video id: A ceramic sculpture of an allosaurus, head turned to face the viewer and mouth slightly ajar with a flash of teeth. It’s body is striped in all manners of colours like the layers of sediment in the earth. Illustrated floral accents decorate it’s body and juramaia are illustrated against it’s flank. It stands on a dome shaped base with a sculpted tree between it’s arms and ribs, serving as a support, 3D branches tapering into 2D linework. Gold lustre accents it’s pupils and dots across it’s body.
Need to get on that tumblr grind so here is an allosaurus. Based on my favorite fossil, big Al, with the coloration of a snowy owl. Can be interpreted as any allosaurus tho
The portrait commission of Mel the Allosaurus fragilis is complete! I had a lot of fun painting digitally for a change, I've missed the process quite a bit. Keep an eye out for a painting timelapse on my Ko-fi!
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Bipedal dinosaurs couldn’t pronate their hands like we can (hence modern reconstructions always have the palms of the hands facing each other) but their fingers still had a solid amount of articulation. In the case of Allosaurus, paleontologists believed that members of this genus would’ve used both their claws and teeth to rake over the flesh of their prey (contrast this with Tyrannosaurus, where the tiny arms are the result of having a set of incredibly powerful jaws that can literally crush bone).
This was what I tried to suggest in my drawing, although I’m not sure if the actual position of the arms are anatomically possible (relative to the position of the animal’s upper body). I am more certain that I drew the hands bigger than the size they are supposed to be.
The quill-like protuberances on the back of its neck and chin are entirely speculative on my part; I thought they looked neat.
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A try for a phone wallpaper, i was very satisfied with it by the time: the grumpy look, the tired face, the background by the time was making me smile but recently i had grown tired of it since i know i can do better backgrounds and that some details changed in the character...
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Yet another remake, changed the background completely, removed Koreel from the composition and also added the darker scales in Huatau’s design, he didn’t change this much but i still wanted to update him graphically... I’m very much more liking the new background even if i just post cropped pictures here !