‘Protector Of Truth’ - Finished this piece recently, part of my Dark Kingdom series you can find more info and follow its creation via my Patreon page. Ive just tweaked the reward tiers a bit so if you havent already, make sure you check it out!
Citipati, Lord of the Cemetery, is a Tibetan Buddhist figure which loosely represents intertwined male and female skeletons. These two androgynous figures which together form Citipati are considered to be guardians of cemeteries and are honored by semiannual ritualistic dances. As Citipati is comprised of the two halves of the human body, man and woman, the figure is also said to symbolize the counterparts of the human life cyle, birth and death.
I don’t sketch Oviraptor or similar dinosaurs all that much, so I’m understandably not great at drawing them. So, I decided to do a sort of anatomy study on Citipati sp. to better understand them. I shamelessly copied/worked from Jaime A. Headden’s (Qilong’s) Citipati skull and skeletal to do this, since he seems to have a very good understanding of these animals both mentally and artistically. The life restorations were based somewhat on cassowaries, helmeted guineafowl, and kori bustards.
Here’s a link to Qilong’s blog and DeviantArt page in case anybody wants to check out the cool stuff that he has written/made and to look like less of an art thief/hack:
