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I love prehistoric animals :D
I designed a stationary with this in my professional practice class (buisness cards, letterheads, etc)
Decided to make a final piece with it.
Process of reconstruction (for me):
Make sure the skull is as accurately drawn as possible.
Overlay tracing paper. Use muscle references to reconstruct.
Overlay another tracing paper. Now that the muscle is applied, overlay with flesh. Modern day felids can be used as a guide.
The background was made with crackle paste, and painted in acrylics.
I do not claim to be 100% accurate, this is my first serious attempt at a reconstruction by looking at bones and multiple references of muscles.
Added the white border around it because it'd be simpler to mat it for an artshow. I also tried to give it that poster-y feel :3
Smilodon Populator is the largest of the smilodon species.
Sketch in scraps.
Thanks for looking!
I designed a stationary with this in my professional practice class (buisness cards, letterheads, etc)
Decided to make a final piece with it.
Process of reconstruction (for me):
Make sure the skull is as accurately drawn as possible.
Overlay tracing paper. Use muscle references to reconstruct.
Overlay another tracing paper. Now that the muscle is applied, overlay with flesh. Modern day felids can be used as a guide.
The background was made with crackle paste, and painted in acrylics.
I do not claim to be 100% accurate, this is my first serious attempt at a reconstruction by looking at bones and multiple references of muscles.
Added the white border around it because it'd be simpler to mat it for an artshow. I also tried to give it that poster-y feel :3
Smilodon Populator is the largest of the smilodon species.
Sketch in scraps.
Thanks for looking!
Category All / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Feline (Other)
Size 1200 x 800px
File Size 496.7 kB
The Smilodon's Zygomatic arches are actually smaller than most modern day cats, indicating it's bite force was weaker than we expect!
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Smilodon (under the teeth and jaws section)
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Smilodon (under the teeth and jaws section)
Interesting... I guess with chompers like that you don't need it, just get something down and go for the throat to dispatch it quickly <~( see I read... I learn) XP
-.=.- I feel a bit dumb now (to many things wrong with the first comment to mention), seeing as I studied for a while to be a paleontologist, although I did tend to favor the Cretaceous (yay extinction theories) so I will take the hat and go to my corner...
-.=.- I feel a bit dumb now (to many things wrong with the first comment to mention), seeing as I studied for a while to be a paleontologist, although I did tend to favor the Cretaceous (yay extinction theories) so I will take the hat and go to my corner...
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