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Drew this partially to vent a little bit on problems I always see with pterosaur drawings, partially to help out people who want to draw pterosaurs themselves.

On wings and wing fingers: Pterosaurs have 3 fingers, then one very long 4th finger that holds up the wing. In the actual animal, they lost the thumb, and the pinkie is the elongated finger. For anthros, I like to give the poor guys a thumb. :3 Still 3 fingers though.

Realistically, pterosaurs had freakishly long wrists, and a bone called the pteroid that held up the propatagium, or forwing. (I spelled it wrong in the picture, herp. That's what I get for drawing in class)

With the feet, pterosaurs were plantigrade. I understand digitigrade is fun, but I've seen people get after artists for drawing plantigrade creatures digitigrade, so why do it here?

Also, everyone seems to love Pteranodon longiceps , the pterosaur you ALWAYS see in cartoons/movies/TV shows. But really, there's more than just Pteranodon, pterosaurs got reeaaally weird. So do a little research, Wiki pterosaurs and check out some stuff.

Final note, on finding good references. I always reccomend Mark Witton (here [link] and here [link] ) as well as Paleoartists like Luis Rey. Don't just Google image search 'pterosaur', you end up with a bunch of really weird stuff.

Pterosaur heads on the bottom are, from left to right, top to bottom Pteranodon, Thalassodromeus, dsungaripterus, Caulkicephalus, Rhamphorhynchus, Darwinapterus, and Anurognathus.

Anywho, this is what I do with my class time. :d No wonder I have so much homework.

Description
Drew this partially to vent a little bit on problems I always see with pterosaur drawings, partially to help out people who want to draw pterosaurs themselves.

On wings and wing fingers: Pterosaurs have 3 fingers, then one very long 4th finger that holds up the wing. In the actual animal, they lost the thumb, and the pinkie is the elongated finger. For anthros, I like to give the poor guys a thumb. :3 Still 3 fingers though.

Realistically, pterosaurs had freakishly long wrists, and a bone called the pteroid that held up the propatagium, or forwing. (I spelled it wrong in the picture, herp. That's what I get for drawing in class)

With the feet, pterosaurs were plantigrade. I understand digitigrade is fun, but I've seen people get after artists for drawing plantigrade creatures digitigrade, so why do it here?

Also, everyone seems to love Pteranodon longiceps , the pterosaur you ALWAYS see in cartoons/movies/TV shows. But really, there's more than just Pteranodon, pterosaurs got reeaaally weird. So do a little research, Wiki pterosaurs and check out some stuff.

Final note, on finding good references. I always reccomend Mark Witton (here [link] and here [link] ) as well as Paleoartists like Luis Rey. Don't just Google image search 'pterosaur', you end up with a bunch of really weird stuff.

Pterosaur heads on the bottom are, from left to right, top to bottom Pteranodon, Thalassodromeus, dsungaripterus, Caulkicephalus, Rhamphorhynchus, Darwinapterus, and Anurognathus.

Anywho, this is what I do with my class time. :d No wonder I have so much homework.