Charcoal brush test (oc)

Starting to clean up an old painting #paleoart #raptor

Art by me. Size comparison between a very large specimen of Dire Wolf, being 90cm at the shoulder and perhaps more than 160cm long: between the 80-100kg range. You being a Jon Snow of 175cm, scale bar of 1m. Let's get straight to the point: wolves are some badass animals, how can we imagine a different canid that approaches their reputation and mighty force? Well, in fact, there was one. Aenocyon dirus, better known as the Dire Wolf. Once thought to be a different species of Canis, now believed to be an entirely different animal: far different than the gray wolves we know. Nevertheless, this doesn't stops Aenocyon from being one of the most incredible animals of the Pleistocene. Dire wolves aimed for large prey and were adapted to a more bone-cracking diet (Anyonge and Baker, 2006; DeSantis et al., 2015). Weighing around 50-68 kg (Anyonge and Roman, 2006), dire wolves overlaped with the size of Hyenas. (C. crocuta ultima, ~63 kg). Horses and bison were, on average, the most important prey species for this species. Exceptional individuals could reach about 110kg (Anyonge and Roman, 2006; Sorkin, 2008). The specimen utilized for this reconstruction is a very large A. dirus dirus(Eastern subsp.) based on a fragmentary mandible. Skull lenght for the largest dirus could be from 27-31cm. Smaller canids were the primary font of inspiration(as appointed and suggested by @8Bit_Satyr, which has been helping me!) as seen in my time-lapse video: combining with a more reddish/orange canid look that was cited on the newspaper that showed the reclassification of A. Dirus. Thank you all for reading till there. In case you didn't saw the time-lapse, check my Instagram or Twitter media: as well the other pelt variations which are there. In the next episode, we will go back to South America and reconstruct the most influential big cat over thousands of cultures from the continent, an spotted giant which will be brought back.

The Dire Wolf, Aenocyon dirus.

Scribble from last week #paleoart

„Fire of Lamar”, 926F memorial portrait for a paper.

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First post, two terror bird designs from last month
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