Otodus Obliquus recreation attempt

[FossilsAnonymous]

Hey all,

I have recently been interested in the Cretaceous shark Otodus obliquus and I attempted to recreate the shark with a drawing. I used a mixture of looking at some skeletal pieces and verts and computer generated images to try to draw from, and I used a strange curving pencil stroke to accentuate the shark's movement.I dindn't really try to shade this one and just kept it slightly consistent and am thinking of adding the detailed shading in the revised drawing. I definitely need some pointers in its overall body shape. Hope y'all can help.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Nice. 

I think the curving pencil strokes are very effective. 

[Jaimin013]

15 minutes ago, FossilsAnonymous said:

Hey all,

I have recently been interested in the Cretaceous shark Otodus Obliquus and I attempted to recreate the shark with a drawing. I used a mixture of looking at some skeletal pieces and verts and computer generated images to try to draw from, and I used a strange curving pencil stroke to accentuate the shark's movement.I dindn't really try to shade this one and just kept it slightly consistent and am thinking of adding the detailed shading in the revised drawing. I definitely need some pointers in its overall body shape. Hope y'all can help.

 

I really like your drawing and I think the strokes gives the drawing a sense of movement! Below are a few other drawings of Otodus Obliquus so you can get an idea of body shape but I like how you capture movement which the pics below don't!

[Miocene_Mason]

I can’t help much here, art was never my strong suit, but looks good. Here’s Wikipedia’s picture of a cretalamna, which is the direct ancestor of Otodus.

[Mahnmut]

Hi.

I cannot contribute to the details of Otodus´proportions, but I really like the stile of the drawing.!

[Max-fossils]

Looks great!