#dunkleosteus
What do we think of a new cover idea?
Forgive the awkward self portrait if you can. I didn’t have time to design my own Ms. Frizzle. (Who can compete with her, anyway!)
An experiment!
If I were to move forward with revisiting more comics, I think a simpler style would be better. I love using these colors, though. What do you think?
[Comic transcript: Eight panels depict eight different epochs in natural history: Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Pleistocene, Anthropocene. Through each panel, a horseshoe crab gets closer and closer to the viewer while all sorts of prehistoric creatures come and go through the ages. In the final panel, the horseshoe crab says ‘keep on truckin lol’ [sic] and the millions of years it took for this crab to get here and say this only add to the gravitas of the situation. End transcript.]
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最近好きな古代生物。
#ダンクルオステウス #木彫 #小島秋彦
#Dunkleosteus #woodcarving #akihikokojima
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqj7PaSHiYB/?igshid=1f5zij6psnt4c
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fredrick alston :) the deceased patriarch from my dnd campaign
Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas final spread
By Elizabeth Shreeve and illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon
Out of the Blue: How Animals Evolved from Prehistoric Seas
Devonian period (419 to 359 mya): the age of fish! Bony fish, jawless fish, placoderms, sharks, etc.
By Elizabeth Shreeve and illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon
Fourth round of my ‘Dinovember with no dinosaurs!’ More of my stuff in FB: https://m.facebook.com/Franxurio/ and Instagram: https://instagram.com/franxurio
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I don’t know which color I like best!
Dunkleosteus
before you say “aww, cute,” just remember that this is blatant pro-placoderm propaganda.
(but obviously i’m joking and this paleoartist has great ideas and is extraordinarily talented.)
Dunkleosteus
i’ve listened to the dreamboy podcast and felt feelings, so here’s a self-portrait inspired by it
and dunkleosteus fish are cool
DUNKLEOSTEUS
One of the largest (if not the lartgest) Placoderms we know of so far. Featured on my latestvideo on the Devonianalong with many other strange animals.
This one is also available at Redbubble for prints abd morehere
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Character concepts for everyone’s favourite devonian placoderm: Dunkleosteus!
Art & Designs by Exty!
We explored a bunch of different ideas for this character, but ultimately went with the writer, as we thought the juxtaposition of a marine creature trying to write with paper and ink would be super endearing!
Then, we opted to explore more realistic patterns and warm colours for her and tweaked her final design to have more accurate soft tissue.
Here’s the end result!
Amber Isle’s first fish Paleofolk, our sweet and shy dunkleosteus!
What do you guys think?
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The final batch of drawings for Mermay! Thank you all so, so much for the response. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought this series to be so well liked and successful on somany of my social media platforms.
I felt like for the final batch, I wanted to explore how paleontologyinfluenced merfolk would look like, and how they influence ‘modern’ merfolk. (Prehistoric Planet probably influenced my decision haha)
These are the lads and lasses that help found the formation for merfolk culture, from first-of-the-firsts like the Anomalocaris and the Tiktaalik to true giants of the sea, like Shastasaurus, Livyatan and Megalodon. The Megalodon is Kara’s personal idol. (Kara’s the great white shark featured in all previous batches, here she’s teaching kids how cool history is!)
The most important figure here in Merfolk history is actually the Mosasaurus, AKA The Ocean Lord. He was a Barbarian King who hated landlubbers and was the sworn nemesis of “The Tyrant King”. He’s revered by modern Merfolk for his combination of strength, cunning, battle prowess and magnetic personality.
However, a tablet written during his time paints a different picture of the Ocean Lord: One of an arrogant, bloodthirsty ruler whose conquering ways and obsessive hatred of the landlubbers did more harm long term than anyone could have imagined.
A shout out to @miuzes , who motivated and helped me with tips all throughout the way. Another shout out @florence-is-gay/@legendary-disaster , who made fan art of Kara!. I’m STILL freaking out! Never would I expect I’d get fan art for this! :D
Prehistoric life : the rise of the vertebrates, David Norman, 1994. Illustrated by John Sibbick.
Dunkleosteusis a genus of placoderm (plate-skinned) fish that lived during the late devonian era, 382-358 million years ago.
Their two-part armour plating covered the head and upper body regions, acting as the ultimate offensive and defensive weaponry of the period. Instead of teeth, Dunkleosteus’s bony plates formed a beak structure, which with tremendous bite strength could easily crush ammonite shells and the plating of smaller, more unfortunate placoderms.
The largest species, D.tirelli, could grow to 6m (20ft) in length, and is regarded as the first true superpredator by some palaeontologists.
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