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How to Draw Eucladoceros Dicranios, or, Ice Age Deer If You're A Normal Person

28/4/2016

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Sometimes my drawings get rather out of control and the sketchbooks pile up fast. I have explained to the man I love that it's not some intentional thing I do to drive him crazy. I mean, it's not as though I wake up in the morning going, "It's 4:30 am! I know what will drive Rocko crazy today! More sketches!" It just sort of works out that way.

Rocko: You really need to pick up your stuff. It's like you exploded in the study.

Me: You're exaggerating. I'm pretty sure I'm only occupying about 45.7% of that room. 

Rocko: You have 100% of that room inaccessible to any other human in this house.

Me: The staff (Pointing to cats) and I disagree. Besides. You cannot expect me to draw Harry Potter-Beyoncé-Super-Robot-Deer in some restrictive, sterile environment.

Rocko: There are bones in the house and they are not in a body! What was the other thing?

Me: Harry Potter-Beyonce-Super-Robot-Deer.

Rocko: *very puzzled look*

Me: If I said Eucladoceros dicranios, would it have made more sense?

Rocko: Point taken.

Step 1: Shapes

How to draw ice age deer eucladoceros 4dogarts Jessica Magnus-Rockeman
This is my method for drawing crazy antlers. Mushroom-headed deer I guess.

Step 2: Lower Antlers

How to draw ice age deer eucladoceros Jessica Magnus-Rockeman
Start with the lower antlers first. Or at least, I do anyway.

Step 3: Finish Antlers

How to draw ice age deer Eucladoceros 4DogArts Deer anatomy
You don't have to make antlers perfectly symmetrical. They usually aren't.

Step 4: Details

Eucladoceros from the Pleistocene Anatomy How to Draw Jessica Magnus-Rockeman 4dogarts
Huzzah! An Eucladoceros from the Pleistocene. Their antlers are SO rock n' roll!

Color

Eucladoceros image free images how to draw Jessica Magnus-Rockeman
Of course we don't know what they looked like for sure, but it's a fairly safe bet, like most today, they had dark, furry bodies.
PS: This tutorial and many others will be in the upcoming How to Draw Ice Age Animals book. So excited! So tired! At the same time!

PPS: Rocko wasn't completely lying about the bones thing... (Heads up. The following photo is of deer vertebrae, but if you don't have a high-yuck-factor for that sort of thing, it'll be safer to scroll back up to the Eucladoceros dicranios images.)
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Deer vertebrae and growth plates. (Growth plates are the round bits in-between.)
Still here? Outstanding! There's a skull and antlers to match those vertebrae. More to come! Dire wolf skulls are coming too. This is how notes and sketches pile up, Rocko!

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12/5/2016 15:35:16

Jess! Enough with your moose! Everyone knows bats are the best!

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