Geospiza fortis' Animal Models

Ooh lovely!

Thank you, 4U. Its been awhile, but I have made headway on my trike!
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All I have left to do is stamp the texture (like above the hips) on the rest of the body. Not quite sure about the crocodilian bely scales, though.

Bonsoir Geospiza
The first time I am looking your scultures and for your age you will become a great artis.I will like to know
what is the scale of your animals and are you making copies.littlebear

Ohh I love it! Great job so far!

Thanks Jonesee!

littlebear wrote:

Bonsoir Geospiza
                      The first time I am looking your scultures and for your age you will become   a great artis.I will like to know
what is the scale of your animals and are you making copies.littlebear

Thank you, Littlebear. The triceratops is in 1:30, and everything else in 1:20 scale. Sorry, I do not make copies as of now but am completely flattered at your asking.

Wow you've done a really great job of this.  

Awesome work!

Truly a wonderful peacock;     
I love this pose, it's beautiful!     
The elephant but also more common    

Thank you MiniZoo, 4U, and Lucky Luke for your kind words. I'm about ready to bake the trike after texturing, but I wanted to see what others think of the texture:
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I don't think scales in most dinosaurs would be visible in this scale, but I read that ceratopsids have been found with more prominent scales. Any thoughts?

Also: in the background I included really quick (15 min) paint ideas/studies to try and figure out how I will paint it. I think the final paint will look like the picture on the right of just the head.

  I'm really excited to see what he's gonna look like 

Two months since last update; I took a vacation to Florida a few weeks ago and have been trying to keep up with schoolwork, but I finally can show pictures of my newest models.

Firstly, my triceratops, finished.
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I tried to keep the patterns more subtle, as in the horns or sacral area. I also entered this into the town fair, only to find that it was broken by one of the people in charge of arranging the sculptures. Only the tip of one horn and the tail, it will be an easy fix. I did not win anything, either. My piece was the only 3D work which was actually a sculpture, the others were stained glass and decorative items- not something I think I should be competing against, but I digress.
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I also got to visit Disney's Animal Kingdom on my visit to Florida and took lots of pictures. I was lucky enough to see a white rhinoceros, Ceratotherium simum, and get clear pictures, which got me started on this:
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The legs are probably a little long but that's because I didn't put it in wood yet.

Wow!!

That's impressive!

Wow, the triceratops is really well done Beautiful sculpture! Congratulations!!!

WONDERFUL triceratops ! He looks so smooth and somehow real , and the pose is great, - I am very much in love with that model

Vey exiting to see how the rhino develops

A very nice Dino! Like the position and texture a lot!
That rhino is looking interesting I think. It nuts have been cool to be there and see those animals! Looking forward to see some progressing :) Keep up the good work!

Good to see you back here! Your rhino sketch is really good, so I think the sculpture will be too. Fantastic colour on the triceratops.

Thank you all!  

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He looks so smooth and somehow real

I was going for a smooth texture, as not to make it too distracting from the form. My next dinosaur probably will not have scale texture at all due to scale (mind the pun) and scale size.

Excellent work! I hope you were able to fix him

In my eyes you are the winner! I guess the other works were ugly as hell. It is always like this, haha!

Thank you Fisva and 4U.
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I didn't want to post as many progress pictures, but it was already on my computer. I think the neck might be a little long.

I love your triceratops

Excited!

Very enjoyable to look at. Amazing. Great work.

I've just seen these updates- I need to go back and look at your other sculptures!

The Triceratops looks very nice- I especially like its bulky body shape in the second picture. I'm sorry to hear it was judged against stained glass.   Your subject choices are good also- bison, non-displaying peacock, walking Pteranodon (happy to see this, I've thought about trying something similar).

Also your front and back rhino sketches are very interesting.