Full Size Rendering

[Sammy]

This is my full sized rendering of the Oviraptor Philoceratops....

I designed him as if for a Jurrassic Park Anamatronic.. The Alpha male! : )
7 feet wide...
http://www.securevirtualpages.com/~sammyha/onlineforums/samDino.jpg

[I.was.ink]

Thats really cool. It looks like it could be 7 feet wide!

Did you do this for a class project or just cuz? Either way, it rocks.

Beautiful colors...:D

[remedial]

Ah Oviraptor, so we meet again. I remember this guy from my childhood obsession with dinosaurs; the egg-thiefin sneaky bastard.

Great work on this one! What medium did u use on this big project? And did oviraptor have the missing link fur-feathers? Anyway i love this- keep it up!

[3bleadpencil]

you can tell a good dino-work when you see from the drawing that they studied biological forms...good work
that's a huge drawing
regards
3B

[Sammy]

I.Was.Ink: Thanx man, It took about five color studies to get a nice "Alpha"/Dominant male color... and it was a class assignment for my advance rendering class and took me in all about 4 1/2 hours... I also did it for a short story I have to write about the oviraptors of Mongolia

Remedial: The Oviraptor always comes back to haunt us! :) .. "Dinver the last dinosaur/oviraptor...he's our friend and a whole lot more!"........ I used Marker, white pastel, white gaouche, and a sumi brush to get a nice artistic stroke in the feathers.

3bleadpencil: Thanx I'm glad it shows to you that I explored the skeletal/muscular structure rather than other drawings to make my form.

I shouldn't have been so brief in the initial post.......
I did about 5 color studies on 8X11 and combined the best ones - I then inked a tracing on transparancy film and projected the image to size on the wall - I did a tape drawing underlay (tape drawings are fun, they go quick and the line weights of tape drawings are perfect) - Then I rendered the image on some fashion design pattern paper over the tape underlay.

The oviraptor is indeed a feathered dinosaur - this fact has been solved in recent digs with newer technologies... he is a theropod dinosaur like any carnivorouse (and sometime omnivourus) bipedal dinosaur - other theropods T-rex, dilophosaurus, allosaurus, etc. (some theropods have since evolved into the birds you see today)
But the oviraptor is more related to ceritopsians, such as triceratops - oviraptor philoCERATOPS - it branched off the evo tree to folow the path of theropods... but it's previouse ancestors (pssytacosaurus) moved on as real ceratopsians
Oviraptor means "Egg theif" but this now known as false considering recent discoveries in Mongolia.. a dig once thought of as numerouse Ovi's stealing eggs was revealed that those eggs were theirs and all the oviraptors died protecting their young from a sand storm that covered them.

[remedial]

LOL. denver the dinosaur was the man-. just had to say that

[remedial]

LOL. denver the dinosaur was the man-. just had to say that

[Killer Napkins]

WHOA SAMMY .. MAN THATS KICKASS!!!! great job

[Dakardaur]

what can i say but :bow:
this is awesome...amazing...out-of-bounds kinda thing...

i bow down to you dino-master
:bow:

[Neox]

great work, but look on some skulls, the lower jaw is not that big :)

[Sammy]

Neox, good call! : ) I knew someone would knotice, considering that skull reference is only 5 inches away (my avatar)

I thought a larger lower jaw would look more dramatic in a movie, as well as a larger crest.

[Redmond]

It's cool that you went with some funky colors. Reminds me of an article I once read about how dinosaurs were probably more colorful and less green than we thought.

Great Picture!