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Published: 2007-07-10 16:02:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 12400; Favourites: 395; Downloads: 238
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My buddy Jay is designing a race of dark elves that ride raptor-like mounts, so I took quite a shine to his ideas and drew these design concepts for him. In case you were wondering about the teeth.Related content
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Few things that are incorrect, but other ways, looks great!
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it was based on a friend's made-up species.
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Thanks! I hardly ever draw raptors.
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Practice?Man you don't need any practisce,you're good!
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This is a beautiful collection of sketches, I love all the shading and details!
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A few tips for next time:
1. Dinosaurs did not have canine teeth. Since their teeth could fall out and grow back in in a matter of weeks, different teeth were different sizes along the jaw, but with the largest in the middle of the jawline.
2. Your raptor's anatomy is far too mammalian for something that shares little in common with mammals. The shoulders, for one, are proportions like human arms, when they have more in common with bird wings. The shoulders are actually much longer and connected to each other, wrapping around the body like a girdle, and the arms begin near the center of the chest. The hips are set way too far out, and are actually thinner than the ribcage. The tail in raptors are not able to twist, fixed in a tapered curve by rods of cartilage along the tail vertebra.
3. Dinosaurs such as these were covered in feathers.
Hope this helps.
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Cool. I did the teeth like that because that is how Jay designed his raptors.
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That's awesome. I myself need to practice drawing dinosaurs. These scetches look really good, the headshots are great, I love their expressions, and most of all their eyes.
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Love the face in the middle and at the right ^^ Love for raptors!
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I want a pet raptor. I'm going to call him "Fluffy."
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I like those teeth! It's reminding me of those early uh...Mammalian Dinosaurs, where they had these huge ol' heads with teeth just like that.
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You know, funny thing, for probably the past decade or so, whenever I RP dark elves, they're always riding on raptors (mostly since Forgotten Realms say that they ride underground lizards, I just converted 'em to my favorite dinosaur). ^_^
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