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Great White Shark

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UPDATE 3:
It seems the sources for the 7 meter Great White aren't very conclusive. Now I have a scaled 6 meter (confirmed) size and the elusive, alleged 7m hypothetical specimen sized up.

UPDATE 2:
Replaced the low-quality and less accurate version with one drawn far more carefully from photographs, including realistic accurate colouration and jawline.

UPDATE!
Based on the findings of McClain et al (2015), I've upsized the Great White Shark to 7 meters in length.
Also, I've massively improved the quality of the image.

I'm back with some more animal size comparisons!
(also going back over animals I have done to replace them with more accurate and realistic representations).
Although most Great Whites only reach about 3-4m long, I decided to depict the shark at a reasonably common larger size of 6m (justified by a reasonably common 6 foot man- though this is closer to the human average these days).

My new technique is more painstaking: I hunt down photographs of living animals or skeletons (shown from an exact side view) , and draw an accurate shape (tracing outline or clicking and dragging the photo over and over again to make sure the overlap is exact) and colour in piece by piece to make sure the image matches the photo(s).
This image uses a photoshop measurement tool programmed to measure in meters- both the human and shark are shown very precisely (off about 2 virtual cm) of this scale: the shark tail-fin-tip to nose horizontally, the human head to heel).

This work is actually a teaser to an upcoming Megalodon artwork I've almost finished. Stay tuned.
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Here's a reply to one of my messages to Stephen O'Connor (Steveoc86) about his Megalodon size comparison. I have cut out the parts that are not relevant here:

 

"...For the time being, I've decided to not include a 7m great white. I was using the limited measurements and data in Mollett et al. 1996 for a large shark called 'MALTA' and was getting weird results. ie. For a start, it seems to have been measured with the tail stretched out, meaning that with its tail in a normal position it would be shorter than 7m. Assuming the total length is reported correctly, all of its fins are small for a shark of its size, which makes for a weird silhouette that doesn't look much like normal great whites. It could very well be that MALTA was just at an extreme of individual variation but until I can spend more time looking into this issue I'm reluctant to go down the route of trying to illustrate it. Another individual, 'KANGA', has less to go off and makes illustrating a silhouette difficult but suggests larger than MALTA."