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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!
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It is hard, but very interesting and fun to do at the same time.
Such as homotherium, or megantereon for example. But Smilodon has a great set of teeth.
that sucker must have had one heck of a bite judging by the parietal crest...
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Smilodon (under the teeth and jaws section)
-.=.- 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...
Art: A+
Really fascinating reconstruction.
haha
No, I just study illustration in general. I'm in my final year of studies and graduate in may. This was done for fun using a lot of reference.