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A rather quick drawing of this marvelous cousin of Quetzalcoatlus based on Mark Witton's skeletal reconstruction (here: [link])
Please don't mind that it's missing a part of the left hindlimb.
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~TheMorlock Sep 30, 2011  Student General Artist
Azhdarchids are so awesome!
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*Eurwentala Oct 10, 2011
They are. :) The larger species were, quite probably, the only flying creatures ever to be big enough to ride on. If I were a time traveler, I would tame one.
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~TheMorlock Oct 10, 2011  Student General Artist
Me too. It would be just like Dinotopia. Some scientists think they were flightless, though. :(
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*Eurwentala Oct 11, 2011
Well, the really big ones are known from quite crappy remains, so there has been room for many claims. What we do know about them, however, is practically just scaled up from medium-sized azdarchids, such as Zhejiangopterus and the still-undescribed Quetzalcoatlus sp., and they were definitely flying. It is very likely that the biggest ones flew as well, at least according to Mark Witton.
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~TheMorlock Oct 11, 2011  Student General Artist
Ok. Cool. Who's Mark Whitton? Excuse my ignorance. :)
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*Eurwentala Oct 13, 2011
He's a pterosaur researcher and paleoartist. You might not recognize his name, but you can't have missed his illustrations: they accompany basically every pterosaur news article in every media I've seen in the past couple of years.

See more in his website: [link]
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~TheMorlock Oct 13, 2011  Student General Artist
Oh, yes. I recognize that artwork.
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~DeinonychusEmpire Mar 22, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Dude, you are amazing at drawing pterosaurs! I'll have to check out Mark Witton's illustrations, too.
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~WembleyPiper Mar 10, 2010
wow, what a bizarre animal! I saw this expecting the caption to say something like you made it up, but to find out that this was real just goes to show that mother nature is certainly more creative than I could ever be
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*hammertheshark Mar 9, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
i wanna draw this guy in my style. do you mind if i use this color scheme?
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