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Post by DeadToothCrackKnuckle on Feb 20, 2012 6:19:42 GMT
I recently got out my old drawing tablet and starting drawing in Photoshop. The last time i did was about a year ago. Tell me what you think! ;D All coments are greatly appreciated. Portrayed here is a male Triceratops horridus watching after its sleepy offspring. Attachments:
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Post by Tyrannax on Feb 20, 2012 7:04:15 GMT
Wow, that's really incredible. Very bold lines.  But gah, I hate how I had to flip the vew of the drawing to draw straight lines sometimes when I used my tablet. |
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Post by Pixelboy on Feb 20, 2012 15:20:13 GMT
I like it Reminds me of a David Krentz-style Trike. |
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Post by DeadToothCrackKnuckle on Feb 20, 2012 19:26:57 GMT
Thanks a lot for the comments!!! ;D I'm going to color it later on this week. Here is the final line drawing. Attachments:
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Post by DeadToothCrackKnuckle on Feb 20, 2012 19:29:50 GMT
Yeah, I always hate when that happens Tyrannax. When you flip it, it totally messes things up! ;D Thank you so much, Pixelboy. That is the nicest comment I've heard in a long time! David's my idol!  |
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Post by arioch on Feb 20, 2012 19:42:35 GMT
Rather nice! But what´s with the right horn?
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Post by DeadToothCrackKnuckle on Feb 20, 2012 19:54:16 GMT
I think that every individual Triceratops was characterized my its differece in horn shape. This would make it easy for individuals to be spotted out from others of its species.
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Post by arioch on Feb 20, 2012 20:10:36 GMT
Horns lenght would also work, probably. Most known chasmosaurine skulls have a pretty homogeneus horn arrangement, but this kind of growth "anomaly" is plausible, I guess. I think this kind of divergences are actually more common in keratin horns, though, rather than bony ones.
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Post by Griffin on Feb 20, 2012 22:10:27 GMT
Yeah the keratin sheath over it could be a lot more variable than what we see in the bones. Looking at animal horns today there is nothing wrong with what you have drawn here.
If I may suggest perhaps making the body a little longer (the front and back legs seem awfully close together) and maybe shortening the front limbs a bit. Other than that its pretty much flawless accuracy wise.
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Post by DeadToothCrackKnuckle on Feb 21, 2012 0:01:59 GMT
Yeah the keratin sheath over it could be a lot more variable than what we see in the bones. Looking at animal horns today there is nothing wrong with what you have drawn here. If I may suggest perhaps making the body a little longer (the front and back legs seem awfully close together) and maybe shortening the front limbs a bit. Other than that its pretty much flawless accuracy wise. Thank you so much! This means a lot (espcially coming from you)! Yeah, the reason the limbs are so close together is that I was trying to have the animal facing slightly forward but it still needs some work.  |
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Post by 0onarcissisto0 on Feb 21, 2012 3:18:24 GMT
Great work! I like it. I love the baby trike. But I thought it was Triceratops Maximus that had quills?
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Post by DeadToothCrackKnuckle on Feb 21, 2012 3:52:58 GMT
Great work! I like it. I love the baby trike. But I thought it was Triceratops Maximus that had quills? Well since multiple species of ceratopsians were found with quills, I believe (with many others) that all ceratopsians had a from of quilss. |
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Post by DeadToothCrackKnuckle on Feb 21, 2012 4:37:30 GMT
Great work! I like it. I love the baby trike. But I thought it was Triceratops Maximus that had quills? Well since multiple species of ceratopsians were found with quills, I believe (with many others) that all ceratopsians had a from of quils. |
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Post by DeadToothCrackKnuckle on Feb 21, 2012 4:52:40 GMT
And the final product! Thank you guys so much for the comments! ;D I really apreciate it! Attachments:
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Post by lio99 on Feb 21, 2012 7:21:13 GMT
And the final product! Thank you guys so much for the comments! ;D I really apreciate it! pretty did triceratops have those long spikes on there backs, i meant it looks good on brachiosaurus. |
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Post by DinoLord on Feb 21, 2012 12:35:35 GMT
Those are quills, which have been supposedly found in a yet to be described Triceratops mummy. Other details of the skin, such as the osteoderms and belly scales, were found in the mummy as well.
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Post by 0onarcissisto0 on Feb 21, 2012 14:55:47 GMT
You might want to highlight a few areas of the body. I feel like you lost a lot of detail with that coloration. Otherwise, the colour scheme is quite nice.
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Post by Griffin on Feb 22, 2012 2:17:26 GMT
As far as I know no actual quills were found on that mummy, just scales that would suggest there may have been quills attached...whatever that means. With or without quills is fine.
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Post by 0onarcissisto0 on Feb 22, 2012 16:15:13 GMT
I'm still baffled by the idea of a Triceratops being omnivorous. So how does it work? T-Rex kills weakest individual in Triceratops herd. Rest of herd watches (quietly rejoicing..."Old trike Bob was slowing down the rest of us anyway"), waits for T-Rex to finish eating then scavenges the carrion? Consider this mind...BLOOOOOWN! How's that for a Mind Freak. Criss Angel's got nothing on Paleontology.
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Post by arioch on Feb 22, 2012 20:13:05 GMT
Yep, they probably tried that when they didn´t had anything else around. Or as a diet supplement. Hippos feed on corpses quite often.
There are no definitive evidence of quills in Triceratops, but we still have Psittacosaurus. They might be a basal trait in the family, or not. For all we know, puting quills on derived ceratopsians its really the artists choice.
I really like the final product, yay for shiny colours in ceratopsians! But I think that it would look even better with a higher contrast too.
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But gah, I hate how I had to flip the vew of the drawing to draw straight lines sometimes when I used my tablet. 
