A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
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!...
I’ve been doing a lot of art lately, because of the quarantine. Here’s what I’ve been working on!
The earth formed out of colliding space debris 4.54 billion years ago, and a mere 260 million years later (or less), there was life. It took another 2.43 billion years (nine times as long!) before there were eukaryotes, or single-celled...
Cetaceans are a fascinating group of tetrapods that went from the sea to land and back again. Given the recent discovery of the new transitional protocetid, Aegicetus, I thought I’d give an overview of the crazy evolutionary journey whales have...