>>52862096>So what did he take a picture of?Easy answer would be that he faked it, either by dressing up a Donphan on a set, making a drop, or doctoring a photo outright?
>>52862112No, the dark blue triangles along the side of great tusks body. The ones that should prevent there from being the smooth curve we see between the upper and lower portions in the photo.
The spikes are quite different as well, particularly in the sketch, but the side-pattern is even more glaring, and the amount of bluriness we see shouldn't remove such a high-contrast detail