Feathers And Spurs

An account dedicated to my WIP project Feathers and Spurs. Imagine the Wild West, but there’s also dinosaurs.

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Albertosaurus color designs! The Albertosaurus is one of the apex predators that took advantage of the open prairies. They hunt bison, horse, cattle, some of the sauropods, cowboys, and Dryptosaurus. Albertosaurus live in small family pods ruled by a matriarch(generally the grandma of the group). The males have shiny reflective scales along their crest, while the females tend to lack this feature. The Redwood and Coyote variants live over in California and hunt young Alamosaurus within the redwood forests. Very few have ever attempted to tame an Albertosaurus due to how territorial they are and how violently they resource guard.

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Some Alamosaurus sketches! (+bonus Utahraptor concepts)

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Albertosaurus wip 👀

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And we’re finally back with the Plesiosaur designs! The Plesiosaurs in Feathers and Spurs are found in and near the Mississippi River. Similar to bull sharks, they can tolerate both freshwater and saltwater (although they can’t tolerate saltwater for long, and have evolved to be more suited for freshwater due to less food competition from Mososaurus). Plesiosaurs are much smaller than the other saltwater marine reptiles, and as such they aren’t as feared by humans. In the past 30 years people have started to hunt them more and more due to their skin being good waterproof material (used similarly to leather). They typically hunt fish and ammonites, and consume stones along riverbanks to help digest their food easier. They’ve also been observed using their long necks to access animals in burrows (such as turtles and occasionally small mammals along the banks) and filtering through the silt along the riverbed to search for crustaceans.

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Taking a short hiatus because I just started college! I’ll have the finished plesiosaur colors out soon!

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Lineart is done!

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What design should I work on next?

Albertosaurus

Centrosaurus

Nothronychus

Ornithomimus

Plesiosaur

Voting ended onJul 14, 2025

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Male Alamosaurus designs! The colors and gular pouch are based off of a frigatebird.

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So we've hinted quite a bit with this one, but just in case you weren't sure 👀 We would like to address the elephant in the room, or well… the ✨ spino ✨ in the room 🤩 GASP! 🤯 THAT'S RIGHT! We're so excited to announce that if our Kickstarter is funded, we'll be bringing our Spinosaurus home to Paleo Pines 🎉🥳

Follow our Kickstarter here to be alerted when it goes live!

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The Alamosaurus colors so far. The designs for the female Alamosaurus are based on sandpipers, just slightly more simplified. The Alamosaurus tend to congregate along the west coast (mainly around California and Oregon) but once a year they migrate eastward to Nevada. This migration is essential to the survival of many of the other species that call the west home, specifically the carnivores, because of the food potential they have (similar to whalefalls in the deep). The migration will last several weeks, and then after the eggs are laid the group returns back to the west coast.

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Really rough animation based on an audio I found on instagram

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Is the frigatebird gular pouch too much?

Yes

No

Not far enough!

Voting ended onJun 13, 2025

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Finally finished the color concepts for Saurolophus. These hadrosaurs travel in smaller herds (usually 10-20 individuals) and have been observed merging with bison herds. Due to their poor eyesight the Saurolophus have a hard time spotting predators, so this relationship with the bison herds allows them to eat without being surprised by the theropods. In return their size offers the bison protection from smaller predators like Dryptosaurus. The colors for this hadrosaur were based on jackals and pronghorns.

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A look at the color concepts for Saurolophus! If you’ve got any animals you want to see a color scheme inspired off of, please feel free to tag them or send an ask + the dinosaur species you want to see drawn!

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Mosasaurus is up next! The darker variants are slightly larger and tend to live further down, generally sticking to the colder waters and the open ocean. The lighter variants are closer to the surface of the water and stick to the shallower, warmer waters (these ones have the most human contact, aside from when people are trying to sail between continents).

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Mososaurus WIP!

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I am open for commissions! DM me for details if you’re interested. I included some other examples of my art on this post to show what kinda designs I can do. I can do pet portraits, character designs, creature designs, and much more.