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Knarme In reply to Dr-XIII [2020-05-13 09:13:13 +0000 UTC]

Haha. I understand where you're coming from. And I really appreciate you telling me this, because I want to see all kinds of reactions to my designs.

I intentionally wanted to try out something that feels uncomfortable for the eye at first. This is because many times I've grown to love designs that looked weird/uncomfortable to me at first. Like Spirit's eyebrows or the crude faces of the monkeys from Monkey's Tale. A marking on the nose like this, on a dromaeosaur, is an "ugly" or "imperfect" trait which is why using it fascinated me. A design that looks nice is just that, - nice. But when it's nice and slightly disturbing, I can't help but become really fond of it.

Examples of "uncomfortable" character designs I grew to like:

- Rayman - raymanpc.com/wiki/script-en/im…

- Monkey's Tale characters - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_lsNF…

You know that feeling when a character design just makes you go "wtf is this?"? But then you watch the movie / play the game / read the comic etc. and it grows on you... (I didn't play Rayman though, my brother did) It just becomes a "thing". The design choice seems a bit insane, a bit brave, but the media featuring it handles it with such grace that the weird thing becomes a part of what makes is so memorable.

I've seen some palaeoartists try something similiar with theropod nostrils (coloring the skin of the nostrils and sometimes the area around them differently than the rest of the face skin) on realistic artwork, so I used a similiar idea in my cartoony dromaeosaur here. It's definitely an unlikely thing for any diapsid nose, but a "colored nose" has evolved in some like tegus. Who knows if there were some dinosaurs benefitting from a differently colored nose for some reason?

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srjf1 In reply to Knarme [2021-10-07 01:56:09 +0000 UTC]

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