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Published: 2010-07-17 22:26:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 12569; Favourites: 119; Downloads: 0
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A selection of sketches from my animal anatomy class from the Denver Zoo and the Nature and Science Museum.To be moved to scrapes later.
(c) Dara C.
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That's a nice series of studies.
I really should do some work on drawing animals to even out my skills (such as they are 
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I really like how you were able to capture the animals' behaviors ^^ This would really help me a lot in draqing animals
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Thank you very much! Going to the zoo once a week to draw really helped me. :3 And thank you for the fave! I appreciate it.
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The thing I find most fascinating about animal anatomy is how often, it parallels with ours. I mean, a bird's wing may be a radically different size, proportionally, than a human's arm, but they still have the same amount of main joints and bend in the same directions.
--Rogan
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True! There are certain bones that may be fused together, etc, but really there are striking similarities. Though I think I loved being told that horses are damning the Earth. They only have the middle finger so to speak and thus walk around on four middle fingers. :3 Great way to remember that.
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Oh yeah, it's really cool. When I was designing my bird tattoos, I'd never drawn a bird in my LIFE, but after looking at a few diagrams, I was like, heyyyyy, their wings are kinda like human arms, only... you know. Less fingery.
It helps a lot.
--Rogan
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It's true! Their "fingers" are fused together in large-ish, hollow clumps. :3
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I LOVE evolution for giving us cool parallels like that.
--Rogan
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There is clearly something is advantageous about this similar skeletal structure. Birds are surviving dinos after all. :3 The class is going to be drawing more birds on the morrow. The ones that flit around and aren't stuffed.
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That'll be awesome. Are you going to an aviary?
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We went to the zoo which has a number of different birds out and about and also a bird house which has several different rooms with different habitats that the birds could fly around in. Fun to look at them in, but very muggy and it was a hot day...
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Shame about the weather; it sounds really cool besides!
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What's funny is it was just really hot outside and it was inside the bird house that was muggy. It wasn't much of an improvement even though it was cooler inside.
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Yech. Yeah, high humidity is awful. Really dry chaps your lips, but at least you don't sweat yourself soaked.
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I don't like either. I grew up in high humidity and I have to drink a lot of fluids even then... So now that I'm in a dry climate I'm having trouble even in summer when people complain about it being humid here. Heh.
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We're the opposite. Austin was humid, but not like, Florida or anything, but we're camels. When we moved to Wellington, which doesn't have nearly the heat, we only drank like three glasses of water a day, and we never felt thirsty. 
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I always drink like a fish. Doesn't matter what humidity. I'm just a fluids filter.
Interesting how different Wellington was though... Huh. I scratch my proverbial beard which is ever so long and flowing...
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Well, in Texas, I'm used to, like, a hundred plus degree heat. Wellington is a LOT cooler than that, even in summer. I just wasn't sweating gallons every hour!
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I could definitely go for cooler... I'm a fan of Autumn and Spring and then Winter. Summer is my least favorite season.
And we went to the Tropical Discoveries building at the zoo. It was difficult to draw the iguanas since that was about the muggiest place to stand. <:[ BTW--Mata Mata turtles are awesome. :3
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Turtles are awesome in general! I love watching how they move, how they eat. They can be cute little box turtles or gigantic majestic sea turtles!
Turtles are cool.
--Sneak
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