▲ 23 r/Paleoart
Velocirqptor skull practice
Not sure how to put both the finished vid and image on here at the same time. But I drew this from a reference. It's a bit sloppy imo but im using this as a progress meter.
u/Ikechi1 — 1 day ago
▲ 4 r/Paleontology
Requesting clarification on the Stegosaur timeline and distribution.
This is predicated on the possibility of Isaberrysaura indeed behind a valid Stegosaur down the line.
This would imply that Stegosauria has its possible origins in Argentina and thus a Gondwanan origin for this group. This would possibly imply that the basal forms traveled through Africa and then from there into Eurasia. Then we would see the rise of early diverging forms like the Huayangosaurs becoming prolific in Asia, especially in China (I think there would have been forms in Nepal, Thailand and Mongolia around this time in the Mid Jurassic).
Getting towards the end of the Middle Jurassic this seems to be where we see the possible Asiatic (I'm likely wrong) origins of the Neostegosauria that then spreads back into Africa and through Europe with the Stegosaurines and the Dacentrurines. Likely due to ecological and continental shifting, the basal Huayangosaurs slowly decline through the early late Jurassic. The Dacentrurines and Stegosaurines start to spread into North America.
Halfway through the Late Jurassic there is an explosion of diversity among Stegosaurines, with Dacentrurines and some basal forms still being around. This peak diversity declines at the Tithonian boundary event, and most Stegosauria are relegated to being East Asian taxa come the Early Cretaceous.
As the Early Cretaceous goes on and has its various minor extinction events, the Asian stegosaurs still hold on, but by the time we get to Yanbeilong they are on their last legs as a clade and disappear due to the Aptian-Albian event, thus leaving Ankylosaurs and some bipedal Thyreophorans as the remaining Thyreophorans on Earth.
Do I have the right of it?
u/Ikechi1 — 9 days ago
▲ 6 r/learntodraw
Practicing Shoulder vs Wrist Lines
Was doing some warmups and trying to see how wrist vs shoulder felt on my Wacom One.
u/Overall-Bird2121 had been giving me advice to draw from the shoulder, and I am certainly learning a bit more control with the shoulder it seems, less arcing, but my shoulder doesn't seem confident. Mainly because I'm starting out. This one was done without the point system they told me about (where you draw 2 dots at opposite ends then draw a line between), I wanted to see where my starting point will be so that as I practice, I can see where I am improving or still need correction. I did however see that without the dot system it was harder for me to visualize, so I think I might still need that. Do you guys use the dot system when doing warmups?
u/Ikechi1 — 21 days ago
▲ 33 r/learntodraw
Overdid it a bit on the boxes
Has anyone ever just been doing practice (I'm learning to draw more with clip studio paint), and their brain turned off, especially while you were listening to something and your arm just went on autopilot? This is what I saw I had done when I finally came back to my active senses.
u/Ikechi1 — 29 days ago
Dromaeosaur arm practice
Was trying to draw a generic dromaeosaur arm using either the shape language method versus anatomy method. Honestly the anatomy method was a lot more fun, took longer, but more fun to see where everything went.
u/Ikechi1 — 1 month ago
▲ 13 r/Paleoart
I can't seem to get the dentary and angular quite right, but I'll keep practicing.
u/Ikechi1 — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/Paleontology
Would this group mind giving me the arguments for/against Tetsudinata being part of either Archelosauria or Pantetsudines please, I would like more information.
u/Ikechi1 — 1 month ago