#draccus

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A final from-above image, because I kind of want to rub his belly... 

As already explained above, after creating the silhouette, I first modelled the skeleton and musculature before I did the final form, to ensure that it would be as believable as possible. 

Since there are basically no lizard anatomy charts ANYWHERE (apart from one of a green anole by Terryl Whitlatch from her schoolism course, which I screenshotted) I spent a lot of time cross-referencing the names of the muscles on her side view image with my animal anatomy reference book, and also google. (And this incredibly helpful art of Styracosaurus albertensis without which life would’ve been very hard. I just had to look elsewhere for the legs, because of the different poses) 

This meant that I literally googled the name of every single muscle and looked where it would attach in a human (or horse,...) to figure out its function and how it would have to work for the draccus. I’m so glad that we’re all tetrapods and that I could at least be fairly certain that the basic muscles exist in all of us, and that their functions would be the same in reptiles :D

walking pose + anger pose

eating a tree (with and without tree) and drug-crazed rolling/rolling out a hypothetical campfire

And... for everyone who’s still here, have a draccus SHITPOST