Artwork Chimeras?

[Takama]

Ok i want to commission a Dinosaur, a small Dinosaur.  A dinosaur that no companey has done justice for thanks to a Certain Film Franchise

It will be a Compy, Now i wish to have someone (i will not say who as of yet) make a Little Compy in 1:30 Scale, but i will be borrowing elements from Three diffrent art sources

It will be posed like this



FEatherd like this


And colored like this



Now is it wrong to borrow elements from multiple Sources of Paleoart both good and Bad?    I dont know who made the following, but when i show the final model off, will it be enough for me to show these works as the inspiration for the model?

[AcroSauroTaurus]

I don't think theres anything wrong with that. When I color a drawing I google search the animal (lets say, compsognathus) then I look for a coloration I like that someone else did, and use that coloration. Sometimes I'll add to the coloration to make it not look exact. But, yah, I see no problem with it.

[Rain]

Well you aren't really stealing their work, just taking inspiration from it so I don't really see an issue though. You should still probably try to figure out who created those 3 so you can credit them

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

is there proof of feathering on compsognathus yet? just curious.

[Takama]

Well Scirumimus is a coelurosaurian Theropod of uncertain affinities, and its clearly featherd.   In my eyes, ALL coelurosaurian Dinosaurs had feathers

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

I'm ordering some Dinostoreus Compies and was thinking of feathering them if they were indeed feathered that is.  Shame Malcolm has failed me in getting the others I paid for. :/

[Sim]

FEatherd like this

If you're wanting it to be accurate, I think feathering like in that image isn't what fossils are supporting.  Compsognathus skin is known from the tail, and it's covered in scales.  There's more info under the "Integument" section on the Compsognathus Wikipedia page.  If it was feathered like in that image, I wonder why it would have had scales hidden under the feathers?  Given its relationship to Sinosauropteryx, Sinocalliopteryx and Juravenator, I think Compsognathus most likely had feathers, although not as extensively as in that image.