A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
I said my Aquatic Reptiles post would be the last Mesozoic reptile family overview, but of course no trilogy is complete without a trilogy creep! Crocodylians and their relatives used to be so much more diverse and prolific than they...
The world during the Ice Age was a very different place than it is today. Charismatic megafauna were common across all continents, from the North American mammoths, ground-sloths, and saber-toothed cats to the giant wombats and short-faced kangaroos of Australia,...
I haven’t been drawing as much this past month, but here’s what I did do!
After finishing the Alphabestiary, I’ve been trying a couple new art formats: bird-inspired portraits and gesture sheets. For the former, I start with a photo reference of a suitably primeval-looking bird, and draw a dinosaur in its plumage. See my...
I was inspired by Ceri Thomas’s awesome paleoart blog, Nix Draws Stuff, which did a dinosaur “alphabestiary” a few years ago. Here is my own attempt at one dinosaur per letter per day. Some of them are even animated. Enjoy!...