#antelope
Rock art is one of South Africa’s oldest artistic traditions.It was first made by the ancestors of San|Bushmen and Khoekhoen, South Africa’s first peoples, at least 30,000 years ago.This rock painting depicts San|Bushmen running between eland, a type of antelope that is spiritually important. Hunter-gatherer rock paintings such as this are understood to relate to a ritual practice named ‘the great healing’ or ‘trance dance’, which continues today in the Kalahari outside of South Africa.
See this amazing piece in our special exhibition on South Africa: the art of a nation, which tells a story stretching back 100,000 years. Exhibition runs 27 October 2016 – 26 February 2017.
Exhibition sponsored by Betsy and Jack Ryan
Logistics partner IAG Cargo
The Zaamenkomst Panel. Detail of rock art depicting San|Bushmen running between eland. Made before 1900. On loan from Iziko Museums of South Africa, Social History Collections and SARADA. Photo: Neil Rusch.
Beautifully-observed & realistic figure of a sleeping Antelope incised on rock up to 10,000 years ago at Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria, one of the largest & most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world.
ph: Linus Wolf
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Hey hey hey! I’m not dead! :D
This guy (these guys?) just took a while to complete because I got busy with a new job, and was in the middle of trying something totally different from before.
I picked up sculpting in Blender and started messing around in Substance Painter, and went for a more realistic look to see how far I can take it. Pretty satisfied with how it turned out! Here’s the artstation page for more screenshots and stuff.
Saigas are so dorky, just look at them. Awww.
Next thing I’m working on is definitely back to something more stylized!
became not happy with their design, but i can’t quite nail down something i like better…definitely like the back mane over the neck tho, and basing the horns more off a kudu than a nyala
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Bovidae (Antelopes, Cattle, and Goat-Antelopes)
*not every single recognized species and subspecies is represented because some i could find zero information on, let alone pictures.
*wisent is what a european bison is, forgot to mark it as such on the bovine page
*common names are taken from the IUCN red list if applicable and iNaturalist (and very rarely wikipedia)
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Bovidae (Antelopes, Cattle, and Goat-Antelopes)
*not every single recognized species and subspecies is represented because some i could find zero information on, let alone pictures.
*common names are taken from the IUCN red list if applicable and iNaturalist (and very rarely wikipedia)
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