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An attempt at reconstructing Deinonychus Antirrhopus after a skeletal drawing by Scott Hartman.
Colouring and plumage borrowing from Harpy and Bateleur eagles as well as Bearded vulture.
There are a good deal of errors in there and it doesn't look as birdlike as it should...I'm not very convinced about the rear part and the legs either (and the tertials that shouldn't be there) but it's a first step toward more serious paleoart. :)
EDIT !
I got great feedback both on different forums so I decided to make some edits on the image :
- I made the tail more muscular, particularly at the base.
- I removed the tertial feathers. It is highly improbable that Deinonychus had tertial feathers. (I should probably remove the last top three feathers at the elbow too...)
- I edited the name to Deinonychus antirrhopus; without capitalization on the species name.
- And finally...I signed, because I always forget to.
Thanks to
Ixerin and back 
backfromthesun especially
Colouring and plumage borrowing from Harpy and Bateleur eagles as well as Bearded vulture.
There are a good deal of errors in there and it doesn't look as birdlike as it should...I'm not very convinced about the rear part and the legs either (and the tertials that shouldn't be there) but it's a first step toward more serious paleoart. :)
EDIT !
I got great feedback both on different forums so I decided to make some edits on the image :
- I made the tail more muscular, particularly at the base.
- I removed the tertial feathers. It is highly improbable that Deinonychus had tertial feathers. (I should probably remove the last top three feathers at the elbow too...)
- I edited the name to Deinonychus antirrhopus; without capitalization on the species name.
- And finally...I signed, because I always forget to.
Thanks to
Ixerin and back 
backfromthesun especiallyCategory Artwork (Digital) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1500 x 483px
File Size 185.1 kB
Looks great! Especially like the bearded vulture style eye.
In my arm-chair opinion I think the tail might be a tad too skinny? At least at the base...I remember reading some research that saurian musculature in tails had been underrated and now they believe that the tails were much more heavily muscled - in say a tyrannosauroid the base would probably be wider or as wide as the hips (like a crocodiles tail). I know this is a maniraptor so isn't as comparable with beefcake tyrannosauroids but the tail still looks a tad thin or the width of it not properly expressed.
In my arm-chair opinion I think the tail might be a tad too skinny? At least at the base...I remember reading some research that saurian musculature in tails had been underrated and now they believe that the tails were much more heavily muscled - in say a tyrannosauroid the base would probably be wider or as wide as the hips (like a crocodiles tail). I know this is a maniraptor so isn't as comparable with beefcake tyrannosauroids but the tail still looks a tad thin or the width of it not properly expressed.
You are correct! Though the paper published was more in reference to larger theropods. I think Rhnn's Deinonychus tail could stand to be a little thicker around the base, but not by a lot. The relevant citation for the paper (if anyone's curious) is Persons, W., & Currie, P. (2010) and a very good summary of the paper can be found on Scott Hartman's blog.
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