Suchomimus tenerensis: colour

Phew...so this is an Adobe Illustrator version of the Suchomimus drawing from a few days ago. As always, I used Illustrator to trace out the outline and then use different layers to colour, shade, and add a bit of effect. The stripes took me forever to do...

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Zach said…

But it certainly looks good! Nice color selection--it's like desert camo for a desert theropod. :-)

15 April, 2008 01:44

Raptor's Nest (old) said…

Thanks Zach! I've had this colour scheme in mind for a spinosaur ever since I saw a miniature diorama at the Bristol City Museum about five years ago...sadly, they don't have that there anymore - I wonder what happened to it...come to think of it, I seem to recall it being part of the hands-on section for kids so perhaps it wasn't a permanent display at all to begin with...

15 April, 2008 13:26

traumador said…

That is awesome dude!

I hear you on the detailing of Dino strips taking forever. I just finished a 3D Lambeosaur which took me all week (I did a post about it at http://prehistoric-insanity.blogspot.com/2008/04/3d-graphics-how-to-texture-dinosaur.html ). Loving the art on here.

Also have to say thanks for the alert to ask a biologist a little while ago. Loving that site, and so is my class. Cheers!

19 April, 2008 07:46

The difference between Lion and Tiger skulls

A quick divergence from my usual dinosaurs, and I shall talk about big cats today. This is because to my greatest delight, I had discovered today a wonderful book. It is called The Felidæ of Rancho La Brea (Merriam and Stock 1932, Carnegie Institution of Washington publication, no. 422). As the title suggests it goes into details of felids from the Rancho La Brea, in particular Smilodon californicus (probably synonymous with S. fatalis ), but also the American Cave Lion, Panthera atrox . The book is full of detailed descriptions, numerous measurements and beautiful figures. However, what really got me excited was, in their description and comparative anatomy of P. atrox , Merriam and Stock (1932) provide identification criteria for the Lion and Tiger, a translation of the one devised by the French palaeontologist Marcelin Boule in 1906. I have forever been looking for a set of rules for identifying lions and tigers and ultimately had to come up with a set of my own with a lot of help

Old drawings: Allosaurus

Recently, I came across a stash of old drawings that I had completely forgotten about. I'll try and upload them in the next week or two. Some are palaeo, others are not, but still quite interesting nonetheless... Here is the first. I think it is an Allosaurus head. At least the skull looks like an Allosaurus and it has lacrimal horns like an Allosaurus , so it must be an Allosaurus . Nothing special I guess...

R for beginners and intermediate users 3: plotting with colours

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