Rhino anatomy

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I know my usual thing is environments, but I feel studying animal and human anatomy is important to helping out my environment designing skills. Here are two studies where I took a photo of a tiger and a rhino, broke down its construction into shapes and used that same construction to draw the animal from a completely different angle. This was all drawn in photoshop.

An African Safari blog which features news on leopards, lions, elephants, our camps as well as the rest of the Big 5 on Londolozi Game Reserve, bordering the Kruger National Park.

We don't domesticate rhinos, but their body type, like the oxen, is built for great weight. Rhinos have comparatively thick leg bones, stout and low to the ground. Burden beasts bend more at the joints than horses and deer - bent structures diffuse weight better (this is why our femurs bow in to the knee instead of going down straight). The back of the skull is flat and the spines of the vertibrae extended for powerful neck muscles. That head is heavy!

Rhino Anatomy including Skeleton, Muscle, and Full Figure Rendering

As various members saw in the "Animal Art" thread, I did a anatomical drawing of the muscular systems of both the tiger and human (both male and female), respectively. I've done plenty of research abo

modern Rhinoceros Unicornis

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