Resting King By Teratophoneus Watch

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Late cretaceous, around 67 million years ago: A male Tyrannosaurus rex awakens from its sleep. It lets out a deep moan and raises its huge head and opens its eyes. He looks around his surroundings, taking in the scents and noises of his immediate surrounding, some birds singing high up in the massive trees that spend the big predator shadow, lizards and other small animal hushing through the bushes and pterosaurs screeching and flying over the crowns of the trees. The massive predator feels hunger in its stomach, but the bones lying in and around the resting area are already stripped of any flesh, gnawing on them surely wont be stoppng the hunger. But he cant just go and hunt for prey, He´s on guarding duty : Just behind him, in the shadows of the trees, lies the nest , a big pile of plants and ground matter in which the eggs are bred out. The youngsters are very shortly before hatching and its in this time in which the parents are mostt aware of any animals surrounding the nest, they know that at any time an egg thief could attack the nest and the adults need to be ready for any countermeasures. The males doesnt have tomwait long however for its stomach to be filled: He has picked up the scent of the female that has gone out for hunting the previous day, and the scent hes smelling clearly tells that him she wont be comin home empty handed.....



Well well, here it is, another scnerey picture and what a pic it is. The reason for doing this was well... ther are a lot of high quality t rex pictures comin out the last months done by various artists, and some have impressed ,e pretty much. Then I looked at my gallery and thought: Damn I need high quality t rex art, something the people look at and think"thats spectacular". I therefore decided to not depict tyrannosaurus as badass as possible, I went for a more subtle way, showing the king of the dinosaurs, resting, beeing " in harmon" with his surroundings, no bloddy snout, no ripped of triceratops heads anr fighting another t rex for territory, a simple yet atmospheric picture, depicting the most ferocious predator that walked the land doing stuff you wouldnt exspect from such a dangerous beast. After all however, t rex was still just and animal, not a monster and this is what is shown here(kinda surprising that you get sth like that from me, I´m alll for the badassery beeing shown in t rex). I carefully took care to make it as high quality and up to date as possible, with featerrs and stuff, even more so than I usually do for Tyrannosaurids. I sure hope you enjoy this pic





And yes, no lips, teeth are showing, there genereally seems some debate over theropods carried lips that fully sealed their teeth or not. It sure seems legit, but there are also other who point out reasons why t rex should be depicted with its teeth showing. As for me: Well I dont know shit about wether they had lips or not, there are pro reasons and contra reasons, I just like my theropods with their teeth showing, after all thats what makes t rex the most interesting isnt it. So yes, teeth showing, not neccessary because I´m convinced theropods didnt have lips, its more of an artistic and personal thing for me, theropods without their terth showing look......weird for some reason. And as we dont know for certain they had them, I draw them with teeth showing( however I will try o avoid drawing my theropods with closed mouth to basically avoid the question of lips, I dont want some shitstorm unfolding in the comment section between people about lips or no lips.... it is an art gallery after all)

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Published : Feb 16, 2017