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Published: 2010-06-24 00:39:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 89423; Favourites: 2673; Downloads: 1142
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i have had alot of people in the past either ask me how to draw raptors, or when will i make another tutorial. so here is a tutorial on raptors. grrrr. i hope its understandable and stuff.This will prolly be edited a few times, i plan to add a new section every now and then. i am open for critique from those who perhaps have had even more experience with dromaeosaurids.
i am always available for redlining.
EDIT LIST:
6/24/10
-added in the halluxes to avoid confusion
-edited a minor wing feather error pointed out by ixerin
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But why are they so long there?
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It's kinda like a feathery mane.
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I can't find an answer to this
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Hmm, 2010. I'm assuming either example is equally outdated by now. So might as well draw the Jurassic Park velociraptor (aka the version that looks cool)
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about as cool as a hairless bear
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You mean the version that looks like an autistic lizard? And no, the "correct" version is still quite close to the accepted truth.
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just because something looks weird, doesn't mean you should call it "autistic".
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I just wanted you to know that this tutorial has helped me for years. Thank you.
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And for the one who want to draw a raptor of jurassic park?
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Well, then you are not drawing a dinosaur..
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Will rather tell to impose his law, because if I remember myself well the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park was like that that have to consider them
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YourΒ tutorial's image helped with meΒ making this forΒ differentΒ raptorΒ variants:
Raptor-Base
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You forgot the feathers
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This tutorial really helped me make raptors! Hopefully I will learn to be better at making the feet and fingers though.
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Artistically I like incorrect raptor design from the 90's best, although I know both as a dinosaur buff and a paleontological student it's incorrect.
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all scientific research thus far has led up to yes they do.Β
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This is very old. The matter is cleared up.
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sorry about that. glad to hear. (I've been away awhile)
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That's not how feathers work...
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The idea that some raptors could have feathers and others not. Dromaeosauridae isn't wide enough to make that much variation possible. You could say not all dinosaurs had feathers, or not all theropods had feathers, but raptors did all have them.
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I thought most raptors had those shaft things instead of actual feathers?
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All raptor fossils with feather imprints show they had very advanced feathers, similar in layout to this:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaβ¦
Or:
images.mentalfloss.com/sites/dβ¦
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my belief is that how the hell do we actually know raptors had feathers? just because their bone structure shows that they MIGHT have feathers doesn't mean they definitely do.
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this is something that catches people a lot tbh but honestly the explanation is really simple!
we have fossil evidence of raptors very closely related to other raptors with feather impressions. a good example is archaeoptrix , as well as microraptor . both of these dinosaurs not only had feathers, but they were extremely advanced and well-developed feathers designed to enable flight. that is millions of years of evolution just to hit a feather structure that is slightly more complicated than down, let alone fully asymmetrical feathers on a quill! because of this, one can assume that any animal that turned up after them that was related to them would absolutely have feathers, because evolution doesn't just pick up something like that and go 'nah, nevermind'. Not when its a full body covering that advanced!Β
not only that, but velociraptor as well as dakotaraptor (a newly-described raptor just a bit smaller than utahraptor that was went extinct during the K-T extinction event and lived in the same time and habitat as tyrannosaurus rex) both have distinct bumps in the bones of their forearms that are known from modern bird bones to be quill-nubs. this means that not only did these animals have feathers, but they were so developed as to be true flight feathers that rooted themselves in the animal's bones!
most theropods have also been described as feathered at this point, too, because we've found many basal(/primitive) species with feather impressions! t. rex itself would have had some amount of feather covering simply because all its ancestors did (distinctly proven by the closely related yutyrannus), though it would have been some light downy fluff
basically you'd need a really really hardcore mutation for an animal to suddenly lose its feathers, and since birds today ALL have feathers, we can assume feathers were really incredibly important for some reason. since its suspected they were for thermoregulation, it's incredibly unlikely any animal without feathers would have survived long enough to pass on its weird mutation to other generations.
tl;dr theropods had feathers, dude.Β
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Your belief makes sense, but it could also be used to justify that dinosaurs didn't have any eyes, or that they never lived in the first place. I mean we don't see T.rex walking around today, so how do we know that it was ever a living animal and the fossils aren't just rocks with a weird shape? The same way we know that raptors had feathers, by looking at the bones and similarities to modern animals.
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There are skull recunstructions that show the skull more like the iriginal revonstruction, but with an longer snout, being more raptor like.
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