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Published: 2018-07-13 18:19:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 6770; Favourites: 319; Downloads: 32
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A family group of Craniopterus cogitans forages on a convex river bank that leads to the lake of Bernissart.I really don't have anything to show so I might as well post some stuff I made for my bachelor thesis I finished a few weeks ago. After all I put some effort in this one. For all clearity: this species isn't real. This work goes along with that other drawing I uploaded a while ago: www.deviantart.com/dontknowwha…
Constructive criticism is always welcome!
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I wanted to look up Craniopterus and I just found results for babies with fused heads!
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Well, this one doesn't exist so that's probably why.
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Oh darn, this is a little awkward.
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I would have to look at my notes for that, but those are not available atm. Pretty sure the trees are Taxodium though.
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Haven't heard of this pterosaur. What a way to introduce it to me!
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It's speculative.
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Oh my bad. Still awesome
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Beautiful World '94 - please allow me to congratulate you on continuing to disprove your Screen Name more & more thoroughly with every illustration you produce! (please allow me to apologise in advance for asking what may be a foolish question, but are those chelonians at the bottom left of this painting tortoises or turtles? I think they're the former but would like to second-check my own deduction).
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Tbh I'm at the moment stuck in an art block, but thanks
They are turtles, they're semi-aquatic. (I need to check most of the time too if I'm using the correct term, non-English speaker here)
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My dear fellow, have no fear - Talent such as yours will not long be denied the Inspiration to allow it the very fullest expression! (The Muse could never resist an opportunity to make such beautiful works of Art possible).
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Interesting p.o.v. of pterosaurs: a family not flying, but walking on the ground. Of course azdarchid pteros walk alot, but I've never thought of pterosaurs (adults and youngsters) traveling on the ground like a family of geese.
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I guess it is possible as long as they give parental care to their young. Or maybe the young simply use the presence of adults for protection and free scraps to eat in case they didn't gve it.
But these are speculative high intelligent pterosaurs so they obviously take care of their young. (I didn't bother to write a proper description yesterday)
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Something looks...different from your other pieces...I can't put my finger on it
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Probably the different medium, I'm not yet used to digital colouring.
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Thanks!
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Gorgeous piece!
Might those iguanodonts be a little cautious near those pterosaurs, or do they know they aren't interested in them atm?
Also, very intricate detail. I like how you added those branch shadows on the iguanodonts and trunks. Plus those elongated shadows on the bank.. they seem a little smooth around the edges, that must be some very fine/smooth dirt/sand they're walking on, maybe just eroded by the river. I notice this because I'm working on a piece with tons of dirt in it atm and it's a chore to get the shading/lighting right.
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Thanks, man!
They aren't interested, I'm quite sure they wouldn't hunt them. Maybe in rare desperate occasions.
Those shadows on the bank were quite hard. Tbh I didn't really know how to exactly paint them. You say that the sand must be very fine to get such smooth edges, I didn't think about that while working on them. I thought shadows always have smooth edges unless the surface they're on isn't smooth. In case of a bank I thought there wouldn't be much textures because as you say the water washes everything away. Maybe I should've taken into acount disturbances, footprints etc. I'll remember that for the next time I do this.
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Hmmm... OK. Just looking at their tools you might expect them to be able to take down very large game but hey.
OK, cool.
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It could be I'm thinking too Western human-like because it's a lot of meat they can never use in a warm climate, but elephants are sometimes hunted too in Africa by local tribes so...
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OK, I see.. yeah meat storage is something.. I'm pretty sure Native Americans would drive bison off of cliffs and only butcher a few because of how many were killed, and some Neanderthal hunting sites suggest similar wasting of bison carcasses.
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I guess it would work here too then.
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Yeah. Obviously a scavenger magnet, we have large predator bones at European Paleolithic game drives, alongside human burials at Předmostí u Přerova.
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Indeed, the whole ecosytem lives on such a carcass basically.
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*Planet Dinosaur Ep. 5 ending flashbacks*
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I suspect that those Iguanadons are probably out of the pterosaurs weight-class, unless the fliers hunt together as well as stroll together; having said that it wouldn't surprise me if this flight of pterosaurs were to send up an Almighty Hassle if those ground-pounders get too close to the "pteraways" (why yes, that last word IS my own pet term for "juvenile pterosaur" for which I remain abidingly unrepentant).
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Well, looking at the previous deviation, they are intelligent and possess melee weapons, so that might change things a litte. Plus maybe they can climb, glide and thereby attack from a safe distance.
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Damn! This drawing and coloration is amazing.
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Awesome work as always bud! Is this a new species of pterosaur? I searched for it and got nothing.
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Thanks!
It's a speculative species. I hadn't mentioned that in the description yesterday because I didn't think about that looking at how I uploaded the same animal a few weeks ago: High intelligence
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You got nothing because Craniopterus is a fictional species created by the author. They are a sapient species.
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I assume "Craniopterus" is a nomen ex dissertationae. Are you planning on publishing it?
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I can't find the meaning of that term you're using...
Nah, it's just a speculative animal.
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It means a genus/species name that is in a thesis or dissertation.
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Ah okay, I hadn't heard it before.
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Craniopterus is fictional, actually. It's part of a speculative evolution project the artist did.
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Ah, I see. Thanks for pointing that out.
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