Very cool! I really like how you included the pics of the snakely inspirations. It’s fascinating how much different colors and patterns changes one’s perception and impression.
Its been a lot of fun simplifying these colors and patterns. One day I’d like to make them hyper realistic in terms of patterning, but I’m not quite there yet
Never considered it! But a logo would be a good idea for my YouTube and maybe even for here on MM, so I should think about that! Great idea, if you have any suggestions I’m all ears!
Next up is a HUGE undertaking, so it will be a while (a double dinosaur feature, and I decided on 2 different poses and color schemes for each because apparently I hate myself)
Here are the sketches for the big undertaking, if anyone wants to guess. Hint: 2 different species, one will be based on waterfowl, and one based on pheasants
Also fun to see my sketch styles change between days
Like both color schemes on these guys! Red on the back looks really cool, and the greens on top and yellow on bottom seems very likely of a pattern to camouflage!
I am just guessing, been a long time since I read about Dinos! I think iguanadon for the first? And I had to look up this one’s spelling for the second😄 but I was thinking Archaeopteryx?
Close! I chose two dinosaurs known for their SMACK: deinocherius and therizenosaurus. The evolutionary adaptiation of the phrase “I’m gonna throw hands”
Plot twist: I’m approaching Dead Week on campus and my motivation is all over the place. The theri and deino project was making me mad, so I for shifted into my first battle scene! This is a rendition of The Eternal Combat, a famous fossil find where a velociraptor and protoceratops died and were preserved together as they struggled in a death match.
The velociraptor was preserved with its toe claw lodged in the proto’s throat, and the proto had the raptor’s now-shattered arm in its beak. Either the proto bled out and landed on the raptor, suffocating it, and the pair were preserved by a sandstorm OR the creatures were buring alive while struggling by unstable sand dunes after a monsoon; the bodies were too well preserved to have been exposed to the elements for very long.
Velociraptor colors based on the King Vulture, Proto colors based on the Thorny Devil.
I kept the blood layers hidden for this but, yeah, this was a messy fight!
It’s really cool, but the carnotaurus designs are a bit outdated. Carnotaurus actually had those osteoderms all over its body in no particular pattern, and the neck was a lot more horizontal. If you don’t care about that, then disregard everything I said because otherwise it’s great. I would love to see desert ghost on a Coelophysis.
It’s hard to stay up to date on every single paleontology redesign for every species, so I’m sure there are a few inaccuracies, just as the reptile morphs the colors are based on are approximations