Sunday, October 18, 2009

Brachytrachelopan v.3


Look, it's a LAVA BEAST. I wanted to do something flashy for this sauropod. It came out a little closer to something you'd see from Luis Rey, which I'm not that happy about, but I do like the color scheme. Notice that I drew the neck up, which is not a position you normally see for this sauropod. This is probably about as high as it could curl its neck, given the forward-sloping neural spines on the cervicals that would have severely limited dorsal flexion.

Next up: Miragaia! Gotta start from scratch, so it might be a little while...

3 comments:

Peter Bond said...

I like the colour scheme! What was this poor guy supposed to eat, as he can't reach his neck up or (from the looks of it) reach the ground!?
Strange beast!

m said...

This and the Spinophorosaurus are absolutely gorgeous. The colour schemes are inspirational. Maybe you can colour all 24 of mine?

Zach said...

Peter, I wonder about that too. Very little of the appendecular (spelling?) skeleton has been found, so many it had super-short legs? I don't know. But the neck was just ridiculously short.

Mo, I'm glad you like it. I'm a little on-the-fence about Brachytrachelopan. I may yet end up Photoshopping the hell out of these pieces, despite my intent of staying true to "Inktober."