American Museum of Natural History, Part 20: CROCODILIANS!
The “Crocs: Ancient Predators in a Modern World” exhibit was a really great companion to the “Dinosaurs Among Us” exhibit. Not nearly as involved, it was still a really great in-depth look at the other living lineage of Archosaurs (and if the Pterosaurs exhibit had still been around, all three major groups of Archosaurs would have been present!)
There were some living specimens and they were good, sharp scalemen. Plus some fossils and a brief overview of the evolution of Crocodylomorphs (didn’t look at less derived Pseudosuchia, though).
I love Pseudosuchians, and I really need to do more with them. This exhibit definitely reminded me of that!
“All 27 Species of Crocodilian (Inc 3 Recently Discovered)” by Textbook Travel
Chinese alligators and dwarf crocodiles are adorable. Lots of good reference for drawing different scales and boney head ridges, for designing different shaped dragon heads.
I was practicing using my cintiq (recently switched to it!) and I was surprisingly happy with the sketches, so I thought I’d share! These are my brain babies that have existed for a few years now, but I was too scared to show them off haha
They’re all supposed to be characters for a Comic series that I want to work on some day - The Investigators! The original concept was an idea from my eldest sister, who asked me to expand on it, so I came up with a handful of main and side main characters.
Alexander is the main character of the story, Gharial and Croc are his two best friends and partners! The other characters have important roles in the story as well, but I’ll leave the explanation here for now~
![Alligators [x]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a8eaac613a5b558dca505da8b45214a9/tumblr_nvdksd0mxM1tjrgnno1_1280.jpg "Alligators [x]")
