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Published: 2009-01-30 07:54:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 3334; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 90
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The Devil truly wears spectacles, for the eyes are faced with two large flanges that project outward, like the tiny little glasses that used to be worn on the nose a century and more ago.This is Moloch horridus, otherwise known as the Texas Horny Devil or the Horny Toad (even though it's a lizard). (I don't think it really, really likes sex all that much, though
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I wonder. To my eyes, the skull (as with conolophus) shows very few signs of how thorny they are. Some theropod skulls show all kinds of knobbly protuberences, so I wonder if most of us have been too conservative in restoring them?
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The key here is not the superficial appearance, such as the shape of the underlying bone, but the microtexture of the bone, which according to new work would have a mottle texture designed to bone to the dermal "horns" of the skull not clearly apparent. It's hard without the right techniques to investigate the superficial appearance of extinct animals.
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Whose new work???? This sounds fascinating! Got a link? it might help me with some restorations I'm planning on making. I look for dramatic.
Or pretty. Or sexy. No sexy dinos though.
That would be strange!!!!!
I am planning a new "mural" sketch, brand new. More trouble for giant sauropods! Likely be uploaded next week. I would love to get your opinion when I do. You do excellent work, much better than I could do on skeletals!
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This approaches photographic quality- particularly the dorsal view. I'm impressed.
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I had a great model from the digimorph digital sources!
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Fantastic work here. I'm fascinated by skulls, and this is a particularly interesting one. Really nice work on the shading. I find when drawing skulls it's easy for it to become confusing for the viewer, and even with this being a relatively complex skull you've done a great job making it easy to pick out one part from the next. Great work!
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The trick is finding a skull that is unusual, and Moloch is very unusual looking. This allows the image of the skull to become art, rather than science
Thanks.
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From the side it looks just like a dinosaur skull, but from the front and top not...
Anyway, it's great looking, very detailed!
Wehere did you get the reference from?
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I used some photos and the wonderful thing that is DigiMorph: [link] which features the skull in all it's glorious detail.
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thanks a lot for the link!
I can see why you say this site is wonderful, It's genius!
I hope I can get more Ideas from the bones, since they give a lot more freedom than seeing the animals alive.
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No problem! It's a wonderful archive.
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Holy shit that's awesome.
Very cool drawing too btw, faved.
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It's a fascinating skull, and I enjoyed illustrating it, so I took great pleasure in detailing it with a fine-toothed comb. you can see the erased lines as regions where graphite would not cover the grooves in the paper where the graphite was erased from. I wish there was a tool for that on paper....
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