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Artist Depiction (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I think that many of the people who do depictions of prehistoric creatures lack imagination so they do the bare minimum they possibly could to "imagine" the skeleton as a living creature. Imagination is absolutely required to get a good depiction of them that looks lifelike and not creepy and unrealistic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Any which way they go with it would be a guess based on limited information. They're most likely going to be wrong, and if they were exactly right, we wouldn't know it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly they should probably do like 2-3 potential pictures side by side so readers are aware of the uncertainty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That's a good idea, have several different interpretations.

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