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Published: 2019-03-04 10:30:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 11142; Favourites: 305; Downloads: 37
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More pterosaur practice. This time giant azdharchids. I think it turned out great . This is my first ever depiction of hatzegopteryx, a massive pterosaur from europe . It probably was the dominant predator of its environment since hateg island where its fossils were discovered lacked any large theropod dinosaurs (at least we havent found any so far). Instead this flying monster stalked the lands eating anything that would fit in its monstrous beak. Hatzegopteryx had a much more robust neck compared to the other 2 giant azdharchids arambourgianian and the famous quetzalcoatlus. I based the appearence of one of the largest modern flying birds, the marabu stork and it really fits the animal well in my opinion
edit: already updated the design thanks to some feedback from www.deviantart.com/paleosir . Turns out I overscaled the entire animal by a factor of 2! (yeah go figure) Also turns out I had to make the head even bigger and shorten the torso. It should be more accurate now
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This is an interesting depiction of Hatzegopteryx, but there's an inaccuracy. The fourth wing finger was actually folded more inwards, close to the wrist and going over the elbows(not under), allowing the wing to neatly fold out of the way, instead of slightly splaying out backwards exposing them. This fossil shows how the wings folded pterosaurheresies.files.wordpr…
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Don't listen to that website - the creator, David Peters, is pretty controversial.
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I've read many articles on his two websites and there's nothing really controversial there
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blogs.scientificamerican.com/t…
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thank you, I´ll keep this in mind in future pterosaur reconstructions!
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Don't listen to that website - the creator, David Peters, is pretty controversial.
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when the turkeys finally get done with humans Scheisse
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with a head like that it would never get airborne, but good job it looks great.
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dont be fooled by the head, it was actually very light with huge fenestra lightening the overall weight of the skll. In fact the torso,albeit short housed all the organs and a lot of muscle so the centre of gravity would not have been as far to the front as it might seem. Hatzegoperyx is estimated by some to have reached around 200 kg in weight and a lot of it would have been distributed in the torso
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Oh my god, this scary creature, but art is very good
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Ah that color of the neck makes it look so gnarly and scary .... brrrrrrr great work!
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That's oversized by a factor of 2 linearly (so 8 times too big in volume)
But nice work artistically.
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sooo I need to scale it down by 50%?
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Proportions are a bit iffy but there's no way it's that off size-wise
markwitton-com.blogspot.com/20…
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Yes it would roughly. Your rendition seems overscaled as well, though a bit less. The shoulder of this animal would be ~1.8 m high roughly when I scaled it so it seems.
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not too sure scaling it down by 50 % would mean the animals skull would be only around 1,5 metres in length , however the skull most likely was around 3 metres long (or so I read). I scaled it down slightly, took some new measurements but 50 % would be too much. This reconstruction here for example is almost the same in size
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Liam's is overscaled as well, try overlaying Mark Witton's skeletal. What doesn't entirely help is that the skull in your rendition is smaller relative to the body and limbs than in other renditions (for example, the torso in your rendition is ~ 2 m long, while in reality it was under 1 m)
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ok , I scaled up the head by a whopping 150 % and downscaled the rest of the animal accordingly, also shortening the torso a bit. I think it should be fine now,I´d be glad if you could take another look
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Definitely looks closer to Witton's skeletal now. Very nice job.
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thanks, its nice to have people like you that point such discrepancies in my drawings, I really am no expert, I consider myself more a dinosaur enthusiast rather than a real expert like many other high quality palaeo artists are. But I still try to maintain a high quality standard in accuracy for my reconstructions and its guys like you that help me with that, so thank you, its very much appreciated!
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Man you should colour tout drawings! This one looks sick and brutal! I always imagined arzharquids as giant badass storks
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well my friend you´ll be glad to hear that there will be a lot more coloured drawings, next is the first ever DA depiction of sauroplites!
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Certainly looks like it could swallow a human whole...
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Hatzegopteryx was one of the most interesting animals ever. It looks terrifying but also very majestic. Nice work.
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