Studying dinosaur anatomy a bit :3
Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
Species Dinosaur
Size 1100 x 784px
File Size 571.7 kB
Ah, well, that's the best part about dinosaurs actually. Their anatomy is fairly straightforward! Outside of body covering(like feathers), dinosaurs have belly ribs that help frame their body, so they don't usually end up too-too far from what we find.
Here is Scott Hartman's website, it hosts skeletals of loads of different kinds of dinosaurs, and even some non-dinosaur ones.
For deinonychosaurs this group has the best of the best as far as pictures and tutorials go.
Big tips in drawing dinosaurs is to actually use references that aren't actually google images. Most people don't bother with references for some reason, despite the animals never being seen by them, or them ever really sitting down and looking at a good ref beforehand.
Basic tips for dinosaurs are: Do not shrink wrap ,this means add meat,fat, and skin to the animals as if they were, well, animals. There's no need to show every little nook and cranny of the skull, since very little animals do that today.
Dinosaurs(theropods) didn't pronate their hands. A big folly, and a silly one, is dinosaurs with their palms down, this is actually breaking their wrists entirely. Theropods weren't monkeys, and weren't made to swing upside down from trees. Their palms always face inward like they're clapping. This also allows them to have wings! Instead of just feathers draping across the wrist uselessly
Here is Scott Hartman's website, it hosts skeletals of loads of different kinds of dinosaurs, and even some non-dinosaur ones.
For deinonychosaurs this group has the best of the best as far as pictures and tutorials go.
Big tips in drawing dinosaurs is to actually use references that aren't actually google images. Most people don't bother with references for some reason, despite the animals never being seen by them, or them ever really sitting down and looking at a good ref beforehand.
Basic tips for dinosaurs are: Do not shrink wrap ,this means add meat,fat, and skin to the animals as if they were, well, animals. There's no need to show every little nook and cranny of the skull, since very little animals do that today.
Dinosaurs(theropods) didn't pronate their hands. A big folly, and a silly one, is dinosaurs with their palms down, this is actually breaking their wrists entirely. Theropods weren't monkeys, and weren't made to swing upside down from trees. Their palms always face inward like they're clapping. This also allows them to have wings! Instead of just feathers draping across the wrist uselessly
Oh wow that really helps alot, thank you! I need to get a better look of those websites when I have more time. I hate the google pictures because they are often inaccurate or some "artist's vision", which are good but as I said, can be inaccurate. And that palm thing! I had never thought of that but it makes sense!
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