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Trying my hand at adding some color.Not exactly how I pictured it in my head, but I think it came out pretty good for my first colored pencil attempt.
Done with Prismacolor pencils.
Any tips on coloring tricks would be greatly appreciated!
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It seems tho that this pterosaur was very robustly built and geared towards attacking the largest prey (dwarf ornithopod and sauropod adults), so it would have dismembered food, so probably wouldn't choke.
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Robust, but I don't think we know enough to say it was attacking adult dwarf Sauropods.Β Β Β If the skull is like other Azhdarchids then it wasn't well suited to dismembering carcasses.
Any animal can have a stroke of bad luck and get something caught in it's throat.Β
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The skull was much more robust, hence the SVP 2013 theory on this being a macropredator analogous to carnosaurs.
But yes, it still could choke, though with a large chunk rather than a whole animal.
I remember that the Cryolophosaurus holotype was found killed by the prey it just killed in exactly this manner...
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Sorry to take so long in replying.Β Β
I don't doubt that the skull was robust, but the tip... unless it was quite different from other species in it's family, wasn't suited to ripping flesh.Β Β It's pointy not hooked.
A great stabbing weapon but not much good for dismembering a carcass.Β Β I can totally see it eating anything it can cram down its gullet though.
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Pterosaur overlords of Transylvania: short-necked giant azhdarchids in Late Cretaceous Romania Mark Witton1, Matyas Vremir2, Gareth Dyke3, Darren Naish3, Stephen Brusatte4 & Mark Norell5 1 - University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK. 2 - Transylvanian Museum Society, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 3 - University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. 4 - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. 5 - American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Azhdarchid pterosaurs are well known for their frequent attainment of gigantic wingspans (sometimes over 10m), but are also characterised by a distinctive anatomical bauplan which is thought to be fairly uniform across the group. This comprises elongate 45Β jaws, long limbs and short wing fingers, as well as hypertrophied cervical vertebrae, which are perhaps their most defining features. We present evidence of unprecedented morphological diversity in giant azhdarchids with EME 315, a large and robust seventh cervical vertebra from the Maastrichtian SebeΕ Formation of Transylvania. The specimen corresponds in size, histology and proportions with the 10 m wingspan Transylvanian azhdarchid, Hatzegopteryx thambema, and likely represents a member of this genus or an extremely close relative. Despite its size, EME 315 is proportionally short and likely represents a cervical III-VII length of only 1.39 m. This is comparable to the neck lengths of much smaller azhdarchids and considerably shorter than our estimated cervical III-VII length for Arambourgiania philadelphiae (2.3m), another giant azhdarchid known from cervical remains. We therefore propose that long necks are not common to all azhdarchids.Β The robust and short-necked azhdarchid bauplan may reflectΒ adaptation to predating relatively large animals, assuming that, as suggested for other azhdarchids, these Transylvanian pterosaurs foraged terrestrially. Because Transylvanian azhdarchids dwarf contemporary terrestrial predators by some margin, it is possible that they wereΒ apex predatorsΒ in Maastrichtian Transylvania. This suggestion conflicts somewhat with hypotheses that Late Cretaceous pterosaurs were ecologically constrained and declining into extinction during the Maastrichtian.
Apparently you might want to rethink that. It does seem to be different from others and geared towards large prey.
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I think the key is "relatively large animals".Β Β Β For Pterosaurs they were taking big prey but they weren't going to taking down 30 ft long Hadrosaurs.Β
"Apex predator" means that they are the top of their food chain,Β Eagles are apex predators but they don't take down large prey.Β Β
Again, I'm not arguing that these guys are capable of taking down relatively large animals... just that with long pointy beaks they aren't equipped for ripping flesh.Β Β
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I don't think there was anything on that island that large though. The adult sauropods are the largest things and the pterosaurs stand much taller than they do. A 30 foot hadrosaur is too big, but there wasn't anything that large on Hateg....
And in any case it is built differently, for larger prey.
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I had an art teacher that was always hard to please. She always stressed to me "lighten your lights and darken your darks". I like this piece though. LOVE prismacolors! I use the soft leaded colored pencils, they blend extremely well especially since im an oil paint kinda chick
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yeah, I have more experience with oil paints than with pencils. I love prismas thick soft texture.
At some point I'll have to try them on real paper. I should get much better saturation than on copy paper.
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one of your best pieces methinks. the coloring was done so damn well. i like that tongue too p:
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Would you like a glass of water to pass that, mr. Hatzegopteryx?
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The Heimlich maneuver would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks a lot.
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I think that you made a great use of the colors here, the scene is even more better
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I don't know much about traditional colouring (digital freak here), but I believe you did a great job!
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Thanks a lot!
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Thank you!
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You're welcome.
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