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well, this is my entry for a very good artists collective, wich is calld Hysterical Minds, here is a link to the exhibitions [link] check them out.
A couple of Deinonychus atirrhopus, I painted them featherless, I like that version, though the others are more scientifically accurate I like that reptilian kind of look... I know that appearance is not the right one.
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While I personally prefer 'nonychs with at least a touch of down on the backs, this is still positively gorgeous.
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Awesome work. I like how you made them featherless. I prefer them that way too but I'm not sure if you're labeling this as "accurate paleoart" or just a dinosaur painting. Great work either way!
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I always thought of Deinonychus of being without feathers compared to the other raptors. Also, did you know that Deinonychus was in the Jurassic Park films and yet were ironically called Velociraptors.
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yeah I knew that hahaha
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finally! another artist who prefers the nonfeathered variety!
you make wonderful visuals with the light and color. 
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very welcome.
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they still look great.
you did a awesome job on this!
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No FEATHERS??? SACRILEGE
lol
still very nice. I like the way you do your lighting/atmosphere
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Until palaeontologists find a Deinonychus with preserved feathers, I'd say you should draw these creatures any way you want. I think most artists' impressions with feathers look incredibly silly, like oversized turkey vultures. Since these creatures couldn't fly, it seems unlikely that their feathers would be more than hair-like quills for insulation and temperature regulation.
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kinda the way i think. they haven't found fossils of therapods with feathers yet. so until they do the slight evidences on bone might very well be vestigal like the cocix on humans.
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It wouldn't make sense as a vestigial organ, because that would imply that these theropods descended from a creature that did use these "feathers" for some purpose or another.
If these feather-like structures are underdeveloped in deinonychus, it'd be because they hadn't developed further yet, not because they regressed back from a more advanced state of "featherness" to a more rudimentary state.
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true. well then it doesn't imply they were yet useful or oversized.
have you seen some of these drawings they have? gigantic oversized feathers that would match the raptor's head. that seems excessive for developing feathers, and i would figure at least one of these giganto feathers would've been fossilized if it had em. so at the very least i'm imagining the feathers were a lot smaller.
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I know, which is why I said in my original post "Since these creatures couldn't fly, it seems unlikely that their feathers would be more than hair-like quills for insulation and temperature regulation."
The thing is, you can't say with certainty either way. Feathers can fossilise, but only under pretty special conditions. The fact that we haven't found elaborate deinonychus feather fossils cannot grant you certain knowledge that they were featherless.
For all we know they had big crests of feathers on their head/neck to attract mates, like many modern birds do.
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yup. course that crest of feathers might easily be skin flaps of bright coloration. we don't know.
though i do find it more likely that raptors had feathers then older rex as they have found hadrosaur skin sample (and no feathers (le gasp)) so i would think something else matching its size is unlikely to have feathers. Maybe he did, but i highly doubt it if the hadrosaur didn't.
and yeah, i imagine on the raptors myself, if they have feathers rather then having the monsterous hawk size feathers they were probably close knit feathers that were downy like. temp regulation as you said that would match up with what is thought to be more mammal like blood.
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Screw them I prefer unfeathered. If they're going to get all picky, then 95% of all pictures of Triceretops are very inaccurate, according to the muscle attachment scars on the bone. Do you see them changing all the depictions of Triceretops? Hell no, it wouldn't be going with popular thought.
I've adored dinosaurs all my life. I like these.
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hahahah it really doesn't matter if people get picky about it, I mean I KNOW that kind of appearance is scientifically incorrect but I can still keep to myself the right to depict them as I want 
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your DAMN RIGHT!!! Screw them!!! You are an ARTISTE!!! Nobody complained when Picasso stuck extra noses and breasts on his women in his paintings!!!! YA, they can kiss your ass!
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hahahaha well, I dont think that "screw them" is necessary, everybody has the right to give opinions, I respect them as long as they are constructive and polite
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back on for a few...yeah, lol, i was just feeling rowdy
I feel the same. I've got friends with verrrry different viewpoints. Even tho they're WRONG, I'm still respectful and polite heeheehee, and expect the same back. That's what adults do, anyways!!
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Very nice ^^
It took very long before I gave in that they would have feathers XD
Thanks to 'walking with dinosaurs' they were just much more dangerous without feathers.
Feathers are so... fluffy XD
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I do prefer featherless also.
To me, the raptors have always been reptilian, although brightly coloured.
I dislike the idea of baby-turkey raptors personally, and draw the line at stabilisation feathers on arms...
Modern Dinosaurs look more and more like monkeys every day...
As such, I really like this - it's wallpaper-worthy, I think.
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Guau, el uso de luz y sombra aquΓ es realmente sorprendente! Y aunque mantenga un toque como de realismo me encanta como los pincelazos y todo le dan ese dinamismo
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gracias, me gustan que mis pinturas tengan ese toque en donde se note que es una pintura digital y no tanto como fotorealismo, de lo contrario no podria justificar la ilustracion
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you should concept design movies. these backgrounds have a mystical but natural quality.
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Vaya trabajazo tio! se nota por todos lados los detalles, y la iluminacion super bien conseguida, de hecho no puedo dejar de mirar a los raptors, es que estan super wapos , un trabajazo vamos, y merecidisimo el featured ^^
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eh gracias, primera vez que participo en el grupo y eso me pone bastante contento. Gracias por tu comentario
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He visto que te mola tambien el universo starcraft, o al menos eso me ha parecido, tienes una galeria increible me encantan tus trabajos tio ^^
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Β‘Azules y blancos! Casi siempre he visto al Deinonychus en tonos rojizos, me gustan mΓ‘s como tΓΊ los has pintado. Excelente atmΓ³sfera.
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bueno, los pigmentos no se fosilizan asi que el tema del color depende de cada uno pero supongo que el pigmento es una adaptacion genetica al entorno asi que debieran confundirse con la hierva o con la tierra... como los animales modernos pero la naturelza es muy extraΓ±a a veces... quien sabe que colores hubiesen tenido estos animales
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Si, igual podrΓan haber sido de color rosa, pero estoy contigo en que sus colores se adaptarΓan al entorno, es lo mΓ‘s lΓ³gico.
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ΒΏque chucha?, ΒΏcual es tu secreto?, quiero hacer fondos como ese, y me frustra no poder hacerlo.
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secreto? no hay ningun secreto, la mayoria esta en al imaginacion y en la observacion y AH!, claro, la practica, sin eso dificilmente podras avanzar. Hay que atreverse a hacer cosas, dentro de los limites, claro. Una vez que ya creas que puedes seguir avanzado, intenta traspasar esos limites
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esta pieza me encanto.. expresa un realismo muy bueno...
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gracias, en realidad me costo un poco pero salio bien
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I love the lighting on this image...its very realistic. I cant imagine how long it took
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que buena, muy bien lograda la ambientaciΓ³n...excelente como siempre compadre!
saludos!
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