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Published: 2016-01-05 22:10:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 15778; Favourites: 284; Downloads: 122
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Description I used to draw these kind of things a lot as a kid, but had completely forgotten about it. Decided to do it give it a try since it's like almost ten years ago or so.
It's rather quick and some things are indeed of, I think, so I'll give those a quick summary:


 Protoceratops and Velociraptor are a little bit too large, I think, but compared with each other they're quite alright.

 Not entirely sure about Pachycephalosaurus, I draw those kind of animals as good as never.

 Stegosaurus is small! I used Scott Hartman's "How big is your favorite dinosaur?" size shart, but ended up drawing one of the smaller specimens apparently. Steg could've gotten quite a lot bigger than shown here.

 Iguanodon might be a bit too small too. You could definitely add a meter more in its length, I think, even though it's a massive animal already here.

 Spinosaurus is the theropod I have the most difficulties with in getting it right. Them legs, so small, actually a bit too small... Here are the right proportions: media.farsnews.com/media/Uploa…
Note that I made this one a thick-skinned underwater running theropod with extra tissue on its sail to prevent it from falling over. (don't know if I gave it enough soft tissue for this though)

I'll probably make another one where I'm more sure about the animal's sizes. And maybe more dinosaurs in it too.
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narcosaurus [2022-01-26 10:27:09 +0000 UTC]

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to narcosaurus [2022-02-16 10:48:30 +0000 UTC]

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narcosaurus In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2022-05-03 04:54:55 +0000 UTC]

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narcosaurus In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2022-02-16 15:42:47 +0000 UTC]

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DinoswarsRAwesome [2017-07-10 05:30:26 +0000 UTC]

I didn’t realise that Stegosaurus was that small

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to DinoswarsRAwesome [2017-07-10 10:52:23 +0000 UTC]

This is a smaller individual I accidentaly drew. The average is larger (about 2 meters tall at the hips) and also with a longer neck and such. There's new understandigs of Stegosaurus proportions, but this is from before that udate.

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DinoswarsRAwesome In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2017-07-10 10:53:42 +0000 UTC]

Oh okay. Makes sense. Thanks for filling me in Robin

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to DinoswarsRAwesome [2017-07-10 11:05:51 +0000 UTC]

No prob!

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Dinosaurzzz [2017-01-18 21:26:54 +0000 UTC]

Is this drawn on an A3 paper?

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to Dinosaurzzz [2017-01-19 13:45:11 +0000 UTC]

No, A4.

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Dinosaurzzz In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2017-01-19 13:47:02 +0000 UTC]

Whoah, was it hard to draw the small dinosaurs?

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to Dinosaurzzz [2017-01-19 13:50:50 +0000 UTC]

Those are the easiest actually because I don't need to pay attention to detail.

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Dinosaurzzz In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2017-01-19 13:57:11 +0000 UTC]

Huh, ok. It's the opposite for me .

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NiceGuyNicholas [2016-06-08 23:48:53 +0000 UTC]

March of Dinosaurs

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to NiceGuyNicholas [2016-06-10 21:29:51 +0000 UTC]

Than that guy betters makes some place for them. There's +30 tons of dinosaur coming his way.

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Atlantis536 In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2016-11-11 13:21:34 +0000 UTC]

Imagine, that guy on the left walking past, not knowing that living dinosaurs are walking past him. Maybe they're too sneaky?

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to Atlantis536 [2016-11-11 13:51:29 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, sometimes I don't get why those scale guys are always standing next to giant prehistoric animals. The likes on Facebook probably?

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masterchiefsenpai [2016-06-07 11:45:52 +0000 UTC]

i think the stego is too small

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to masterchiefsenpai [2016-06-07 12:49:23 +0000 UTC]

I know, based it on the smaller specimens. 

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masterchiefsenpai In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2016-06-07 12:50:06 +0000 UTC]

yee    

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Somoist555 [2016-05-31 01:50:01 +0000 UTC]

Where's the Eomonitor and the Eomouse that go with that Eocursor?

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to Somoist555 [2016-05-31 09:37:45 +0000 UTC]

Not invented yet at that point in time.

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Somoist555 In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2016-05-31 14:32:09 +0000 UTC]

Damn, the Mesozoic really needs to up its game technology-wise.

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Atlantis536 In reply to Somoist555 [2016-11-11 13:19:59 +0000 UTC]

There is a Mussaurus (mouse lizard) that appeared at the same time as Eocursor.

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Somoist555 In reply to Atlantis536 [2016-11-11 17:08:45 +0000 UTC]

Well, that's a step in the right direction, I guess.

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PerfectChaos22 [2016-05-06 23:00:42 +0000 UTC]

Wow, cut off the Thagomizers and you could keep that Stegosaur as a pet

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to PerfectChaos22 [2016-05-07 10:09:49 +0000 UTC]

Or just take the Eocursor  

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PerfectChaos22 In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2016-05-07 18:44:10 +0000 UTC]

The eo-wha?...

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to PerfectChaos22 [2016-05-07 21:18:02 +0000 UTC]

The small one, second from the right.

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PerfectChaos22 In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2016-05-07 23:37:23 +0000 UTC]

Oh, that guy's new to me, never heard of him.

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ZeWqt [2016-04-05 00:48:53 +0000 UTC]

I can't help but laugh at this poor Spinosaurus and it's one and half meter tall legs

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Wyatt-Andrews-Art In reply to ZeWqt [2016-04-21 23:11:29 +0000 UTC]

I MUZT SQUEEEZE THEM!!!!!!!!!

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to ZeWqt [2016-04-05 10:58:33 +0000 UTC]

Indeed, I wonder how I never realized those proportions were way off during drawing xD

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TPH-Original [2016-03-15 17:23:53 +0000 UTC]

Nice! I love this kind of stuff. Seeing the Eocursor next to the Diplodocus really makes you think about how diverse dinosaurs were.

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to TPH-Original [2016-03-15 21:19:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

Indeed, they had such a wide variety of shapes and sizes.

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FloofyDinoLover [2016-01-17 16:56:39 +0000 UTC]

I do support the idea of a quadruped spinosaurus. But those legs, they're just way to small, in my opinion

Anyway, great artwork!

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to FloofyDinoLover [2016-01-17 19:44:27 +0000 UTC]

There's actually no evidence for a quadruped Spinosaurus: the arms show no signs of being able to hold the weight (no theropod can do that) and its shoulder blades can't let the arms move indepentantly enough of each other to walk on. 
It could've just held its neck upright, like drawn here, so it could'e stayed in balance on two legs. 

The legs are however too small here. Made them a bit too small, they should be like this: 2.bp.blogspot.com/-5G9wUvmoo4c…

Thank you

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FloofyDinoLover In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2016-01-20 14:14:14 +0000 UTC]

That's true, it could have just held it's neck upright. Personally I'm not sure what to believe, if the spinosaurus was bipedal or quadruped, both seem possible. 
But we may never know

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Waldbeere In reply to FloofyDinoLover [2016-01-26 19:54:06 +0000 UTC]

You're absolutely right. Sadly the only fossils that 100% belong to Spinosaurus aegyptiacus are the ones that were blown up during WWII. All other fossils found today probably belong to Sigilmassasaurus. So the Spinosaurus everyone is so butthurt about isn't even Spinosaurus

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to Waldbeere [2016-02-19 19:50:07 +0000 UTC]

That's not true, we have quite some Spinosaurus aegyptiacus material at this moment. Only thing that's described to Sigilmassasaurus are two neck vertebrae.

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Waldbeere In reply to Dontknowwhattodraw94 [2016-02-19 21:39:16 +0000 UTC]

Didn't the 2014 fossils belong to Spinosaurus ma/Sigilmassasaurus instead of Spinosaurus ae.?

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EdaphosaurusPogonias In reply to Waldbeere [2016-04-04 08:11:42 +0000 UTC]

No, no they did not. Nash explains what the Sigilmassasaurus paper really means here: antediluviansalad.blogspot.co.…

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to Waldbeere [2016-02-20 10:25:08 +0000 UTC]

That could be, I'm quite (but not totally) sure they are, but I need to check that out first.
Anyway, the weird proportioned legs are indeed from the Moroccan specimen, but they are still described to Spinosaurus aegyptiacus by the Ibrahim paper (he threw S. aegyptiacus and S. maroccanus in one specie that's now just called Spinosaurus aegyptiacus) as well as the new Sigilmassasaurus paper that only described two neck vertebrae, that were first described as S. maroccanus, to Sigilmassasaurus.

It doesn't change anything about the short-legged Spinosaurus we now know of. Could be Sigilmassasaurus had the same proportions too, but of course, since we have almost nothing of this animal we can't be sure about that at all.

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Goose-Ling [2016-01-16 22:43:37 +0000 UTC]

What do you use to outline these dinos? Anyways great drawings

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to Goose-Ling [2016-01-17 10:42:21 +0000 UTC]

I use fineliners for that.
Thanks

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dinu1999 [2016-01-15 20:57:39 +0000 UTC]

With this chart, you truly realize what a giant Spinosaurus was. Amazing.

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to dinu1999 [2016-01-16 18:19:13 +0000 UTC]

Indeed, and I even drew its legs too small here.

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Wyatt-Andrews-Art [2016-01-13 15:22:53 +0000 UTC]

Spinosaur's legs th-th-they I MUST HUG THEM! SO PRECIOUS!

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Dontknowwhattodraw94 In reply to Wyatt-Andrews-Art [2016-01-13 22:00:52 +0000 UTC]

They're a tad too small though here. Real proportions still make it look like a dinosaur-dachshund though ^^

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grisador [2016-01-12 21:14:20 +0000 UTC]

A very good And talented work; congratulations !!


Thought I know many said that but I though spino's leg size would change after the sigilmassasaurus ? :\

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