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:icondroemar:
Meh, I'm just not a polisher. That's my problem. It's why The Pact's laborious inking and washing process is driving me crazy. It hasn't diminished my enthusiasm for dinosaurs, though!

I did this to resist taking a nap after me ma and I did some serious spring cleaning around my house. This is as much for my reference as it is everyone else's; I break half these rules most of the time. I mean, I grew up drawing raptors like Talon from Primal Rage and the Jurassic Park raptors, who had some serious anatomical mistakes. When I was little, I drew raptors with just the feathers on their heads, like Talon (boy, was I a fan of Talon), so a lot of the feather stuff has been quite a hurdle to overcome.

I really wish I could've had a single, beautiful, unbroken line of comic pages, but I couldn't take the pressure. My artistic aesthetic needed to breathe free! Expect about a page a week from now on.
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:iconyuriakashu:
*Yuriakashu 19 hours ago  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Beautiful reference here. : ) :+fav: (and printing for continued reference XD )!

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:iconmottenfest:
I love this tutorial! Do you have it posted somewhere where it is larger? It's difficult for me to read on my screen. D:

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~Ja-Kitsu-Ryou Jan 26, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Great tutorial! I love drawing dragons, and knowing about dinosaurs and other existing reptiles is essential to drawing a good dragon. Also, dinosaurs are just incredibly fun and wacky critters. :D I have a particular respect for the raptors though, so much cunning power without the brute force of a Tyrannosaurus. :D

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:icontyrannosaur17:
The rule that says "don't turn back the femur more than 90 degrees" doesn't make any kind of sense in Dromaeosaurs, of all creatures. They need powerful and agile legs that give balance when the animal is moving. How does it help if the femur has such a limited range of motion? Scott Hartman's skeletal reconstructions show some raptors (particularly Bambiraptor and Utahraptor) with a femur turned slightly past the 90 degree mark, and that's for reconstructions that show the animal in a "trotting" phase, not a running one.

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:icondroemar:
Oh, wow, you know, I went looking for this raptor tutorial of yours that was infinitely better than mine, but I couldn't find it! Shit!

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:icontyrannosaur17:
But I'll take that as a challenge. If I get anything wrong when I post the tutorial, feel free to do so.

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:icondroemar:
I thought you said were gonna leave. What, will having the last word let you win at the Internet or something?
Your comment doesn't make you right by inherent virtue, and "technical flaw" is, to say the least, putting things charitably. I looked up your Scott Hartman fellow, and his drawings obey the 90 degree rule. If the femur moved backwards (not forwards) any further than 90 degrees, it would dislocate.
But why am I even bothering to point this out to you? You're just going to bitch more. Remorse, remorse, I am so very, very wrong. Please, put together your tutorial and point out to everyone how wrong and mean I am.

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:icontyrannosaur17:
This time, I spoke up for the sake of scientific accuracy. Didn't know this would get under your skin, too. But I'm always ignorable, in any case. Fine, I'll just shut up.

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:icontyrannosaur17:
You certainly seem to think getting the last word is important. It's happened every time we've argued. It's difficult to leave anything alone when the closest thing I get to an answer or acknowledgement is a childish, sarcastic retort that has nothing to do with the conversation.

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:icontyrannosaur17:
I pointed out a technical flaw, Droemar. Getting sarcastic about it doesn't make you right. (By the way, I wasn't "scavenging" for excuses to criticize you - this flaw bothered me for a while, so I decided to say something about it)

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