Raptor anatomy

How to draw dinosaurs

Here's my muscle study on dakotaraptor. Dakotaraptor done in markers, white pen, and colored pencils, labels in Illustrator. Note: Since there's little discovered of this animal a lot of this is speculative. Don't take this study as completely accurate. My site: rushelle.com/ Contact me at: rushelle@sbcglobal.net

I've looked for a nicely detailed, affordable, ($15-$30) scientifically accurate raptor type figurine these last few weeks, and they pretty much do... The Tutorial on How to Stop Drawing Stupid Raptors

Anchiornis huxleyi a small jurassic dinosaur. Notable for very complete fossils, which made possible to deduce it's color scheme . Based on skeletal reconstruction by Scott Hartman https://www.skeletaldrawing.com/theropods/anchiornis

Deinonychus, the quintessential dromaeosaurid... Velociraptor who now? This entry in the series is definitely pushing into the realm of the bird-like anatomy, but it's not quite there. Non-avian theropods really are a strange mishmash of features. This reconstruction is scaled to the larger Yale Peabody Museum Deinonychus remains, as described in Ostrom's seminal work, with other dromaeosaurs helping to fill in the gaps. As is the case for this entire series, the scale bar = 1 metre, and our…

Rushelle Kucala Concept Art Portfolio