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Digital illustrations of the prehistoric jawless fish Anglaspis, Doryaspis and Drepanaspis.

No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)

Digital illustrations of the jawless fish Pteraspis and Rhinopteraspis, and the shark-like (though not a shark) Cladoselache.

(3/4) By the time I’d finished, I had become absolutely fascinated by these bizarre, ancient animals.
Dinosaurs get all the attention (and yeah, they are cool) but it’s worth remembering that the story of prehistoric life is much richer and more complex.

Thank youu ❣️❣️

Old #paleoart depicting a small prehistoric equid dressed up as the racehorse American Pharoah. Eohippus was pretty small & would've given off more "small tapir or forest deer" vibes than this. I still like the idea though

turned a quarter century old today,
here's my fave ocs

[WIP] empress for worldbuilding

#WIP pterosaurian manananggal

First post here i'm MPD i love draw cool stuff nice to meet you all!😁

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Raptor rider

I've never draw dinosaur before and to be honest it looked better in my head lol, oh well at least i did try.

#art #fantasy #dinosaur

A large pterosaur Bogolubovia stands on the beach, framed by the dim light of the sun due to a solar eclipse. The sky feels high and is heavily covered with clouds. A solar halo can be seen - it's getting quite cold, and it might just be this pterosaur's last winter.

A digital drawing of Eohippus pair, doing the cute horse thing when they scratch and lick each others back. I thought that they could probably do that as well, like modern horses do now. They're colored light brown, with some white parts and warm shading. Almost all the head is white, they have pink noses and pink little hooves, and the main brown fur on their body is a mix of light and dark hairs, so it's quite contrasted. I actually took some inspo from hares for the colors. They stand on the dark background, a star is shining above them; next to the star are two little horses stylized sort of like cave paintings. It isn't anything i based this reconstruction of (also, it was too early for eohippus to be painted like this), just a little thing i wanted to try.

A digital drawing of Psittacosaurus sibiricus. There are three of them, running to the left, on a light beige background, all in different poses to study their anatomy in motion. One of them, in the middle, is a male - colored green, with bright red on his head and quills. He's brighter than other two, females, who are colored light brown. They also have a bright spot on the face, but it's yellow and doesn't stand out as much as red on the male. I also gave them just a little, tiny bit of fuzz on the back and neck. It's barely visible and completely speculative, so take it with a grain of salt - I haven't seen it in other reconstructions. Overall, I really like how it turned out. They look silly enough to be good for me

A realistic digital drawing with pterosaur embryo, 3 stages of development are shown. The left one is still tiny and barely resembles a pterosaur. It has a big and not fully developed yet eye, a thin neck and a tiny body. The second one, in the middle, starts looking like a pterosaur already. It's a little more developed, has a beak, and already has a thin membrane between the wings and legs. The yolk with blood vessels is also shown there. The last drawing on the right shows the late stage of development, it's already fuzzy, curled up with it's head between folded wings. The exact species is unknown.

hello late #PortfolioDay !!
I'm Avi! Full time artist, doing direction (and many other things) in animation, and paleoart in my free time.
I'd be happy to work on scientific illustrations and reconstructions! I do both extant and extinct animals and i'm open for some work rn :)
#sciart #paleoart

Illustration in the style of ancient Greek vases. On a black background, a woman with long hair and flowing dress is sitting on a chair and offering leaves to a group of four prancing deer the size of dogs. There is a decorative border with swirling patterns underneath them. On the upper right corner, there is an image of a vase, on which the same illustration is overlain.

Another ancient Greek vase from an alternative history in which humans were more gentle to the world around them.

A group of Candiacervus, endemic Cretan deer, taking part in a spring festival. I imagine them as tame but not domesticated, like the famous deer in Nara, Japan.

Illustration mimicking those on ancient Greek vases with orange characters on a black background. It’s showing the goddess Athene as a woman clothed in flowing fabric with snakes reaching out from her back. She’s walking from left to right, holding her arms in front of her, a very large Cretan owl sitting on her hands and two little owls following them. There is also a young olive tree planted in a decorative pot, another of Athene’s symbols.

The same illustration of goddess Athene, three owls and an olive tree as in the previous image, now depicted on an ancient Greek two-handled amphora.

Third ancient Greek vase from an alternative timeline with less destructive humanity.

In this religious scene, Athene, goddess of wisdom, carries a giant Cretan owl, one of the extinct endemic Cretan animals. They are trailed by little owls (Athene noctua), which is Athene’s symbol in real life.

A drawing mimicking the Minoan Bull-Leaping Fresco found at Knossos Palace in Crete. On a turqoise background, a large deer is leaping into the air. On both sides of it, there are people drawn in the style of Minoan artwork, one dancing, the other holding an amphora, presumably about to offer a drink to the deer. The deer is Candiacervus major, an extinct species that lived on Crete in the Late Pleistocene, with very long and gracile limbs.

I've been drawing scenes of ancient Greeks interacting with endemic Cretan fauna, but Crete had an even older civilization - the Minoans.

In this alternative version of the Bull-Leaping Fresco, people are dancing with and offering a drink to Candiacervus major, a large native deer of the island.

This is a piece done before our #paleostream formation series started, I did it for purely educational purposes. The Jialingjiang formation is for me one of the most interesting Triassic formations, not just because it's the only place where we find hupehsuchians.

#paleoart #sciart #triassic

2024年終作品總結
Art summary of 2024

Results from the last #paleostream of the year!

Acheronauta, Diatryma, Hadrosteus and Imperobator (wing mobility is rather speculative).

Assortment of some of the heaviest birds that ever lived!

#paleoart #birds #animals #art

Illustration of four Devonian jawless fishes on a grey-green background. Doryaspis has an armoured front part with a long, serrated "nose" and large scales covering its tail. Machairaspis has a wide, armoured head with a knife-like spike sticking straight up. Boreaspis is long and sleek, with three long spikes on its armoured head, and Drepanaspis is wide and flat, shaped somewhat like a table tennis racket.

Jawless friends.

Early Devonian fishes showing the astonishing diversity vertebrates had even back before the evolution of jaws. Based on 3D models by @villesinkkonen.bsky.social

I'm amused by the warlike names of these small animals: spear-shield, knife-shield, Boreas's shield and sickle-shield.

a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous.
#Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

Animanomalies 01

If things had gone differently.

Palaeoloxodon creutzburgi, one of the several elephants that used to live on Mediterranean islands, greeting a baby in an Ancient Greek vase. Small island elephants around the world went extinct around the time of human arrival, but I wonder, what if they didn’t.

The Phoenician queen Dido, standing inside a building richly decorated with wall paintings, some servants behind her. She is wearing a fine tunic with red borders and a purple girdle, and looks very majestic.

Illustration showing 4 young women dressed in white, in a Greco-Roman inspired room. 3 are sitting in a sort of trance, while the 4th is standing and lifting a smoking censer. Something mystical is going on.

Panoramic view of Thebe in ancient Egypt, with townhouses in the foreground and the Karnak temple complex and the Nile in the background.

Outside a fast food restaurant somewhere in ancient Rome. A customer is shouting angrily at the man serving the food, apparently complaining about the quality, while a crowd gathers around. The whole scene has a snapshot quality.

Cool! :D I've also done a lot of art in that direction (tho I do a bunch of other things too)

I've been away, so am late to welcome folks fleeing X. For newbies: Hi, I'm Mark, I research, illustrate and write about extinct life, especially #dinosaurs and #pterosaurs. I'm known for my #paleoart and have consulted on, and designed creatures for, lots of your favourite dinosaur documentaries.

'I'm Nobody'
Kulindadromeus and Unicorn
(With Emily Dickinson)

Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm.

A good reminder to myself, too, whenever I start feeling ill used by the vagaries of social media. 🥲

Original artwork available at auction. 🙏
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illustration of six different species of ammonites on a blue-green background

Ammonites - a great success story of Mesozoic seas.

Inspired by watching Fran Vidaković's short talk on them in PaleoStreamCon, an online event organized by @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social back in spring.

A very random drawing that combines two of my favourite things - palaeontology and Greece.

An entelodont - a giant hoofed predator from about 20 million years ago - depicted in the style of the Bull-Leaping Fresco, a famous artwork from the Knossos Palace in Crete, painted some 3450 years ago.

Illustration of two dinosaurs on a yellow background, with a human silhouette for scale. The dinosaurs are Miragaia and Kentrosaurus, herbivores with plates and spines on their back and tail.

In a world full of complicated problems and bad news, it's good to once in a while do something that's simply nice - such as draw dinosaurs and share them with others.

Miragaia and Kentrosaurus, approximately to scale with each other and the 180 cm tall human silhouette.

The rhinos we have and the ones we lost.

In the late Pleistocene, about two thirds of the worlds terrestrial megafauna went extinct. Rhinos fared better than average, but still, all the temperate and cold climate species are gone. Those that remain are endangered and in dire need of protection.

Illustration of extinct narrow-nosed rhino with a map in the background showing it lived in central and southern Europe, northern Africa and some way into western Asia

Illustration of ”Siberian unicorn” or Elasmotherium sibiricum with a map on the background showing it lived in Eastern Europe and central Asia

Illustration of a woolly rhinoceros with a map in the background showing it had a very wide distribution from southwestern Europe all the way through Europe and Russia to the Pacific coast and northern China.

Illustration of a merck’s rhinoceros with a map in the background showing it lived in a large area from southwestern and central Europe to western Asia, parts of Siberia and northern and eastern China.

Where did our lost rhinos roam?

Distribution charts based on bone finds (individual dots) and habitat suitability for the four fluffy rhinos of late Pleistocene.

These are of course approximate and might not include all obscure finds. #Sciart

Framed painting of Dinosaur Parade by James Gurney

I created this painting "Dinosaur Parade" in 1990, before I invented the whole concept of Dinotopia. I just wanted to give a glimpse of a lost empire that humans shared with peaceful dinosaurs.

Jumping through that picture frame and living inside the painting changed my life.