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Upland Forest Saurian

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No fully grown specimens of this animal are known, size here is based on the largest known individual as per Horner et al. 2009 (femoral length 59cm). Trying out a new thing where I colour in the lines with a muted colour instead of leaving it white. I think I like it more. Maybe. You'll see next time when you see what that is I guess.

Edit: The lack of a second forelimb in the background was bothering me so I went back in to edit that. While that was happening I was in a call with arvalis and he gave some suggestions, namely to lighten the grid and human figure and moving the foreground pes back away from the background limb to remove an uncomfortable tangent.

Reference:
Horner, J., et al. 2009, Comparative long bone histology and growth of the “hypsilophodontid” dinosaurs Orodromeus makelai, Dryosaurus altus, and Tenontosaurus tillettii (Ornithischia: Euornithopoda), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vol. 29, Iss. 3, 2009.
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Pretty good work, Tom. It is nice having Dryosaurus scaled up to a human. Many people don't realize how big this animal actually was (iirc, the femur of Dryosaurus was close to that of Tenontosaurus). BTW, this style reminds me of the art which appears in Crichton's The Lost World.