The Hunting Partners

If you followed the updates referring to this picture, then you might already know the two protagonists, namely Neovenator and Eotyrannus.

Well, so let's have a look at the scene:

In the morning of a dawning day an Eotyrannus was making its way along the shore of an ancient river, putting decidedly one foot in front of the other. The early ancestor of a later breed of predators, known as the the tyrannosaurs had discovered something, that tempted the predator, because it would fill the Eotyrannus' stomach, if it wasn't a still alive and full grown Iguanodon.
Despite of being hampered by a broken hind leg the distressed and frightened animal would attempt to fend off the small predator just to live a bit longer.

But Eotyrannus wasn't the only predator, that lived in this region, which should become a part of what the humans call United Kingdom. Here, the in reddish brown covered Eotyrannus shared his territory with a larger Neovenator, that had learnt whenever the smaller carnivore appeared next to him, there was usually some easy prey. More or less easy.
Due to their symbiosis the gray and black tinted Neovenator follows his hunting partner, which is just leading the "butcher" to the wounded Iguanodon, while the Eotyrannus tries to make sure, that Neovenator keeps right on track as depicted here in the picture.

Later, both will profit from this early Cretaceous team work.

Some information:

Well, I gathered some inspiration from the Indicator bird, which leads larger animals towards bee hives and the fact how my dog expresses her need for some fine dog treats by means of walking into my room to me, then she goes back to the door looking at me to make sure, that I really follow her, so this is the reason for the "looking back posture" of the Eotyrannus.

I also made a timelapse video in order to summarize the development stages of my art work. youtu.be/882u6SORT5E

Last, but not least I thank everyone for looking at the drawing, faving it or writing a comment