Fang (Commission's Open)

Preview of my latest #paleoart piece: a baby bison flees the deadliest predator of Ice Age Europe. Harrowing, harrowing stuff.

I got bored

a large toad next to a plastic dinosaur figurine

My mom keeps dinosaur figures outside to scare off raccoons who want to steal her garbage. She sent me a photo today. A large toad has found one of the dinosaur figures and befriended it. They are besties now.

Micropernodus is fighting Proscalops for his share of the early worm while a passing Amphicyon looks on.

This painting was commissioned by the NPS to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the John Day Fossil Beds site in Oregon.

the other inspiration is the mexica sun calendar, which represents the cycle of the sun Tonatiuh, starting as Huitzilopochtli, then Tzontémoc as the sunset, becoming the Mictlan sun or the sun of the dead under the earth, and then rising trough the pyramids of the feathered snake, Tonatiuh itself

Tonakaan, jade of wisdom

tonati=sun in nahuatl, kaan=snake in maya yucateco

tonakaan is a mix of multiple deities as the feathered snake is a constant symbol in mesoamerican cultures, it represents both the earthly (the snake) and the heavenly (the feathers).
quetzalcoatl and K’uk’ulkan mainly

or will you pick the jade of wisdom?
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

#paleoart #fossilfighters #lowpoly #blockbench

well its been fun, this project got me back into 3d modeling and figuring out my low poly style, but thas all of em so here have the blockbench file with the beans

drive.google.com/file/d/1JsAc...

have fun with em lel

this month ill be posting my mesoamerica and pokemon inspired beans (which i dont think i had posted here before)

i have a bit of an aversion to call em #fakemon but thats basically what they are lel, so heres a teaser of the legendaries
#mesoma #mexicanart

inspo behind the creatures
chapuleaf: a lil cricket camouflaging as corn, inspired by a statue in chapultepec
blitzcuintli: a xoloitzcuintle (or mexican bald dog) puppy
achokelp: an achoque (salamanders similar to axolotls) camouflaging as lake vegetation

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time to pick a buddy to accompany you in your journey, will it be the cornfield cricket chapuleaf? the friendly and fiery blitzcuintli? or the lake salamander achokelp?

#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

the creatures from yesterday are growing fast, chinamby even has stuff growing on em

#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

they grow so fast

fire has given momochilin the power of popcorn, water has made ahuixolotl a guardian of the river and xochilotl had always been a friend of flowers
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

hey if you ever need red tint to paint i know the bug just for you, meet cochitint

#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

man these poor creatures seem to be searching for something, wonder what it is

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an ofrenda cocoon and a macuahuitl iguana, whats not to love?
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guardians of the underworld united
mictlepida the winged soul and cocotonal the razor reptile
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

beware of birds flying above you, for some are deadly and kaskagryps might be the deadliest of them all

dont worry about staring into their eyes tho, theres none to stare into
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

no extant horses in this continent sadly, but dont worry we have ayotosteed
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

a little moody tadpole and a small stargazing plant, i wonder what theyll grow into
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

these creatures are ready for any fight, admitedly torribit more on the fight or flight sense while agavase might be a bit drunk
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

the rain casting frog tlatoad and the maguey of fertility and intoxication meyaflor
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

inspo
lutortuga and laudracon are based on the leatherback seaturtle, specifically on their spanish name "tortuga laud" (lute tutle), its not unique to mexico but like in the rest of the world its endangered due to ocean pollution and mistreatment of its eggs by tourist when found in the beach

do you hear the lute turtles song?
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

beware the cruel savage and violent hunters of the mountains they said, but they never said those where the human hunters
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

Piracy is Even funnier when done by a crab or Teo
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

inspo
mauroar is based on two different mexican fossils pecimens: mauriciosaurus a very complete plesiosaur juvenile, and an indeterminate pliosaur known from remains so fragmentary it cant be asigned to a genus known as the aramberri monster, which has had some wild size estimates in the past

some times modern day land is present where water used to be, and all thats needed to figure this out is dig for ancient creatures
#fakemon #mesoma #mexicanart

this ones in particular

inspo
perezonyx is a ground sloth, its specifically based on the mexican fossil xibalbaonyx, who fell into a cave and probably died soon after, which we know because thats where the fossils where found