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Published: 2016-04-21 21:45:27 +0000 UTC; Views: 2186; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 4
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It's been quite a long time since I've posted here, so have a retro-terror bird!This was drawn at the behest of flashman63, a member over on the Speculative Evolution forums, a site that I frequent (Found here ) for his project, A Million Years BC; a scientific take on old, outdated depictions of dinosaurs. Seeing as that is totally my jam, I offered my services to him-hey, at the very least, it's an excuse to draw more and practice my craft.
Anywho, this guy, as you can tell, is a terror bird-or looks like one, at the very least. Actually, this creature is a descendant of the same birds that, in our timeline, would give rise to hoatzins-you know, those South American birds with claws on their wings. Seeing as colored pencils tend to fuck my lines up something fierce, I just left it black and white, but flashman said that it was brightly colored, as a bit of a fuck-you to paleoartists who make their creatures extremely colorful for no other reason than to make them look cooler. The stomach and head are meant to be bare-another little middle finger to paleoartists who just dab the barest amount of integument onto their animals.
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Comments: 7
Inmyarmsinmyarms [2016-05-30 14:34:40 +0000 UTC]
Actually, hoatzins being unique due to wing claws is a myth. Wing claws are very common in birds:
scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoolo…
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Lediblock2 In reply to Inmyarmsinmyarms [2016-05-30 23:01:03 +0000 UTC]
Claws, maybe. Actual fingers are another story.
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Lediblock2 In reply to bhut [2016-05-22 22:31:12 +0000 UTC]
Thanks, man! Flashman's an awesome writer, but he needed someone to draw for him, so I stepped up.
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