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So, I wouldn't label myself as a Survivor fan, per se. However, I would label myself as a Michael Skupin fan, who is absolutely the most badass bad-ass to ever play on the show. I loved the second season - the Australian outback - to death. I loved how it was actually about wilderness survival, and in many respects the social manipulation and trickery took a backseat to the more day-to-day demands of staying dry and keeping well-fed. That's the sort of Survivor I really liked to watch. The newest season, taking place in the Philippines, would not normally have caught my attention, but Mike has made a return and so I'm watching just for that. :B

So how does this relate to a Deinonychus RPRing some poor hapless generic psittacosaurid? Well, my favorite Mike scene in the second season was when he managed to run down and kill a wild pig with nothing but a stick and a knife, thereby feeding his whole tribe on a delicious meal of ham and bacon. ~Agahnim commented on the whole scene, and Mike in general, as being kind of reminiscent of a dromaeosaur, and a generic psittacosaurid is a good analogue to a bristly black pig: so you can say that this painting is modeled after that epic run-down of the wild pig on that Australian riverbank. After Mike kills the pig, he's sort of crouching over it (mantling, perhaps) by the river and looking up in a sort of... blinking confusion at why his tribemates are freaking out and going "EWW GROSS!" Lol.

You can watch the lead-up to the pig chase, the kill and aftermath here: [link] The other tribe members' reactions to the whole thing are equal parts amusing and irritating. =p

So yes, this is accurate paleoart inspired by a scene from a long-ago Survivor episode. :D BECAUSE I CAN.
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~pheaston Oct 16, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Nice job! Effective shadows.
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~ShinRedDear Oct 16, 2012
Work after work, you never cease to amaze me. Like the others, I can totally detect the Conway feeling.
I only have one question. You decided to depict a psittacosaurid as Deinonychus' prey. Is there any evidence
of presence of such on ornithopod in the early cretaceous of north America ? Other than that, really an amazing piece ! :)
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*EWilloughby Oct 16, 2012
Thank you! As far as I know, there is no evidence of psittacosaurids in North America. I chose to represent Skupin's pig as a psittacosaurid merely because they are somewhat physically reminiscent of pigs - short, squat and bristly. Since they lived at the same time, I don't consider it out of the question that there could have been psittacosaurids in North America in the Aptian. However, I would probably not reconstruct a Deinonychus with a psittacosaurid in a truly realistic, accurate paleontological setting, but I allow myself some speculative inclusions when I'm drawing something more-or-less silly. :)
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~ShinRedDear Oct 16, 2012
Thanky for your reply. I understand it better now. But you have to admit that for a silly subject, the art's top notch. Nice dichotomy. :D
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~orange-eyed-serpent Oct 14, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Neat interpretation. I haven't watched Survivor, but I saw that scene that you linked to and it is pretty amazing. It was pretty dromaeosaurid-like...he killed it very swiftly after the chase it seemed. And yeah, the team members did overreact a little bit. They're living like you would in the wild, you can't expect your food to be packaged all nice for you, ready to eat. =P Great job on this Emily, I love how his eye looks, it gives him a lot of expression. I also love the feathers, the background...everything! :D
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*EWilloughby Oct 14, 2012
Thank you! It always makes me happy when you approve of how I draw the eyes of my dinosaurs. :) And yeah, I found the other people's reactions amusing precisely because I'm sure they all eat factory-farmed hamburgers without batting an eye at it (other than the vegetarian), which is a lot more abhorrent in just about every way possible than legit, naturalized hunting.
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~Anto009 Oct 12, 2012
It's going to rip your guts our with such an adorable face you won't even mind!
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~Ornitholestes1 Oct 12, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
*applauds* Very nice, very nice indeed.
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~LanexCyteri Oct 12, 2012
Spectacular as always
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*SageKorppi Oct 12, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
IT looks so damn proud too, haha. I think I would like this person as well!
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