Join for FREE | Take the Tour Lost Password?
[x]

deviantART

 
©2008-2010 *Droemar
:icondroemar:

Artist's Comments

A sequel of sorts to the Raptor Tutorial. Again, this is as much for me as anyone else; my hope is that other people will be able to benefit from my rather nonsensical scribblings. I should be updating my comic tomorrow.

Theropods are pretty hard to nail down; saying you're going to draw them is like saying you're going to draw a canine or feline. There are a LOT of variations, and half the scientists in the world are debating who goes where. I focused on the clade that Acrocanthosaurus belongs to, because those are the ones I'm really studying. (They're the villains in mah book.) I did add T-Rex in, but mostly for the benefit of showing the pinnacle of specialization the guy was. That bulldog neck and battering ram skull more than make up for his dinky forepaws.

Theropods really were the ultimate predator. I don't care what you compare them to: sharks, orcas, tigers, bears, wolves. I have a wall chart that shows how big the various species in my book were in relation to each other, and seeing an Acro go after an Astrodon must've been like watching gods fight, let alone what a Giganotosaurus would have looked like going after an Argentinosaurus.

You just can't beat something that could run you down and eat you in a couple of bites.

Comments


love 0 0 joy 0 0 wow 1 1 mad 0 0 sad 0 0 fear 0 0 neutral 0 0
:iconthe-hell-raider:
cool, I realy like these tutorials keep em cominh :):):)
:iconslycougar:
omg you draw them perfectly!!! you are so tlitanted!!!! I just love your work!!!!

--
I'VE GOT CATTITUDE TO GO WITH MY ATTITUDE!!!!!!!!!
YOU GOTTA LOVE ART!!!!!!
:iconhyourin:
Holy sweet jesus. Moar non wolves :noes: Totally awesome.

--
The early worm gets eaten. :ohnoes:

:bulletblue:--->~DogArt-RPG <---:bulletblue:
:iconstormyzoonoc:
Another dino type I've always had trouble with! Thank you very much for sharing information!

--
ⁿ3ⁿ
Mac Lover
:iconroseraptor:
holy crap THANK U!!!!!!

--
That's what she said
:iconswiftclawflamewing:
watching gods fight... -epic scene in her head-

I suppose it might be like watching Giant Squid and Sperm Whales, have you seen some of those scars? But it would be awesome, it just goes to show you how much evolving mammals have an opportunity for, seeing as how long the dinosaurs were around in comparrision. I'm having bear fights coming to mind.


But those theropods were huge. It doesn't seem right that there wasn't anything intellegent, given all that time does it? Maybe the intellegent ones were like sharks, they don't leave anything behind. -ramble- this is what I'm doing instead of doing hw, so gimme a break.


-runs off to finish an idea of hers-

--
:bulletgreen: Proud to be a real genetic experiment, gone wrong :bulletgreen:


~Stop squirming and die like an adult!~ - GLaDos, Portal

:icondroemar:
I don't like to think that dinosaurs were stupid, but just about every bit of science says they were. I suppose in comparison to other dinosaurs theropods and raptors were smart. There's so much stuff that can't be validated by bones alone, and I like to put the intelligence of dinosaurs in that department.

--
"I, to my perils, of cheat and charmer, came clad in armor, by stars benign."

We killed the Gods. We destroyed the world. Welcome to Lustra. [link]
An epic fantasy beyond hope and immortality - Rhymar.net
:iconskyefeather:
thanks again! are you doin' more of them?

--
thanks to Bloody-Moon-Tears for the awesome avvie
---
i'm holding on to you, i'll never let go; i need you with me as i enter the shadows ~red
---
.: :LP::headbang::TH: :.
:iconswiftclawflamewing:
yeah, you can't really tell as much as people want you to think from bones. Sure, we've found bits and pieces from our ancient civilizations, but only a few and what are the chances after 25 million years? There could have been a civilization going on, and we wouldn't know it now.

--
:bulletgreen: Proud to be a real genetic experiment, gone wrong :bulletgreen:


~Stop squirming and die like an adult!~ - GLaDos, Portal

:iconrubymight:
very helpful and cool, I like how the feet look spread, and the skull great job! :D

--
I'm that person who just seems too oblivious

~You know I'm up to something~

Epic avatar made by ~mazain

Details

February 11, 2008
222 KB
222 KB
800×1000

Statistics

56
1,020 [who?]
17,580 (1 today)
953 (2 today)

Share

Link
Embed
Thumb

Site Map