admit this is quite a weird animal to draw and some mistakes are expectable . By the way here is the test coloured version:  |
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Post by arioch on May 13, 2011 22:09:13 GMT
Lets play! In the snowy canadian plains of the Cretaceous winter, a juvenile Gorgosaurus wants to play with a Troodon. Unfortunately his feathered friend doesn´t seem to be in the mood. Next to them, a herd of Parasaurolophus observe the scene with amusement.  A Dsungaripterus flying over a herd of Shunosaurus:  |
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Post by arioch on May 15, 2011 2:31:34 GMT
Well, not very excited about the last ones, eh?  Here´s another one and I´ll take a break some days... Euoplocephalus tutus, slightly based on Greg Paul´s (hope he won´t sue me. lol!)  "Come closer if you dare!" |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on May 15, 2011 6:51:13 GMT
Naw man, their great ! It just gets hard to comment...without being redundant.. like Cool, awesome, nice, neat , ect.. you know ?
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Post by Meso-Cenozoic on May 15, 2011 6:57:54 GMT
Another fine artist we have here! I think this was my first time through your thread. Really am enjoying your work and imagination. Thanks!
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Post by hkhollinstone on May 15, 2011 8:20:18 GMT
They are sooooo good!   |
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Post by neovenator08 on May 15, 2011 8:27:11 GMT
I can't believe you churn these out so quick! And yet, they don't look rushed, they are brilliant! ;D
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Post by arioch on May 15, 2011 8:53:40 GMT
Thanks...! I think I even prefer negative feedback than nothing! ;D I was expecting someone to say the paras neck is too long (which is true ). And I´m aware the last shadings arent specially great...I wish they came out as well as shantungos but I must have touched or changed something since I did that one...I definitely need digital painting lessons (or try to do the shades with ink!).  The Dsungaripterus was an old sketch I was too lazy to update, its not really that recent...I need a really good background for this one. Maybe I´ll ask a friend to add it. Btw there´s some advance on the Euoplocephalus and the little Gorgosaurus:   OK, question for the experts: how did exactly pterosaurs land on the ground? I´m finishing another scene where a Pteranodon is landing near a big corpse; he is folding the wings back and standing on the legs, prepared to fall on the "hands" . But I´m not sold on it, looks quite unnatural... and I have proved a dozen of different poses. Is there any schematic diagram or something about how is believed they did that? |
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Post by Horridus on May 15, 2011 18:03:23 GMT
These are all brilliant. One thing I would say is to move the sauropods' nostrils further down their snout. The old idea that their nostrils were directly over the bony openings has fallen out of favour. (See Luis Rey's sauropods, although the fleshy chambers were probably flush to the head, rather than sticking out.)
Otherwise, superb stuff. As for the landing pterosaur, you're probably right with your initial idea.
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Post by arioch on May 15, 2011 18:40:41 GMT
Ironically I did that in the Dicraeosaurus, the "fleshy chamber"..Since i wasn´t sure about what I was drawing , lol- I went for the traditional way with the Shunosaurs head. I thought the snout nostrils (and the inflated chamber) were merely a Luis Rey eccentricity or just a diplodocid trait . Well, time to move on then. And glad you liked it!  About the pterosaurs, I´ll post it very soon. I has lot of them. The landing ptera looks hopelessly awkward, but its not my fault if they were built like that! Speaking of which this is my test scheme with the Dsungaripterus:  |
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Post by Himmapaan on May 15, 2011 18:52:49 GMT
Well, I couldn't add anything else which the others haven't mentioned. The latest ones are all so lovely. And I'm still amazed at the speed with which you must roll them out. |
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Post by Horridus on May 15, 2011 19:19:14 GMT
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Post by arioch on May 15, 2011 19:38:29 GMT
Interesting. Apart of the new information I like the part about the "cheek like" jaw muscles. The sauropod reconstructions with the jaw joint at the very end of the skull always has made me cringe. Since they have to spend the whole day eating and moving from tree to tree, such structure would make them drop loads of food from the sides of the jaw before they can swallow it, about half of what they were picking. On the other hand, why didnt you comment this on the other sauropods I´ve done like the Alamosaurus? ;D Well, I couldn't add anything else which the others haven't mentioned. The latest ones are all so lovely. And I'm still amazed at the speed with which you must roll them out. They indeed come out quite quickly! bear in mind I just use a pen over some pencil doodles, and since I´m a computer science and programming nerd I have lot of free time everyday (or while I´m "studying")... aproximately one of this drawings, including scales and folds takes an hour. Ironically the photoshop threatment takes much more time. I wish I could spend more time making them look more professional, sort of like you do, but well, I´ve never attended an art school and I doubt I´ll ever do... |
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Post by Horridus on May 15, 2011 19:39:33 GMT
I'm not a PERFECT pedant, you know! ;D
By the way, the Shunosaurus on the far right in the above image looks remarkably similar to the brachiosaur on SV-POW...
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