Hiding Huntress
January 2020

Or a bounching one. The jump animation for Latenivenatrix in Path of Titans is so adorable.

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Turkey-sized turkey
January 2020

Can dinosaurs no longer be scary now that we know many of them were feathered,
and that all present-day birds are unironically living dinosaurs? Well, at the end of the day, what does it matter?

Dinosaurs are not "your childhood", and they can't be "ruined". They're real animals that once lived, and many of which still live among us today
in a spectacular variety of species, and they are and were just as complex, fascinating, mundane, majestic, and ridiculous, as any other living beings.
We discover new things about them all the time. While they can make excellent movie monsters and there's nothing wrong with finding that side of
them entertaining, it's awfully limiting to reduce them to only that one aspect, even if it's the aspect you happen to be the most interested in.

Nature doesn't ask for your permission to be whatever way it is. Dinosaurs don't need to have been scary to you, or anything at all to you, personally.
What a self-centered thought that reality needs your approval.

And how sad, for you, because you're missing out.

Update December 2021: This is the original version of this picture that I drew in January 2020,
but I haven't been happy with the plumage silhouette, especially considering my goal was to
get as close to scientific accuracy as I can. I can do better now, so I did. You can find the updated
picture and more explanation on the changes here on the 2021 page. I've also updated the deviantart
post to the new version, but I'll leave the original here for comparison.

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Satakauno
March 2020

Beautiful Bi Buitreraptor Boy, for another experiment at incorporating LGBT+ Pride Flags in dino designs in a way that
looks kind of plausible as a real animal's colouring. I've seen some really pretty Pride Flag dino designs utilizing the colours more or less
as-is and having the dinosaur's entire palette consist of the flag's colours, and I love those, but I thought this would be a fun challenge.

There are definitely spectacularly colourful and bright dinosaurs around today, but what works for parrots and birds of paradise
might not as well for ambush predators, so I'm trying to keep from getting too flashy with the pretty and bright flag colours,
like how I made the (a? there's a bunch of those, but I like this one) Lesbian Pride Flag less bright on the tail of the Latenivenatrix above.
This design has the flag as explicitly display markings, though, so I kept it bright. Perhaps it'll get less so outside nesting season.

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Kuurasukka
April 2020

The exact troodontid they are may not have a name yet, but they know what they are.

Transgender Pride Flag added to the collection.

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Velontines
May 2020

A seamless pattern featuring bouncy raptor couples.

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Ripples
June 2020

An Austroraptor, noticing a thing urgent enough to let a fishie escape.
Perhaps a fellow bearer of small arms, Quilmesaurus, perhaps an Austroraptor neighbour.
Perhaps a falling leaf.

Face patterns inspired by Humboldt penguins, and the colouring by some more LGBT+ Pride flags.
This one is a bit of a combination of the Nonbinary flag and the Asexual flag, since they have similar colours.

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Two unenlagiines
June 2020

Just a little size comparison of Buitreraptor and Austroraptor, now that I've drawn both once.
Little raptor, big wings. Big raptor, little wings.

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Velocirapteryx
June 2020

Alright, that's Jurassic Park fanart, but it is also another fully feathered redesign.
JP's as far as I know only kind of feathered and winged Velociraptor toy figure, the Velo x Archaeopteryx hybrid
from the bright and fantastical 1998 Chaos Effect line. I always liked the design of this critter, so here she is,
reimagined as simply Velociraptor mongoliensis, as since the launch of that toy line 22 years ago it has
become apparent raptors didn't need hybridizing with "the first bird" to be birdily feathered after all.

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Kujertelua
July 2020

Girlfriends engaging in some mutual allopreening.
Pose inspired by this beautiful raptor couple piece by Feroxaurus at deviantart.

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Inkraptor
August 2020

As the title implies, this one wasn't drawn on the computer.
Trying out ink+brush as a raptordrawing medium.

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Inkraptor Babies
August 2020

Downy little things.
Painted with ink+brush like the above adult, but on wet paper for the plumes.

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Stay Close
August 2020

A Utahraptor on the move with their downy utahpickpocket.

Made with calligraphy ink+brush, masking fluid, black 0.05 mm pen, black brush-tip marker,
white gel pen, and after scanning Paint Shop Pro & FireAlpaca.

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Vesper
October 2020

A little Deinonychus, chasing a moth as I seem to like to draw small raptors doing.
Well, it's extra protein if you can catch it.

The colouring is heavily inspired by the beautiful modern raptor Red-footed falcon (Falco vespertinus), which, as it
happens, does prey on insects. (A unisex version, as it's also one of the few raptors with sexually dimorphic plumage.)
The palette reminded me of my feathered redesign of JW:E's Deinonychus, so a Deino it is.

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A good bird boy
October 2020

Since pet Velociraptors learning to fetch came up in one of my JP/W comics around the time I drew this.

Is he fetching the stick, though, or perhaps building a nest? Maybe he'll use it to dig out a juicy frog from
some hard to reach place in your garden, or to open the latch on the door of his overnight cage.
The stick's his now and you can't have it or he'll scream!

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Wing Bouquet
November 2020

A Microraptor having a scritch.

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