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Since I really had fun drawing Shanweiniao cooperorum, I decided to something similar, except this time I drew two unrelated genera. The upper set is Presybornis pervetus, a flamingo-esque anseriform from the Eocene Green River formation. It was around the size of a goose and lived in colonies near shallow salt lakes. While the skull is decidedly duckish (:P), it also shared similar characteristics with the Charadriiformes, as did the postcranial skeleton. I gave it both Anatid plumage and a more flamingo-like colouring in the small feeding sketch.

The second set is Rapaxavis pani, a Longipterid enantiornithine from the Jiufotang formation and a relative of S. cooperorum. Some interesting characteristics include three teeth in the premaxilla and two in the predentary, no claws on the manus (lost independently from Ornithurans), two porous triangular bones with an unknown function located where the coracoid articulates with the sternum (paracoracoidal ossifications), a possibly incompletely fused carpometacarpus, and a lack of a fully fused tibiotarsus and tarsometatarsus. The last three features suggest that the holotype was not fully mature, which prompted me to draw the poofy juvenile. I also gave it a set of tail feathers like that of S. cooperorum, forming a consolidated airfoil.

Done in pencil.
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~Irkenarmada1 Feb 9, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
This is really well-done. Your art is pretty cool.
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~WanderingAlbatross Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thank you!
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~Baurusuchus Feb 7, 2013
unbelievable! Keys to the time machine, please.
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~WanderingAlbatross Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
No keys; thumbprint security. ;)
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~Baurusuchus Feb 12, 2013
best response ever :D
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~xia0ting Feb 7, 2013
lovely, really lovely! such beautiful accurate sketches.
i adore them :heart:
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~WanderingAlbatross Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Thank you! :) Accuracy makes them that much more real!
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*herofan135 Feb 3, 2013
Really neat work, stunning!
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*Eurwentala Feb 3, 2013
I really, really like this. They are wonderfully realistic and very skillfully drawn. I think you might be a time-travelling Victorian naturalist and actually sketched these from live birds.
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~WanderingAlbatross Feb 3, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Crap, you've found me out...well I have no plans on going back! Corsets suck. ;)
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