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Deinonychus is one of those dromæosaurs I consistently draw with vulturine features. I remember reading something that inspired this ages ago, but I cannot for the life of me remember it. This was drawn ages ago during my brief flirtation with color as seen
this guy has a quill pompadour, because I though it would look interesting and alter the outline without giving it a fleshy comb that sort of became a cliche in my dromæosaurs for a while.
Also his serrated tongue operates like a cats or a snails radula, used to scrape meat from bone that would be difficult to reach.
The more lumpy caruncles around the eye are defense against others of his species, either in mating battles or whilst fighting over scraps of meat.
I have no clue if 1. it's neck could bend like that or 2. it's even an accurate head shape, as I was drawing this while listening for music and didn't wan't to interrupt that every five seconds by tabbing out to look at reference
I am very annoyed by the hilariously late realization that real animals that have caruncles for eye protection tend to have them above the eye because they need to see forward. Stupid past me. I did this a lot too

Description
Deinonychus is one of those dromæosaurs I consistently draw with vulturine features. I remember reading something that inspired this ages ago, but I cannot for the life of me remember it. This was drawn ages ago during my brief flirtation with color as seen
this guy has a quill pompadour, because I though it would look interesting and alter the outline without giving it a fleshy comb that sort of became a cliche in my dromæosaurs for a while.
Also his serrated tongue operates like a cats or a snails radula, used to scrape meat from bone that would be difficult to reach.
The more lumpy caruncles around the eye are defense against others of his species, either in mating battles or whilst fighting over scraps of meat.
I have no clue if 1. it's neck could bend like that or 2. it's even an accurate head shape, as I was drawing this while listening for music and didn't wan't to interrupt that every five seconds by tabbing out to look at reference
I am very annoyed by the hilariously late realization that real animals that have caruncles for eye protection tend to have them above the eye because they need to see forward. Stupid past me. I did this a lot too