Happy New Year! Here’s one last paleoart piece for 2020, Centrosaurus Canyon. I’ve had this slowly gestating for a while and finally wrapped it up this month. Any piece that takes long enough ends up being reworked from the ground up a few times, and this one evolved considerably. The concept is a bull Centrosaurus roaming the uplands of Late Cretaceous Canada. I really wanted to infuse it with a sense of serenity, and for me, that means a well-fed…
2020’s been a weird one, but I have managed to create some paleoart. I don’t write much about my own work, so I thought it would be fun to round up what I’ve been up to in this post. Hope you enjoy! First up is my newest one. I was very excited to see this one hit the web this week. It is the initial design in Studio 252mya’s Paleo Parks poster series. I chose to do the Kaiparowits Formation.…
From August 21-23, researchers and admirers of invertebrates celebrated them by flooding Twitter with photos and art under the hashtag #Invertefest. It also resulted in nearly 3,000 observations recorded at iNaturalist. As promised, here’s a collection of paleoart shared on the tag! Please click through to follow and see more from these artists. also reposting this older work #InverteFest #paleoart pic.twitter.com/6jbxUwyOkv — Very tired bug (@aldrich_kia) August 20, 2020 It's #InverteFest day 2! Let's celebrate with some invert #paleoart! (I'm…
Invertefest is a periodic event begun on Twitter to celebrate the wonders of invertebrates through photos, videos, and art. Begun by Kelly Brenner, Maureen Berg, and Franz Anthony, the next incarnation of the event will take place on August 21-23, 2020. Franz contacted me because he was interested in getting some paleo-folk involved, so I had the idea to do a special paleo-version of Invertefest here at LITC. After the event closes, on August 23, I’ll compile paleoart shared on…
Combine a fascination with the spectacular lifeforms that once haunted the Earth with the common human desire to decorate one’s flesh, and you wind up with a lot of people walking around with fossil-inspired tattoos. Glendon Mellow, the artist and social media marketing pro known for putting wings on trilobites, has done his fair share to bring these tattoos into the world, and today we’ll take a look at a sampling of them. If you follow Glendon on Twitter, you…
Several years ago at LITC 1.0, I put up a post poking fun at the past-time of imagining prehistoric animals in one-on-one, Mortal Kombat style battles. I let my imagination fly and came up with my own wishlist of ludicrous match-ups: A hundred Mononykus vs. Carcharodontosaurus: They’d swarm the big brute and crawl into all sorts of uncomfortable places. Four strategically-placed Incisivosaurus vs. Giraffatitan: Two words: beaver style. Citipati vs. Gigantoraptor: I see the little dude running circles around Giganto…
More Camptosaurus coming at you! As in literally, a lot of these look like they’re coming directly at you! I have to say, I’m just tickled by this whole thing. To think that Brian tweeted out this hashtag and then people all over the place spent the next few days drawing Camptosaurus in front-view… it’s a beautiful thing. Even when folks strayed from the “rules,” there were very few lateral views shared on the hashtag, and a lot of stylistic…
It began, as anything of any merit does these days, with some joshing around on Twitter. Brian Engh made a remark about paleoartists who rely on lateral view too much. lol paleoartists so shook by non lateral views. — Brian Engh (@GreyGriffon) April 4, 2018 So, I replied that a good way to quickly test someone’s skills would be to have them draw a non-traditional view of a relative obscure taxa. “Camptosaurus in anterior view,” I said off the top…
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Chasmosaurus belli silhouette in custom bulleted list by Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Eric M. Roberts, Catherine A. Forster, Joshua A. Smith, and Alan L. Titus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sourced from PhyloPic.