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Finally got around to finishing the lineart! It’s gonna take me a while to color, but I’m hoping this is gonna be a step in the right direction for improvement. Some of the anatomy had to get tweaked, but I think it’s coming out nicely.
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Been playing around with reconstructing the anatomy of my organisms, starting with the Venatodraco. My process is pretty sloppy and it’s all on display here, but I figured I’d share for the sake of those still interested in my project! In the last couple of years I’ve reflected on my style and really wanna iron out any kinks that I may have.
Took me a few years, but thank you everyone who’s stopped by and showed their appreciation! I promise I’ll try to get back on this art wagon ASAP!
All my pteravermid descendents in the Bestia-02 project from the Second Era. The more basal worm-likes proliferated well enough, with the largest one functioning as a reef dwelling, 1.5 meter mesopredator. The more fish-like forms were outcompeted by similar organisms, and were diminished shortly after.
An old sketch of an OC kaiju I made named Avalon, fighting another kaiju unoriginally named Quetzalcoatl. For scale, a human being and the 2005 Kong, because why not?
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The companion organism for the Pteravermis I shared earlier, this one being called Hoplitosarcus. It’s essentially analogous to a trilobite or horseshoe crab, but with a fleshy shell-like exterior rather than an exoskeleton. It’s first set of limbs extend outwards with feathery growths to catch any passing plankton for consumption. In the background, several other organisms from my fellow collaborators. At this stage in the project it was sort of a pre-Cambrian/Cambrian era, before any advanced predation began.
Here’s one of the first pieces I did for the @bestia-02 project! Not super proud of the background for the scene, but I was working with what I had. The front and center organism is called Pteravermis, descended from a small worm-like organism that had four pairs of flagella for locomotion, two of which are now adapted into crude fins for propulsion and steering. In the background, a coral like organism and a ray-like organism from two of my fellow collaborators.
This hits me in a weird nostalgia spot and I love/hate all of it, thank you James Sunderland
Hey all! I know I’ve been radio silent for the better part of a year and a half, and I’m sorry to those of you who were invested in my project. I’ve been putting a lot of focus back into school, work, and another collaborative spec evo project on the side, along with a LOT of personal goings-on. That being said, I’ve been feeling motivated to get back into posting and improving my art, so for anyone that stuck around, thank you 🤣 I will be sharing some of the pieces I worked on from the side spec evo project as well, most of them being my creations but some I’ve drawn for my fellow collaborators. Thank you for coming to my TED talk!
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Wow, without all the annoying dialogue, Walking with Dinosaurs is actually a pretty damn good dinosaur movie.
(they even got the Tyrannosaur sounds right)
Another pisciverm remake, this one being much more of a chunky boi than the last! Wanted to play around with an open ocean background, so hopefully that comes across! The coloration is inspired by many tuna species.
The Oaticalu is a large pelagic predatory pisciverm, which can be found in the Fina Ocean just south of Brutkam. These predators reach lengths of around eight feet, although there are claims of larger specimens. These living torpedoes can reach speeds of 45 miles per hour underwater in order to catch a wide variety of pisciverms, murenamimids and loligoforms (squid-shapes) in its environment. The oaticalu’s first two pairs of gill spiracles are forward facing and optimized to take in more water as the animal swims at high speeds, while the back two pairs face backwards to push out the filtered water. This helps the Oaticalu in keeping itself streamlined while in pursuit of prey, as it doesn’t need to actively respirate using its mouth while still maintaining its stamina.
A redesign of the Boalik, a creature I drew a few years ago. Now it’s an air breathing pisciverm that makes it’s home on mudflats and in coastal waters around the Tempari and Brutkami coasts. The boalik’s gill spiracles have migrated up towards the dorsal side of the animal to accommodate crawling across the sea floor and through mud. They will often bellow at threats and open their mouths widely to intimidate them, but to animals larger than them, it’s mostly a bluff. Their diet consists of smaller pisciverms, various sea digitids and whatever else they can scoop up. Imagine it like a mudskipper, but closer in size to a large seal pup.
i don't really understand why you would be pro-zoo. like i understand nature reserves and sanctuaries where people can observe from afar, but it doesn't seem right to me when they're locked up in generally small confined areas for people to watch them do nothing all day. idk maybe i'm getting this wrong, and i still really respect you, i just don't understand this. like i interned at a zoo and felt uncomfortable with how small their living areas were and how they had no stimulation
Zoos don’t look like this anymore.
They look like this:
Good zoos do not keep their animals in “tiny spaces” with no enrichment. I’m not pro-roadside zoo. I’m pro-accredited zoo. Zoos are incredibly important for conservation and education.
Are Zoos Necessary?
The Importance of Zoos: Resource Post
Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter: Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium
Why I Want to be a Keeper
Why I Believe in Zoos
There should be way more pictures of modern zoos so i just add some more
Seriously zoos do so much important conservation work as well I hate when people shit all over zoos as if the animals are locked up and not looked after
The SF Zoo has two sea lions. Now, if you know SF, you know that sea lions are a Thing. They’re all over Pier 39 and various other beaches in N California. In fact, the zoo is near the ocean, so there are sea lions not 200 yards from the zoo entrance. So having sea lions in the zoo seems sort of superfluous.
Except the sea lions are blind. One was found as an adult after suffering a gun shot wound to the face that destroyed his eyes. The other was found as an adolescent, weak and starving because it had been blinded and unable to hunt. So they were rescued and introduced and the zoo built them a nice pool where they can swim and sunbathe and people toss them fish. It’s not the biggest exhibit, or the fanciest. But it’s a home for them, where they’re safe and well fed. Sea lions aren’t the most romantic of animals, but they’re a part of SF culture and a lot of us have a soft spot for the loud, bulbous things. And because of zoos, these two get to live long, happy lives.
Whenever anyone complains about zoos, I think about Silent Knight and Henry.
I think it’s St. Louis zoo that is saving big cats in Africa. Scientists couldn’t figure out what was killing off the local lion population. They were dying off from Canine Distemper. The local unvaccinated dogs of the towns would spread the disease to other animals or have it themselves. When the lions ate the infected animals they would catch it as well. You know what that Zoo is doing to stop this disease? They are going over to those towns and vaccinating the dogs for free. The community loves it and people from other villages comes for miles to get their dogs vaccinated as well.
They also do work with camel populations because the local human population use the camels for food sources the zoos help monitor the camels health.
Another zoo, I want to say it’s the Oregon zoo but don’t quote me on that, is helping female inmates. The zoo works with the female prisons by encouraging the inmates to assist in the breeding and raising of endangered species of butterflies. They plant the specific plants that the butterflies and catapillars need, raise them, and release them. These inmates get noted in any scientific journals that get published. They are giving these inmates a sense of accomplishment and validation.
Zoos not only save species but bring together and assist communities in an effort to save the environment. Zoos, good zoos, are essential to the future and I will fight anyone who tries to say otherwise.
PS you don’t see PETA doing any of this.
One of the local zoos in my area at one point rescued a bald eagle that had been shot and kept it in the zoo to let it recuperate until they freed it again. Some of the zoos in my state will keep injured animals there until they heal again.
Helsinki Zoo is the world leader in snow leopard and Amur leopard conservation, in their care these endangered species have managed to breed more than anywhere else in captivity and this in turn has enabled the re-introduction of these animals back to their native habitats. https://www.korkeasaari.fi/helsinki-zoo/
I work at a zoo that is instrumental in the California Condor recovery program (among dozens of other conservation projects). We went from 42 surviving individuals left to over 400, over 200 of whom are in the wild. We’re part of the amur leopard species survival plan with two young animals who are eagerly attempting to make babies. We host one of North America’s only bachelor troops of western lowland gorillas, preserving the social structure of wild gorillas. All of our bald eagles are rescues who would not survive in the wild. All our keepers participate in field research and conservation work in addition to a full time team of conservationists. We host the most genetically valuable male Masai giraffe in North America, who has sired 5 offspring with 1 on the way, increasing the genetic diversity of his entire species. If you’re against zoos, you don’t know what zoos do.
Super, SUPER important thread.
Also zoos tend to do a lot of breeding and conservation work with smaller, less charismatic species like invertebrates and amphibians. Those species are extremely important in the ecosystem but don’t get the same notoriety as the charismatic megafauna.
You can learn a lot about this on the show called Secrets of the Zoo. There are a few zoos that participate in the show.
credit to @beccalachuchi on twitter!
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“Oh come on it can;t be that b-”
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TRULY A MAGNIFICENT TRIUMPH FOR BOTANY
I wanted to see the plant from another POV but it’s literally the only photo publicly available right now. There is however, an anatomic drawing!
Congrats! It looks like an alien!!
Not just any alien, that thing looks like Audrey II. I just hope it doesn’t start singing.
I wanted to expand upon that one practice doodle I did, so here ya go! Also wanted to try my hand at doing some kind of forest/canopy.
Here are two Serpornis clasamicus, hunting by singling out digitids from their swarms and herding them towards each other. The digitids are small, but Serpornis will often engage these swarms for hours to get the nutrition they need.
