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recognizing the way soft tissue and integument affect the appearance of the animal. Too many people give only minimal feathers or try to re-capture the spirit of "traditional" maniraptorans, like those drawn by Greg Paul, with the sinewy muscles and s-curved necks. In reality, even (especially?) in birds with more filamentous feathers like the kiwi and some vultures, the curve of the neck and the outline of the skeleton is nearly completely hidden. I do still begin with a skeletal but only for proportions, the exact anatomy is meaningless for life restorations of birds, only the exposed parts (beak, eye, legs, manual digits if present) and the feathers themselves. I think the key is understanding the feather anatomy of modern birds, and going from there. As for your request, coincidentally I already started on
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English is fine! ;) Glad you like my dinobirds, this is also my main area of paleo interest. If I ever get more professionally into it than I am now, it would definitely be in this field. The key to drawing good Mesozoic birds and dinobirds I think is
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