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Monday, 12 December 2011

Tree Pangolin sketch



A little sketch done at the Royal Ontario Museum while visiting with the SONSI crew. Tree Pangolin and an unidentified beetle for a warm-up.

The pattern of the overlapping plates and the unusual, almost neck-less body was challenging. Pangolins have really cool tails. I'm surprised they're not the basis for more science fiction creatures or robots.

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2 comments:

  1. Trish12 December 2011 at 12:14:00 GMT-5

    There's always Sandslash. And a weird pangolin-bird thing in _The New Dinosaurs_. And of course there is that one scene in "The Chronicles of Riddick" where the prison planet is guarded by what can only be described as antisocial pangolins.

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  2. Glendon Mellow13 December 2011 at 21:09:00 GMT-5

    Oh, yeah, I remember that one in The New Dinosaurs.

    I just watched Pitch Black, but haven't seen Chronicles of Riddick yet. "Antisocial Pangolins". That should be a comic.

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