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Last of the cuttlefish beasts is done

Based him a bit on the yellow bullsquid from hl1 prerelease

#half life #art #my art #halflife fanart #scarlet creaturetag #creature #creatures #bullsquid

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drawing the rest of the sepiotherium genus

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I LOVE the emperor cuttledile, especially its Latin name, "squid-crocodile emperor"; how distantly related is it to the common bullsquid? Would be neat to see family trees of similar species!

thank you! naming stuff is very fun :D

I know you asked for a family tree of the bullsquids but i was meaning to make this anyway so i thought why not now. i did make it silly tho

in my headcanon, theres two distinct groups of bullsquids: six clawed ones and five clawed ones. (i know the og design of green bullsquids has 4 claws but whatever it has 5 claws now)

so six clawed bullsquids mostly contain the land living ones and five clawed ones contain mostly semi to fully aquatic bullsquids. there is like one random monotypic genus of six clawed bullsquid that is semi aquatic but it is independent of the other group. I haven't really thought up all the details of bullsquid evolution tho so all of this might change in the future! and the rest of the tree is likely also gonna change a bit but this is the rough idea i have of relatedness

i cant tell you exactly how closely related each species is but id say cuttlediles and bullsquids are probably about as distant as hyenas and mongooses? who knows

the other xen creatures are not related or at least i haven't thought of wether they might be related or not

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we gettin dark n gritty

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poncho needs a bra

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Just found your page, and in in absolute LOVE. What are your preferred books/resources for practicing and studying dinosaur anatomy?

Thanks so much!

Apologies for the late/long reply. I can’t say that I’m “classically trained” in dinosaur anatomy, I’ve just kinda drawn them a lot over a long period of time and followed/taken mental notes from artists far better than I am lol. But, in terms of resources I AM aware of, these are pretty good:

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SkeletalDrawing.com, run by Scott Hartman, has a lot of really well done dinosaur skeletal diagrams to give you an idea of the proportions of different species (as viewed from the side) as well as a few diagrams showing the musculature of theropods like T. rex and Allosaurus and some basic anatomical terms.

https://www.skeletaldrawing.com/

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Matt Dempsey has a lot of spectacular drawings showing the musculatures of various kinds of dinosaurs, and as seen from the side, as well as from the front, back, top, and bottom to boot! They also have some skeletal drawings and some 3D renders of the dinosaur’s life appearances using those musculature diagrams.

https://www.artstation.com/sketchy-raptor

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The Paleoartist’s Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art by paleontologist & artist Mark Witton is available if you’re especially interested in accurately drawing dinosaurs and other extinct life. It’s a book I’ve read, it broadly goes over anatomy for many prehistoric creatures as well as many different aspects of the art form.

https://www.amazon.com/Palaeoartists-Handbook-Recreating-Prehistoric-Animals/dp/1785004611

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Books like Dinosaur Art and Dinosaur Art II showcase a lot of great art by many talented artists, and work great as some general guidelines/inspiration for your own art. They also work pretty well as coffee table art books!

https://www.amazon.ca/Dinosaur-Art-Worlds-Greatest-Paleoart/dp/0857685848

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In terms of some more general references,

RJ Palmer does nice paleoart every now and then and has a detailed diagram showing the anatomy of T. rex.

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Jacob Baardse has some of my favorite 3D renditions of dinosaurs, they do a good job of showing the underlying anatomy while having the models appear extremely lifelike. His Artstation page also has a few pieces where you can view their models in 3D, giving you a better idea for the body shapes at different angles.

https://www.artstation.com/littlebaardo

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There are many other amazing artists, too many to name here. Some of my favorite artists being Andrey Atuchin, Lucas Atwell, Fred Wierum, Joschua Knüppe, Rebecca Dart, David Krentz, Emiliano Troco, and Tom Parker among countless others. Many of them are quite knowledgeable, and if you look them up on social media you’ll find their art and discussions with other talented, knowledgeable people about similar topics. 

If you can afford them, David Silva is also producing highly articulated figures for the Beasts of the Mesozoic series. These are very accurate and are made in collaboration with some of the artists already brought up here. Good in-hand art references if that’s to you’re liking. Much better than most dinosaur figures you would find at the dollar store or some large supermarket.

I know this was long-winded and maybe more than you were looking for, but hopefully you at least found it interesting and even a small portion of this helps!

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Old animation I made in 2021

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white forest

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Source

Video of Tama

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Barney keeps showing Gordon big bang theory bc he thinks he's gonna like the nerd jokes but he doesn't. He really doesn't

#bro i feel for gordon in this scenario my bf did that too #how can a show be this annoying

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sonic adventure will always have my favorite sonic model. partially because i just really like how he looks but partially because i see him in a similar way people see mario in mario 64. i like to imagine he's a little guy who wanders around city blocks and jumps on cars. he's like a cat that occasionally spits out cheesy compressed ryan drummond sound clips

#yes someone gets it

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#he dunked his head into the spinch

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4:20

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y'all know what time it is, it's birb painting time!! this time with two (2) whole birbs!!! a steller's jay (top left) and blue jay (bottom right) :D

please reblog if you enjoy! <3

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Scientist Scream

“AARGH! A SPIDER!”

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#the chicken in the background lol

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Have you heard of Therizinosaurus? A large Cretaceous herbivore with impressive claws for slashing, digging and gathering all kinds of prehistoric foliage. These big weird dinosaurs are having a cultural moment and I’ve been meaning to paint one for a long time. This one is a miniature but it will have to do for now. -Levi Hastings