Meh, I'm just not a polisher. That's my problem. It's why The Pact's laborious inking and washing process is driving me crazy. It hasn't diminished my enthusiasm for dinosaurs, though!
I did this to resist taking a nap after me ma and I did some serious spring cleaning around my house. This is as much for my reference as it is everyone else's; I break half these rules most of the time. I mean, I grew up drawing raptors like Talon from Primal Rage and the Jurassic Park raptors, who had some serious anatomical mistakes. When I was little, I drew raptors with just the feathers on their heads, like Talon (boy, was I a fan of Talon), so a lot of the feather stuff has been quite a hurdle to overcome.
I really wish I could've had a single, beautiful, unbroken line of comic pages, but I couldn't take the pressure. My artistic aesthetic needed to breathe free! Expect about a page a week from now on.
I did this to resist taking a nap after me ma and I did some serious spring cleaning around my house. This is as much for my reference as it is everyone else's; I break half these rules most of the time. I mean, I grew up drawing raptors like Talon from Primal Rage and the Jurassic Park raptors, who had some serious anatomical mistakes. When I was little, I drew raptors with just the feathers on their heads, like Talon (boy, was I a fan of Talon), so a lot of the feather stuff has been quite a hurdle to overcome.
I really wish I could've had a single, beautiful, unbroken line of comic pages, but I couldn't take the pressure. My artistic aesthetic needed to breathe free! Expect about a page a week from now on.
((Only nit-pick is that raptors had fleshy lips covering their teeth, like lizards, as their teeth could not tolerate being uncovered))
I learned one important thing from this guide!
I REALLY want to draw a great raptor! TToTT
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Birds do not move their femurs because they have a knee driven locomotion.
Now if you put a fake tail on them (in this case in a chicken) you will see that they strech their legs "like that".
It'd be a much better use of your time than bitching me out from am empty gallery full of absolutely no art.
I do not do it because I am not very good at drawing.
And now that I already refuted you, you got sad.
The 90 degree rules still stands. It's how I still draw my raptors.
DRAW.
The thing you can't do.
I CAN DRAW. I JUST DO NOT WANT TO.
And you used bird movement as argument, and I showed how wrong was this information.
And yes: I refuted it. If you put a fake tail on a chicken, for example, they will move their femurs. Raptors are very similar to a chicken with a fake tail in the overhaul "skeleton", so they should have similar movements.
I am truly refuted by your scientific expertise.
I don't even think you understand what the 90 degree rule even is. But hey! Look everyone! This person who can totally draw but chooses not to knows better than I do about raptors! You'd better listen to him!
Quick, go and find everything you need to know from him! Shoo, shoo, away from this fallacious tutorial, go where the true knowledge is!
thank you!!!!
Why is the back leg limited? I see a lot of tutorials where it cannot go backward past 90 degrees. Is there some kind of muscle limitation there that won't let it extend further?
How far can the wrist twist? I saw you said "not very much" but how much is that?
I also noticed that usually the smaller the raptor the more feathery it gets. I'm drawing Utahraptor, and I'm not sure about the larger species.
Are there any good places to look specifically for this or more information?
The wrist has a moon-shaped carpal in it (the lumen) that limits the rotating ability of the wrist. It is the mechanism that eventually evolved into a wing. Birds don't rotate the edge of their outspread ring; their rotation is in the shoulder, and raptors operated under similar rules.
Smaller raptors eventually evolved into birds, because their feather evolution and small size lended itself to flight and wing-assisted incline running.
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No, no, your vague opinions based on a mid 90s video game are far more well-informed.