I finally went ahead and got him... my pet dromaeosaurus.
This is the original image, which used to live here (but has now vanished, in Yahoo's site update).
And this is how it turned out on me.
She (Christy) did a great job, IMO.
And this is what the first bandage looked like after i took it off...
Roaaaarrrrr!
I hope you put that bandage in yer scrapbook.
i thought about it.. but ultimately i decided that was disgusting. i’ll just keep the .JPG .
The artist for the original drawing is Tim Bradley. This work appeared originally on the Jurassic Park Institute website (now defunct).
interesting. i never found a credit on Yahoo’s pages – i was hoping i could find the whole set of those images, printed.
and now they’re gone.
well, Mr Bradley, wherever you are: thanks for the image.
I’m sorry to say this but that’s a Velociraptor, not a Dromaeosauridae.
Dromaeosauridae were medium in size and had feathered bodies and their arms were starting to take wings in shape. They could fly a small distance and were carnivores. There is no confirmed relation to the Velociraptor, but they had family groups and worked together just like Velociraptors among many other attributes. I can see how you would be mistaken.
feel free to correct me if i’m wrong, but i’m pretty sure there is utterly no evidence that any dromaeosaur, or any theropod, actually flew anywhere. feathers themselves are not sufficient for flight (ask a penguin or an ostrich), and we don’t even think the mechanics of flight would work on a theropod – no wing flip, no place to put sufficient flight muscles, no evidence of feathers capable of providing actual lift, etc.. even the best candidate for non-pterosaur flight, archaeopteryx, with its flight-like feathers, hollow bones and large sternum, can’t be said to have definitely flown; and it’s a hell of a lot more suited for flight than a short-armed, dog-sized creature like a dromeaosaur. in short, all the evidence i’ve seen says dromeaosaurs were incapable of even gliding flight.
and as for size… how exactly do you judge the size of something if you aren’t given any context? it’s not like my guy is standing next to a tape measure.
Hey–I just came across your tattoo of my dromaeosaur image. Wow, that must have hurt!!
One of the comments indicated that the illustration was of a velociraptor, but it is actually of a dromaeosaur, which was a more primitive kind of “raptor”. The illustration (as were almost all the illustrations I did for the Universal/Yahoo site) were checked over by Dr. Bob Bakker, who is one of the foremost paleontologists around. I created over 400 illustrations, most of which were used. Unfortunately, the Yahoo site is down, and I don’t know that the illustrations appear anywhere else. I have a few posted on my website, if you’re interested–http://web.mac.com/raptoryx13
Anyway, I got a kick out of seeing the tattoo version.
Regards,
Tim
Tim,
glad you’re cool with it! i loved all those illustrations you did for Yahoo – great stuff. i had a whole bunch of them lined up as possible candidates for my arm.
I have a few posted on my website, if you’re interested
awesome! i love that Suchomimus.
do you sell prints of any of these ?
I had sold the rights to the illustrations to Universal, so, unfortunately, I don’t sell any merchandise based on those particular drawings.
I designed some dinosaur toys for Hasbro–the line was “Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect”– that are really bright, although they are less realistic. You can probably see some of those on eBay, or there’s a great site called JPtoys.com that has a section devoted to the Chaos Effect line.
I actually have a couple of non-fiction books out with the same style art in them–“Paleo Sharks” and “Paleo Bugs”. They are kids’ books for ages 8-12. I have a few illustrations up on my website. You can check them out on amazon.com.
Regards,
Tim
Wooooowwww!!!! The tatto is awesome I like it.