Art: Archaeopteryx lithographica

I actually made three previous drawings of this bird but they were all unsatisfying in some respect. The first looked to dinosaurian, the second was posturing strangely. This one seemed to be the best. Although not particularly well preserved in Archaeopteryx, I felt the long leg feathers were appropriate since most other flying deinonychosaurs had them. In spite of its very birdlike appearance, I prefer to consider Archaeopteryx a dinosaur because its basic anatomy is nearly identical to that of the dromaeosaurids and other Deinonychosauria that are nearly always considered dinosaurs. Archaeopteryx might even belong to the same created kind as Velociraptor, implying that it too had feathers.