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Red Eyesby ~Kronosaurus82

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Titolo - Red Eyes
Tratto - Matita B
Colore - Digitale
Software - Photoshop CS
Hardware - Macintosh G5
Originale - Matita su carta
Data - settembre 2008

Illustrazione del 2008 per la parte scientifica del terzo volume della collana Dinosauri, pubblicata in diversi paesi.

Torvosaurus tanneri è un Teropode poco conosciuto dal grande pubblico, e probabilmente nemmeno molti amatori lo saprebbero riconoscere. Probabilmente la sua fama è oscurata dal ben più popolare compaesano Allosaurus; ed è un peccato, perchè Torvosaurus è un animale dall'aspetto splendido e dalle caratteristiche veramente notevoli.
Non molto più piccolo di Allosaurus (era lungo tra i 9 e gli 11 metri) visse nello stesso periodo e nelle stesse regioni popolate dal suo più illustre collega, ma come si vede dall'illustrazione non aveva nulla da invidiargli in termini di "armamento". Questo significa che in Nord America, nel Giurassico Superiore, era come se girassero sia le Tigri che i Leoni…

Non una delle mie migliori illustrazioni, lo ammetto, ma Torvosaurus mi piace così tanto che ho deciso di postarla ugualmente.

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Title - Red Eyes
Ink - B pencil
Colore - Digitale
Software - Photoshop CS
Hardware - Macintosh G5
Original - Pencil on Paper
Date - september 2008

Artwork I made in 2008 for the scientific part of the 3rd book of my Dinosaurs series, published in several countries.

Torvosaurus tanneri is a Theropod quite unknown amongst the general public, and I bet even many of the enthusiasts would not recognize it.
Probably its fame is a bit obscured by its way more popular countryman Allosaurus; I think it's a shame, because Torvosaurus was a gorgeous Dinosaur and a proper super predator.
Just a bit smaller than Allosaurus (it was between 9m/30ft and 11m/36ft long), it lived in the same timeperiod and in the same places of its illustrious colleague but, as you can see in the artwork, it had nothing to envy in raw "armament" terms.
This means that in North America, during Late Jurassic, was like if Tigers and Lions roamed at the same time...

This is not one of my best works I admit, but I like Torvosaurus so much I decided to post it anyway.

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~Saberrex Dec 9, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

this is awesome. they talked about and showed Torvosaurus in Dinosaur Revolution, but i must say, i kinda like this one quite a bit better. as vibrant and deadly as the DR Torvosaur was, he was a little too anthropomorphic. and a little too noisy and brash, charging in instead of ambushing his prey. the one thing they got right, is those strong arms. this one shares that trait. i can just imagine him chasing down a juvenile sauropod, or a camptosaur, and just bowling it over with one swipe from those arms.

~Kronosaurus82 Dec 10, 2012 Professional Artist

I don't like CGI documentaries about dinosaurs, cause you never see dinosaurs behaving like the animals they were: they only behave like the show producers thought the audience would like to see... on other words, like monsters.

~Saberrex Dec 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

true, though i must admit, walking with dinosaurs and when dinosaurs roamed america were pretty good about portraying them as real animals.

~Kronosaurus82 Dec 10, 2012 Professional Artist

WWD was pretty good, but far from a true believable behavior reconstruction, in my opinion.

~Saberrex Dec 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

how so? I'm curious to know what you thought was off.

~Kronosaurus82 Dec 11, 2012 Professional Artist

Well, in WWD animals were noisy, dinosaurs kept barking each other and they pretty much walked by on screen, without doing something that might let you feel them as living creatures. But WWD was anyway far better than every boringly unrealistic nowadays CGI documentaries.

~Saberrex Dec 11, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

true. very true, plus, a lot of those behaviors that were portrayed are considered inaccurate these days. they did clear that up though a bit with Planet Dinosaur on BBC. that i must say was very factually accurate, even if some creatures were a little similar looking and had similar sound effects (the tyrannosaurids for the most part, having no crest differentiations).

~Kronosaurus82 Dec 11, 2012 Professional Artist

Some of the WWD reconstructions were quite inaccurate even at that time, actually...

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~HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSES1 Nov 7, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I did not know that it was quite unknown, I realy thought it was pretty common. well gues i learnt something today. nice drawing!

~Kronosaurus82 Nov 7, 2012 Professional Artist

Thanks.

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