SciFi and Fantasy Art: ~MORAUGHU STUDY ~

Cooool! It's even better from close up. Of course, I think the opposite would be true in real life, but... *ramble, ramble*

Yeah!Feathered dinos!Do you think it's also possible that their could have been furry dinos too? Every body Ive mentioned that to said it was the dumbest idea they'd ever heard,i was mad,etc,etc.

That's great. And yes, T-Rex probably did have feathers, at least as an infant. Chances are, large dinos worked like large mammals today. Like an elephant is almost hairless while something like a mouse is all fuzzy. So things like Velociraptor would have been fuzzy and T-Rex maybe had bits of feather here and there. But, who knows, he could have been like a giant peacock. Great picture! Only thing I would say was that his belly needs some more meat on him. They have a special set of rib bones that run along their belly, giving them a sort of wedge shape starting from the head to the pelvic bone. Anyway, I love him. Hehe.

Its a while ago you sent to me a photograph of a Trex model with feathers.... it looks THAT logically, that after I saw that an unfeathered T-rex suddenly seems to look like a Turkey on Christmas day.... even the T-rex' skin, as it is shown in most of the animated movies, has something of the skin of a naked bird.... perhaps one day Tralfy really has his Time-warp machine, and then he will be able t show anyone that they really had... after yesterdays letter I am not sure anymore this couldn't happen one day. Then I really, really hope you are careful enough not to go to near to him to make a Photo!

Hey, Eric. Cool sketch, I'll admit. But I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. I wish I had specific references, but I do know that T-rex skin impressions have been discovered, and at least on the parts we have imprints of (I think it included the nape of the neck), there are no feathers. It looks like the pebbly scales of a Gila Monster. Sorry to burst your bubble.

But again, it's a very nice sketch, and you certainly have a great imagination. Keep it up!