January Challenge 2013: Day Nineteen

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Specifically went with the Stegosaurus armatus as they didn't give anything more than a genus for him in canon. And used a combination of his paintjobs from a couple different universes to give him a unique look to go with a new body type. The outdated view of the cumbersome taildragger for the Dinobots always got to me, so doing this satisfies that itch I get whenever I see inaccurate dinosaurs in popular media.

 

If you like the Dinobots, than you're going to enjoy the next five days. As I plan on doing the rest of them in the same style as I've done here. Though after that, I have no idea as to what to draw next. So I'm taking suggestions now. As always for this new year's res, no promises that any suggestion will be used but if there's nothing else I can think of to draw and I like your idea, it'll happen. Feel free to toss up a number of things you'd like to see done, the more I can pick from the better the chances of something you want drawn will be done.

Comments

[eerian_sadow]

eeee! he looks fantastic!!!!

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i know just where you should cross post this, too. ~_^

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Thank you!

Should I wait to post him until all of them are done or should it be one at a time? All of them are sketched out on the same file, to scale, and all I did was complete and crop Snarl from the rest. Oh, and I'll give you full permission to use any of these Dinobots I'm doing to use in prettying up your comm as long as you credit (which I know I won't have to worry about with you). :3

(and when I say all, I mean a certain elasmosaur too)

[ultharkitty]

My first thought when I saw this was eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee thagomizer! (I love that word). Beautiful stego :D And yay dinos! I especially love the balance with this one - you have a good eye for making me believe that the creature's centre of gravity is where it's meant to be.

As for suggestions for later, how about Cybertronian (war) tortoises? Or perhaps baby dragons nesting in unusual places. A pachycephalosaurus dinobot would also be really cool.

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Ahhh, The Far Side, where would we be in identifying stegosaur parts otherwise. Awww, thank you, it helps that my organic animal drawing skills are much higher than mechanical and humanoid. Snarl wouldn't be so nice otherwse. That and I'm completely obsessed with dinosaurs. (I should take a picture of my book collection, it's bigger than any of the few libraries I've gone to have)

Hmmm, the dragon chick one is forming a bit. With a handful of them curled up in a long deceased knight helmet. And what do mean by the war tortoises, are they canon?

[ultharkitty]

We'd be far less entertained :D

*is intrigued about the book collection*

I don't think war tortoises are canon, but they might be. It's just something that sprang to mind. My boyfriend keeps asking to mount little guns on the backs of my terrapins and race them (because we don't have tortoises yet), but I tell him no. And they're not allowed a rat friend or nunchucks until they spontaneously develop opposable thumbs.

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Ah hahh, my books. I literally have my own small library, over a thousand titles at last count, which I'm in the process of organizing and thinning right now. I'll see if I can't take a picture while I'm at it, because a lifetime of collecting books can leave one a bit overwhelmed. (garage sales and library sales are things of wonder)

*snicker* Now I'm seeing some giant tank of a tortoise alt femme, complete with huge shoulder canons, glaring at someone off-screen. Going to have to see if they're canon or not.

[ultharkitty]

*hopes they're canon, really and truly*

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Went through the wiki and wikia, and I couldn't find them. Sorry.