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Published: 2014-09-07 15:40:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 7366; Favourites: 162; Downloads: 0
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Two Triceratops horridus fighting.This drawing is one of about 80 artworks I made to illustrate the upcoming book by Jon Tennant "Excavate! Dinosaurs: Paper Toy Palaeontology". The book is published by Ivy Press and is set for release on October 6th. www.ivypress.co.uk/books/excav…
Medium: Pencil.
Done: 2014.
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I love me a good Triceratops 
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Thank you!
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I think I heard about that somewhere....although the quills?
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The quills were always speculative. Because the bigger dish-shaped scales seem to have a "nipple" in their central parts, some people have speculated that the "nipple" may be anchoring point for a quill. From what I know, mostly people find this unlikely, so I gave those big dish-shaped scales the appearance of typical osteoderms.
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Thanks for the input. I was aware of the tubercles, but until recently assumed that quills were the proper norm for ceratopsian skin
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The "quills" are speculation in Triceratops, you simply don't see them in the fossilized skin impressions - they actually look like nipples, rather than Psittacosaurus-like quills .
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Sorry for the belated comment. Absolutely kickass work as usual, dude!
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Thank you very much, man! (I am also sorry for my late reply)
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They look so real ! I don't wanna be in the middle, between them.
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I am sure that nobody in their right mind would want that.
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This piece is outstanding! Just out of curiosity, and Im sure you've been asked this a lot, but how do you draw scales on dinosaurs? Whenever I draw scales, they tend to look blotchy or out of place.
Great work again!
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Thank you!
I always have hard time explaining my process of drawing, mainly because I find it simple and there is not much to be said about it. In case with pencil works, like this one, after having sketched out the subject I want to draw, I lay down the shading (shadows and light) over part of the sketch, without working too much on the details. Once the shading is done I start drawing scales and additional details. In the case of scales, they are mostly "dots" and/or ovals/ellipses (sometimes subrectangular) forms. After that if need I add more shades, or use an eraser to make highlights, which should make the object more 3-dimensional.
I always try to consider that dinosaurs have 3-dimentional bodies, so scales should follow the curves of the body. Some people draw scales as if they lay on 2-dimensional surface, and that's why those look "out of place".
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