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Pachyornis — Stan getting wacked
Published: 2015-06-03 07:05:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 4910; Favourites: 114; Downloads: 0
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BHI 3033 has several pathologies in his or her neck region, plus a pennetrated occipital that shows signs of healing. I don't know whether the broken (and healed) neck vertebrae happened at the same event or not, but the pennetrated occipital implicates an agonistic interation with another dinosaur, probably a conspecific if it was indeed inflicted by a tooth. This drawing illustrates my idea on how this pathology came about.I still suck at doing convincing shaddows that give a feeling of 3dimensionality....
I know my T. rexes are boring - dull brown colour, no exciting feather ornaments or skinn appendages that go beyond what is known etc., but that's the way I imagine a large predator (outside mating season at least).
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Yep, a predator needs to hide. However, some mottling or stripes and bands may work better than a plain coat for hiding.
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Tigers are not dull colored like that, nor are leopards or jaguars. they had mottling of some form or another for camouflage Predatory birds aren't that way either. i think its safe to say a theropod would have been just as colorful.
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Depends on size, environment and species. Regarding big cats, don't forget that most mamals have a dichromatic vision while most dinosaurs most likely had a trichromatic vision. Birds of prey are not that colourful but mostly rather modest, the colour tones of most species vary between black, brown, white, beige and so on (there are exceptions of course). And it also appears to me that the larger reptiles get, the less elaborated are their colours (have a look at giant tortoises or Komodo dragons). Crocodiles are a special case of course. And I did not say that I rule out that theropods also had elaborated camouflage - just look how perfectly the "dwarf allosaur" in WWD is camouflaged in its environment. camouflage is the key word, I was thinking of bright, exciting colours and ornaments like we see them in many non-predatory birds. I myself won't ever draw a cassowary T. rex because I don't consider such an appearance effectful for this species, except for mating season perhaps.
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True, but it's also possible they may have appeared more colorful to each other than to other animals. some birds of prey can see in the ultraviolet spectrum, so its possible that some dinosaurs could have. it would have made their species more colorful in their eyes than another dinosaur species would see them as being. who knows?
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Now we are getting extremely speculative, and if the theropod in question was colourful in the UV spectrum, we wouldn't be able to see it anyway, therefore it would be unnecessary to draw it.
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perhaps not, but paleontology and paleoart are speculative anyway, and you cannot rule out any possibilities without fact.
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I don't say that there were no theropods with colours in UV spectrum (as a modern example, Cyanistes caeruleus actually has sexual dichromatism in the UV spectrum).
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That i realize. I just meant you never know what could be true when it comes to extinct forms.
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Sieht schmerzhaft aus (und ehrlich gesagt wollte ich ein sehr ähnliches Bild selbst schon immer zeichnen, wie Stan von Sue auf den Sack kriegt). Richtig gut geworden, wie immer.
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Danke!
Übrigens total sorry dass ich versäumt habe dir zum geburtstag zu gratulieren, damals hatte ich gerade recht viel zu tun (ferienjob usw) und hab total vergessen....
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Ach komm, macht doch nix. Ich werd mich wahrscheinlich fürs Gleiche entschuldigen müssen, einfach weil ich deinen Geburtstag nicht im Kopf hab, dich seit 100 Jahren nicht mehr im Skype sah, und die Birthday Notifications bei dA dermaßen unauffällig sind und so am Bildrand untergehen, dass ich die meistens einfach nicht wahrnehm.
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Ich muss mein Geburtsdatum hier auf dA ohnehin noch korrigieren, ich hab damals einfach aus Faulheit 1.1. genommen statt 5.3. - was ein bisschen irreführend ist, werd ich gleich mal ändern. Auf skype war ich in der tat schon ewig nicht mehr, liegt daran dass ich auf so messengerprogramme immer vergesse sie einzuschalten und das ja auch extra saft kostet. Es benutzt auch kaum einer meiner Bekannten skype, die meisten sind auf FB aktiv aber selbst da hab ich jz meinen account bis auf weiteres deaktiviert.
Aber sollt ich mal wieder längere phasen am computer umsitzen, werd ich skype anschalten
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very nice depiction, i've actually illistated something similar to this about a year ago. this is very well done. and frankly, i personally find plumage on large theropods to be dull. far more effective means of hunting then some giant flamboyant quail or cassawary.
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Yep, that's why my large Deinonychosaurs are dull brown without any major ornaments either. Like birds of prey, whose colouration mainly serves camouflage.
BTW, you said you ilustrated something similar, could you provide me a link or something? Just out of curiousity; I just had a look through your gallery, you do great art, I gave you some faves
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thanks alot for the favs. i feel that coloration or birds of prey and other predatory birds are very good references for large non avian theropods. unfortunately, i never posted the drawing online. it was a rather old drawing anyway. im probably going to remake it someday as stan has got to be one of my favorite tyrannosaurus skulls to illustrate.
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*in Australian accent* WHACK! That's ya get fer muckin' with that big female! Crikey!
*end Australian accent*
I really like the poses here, very natural. Especially like the downturned head of the bigger Tyrannosaurus.
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Really I don't mind the earthy tones of your Tyrannosaurus...frankly it's a fresh, soothing change from all the crazily-patterned turkey-rexes and cassowary-rexes and one that I could really see as being the color of a live rex's plumage.
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Thank you! I feel the same about those turkey-rexes and cassowary-rexes, I think sometimes the "birdiness" goes to far... I wonder if those brightly coloured, heavily ornamented megabirds are supposed to be suggestions of what the artists really thinks T. rex could have been like or just as thought-provoking impulses. Actually it's not a change that I have been doing but a bit of a revert towards the earthy green, brown and grey tones of the 20th century, that I think are just basically more likely for the majority of a large animal. I think the contra-trend towards the "big boring reptile" of the 20th century sometimes goes into the extreme. Not my personal taste.
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Yeah I also like that you don't go overboard with the feathers.
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Well you struck a middle path here! I like to feather them up but more like the fur on a large felid, short and ineffective, maybe a little longer in places. I should upload my rex one day...I've done a portrait...scaly in front of the mouth, and the little crests and ridges above the eyes are scaly too
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The average day of a trex. And now we know that they were somewhat cannibalistic.
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