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Submitted: January 28
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Apatosaurus louisaeby ~EmperorDinobot

Traditional Art / Drawings / Animals

Some broad told me in December that I needed to make my dinosaurs more interesting. I disagreed. I was happy with my scaly dinosaurs, boring like they were in the late 80's.
Then this All Yesterday's book got printed, and a contest went with it.

I decided to jump in with a fuzzy Apatosaurus... I mean, North America probably got cold at some point.
This one features a rat tail, whose whiplash end has quills, quills meant to stick into enemy Allosaurus. The feet also have this scaly nonsense according to some recent ichnofossils.

I also gave it purple neck stripes. Why just green and grey and brown? That's boring. When shedding the fuzz, this Apatosaurus' skin is essentually dark grey to black except for some of its tail, some of its belly, and the soft tissue below the neck and on the nose.

The most unusual thing I gave it was a humanshape nose! the tissue on top of its nose, when erected, gives it a nose not that different from a human nose (sans the cartilage).

It's also got lips.

The pencil version came out like ass, so I won't be uploading that, but I will soon upload one with a frontal view, so you can see the nose better.

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~commander-salamander Feb 4, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I a big fan of the colouring, cool concept!

=Maleiva Jan 31, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Esta genial un suropodo "peludo".

~Kazuma27 Jan 29, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Not saying i agree on the amount of fuzz in this guy (can't imagine the smell of that shaggy coat, yuck!), but what about lips and weird-ass structures on the snout?
HELL YEAH! B)

~EmperorDinobot Jan 29, 2013

It's fun, it's shocking, and definitely possible (but improbable...).

It's just speculation. If I stuck to drawing my neo-conservative sauropods, nobody would comment on them, or give a shit.

Even if I lined up the entire ventral area of the neck with some super inflatable balloon (what's the use in that other than mating? Given the times, that shit might have just made the animal float!)

The shaggy coat smells like theropod shit, and that's definitely gonna be a deterrent, unless you're a crazy allosaur with no sense of smell.