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Paleoart-wise, the last months sucked. As a brief new thing, I made a drawing of Oviraptor philoceratops, based on the skeletal by Jaime Headden. It's nothing special, but to me it marks a point where the body shapes of my maniraptorans become less and less Greg Paul-clear cut. I've been doodling a lot at uni recently, and was impressed how much more natural the tail fan looks if it goes more or less flush with the body plumage, ditto for the hindlimbs (although this might be something oviraptorosaur-specific, given the shift in their center of mass compared to other non-avian theropods). My theropods need to be more avian, and this is a first experiment (as much as my general drawing "style" remains still one of among 9,124,824 GSP rip-offs).

And although I think my dinosaurs need to be a bit more speculative where speculation is appropriate, this oviraptorid lacks cassowary throat wattles and bare blue facial skin as a matter of principle.
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~Deinowilly Mar 2, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Really love this one ;)
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!dFoidl Feb 28, 2011
Oh damn my bad sorry.

I can send the paper to you If you can't find it on the web. :)
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!dFoidl Feb 27, 2011
On your Oviraptor the secondaries overlap the primaries, I think it's the other way round in most maniraptors. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Senter 2006 pointed out that oviraptorosaurs couldn't fold its wings this avian style (actually, this type of wing folding seems to have occurred not until Ornithuromorpha).
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~pilsator Feb 27, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
In birds, the primaries fold between the secondaries and the body, i.e. are "underneath" the secondaries. That's been my proxy for drawing an oviraptorid wing.

OTOH, the wing folding mechanics might be off, gotta read that paper.
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~Qilong Jan 26, 2011
Thanks for the "h/t". I personally think it looks fine ;).
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~pilsator Jan 26, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thanks for your kind words. I think the "h/t" goes without saying. Hey, it's people like you that keep people like me drawing - without the skeletals, I'd have nothing as references for my stuff. Simple thing :)
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~Tomozaurus Dec 26, 2010  Student General Artist
Nice to see some new art. Not sure why you aren't on my watch list. This fact shalst be corrected.
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~indigomagpie Dec 16, 2010
"As a matter of principle"? :-)
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~pilsator Dec 24, 2010  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Pretty much. That cassowary-oviraptorosaur thing is seriously overdone, and reeks of "cassowaries look so ... PRIMITIVE, that's what all those non-avian dinosaurs must have looked like"-type thinking.
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