Making of a Terror Bird: Drawing Tutorial
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- A video on the redesign of the Harkundi, a cursorial terror bird found in the prairies of Ni'Khar, and how I illustrate animals for Kaimere.
Music Credit: Deer Hunt by Bonnie Grace
I'm an aspiring spec-evo/paleoartist and you are one of my biggest inspirations. You should definitely make this into a series.
Thank you! Love to hear it. I'd definitely like to make more!
26:00 - I think you could make a pretty good case that a more prominent brow ridge is an adaptation to the generally treeless landscape of the Houze Prairie. If Earth’s terror birds preferred open forest habitats, it would make sense that the harkundi would have a more pronounced brown ridge to protect its eyes from the constant and intense solar radiation of the prairie.
A great point!
God answer my prays to replicate your art style
Just as his prays to get a better phone
And more views and subscribers cause he deserves it
(penguinz0) YEAHH BABY THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!
Actually a pretty helpful tutorial. I don't do traditional art but it's still fun to see the process
Glad I could help!
Hi i'm a big fan i tried my luck taking to you you inspired me to make a rabbit seed word but i need some ideas can you help whit it bye
What a coincidence, just two days ago i was pondering adding cursorial terror bird predators to my alternative earth speculative project, so this will really help me finish it
Absolutely!
No other word than perfect can describe this art
Thank you!
unexpected but satisfying it always so nice to one of your animals redesign to give Kaimere so make character and life
On my birthday what a present
Just wait 'til the end homie
Thank you for doing that
New format?? Hype
Thank you for this absolute blessing of a video! Your art style is genuinely my favorite one out of all the Paleoartists I've ever seen, there's something about the anatomy that I really enjoy.
Thank you! Means a lot to hear!
More of these please! There’s so much to unfold in these
Really cool tutorial mate, i would like to see more of this cool videos.
Thanks!
Dang! Beautiful
Thank you!
I really love the mentality going into your design process, rather then just disregarding the pop culture influence as impractical or something that doesn't seem feasible to evolve naturally, you really take the time to consider how such an animal could evolve into the closest analogue to the inspiration, it's always a bit of a hurdle to jump over when coming up with my own spec-evo stuff, there's a lot of variables here but i guess my question is how much thought do you give to a creatures evolution, ecology, etc when designing them? because my mind gets really hung up on trying to account for most of these steps, if that question makes any sense at all. Really hope to see more tutorials like this! Great work.
Thank you! I don't really have a set process. Sometimes it's like this where I have a concept then refine it, moving backwards from the initial premise. Other times I start with the ancestral species and consider where it might end up, so it's more building up to a modern descendant. The latter process I'd say is probably better speculative evolution, since my thought process follows how a species adapts over time, but sometimes you just get a neat idea and it's easier to work backwards you know? As far as ecology goes, I tend to try to stick to basic principals (i.e. long legs for open terrain, broad snouts for bulk feeders, long necks for high browsers) and use these to specialize an animal from a generalized ancestor. Specialized animals aren't as adaptable so they often look more or less like their ancestor. With giraffoid examples: my Discokeryx descendant looks very similar to their ancestor, while the unicorn and large pronghorns coming from a more generalized ancestor can get pretty different.
Dear Keenan.
Thank you this unexpected yet wonderful surprise in a very rough day.
If you're planning on making a new series like this, please go ahead.
Sorry you're having a rough day! Glad this helped. I would certainly be open to more like this!
Currently working on my Draconasauria project and this has given me inspiration
what is that, can you give me an overview of it?
@@user-in4vj6ir7r Draconasaurs are a clade of archosaurs most closely related to pterosaurs and dinosaurs, but branched off a bit earlier than those two groups.
l would like to ask, what will your project be about?
@@user-pn2px3de1fIt seems like a project where this person if making speculative yet plausible dragons, something I’ve had great interest in.
I'd love to see more drawing stuff! Something that I'd want to hear more about is what references you use, as in how do you choose/know what to choose. I'm no serious artist, but I'd love to be able to apply better technique to my own drawings.
I know you made a video about coloration in the past, but I'd still be up to hear more about it. Perhaps I myself just need to rewatch that video though. Your grasp on texture is also impressive, though I imagine more videos akin to this one would passively demonstrate how to approach different textures.
Do us all a favor and remember that you're a talented artist. If you're ever not confident in an idea know that it's likely good at the very least, especially with the track record you have.
Thank you so much for making this! I’m trying to get better at drawing and it’s always great to have a peak into other’s processes
Absolutely!
@@TalesofKaimere and I realized our processes are actually quite similar! Funny how that works out. Still beautiful work as always!
Wow, it was really amazing seeing the art come together.
Thank you! The blending can be quite surprising sometimes
honestly i love your strong outlines. it's been a pleasure to watch your art skills improve and hone as you go.
also colored pencils are a beast i've never dared tackle as an adult, one of the few mediums. i find paints easier lmao, i'm impressed by how casual and breezy you color lol
Thank you!! It can definitely be a tough medium, and is especially difficult if you're making a smaller piece and need finer details. For blending though it's great! Similar to the pastels I dabbled with as a kid
This is truely a good video a real behind the scenes type stuff
Thank you! Was a lot of fun once I worked out the tech side of things.
@@TalesofKaimere Do you hope to do more such behind the scenes videos in the future I know you said in the videos normally you do an additional step involving the skeleton especially if it's a lineage you are not familiar with which you were unable to show in this particular video
or is drawing all animals roughly the same
This way really a very good video !
I love that we have finally a special episode showing the way you process to made an animal, and with your own artstyle. As I think it give a good way and example for others people to do their own creatures (if of course they want to use your method, anyone have the right to use the method he want), but also to put more context regarding the way you create and made creatures for the episodes you realize.
Like the time it take, all the differents aspects and factors to take into account (with plenty often important) and some additional more minors stuff.
I like the new art of the Harkundi, even if it is here more an additional illustration than a true redesign, althought the first old design look more like a rough portrayed of a specimen watched by an Assembly's naturalist by from a far distance and/or maybe after the bird have come to a minor fight with a congener or another animal (hence why the tail would look so physically disorganized).
And as of course what only go for one single specimen cannot be used to illustrate an entire species, a new, more defined art is for sure needed to represent it.
from my point of view, you draw very well.
Thanks!
i have been needing to see these for ages yesssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you now i can draw like you
So if you were going to make a more standard fantasy inspired Axe Beak would you look at the robust neck support of woodpeckers to get a sense of how the neck and head would be supported?
A woodpecker analogue could work, but again you’re still striking forward not down. The downward wild swing just doesn’t seem viable
I have four questions:
1.) do you think ingrown hair serves well as armor for mammals? Or at least reinforce the skin?
2.) if you could be reincarnated as any animal, extinct or extant in your next lifetime, what would you be?
3.) what are your thoughts on the "ultimate form" trope being applied to fictional animals?
4.) you seen or familiar with the movie Congo?
Thank you so much. I will be studying this video to help improve my creature designs.
Hope it helps!
So just curious, what scienctific credential did you take because you with the scientific illustration stuff?
I don't actually remember what the program's requirements were. I had to send in a portfolio of plant and animal art. That may have been the only requirement. I was a Biology and Anthropology major in undergrad with several courses in vertebrate anatomy and morphology. I don't believe that was a requirement to get into the program, but I think it helped my chances.
Fact: terror birds have also been from Africa, Antarctica, and Europe during the Eocene.
Indeed
3:15
guess theres a good reason we call em terror bords
Love this episode so much !! would absolutely love to see how you do sexually dimorphic species that are mostly the same save for males having bigger horns / flashier colors if you do one of these in the future . thanks so much for providing quite genuinely the best thought out and actualized spec bio content I have ever seen ! it truly cannot be understated how much I enjoy every single one of your videos C:
Thanks so much! Did that sort of thing a few times (pronghorn comes to mind) but I definitely have plans for others down the road!
That was amazing! I hope I'm not asking for too much, but I'd love to see how you draw complex elements of an animal, like scales or osteoderms. Also, what does the word kundi mean?
I have redesigns of the ankylosaurs in the future, and that would likely make for a great example of the more complex anatomy. As for kundi: it's a Shu/Dolani word for running bird. Many Shu names for terror birds, bathornithids, rheas, and dromaeosaurs have kundi as part of their etymology.
Thanks for uploading this. Do you have general art advice for beginners? I find that my art tends to look a little stiff, and others have noticed too.
The new Harkundi design looks great! I appreciate that you just wanted to make a cursorial (is that the right word for fast?) terror bird much like classic media depictions. Great to spread awareness about what terror birds were actually like in terms of lifestyle. I think they’re very misunderstood by general audiences.
Thanks! I'm not sure what recommendations I'd give. Art teaching isn't something I've much experience with. Best advice is to draw from life. Look into different poses to get a sense of weight and motion if you feel it's stiff?
Thank you! It is the correct word, yes. Well, maybe not fast (hippos and bears aren't cursorial but are very fast) but cursorial generally means something adapted for running. There are cursorial animals slower than non cursorial, but a leggy cursorial animal is going to be much more efficient at running. Takes a horse or dog a lot less time to get tired than a bear or lion even if they can run around the same speed. It was Ben's idea but it was a great one! Was important to me to also have some ambush bruisers more like real terror birds but still great to have something like this guy.
Now that you have done the tail and it looks superb, might I suggest for the agile turner a megapode style 'rudder' tail? Maybe not for the Harkundi, but another creature in the future.
Question: what are some of your favorite creatures to draw?
Oh that's tough. The variety is part of the joy. Think it might be birds if I had to pick a favorite
@Kenan Taylor’s Tales of Kaimere
I’ve long been a silent viewer of your channel, before I even got an account.
But this video motivated me to
say, that it’s really cool what you do, I’ve even thought about your art style and how I thought it was digital.
This was a really cool insight.
I think it’s cool to see how to blend pencils as I’ve not had success with it, ever.
Also before you blended it, it was like what’s he doing? he’s just scribbling in the lines.
Before it blended it was in that “teenage phase” if you know what I mean. But after blending, 🤯!
Good work bro.
also you mention commissions a couple times? can you point me where to take mine? I unlike you to my knowledge do physical 3D art or sculptures but it’s kinda the same.
Commissions and all.
While writing that last part I realize this could come across as buttering you up for my informational request, that’s not what I was doing, I promise.
I am simply quite curious and talkative.
Also I’m sorry this is so long.
It can be hard to encapsulate my thoughts.
it's gonna be interesting to see your take on "loki" ;)
I'm excited for that! Hoping to get started sometime this week. Will send WIPs as I go!
@@TalesofKaimere HORAY :D
need any extra details about him?
if not, that's fine, just trying to help :)
@@TalesofKaimere in any case... GOOD LUCK :3
I would love to have you do a video like this for a bulky raptor!
I do have some planned for Kairul so that would be doable!
@@TalesofKaimere maybe not a large, megatherapod raptor, but but like one that weighs a ton or so.
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Art is generally out of my wheelhouse, so I probably won’t use this a whole lot. I do know others that might though. Have you seen the recent Sauria episode? I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but I think you might like it.
I haven't yet! It's probably not something I'll have time for until next week and even then I'm not sure. Want to properly focus and not just have it in the background.
I'm designing a map of a world and was wondering how you did your process of making your environments realistic in combination with where your landmasses are, like jungles and tundra etc, I'm having trouble as I'm uncertain to what kind of environments my own lands have dependent on where they are situated.
I could certainly do a tutorial on that, but I would strongly recommend the CZcams channels Artifexian and madelinejameswrites! They both have excellent biome, current, and planet designing tutorials.
@@TalesofKaimere Ah that's brilliant thank you very much that's helpful. Yeah you could do that I think it would be interesting to know how you did Kaimere's environments.
Thanks for the help again I'm going to go research ☮️😃
So _that's_ what white colored pencils are really for.
Heck yeah!
Awesome tutorial! What kind of paper do you use?
Bee paper company heavyweight vellum
@@TalesofKaimere ooh special
This really helped me! Btw, how do you make ur background music?
I use Epidemic Sounds. It’s a subscription for use rights in content like this. Musicians sign on and get a cut of the subscription
@@TalesofKaimere I see. Thanks!
So in general terms, how fast the terror birds really were compared to the fastest human bein ever know?🏃🏻♂️
I don’t know if there have been formal studies. Harkundi can approach ostrich speeds but most probably closer to 30-35 mph
@@TalesofKaimere ok, good draw tutorial btw✏️📃
How much do these terror birds weigh?
Probably around 250-300 kg? I know from what Ben has said terror birds are usually extremely underestimated in mass estimates, but since these guys are more gracile (not as much as an ostrich but more toward that range) I think a bit larger and more robust then an ostrich puts them in that mass range.
Thank you! That makes a lot of sense. I have seen Terror Bird weight estimates be all over the place (usually on the somewhat lower end) so I would not be surprised if they were being underestimated. Great episode as always and I look forward to the next one!
What level of bite do you usually prefer with your paper? It looked a bit on the higher end at first, but then everything started being so smooth so i wasnt sure.
Havent finished yet, so maybe you mention it later.
I must confess I don't know what paper bite means. It's heavyweight vellum drawing paper if that helps. I like heavy textured paper because I'm pretty rough on the materials with my drawing process and have blended through thinner paper in the past. Back when I worked with markers I just used cardstock for the same reason.
@@TalesofKaimereNo worries, I think that mostly answers my question.
Bite means how rough or smooth a paper feels. So something with low bite would feel like printer paper, for example. Where as high bite would start to feel closer to sand paper, although obviously not that extreme.
Thanks for answering, I thought bite was the common term, but maybe something like grit is used more?
@@chronicallyconfused3766 It may well be the formal or colloquial term, but I only took a handful of art classes in college, nothing in primary or secondary school, so may well have missed those lessons.
Hey, what drawing utensils do you use? Your pencils that you use for outlining are thin and also dark, like a pen. And the crayons smudge beautifully. I would like to start creating works with colors soon but I don't know what utensils to use, well, where to start ofc. Also good video, I love terror birds!
I use Prismacolors for the colored pencils, and Bic mechanical pencils for the graphite. Terror birds are awesome!
@@TalesofKaimere I see, thanks you Keenan! Have a nice day
Can we please make proboscideans next time???
I don’t have a proboscidean redesign on the horizon but I’ll keep it in mind!
I hated terror birds in carnivores 3. They’re so quick and don’t have a big hit box. Diatriema was one of the scarier creatures in my old dinosaur movies I watched as a child. Oh, and getting ambushed by these things in Ark isn’t fun.
Dinosaurs didn’t go extinct, they just don’t look like what we expect anymore.
What is the brand of this pencil?
Prismacolor
On fa biggest bird
Not exactly gastornis, but I'll take what I can get
Is there a discord for kaimere?
No I don't have the time to moderate it, and I'm reluctant to make anything in Kaimere pay to play, so a patron-only discord doesn't seem viable
@@TalesofKaimere totally understandable, you have massively increased my love for speculative evolution so once I’m out of college with a good job I will definitely be contributing! Keep up the good work!
@@dominicpizano887 Thanks so much!
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