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Published: 2011-05-27 17:59:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1104; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 6
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Whether you're a Homo sapiens or an Ornitholestes hermanni, one thing never changes: the smart kid always gets picked on.Related content
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if birds and not reptiles are the descendents of dinosaurs, I ask why not have dinosaurs with bright beautiful colors, especially males to attract the females and to intimidate other males?
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These guys seem pretty colorful to me.
At any rate, this isn't paleoart. It's not meant to be (and none of my works ever claimed to be) a 100% faithful-to-science representation of what I think these dinosaurs looked like millions of years ago. It's based on my comic series, set in a world of fictional dinosaurs that descended from, but are not identical to, the dinosaurs that lived on Earth during the Mesozoic era. From an in-universe perspective, their colors are usually a way to tell different individual characters apart or to know which characters are from the same family. As far as sexual dimorphism is concerned, I usually give the males more decorations (extra spikes, bumps, accented muscles\bones etc.) to appear, as you pointed out, more impressive and intimidating, while the females have usually no decoration. I also sometimes make the males more colorful and the females more grayish but that's not set in stone.
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I didn't mean it as a criticism of your coloring, just
a comment on the depiction of dinos typically by most
artists. As I wandered further on your account
after commenting, I noticed you
did have pretty colorful dinosaurs, but I was just
"browsing" the gallery and not really reading so I
didn't get it about the comic series connection.
I liked the animated-look happy birthday to Poharex,
think it might have been year 5. big cake,
lots of dinos, a tiny dark one near the bottom...
Good luck/ success with your comic series.
Dave
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Don't worry, I wasn't offended or anything, just wanted to explain my reasoning.
And yes, it is a very good and valid point about dinosaur art in general.
Hopefully I wouldn't sound intrusive, but I always did wonder how a person with color blindness would see my work, since the colors I choose for my characters have a very specific set of meanings to me. It would be nice to know what it means to someone who sees the world differently.
By coincidence, the bullies in this painting have a red and green color scheme, sort of, (more like crimson and green actually) so I have no idea what it looks like on your part.
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I could tell they were red and green. some shades of red and green I can see, but they don't look like what non-colorblind people see. Other shades of red/green look exactly the same to me: as grey.
My wife loves to tell about the afternoon she came home from work (teaching) and I was making a ham and cheese sandwich. She doesn't eat ham, ever, and rarely has sandwiches, so she glanced into the kitchen as I was about to lay a slice of cheese onto the ham and she blurted, "You aren't going to eat that, are you?"
turns out the ham was partially green. The pink and the green all looked grey to me.
I rely on the labels on the markers and pencils that I buy, and my training in art classes as to what colors are complementary when I paint. My little avatar and all my Panda Khan painted comic book covers I painted myself. But when they were printed, my instructions to the printers often meant a call to my wife from the printing company to double check that the color I had indicated for a red was really what we wanted. One time I wrote fire engine red when it was really a brick red.
I can't really tell....
Dave
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Cool, thanks for taking the time to let me know.
That green ham incident would be a cool idea for a comic strip or cartoon if you were ever to do that... you could (obviously) work it into some kind of Dr. Seuss parody.
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for a long while after the sandwich "incident", I wouldn't use lunchmeat in sandwiches without showing it to my wife for her stamp of approval first. After she told a cartoonist friend of hers the story, he drew a cartoon of her on a throne of luncheon meat, holding some sort of salami scepter, as Queen of Sandwichland or some such, making royal pronouncements. Verily!
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Awesome! Can that cartoon be found anywhere online, by any chance? I'd love to see that!
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His name is Myk Friedman and he has a lot of animated cartoons on youtubeΒ Toonsmyth Productions Β the balogna cartoon is on his Facebook page and my wife's, about a year or two ago, I will look for it tomorrow.Β
Myk does a lot of parody stuff. pretty funny guy.
Dave
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Or simply the easy target kid, so full of love and innocence that he is unable to grasp the whole B.S. and teasing aspect of life's constant challenge to respectively release tension from one's day. very well done job on color of scales in both the wise raptor and the bullies. background too, good thing the loyalty is not strong with bullies, take out the leader and the others fall with them.
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