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Published: 2010-06-24 00:39:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 89426; 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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awsome guide me dear^^
will put this to good use^^
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Great tut. I'm gonna use this right away.
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I useed to only imagine Raptors as their old dipiction, but since see the more modern idea of raptors I've prefer it to the old design. It helps illustrate how bizzarr some dinosaurs could be.
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That "could" is now a "for sure could not"
youtu.be/MJ27HgCSIcU
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Rather like the idea of raptors with feathers.
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It is rather godlike, isn't it? :3
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I'm faving this. But not because I want to draw raptors properly.
I'm faving them because the things you listed as wrong gave me cool ideas.
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Thank. This one will probably help me a lot to drawing the dinosaurs.
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This is pretty awesome; thanks for making it! I love how it has that medical theme to it. (:
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Funny thing is, I love the real raptor hands. The fake, broken type just looks wrong to me.
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I noticed that about the feathered part. The older, scaled raptors always seemed somehow naked to me XD
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Non-feathered raptors are just plain weird. But still, not my biggest Dino pet peeve. That honor belongs to things that still call T. rex a Carnosaur.
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Thanks for sharing this with all of this. Developing a raptor character and finding an image that shows me basic shapes like these has been hard to do. <3
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Thank you for making this. It will be very helpful
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Aw man I wish I had come accross this before I got my dilophosaurus tattoo. NOW I HAVE FOREVER BAD ANATOMY ENGRAVED INTO MY THIGH!
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I ve"been drawing raptors all wrong untill i found this picture.
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I ve"been drawing raptors all wrong untill i found this picture.
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You just exploded my whole life o.o I had so many raptor things when I was a kid and..and theyre all wrong? D: The kind of wing/hands and the feathers are so so so new to me right now.
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I know, right? I prefer the JP raptors over the newer, feathered variety shown in this tutorial -.-
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I like these one haha. Im just not used to them at alll
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Ah...well, I'm not that used to 'em at all, myself. I'm also a bit biased about it
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I didn't know about skull thing! Unbelievable! I'm outdated D: So Deinonychus had more Velociraptorish skull... That makes much more sense! I have to update my books and pictures I've gathered so far... 👍: 0 ⏩: 2
Hey, I like broken wrist syndrome :] Even it it's bad I used to them because of old dino-books in my childchood. Hm, in deeph tough I think I saw similar front 'paws' in Raptor Red 
And the neck reminds me about one annoying comment on YT, lol. That was random.
Anyways this looks good and this is the first time I have actually learned something about raptors. Point for you. I will fav this.
Hey!
It's been over 6 years since I typed this, and I actually forgot about the comment's existence (and how poorly I was commenting back then...)
I'm fairy updated by now, and learned some things during the time
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O, i know that, i'm just spreading the news
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Yes, I readed about the tail week or two ago. But the publication is still fairy new, so some folks here could not hear about it yet.
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Excellent. This is just what I needed; a clear, concise tutorial on how to draw raptors correctly. Thank you!
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Thank you T_T I love you!! 
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Okay. Are MY Raptor's Arms and Legs too long? And his body a bit short? Or Did I nailed it. It's how I draw MY Deinonychosaurs, so I was asking if I violated any rules of this tutorial.
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The segment between the heel and toes is far too long. It should always be the shortest segment on the leg :]
examples: [link] [link] [link]
I would also make the claws a bit smaller. Every thing else I would give the OK to :]
Hope that helped.
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Okay. 
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Excellent, very clear reference. I should note that the old (and very wrong) Deinonychus/JP!Raptor with the big giant head and kangaroo hands is still on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History -- with no explanation. Very strange.
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youtu.be/MJ27HgCSIcU
The American museum of natural history fixed this
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I really appreciate this tutorial! It helps clear up a lot of "raptor" misconceptions. Especially the tail thing and the wrist thing. I, personally, had a hard time with dromaeosaurid wrists, until I read somewhere to just imagine it like the dinosaur is clapping.
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this is really awesome! now i can see the differences more clearly. the 2 compairsons you did were really helpful.
basically this would be the super outdated raptor skeleton:
[link]
and i'm assuming this is the more correct:
[link]
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that is somewhat correct although the first link is the outdated Deinonychus and the second link is a semi-updated Velociraptor
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hahah 
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Oh, in the second one (the velociraptor skeleton) it is the skull that is a bit off from modern-day reconstruction.
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aha. well that explains it. thank you for clarifying.
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Excellent work. There are some insanely inaccurate dromaeosaurid drawings floating around.
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[link]
I guessing this bothers you, then lol
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