"Female Velociraptor" by Aleister Lam

I think your pic of the velociraptor is cool . But it looks like a male to me . can you teach me how to draw it? bye

An arguement about male/female aye? Well, I think that the picture is more important than the dumb fight, so great job!

the picture is amzaing really well done but the guy at the top was just being funny not sexist. Why does everyone think anything people say about girls is sexist I don't know. Gr8 pic

Alright, here goes something.
I'm glad to see such enthusiasm about my personal favorite dinosaur of all time, the Velociraptor. I just thought I'd pass on some actual paleo-facts, if you will, to help better the public's view of Velociraptors.

True the 1993 thriller Jurassic Park is famous for it's "realistic" raptors. Infact, there's is very little about JP raptors that holds much truth. In reality the velociraptor was about three feet in height, about half of the size they were in any of the JP movies. Velociraptors (and this is a recent developement so that's one bone for you) have been prooven in this past year and a few months to have been feathered creatures. It is that that the Theropod class, to which velociraptors, megaraptors, deinonichysaurs, and the compsagnathus as well as other raptor-esc dinosaurs belong, are very closely related to today's birds and in many fossils there's imprints of feathers themselves. Now larger Theropods, like the T. Rex for example, could mantain their body tempurature better due to their sheer size however, babies were likely to have 'dino-fluff'. The lips were barely able (Thanks to muscle reconstruction science) to make a snarl, and the sinus cavity is more defined as well as having a frontal-facing nostral. The arm here seems a bit too human and the fingers far to mammalian. They were more like a bird's feathers than anything.
Just some help thought you might like!
~DHD

I can't believe people are calling the artist sexist over the fact that female animals tend to be duller in color. This is not to be taken as "ugly" - it is a very important survival method for females laying eggs or sitting with their brood. Furthermore, males need to be showier because they are trying to impress the mate. Most birds, fish, and even some mammals have "uglier" toned females, and there is no shame to that. And if birds and reptiles are closer to dinosaurs genetically, it would only make sense that females would be less attractive and flashy. Make sure you know something about biology before you go off on someone for "sexism."

Anyways, as for the drawing, it is nicely done. I think the teeth protrude a little excessively in the front, and maybe the musculature could be better developed, but over all it is a very food peice.

Erm...It could b female...But it aint a raptor with those arms...Sorry...Excellent scales and colour though!

Cool! I LOVE rapters!!!

Hi

Gr8 piccy!

*Wuvz Rapters to pieces*

I was doing reseach on this raptor’s colours and this pretty much sums it up! sweet!

Great pic and all but looks absolutely nothing like a velociraptor.