#nipponopterus

[makairodonx]

Three animals from Japan's Creatceous past, From top to bottom: Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis, Nipponopterus mifunensis, and Futabasaurus suzukii

[bellumsaur]

What I intended to draw for Golden Week, inspired by War Thunder's wonderful wallpaper art to celebrate that time, took me over two weeks to finish. Unfortunately, I kept being distracted by grinding for events in WT and in Enlisted, as well as coloring maps in MSPaint and typing various stuff in Focus Writer. The basic gist was that I wanted to depict ordinary folks celebrating this series of beloved Japanese holidays, a more interesting topic than what normie artists do by drawing women in golden bikinis.

I drew from a bunch of genuses in Japan for the different characters and incorporated a Gharial found in the country and a generic raptor as pets (in the place of the Shiba Inu dogs in the original wallpaper). I incorporated a mosasaur couple seated on the water side, conversing though the pterosaur obstructs the male. I drew a dragon swimming through the water on the left side of the drawing. Of course, I forgot to draw out and color the family's food but that's because I was distracted by other things… like the cityscape. I originally wanted to draw a more specific Japanese city like Kyoto but couldn't find a park that fit where this could reasonably be located, so I just based it off of the city in the wallpaper: a generic Japanese city with a towering Fujiesque mountain towering in the distance.