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Over this past weekend, I had an idea to reconstruct a Triceratops with facial markings resembling those of a toucan. This fits in with the idea that Triceratops may have had bold facial markings to help it intimidate predators or rival members of its own species.

Using a toucan photo as a reference and color source, I basically painted over a photo of Triceratops skull to ensure that I got the proportions right. (That was a horrible cheat, but I was more interested in experimenting with the colors than learning the correct facial proportions of a Triceratops. I hope a little of the latter seeped through in the process, anyway.)

Eventually I got it to the point where I was happy to give up messing with it. It certainly has some rough spots, but overall it came out better than I expected.

Description
Over this past weekend, I had an idea to reconstruct a Triceratops with facial markings resembling those of a toucan. This fits in with the idea that Triceratops may have had bold facial markings to help it intimidate predators or rival members of its own species.

Using a toucan photo as a reference and color source, I basically painted over a photo of Triceratops skull to ensure that I got the proportions right. (That was a horrible cheat, but I was more interested in experimenting with the colors than learning the correct facial proportions of a Triceratops. I hope a little of the latter seeped through in the process, anyway.)

Eventually I got it to the point where I was happy to give up messing with it. It certainly has some rough spots, but overall it came out better than I expected.