T - Rex

[SeanE]

It's been a while but here's something that I feel worthy enough for this place at last :P

Pencils and inks by Rich Bonk who then got me to colour it for him!...

cheers
Sean

(*does the scorpion smilie just coz it looks cool --> /m\ *)

[El Jeremie]

Nice T-rex, very powerful, love the mood of the forest, but he looks like is hunting ducks and i'm not sure about ducks (duckosaurus ?) in prehistoric time , and the blood stain on his "hands" doesn't look like blood splatter.

[MephistoLV]

I'm not sure if the t-rex is supposed to be hunting the ducks or not, but if it is, there is a small problem...

By making the ducks into sihlouettes you are pushing them back farther into space than the t-rex which is fully modeled with light and color. This is creating an ambiguous scenario because the rex's eyes and head are pointing in the direction of the ducks would be in if they were spatially farther forward.

[Mitze]

Just reading this.
T. Rex's Missing 3rd Finger Found
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/10/17/tyrannosaurus-dinosaur.html

But thats beside the point great pic drawing and colouring.

[SeanE]

just to clarify ---> RICH BONK DREW AND INKED THIS PICTURE

I COLOURED it...

but I agree about the duckosaurus'... :tihi:

Sean

[Dahami]

A quote in the article Mitze linked to describes the third finger as a "nubbin." It wouldn't have been more than a bump on the side of the hand, without even a small claw. Look at the hands of other theropods like the Carnotaurus and you'll get the idea. Another ten million years and that third finger would have disappeared completely (assuming that asteroid or comet never showed up). The photo of the skeleton that appears with the article actually depicts an Allosaurus (or close relative), which is a much earlier theropod that did have three well-defined fingers.

I agree that the birds and small pterosaurs look like they're much further in the background. If the lighting and level of visibility were similar to the T. rex, then it would look like he/she was actually chasing them away.

I just noticed that the pterosaurs have elongated tails with spade-like tips. That marks them as ramphorynchoids rather than pterodactyloids, and as far as I know ramphorynchoids did not live at the time of the T. rex. Perhaps there were still a few and they were on their way out. I'd have to go back to the books to answer that one.

Rich Bonk's style reminds me of William Stout. Good job on the coloring and ground fog, though, SeanE. The ground fog adds a sense of depth (and humidity).