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h4.Floofty Murder Chickens 1

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You may not know this about me but I am actually a GIGANTIC dinosaur nerd and it occurred to me recently that I have never bothered drawing any. I suppose that is somewhat due to the fact that it took me an embarrassingly long time to square with the reality that damn-near all my favorite species were not running around buckass nekkit without they pants on like in the original Jurassic Park movie but were, instead, big floofty murder chickens actually. This was a scandal my little teenage brain could not handle but eventually, I ended up speedrunning the stages of grief about it and nowadays, I've landed somewhere in the vicinity of "big floofty murder chickens are pretty neat, actually."

My favorite dinosaur of all time is the non-floofty spinosaurus but I'm probably not going to be drawing them any time soon because I value my life (IYKYK). If I had to pick a second favorite, I'd say it really depends on my mood but it's probably going to be something in the deinonychosauria family, likely a dromaeosaur. Utahraptor, velociraptor, deinonychus, microraptor. Carcharodontosaurus is also pretty feckin cool and I know allosaurus is such a basic bitch dinosaur but they were absolute fucking crackheads and I love them.

These designs are not meant to be any specific species; I was just kinda aiming for "general dromaeosaurid" except for the top-middle red stripey guy who is probably some kind of carcharodontosaurid, and the top right guy who is meant to be mononykus-like. "Fantastic but plausible" was the goal here. I feel like monsignor bluejayraptor might have ended up looking kinda cartoony and goofy but he's so cute I didn't want to change him. I love his doofy hench dipshits dorking around in the background. The top middle dromae was inspired by learning that there might have been arctic raptors that lived alongside Yutyrannus so extrafloofty! Top left was inspired by a bearded vulture. I know dinosaurs did not have widespread grass (I forget when grass took off, might have been after the volcano-asteroid spitroasting Earth took around 65My ago) but they did have ferns! And I think moss? So pretend all that grass-looking shit is ferns and moss. XD

Anyhow, thanks for coming to my dinosaur nerd Ted Talk. ♥