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Although each progressive drawing was easier to do than the last because I could reference the ones I had already done, this was really difficult to wrap my head around. I only had a lateral diagram of a rhino’s musculature to go on, and it was a different species than the one I based the skeleton on, so a majority of this is a shot in the dark. Still, I did what I could to figure it out! On Monday and Tuesday I’ll be doing the arm and leg muscles on the cat, and I think doing that will give me a better grasp of that region’s basic build in general, which should translate to my doing the muscles on the creature when I work on that next weekend.
Anyway, his eyes are intentionally large because I wanted them to look kind of parrot-y, but I may or may not shrink them down some after I see how they look with the surface details added next week.Posted on May 30, 2012 via cael illus with 66 notes
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Full text is available to download here
Posted on March 18, 2012 with 11 notes
Source: si-pddr.si.edu
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Anatomy of the porpoise
The word “porpoise” comes from porcopiscus - Medieval Latin for “pig fish”. It was obviously related to dolphins, but with a snub-nose, it was more pig-like than the “delphinos” - ”fish with a womb”. Later, the English term “mereswine” was used to refer to both dolphins and porpoises.
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Vol VIII, 1878.
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Jacques Gautier d’Agoty, from Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, 1746
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Jacques Gautier d’Agoty, from Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, 1746
