- Apr 24
- Australia
- Deviant for 16 years
- He / Him
Super-fast FAQ.
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Are you a Metalhead? YES! A Furry? NO! The ears are a joke.
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How do you work?
Painting in layers with photoshop and Krita. Over the recent years, I've based Palaeontological work carefully on scientific studies and reputable skeleton reconstructions (eg Scott Hartman), and using a custom ruler tool scaled to meters and measured against individual bones or segments. Also of course, lots of scientific articles, often directly testing for size. My older Palaeo art is just eyeballed (with surprising precision I am proud to say) but lacking scientific research.
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I noticed something incorrect- mind if I let you know?
Please do! That said, the source you use makes a world of difference.. like the difference between Siverson getting upset I wasn't convinced his top-secret 20 meter Megalodon skeleton existed, all the way up to Ovleg convincing me to make a new 18m Megalodon size chart based on his scientific study (Leder, Perez and Badaut, 2016).
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Image usage? Can I link-to/use your images?
Feel free to ask- my answer will probably be "yes"!
I've actually had my images published in books by Penguin, and taken commissions for Ken Derby in the past too (and this is back when I was strapped for time).
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I have indeed- its fur is Chocolate brown!
To be honest, I was NOT expecting that at all. I do mean to revise my Homotherium now.
The mere fact we even have preserved Machairodonts is amazing!
I was hoping to do exactly this, including the cave lion. Also expanding it to include other big panthers, and probably some large felids too.
That is VERY interesting indeed!
To answer your question... not much, as we largely relied on Sereno's papers for the skull anyway. It could impact cranial/postcranial proportions though I'm fairly confident not by much.
To be honest I never found any either. I've noticed some paper making a skull:total length estimate of 17m long- that is certainly wrong as it seems to assume the spine is completely straight, rather than curved- and ignoring that the last dozen or so tail vertebrae actually bend downwards to form a tailfin.
I'd like to check these specimens out in more detail myself. From my last attempt, I DID notice that large Mosasaurines tended to have VERY similar postcranial proportions (scaling to any one vertebrae pretty much gave a 1:1 match for the rest of the skeleton).
BUT- that said I was unaware of M lemonnieri, which includes complete skeletons, so they might show a different proportion.
