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Published: 2014-08-28 14:41:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 22109; Favourites: 618; Downloads: 113
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Yay, first deviation on this new account. For a spec evo project i'm working on and off on, a giant predator.Scanner quality is a bit dodgy. sorry about that guys.
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looks like something a kea could evolve into giving time and opportunity.
and keeping the intelligence kea's have, it would be a very dangerous predator.Β
oh,Β must have not been here a long time, noticing I made a same sort of comment before.
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Β Come to think of it, it does kind of look like part phorusrhacos AND part tyrannosaurus (with a hint of zebra finch and either tragopans or eared pheasants)! LOL!Β
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That black and white pattern is stunning, it looks distant yet familiar at the same time.
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More like a giant killer sparrow. (if it could still be called a sparrow)
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Β By the way, when you said that it's a giant predator, were you meant to say that it is as big as a tyrannosaurus?
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Β That's okay. No artist has ever been perfect. Plus, I love how you drew the stripes.
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Love the color pattern here, great design aswell!
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If the claws are touching the ground shouldn't they be a bit more dull? I suggest padding on the feet
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haha yeah probably
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Just curious, what is the giant bird's modern day ancestor?
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Sparrows in this project, although i suppose it could be any generalist modern bird
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What an awesome way for the sparrows to evolve into these! I like the idea of it!
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LOVE this guy! This is Guindgear-level quality!
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Thanks man, Guindgear though? what's that?
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He's a paleoartists on the site. Draw excellent pterosaurs!
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I am very happy to have stumbled upon yet another awesome speculative biology enthusiast. I love your work so far!
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Thanks man, it's a pretty good way to get over art block more than anything else
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This somehow appeared while I was looking for skeletal references of Abelisaurus. I was intrigued by it as it appeared to be a very unorthodox restoration of a phorusrhacid. And now I read it is part of a spec evo project - just makes it even more awesome!
Having skimmed through your gallery I can see you are very talented, although not particularly active. I hope you continue this project into the future.
Now, time to go on a faving spree!
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Thanks a lot, I appreciate that. At the moment I'm posting much more often than usual because i'm home for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately I tend to get bogged down/distracted by other stuff, but hopefully that's going to change, it's been really fun picking up artwork again
I've got another painting for this project rolling up soon, hopefully i'll get that finished in a day or twoΒ Β
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Sounds familiar 
Cool, I'll keep an eye out.
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From Mesozoic earth to the stares beyond.
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Do you have an idea of what the carnornis evolved from?
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The idea for this project is that a group of sparrows are released on the surface of a terraformed planet and given the eons to evolve. They're the only vertebrates on the planet, so have niches too numerable to count open for exploitation. So in rather long-winded terms, they evolved from tree sparrows, as did every vertebrate on this planet.
This concept is rather outdated though, I need to update a lot of things on it.
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I had VERY similar idea, but with budgerigars fav.me/d7hdosr
I really like your version too
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Well what you have is wonderfully done.
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