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Im open to take one commission of this style starting at $150 USD (complex critters with lots of osteoderms will raise price). Please be prepared to provide reference material for taxa. No or very simple BG (as shown). Paypal only, via invoice. DM me if interested!

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2023-04-04

Oh, look at the clock! It's time!

Today's DotW is... Euoplocephalus!

Our good ol' Euoplocephalus are well protected with their bony armour and a tail club. All those knobs and plates (called osteoderms) will make any predator think twice before attacking!

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2023-03-21

Ankylosaurus magniventris Concept

Among the last and largest of the ankylosaurs, this was a rare and elusive dinosaur in the Hell Creek Region. A very derived animal, the skull and osteoderms greatly differ than even its closest relatives. A generalist of low browse.

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2023-03-16

Day 4! Carcharodontosaurus and Ceratosaurus!

I was going to do just the Cerato today, but I changed my mind las minute haha

Instead of osteoderms, I gave the Carcha elongated Earless Monitor bumps.
Enjoy! Stay tuned for the final one tomorrow!

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2023-02-09

Historically Carnotaurus was depicted with osteoderms arranged in neat rows along its body in a relatively croc like fashion. We now know these were actually feature scales and more randomly assorted.

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2023-01-25

Ankylosaurs are tough to paint because their osteoderms have unique arrangements - for Zuul, every osteoderm was preserved in place, so there's no room for error!

I sculpted a 3D model based on this phenomenal illustration by so I could draw Zuul from any angle

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2022-12-08

Some osteoderms were pathological, but most were not; we noticed that the malformed scutes were not randomly distributed over the body, but rather were concentrated on the flanks over the hip blades, on BOTH sides of the body.

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2022-12-07

BOTH Scelidosaurus and Mymoorapelta have faint ridges on lateral osteoderms dorsally, which would be strongly expressed in overlying keratin. Gastonia dorsal osteoderms and spines have strong ridges around their bases that would extend to apex in overlying keratin.

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2022-11-11

What are design tropes you love to put onto your creature/monster/kaiju designs? For me it’s spikes/osteoderms

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2022-10-29

Following up on the JWCC Tarbosaurus, here’s a quick redesign to show you don’t even need spines or osteoderms to make an interesting look. What I find to be underrated is the sheer muscular build that’s never accentuated

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2022-10-20

Ceratosaurus in its "accurate" version
The JP3 skin is luxurious, it's very iconic and I love it! it is also curious that they hit the osteoderms on the back (as far as I know the osteoderms are still speculative)

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2022-10-18

we're pretending the wings turned into scales (spines? plates? osteoderms?)

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2022-09-30

One a “scale” (heh~) from 1 to 10, how would you rate my level of masochism?

(Okay, so they’re technically osteoderms, but hey~.)

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2022-09-24

One more croc from Solimões Formation! Melanosuchus latrubessei! Hope you guys like it! It took me forever to draw the osteoderms, and I'm still not satisfied with them, but it was enough

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2022-08-27

day18 kleptoparasitic/shortcake

vicious carnivore that steal the kills of less aerial driven drakes and ground reptiles such as snakes. protected in osteoderms and poison they aren’t bothered once they get food and as a result they rarely glide

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2022-08-21

Day 10
Yooper dragons, named after their discoverer; have a unique composition to their osteoderms that allows for UV light to reflect off of them to attract birds and mates.

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2022-08-05

Holotype osteoderms from Mymoorapelta, E, F.. cervical ring lateral spine, M, shoulder spine, DD, EE, FF caudosacral plates. Rest of osteoderms from Gargoyleosaurus. Full fig of Mymoorapelta holotype shoulder spine and caudalosacral plates. Osteoderms define sp.

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2022-07-02

Another wonder from the Lower when the earth was still recovering from the great mortality. was a marine reptile with an armor of osteoderms on the upper part of its back, something very rare in marine reptiles.

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2022-06-23

I think everyone just completely forgot about Agustinia especially now that it lacks those "osteoderms" that we thought it had.

Credits to cisiopurple and David Krentz

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2022-03-24

Scutellosaurus

The most basal thyreophoran known, the family that let to ankylosaurs and nodosaurs, its small at 1.2 meters long and had over 300 osteoderms

ALT: Its tail is very long, likely to counterbalance the weight of the osteoderms as it likely was a bipedal animal

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2022-01-29