This scene is based on fossils from the Geraldine Bonebed from the Early Permian Nocona Formation of Texas. The sail-backed synapsid Edaphosaurus boanerges munches on the horsetail relative Sphenophyllum oblongifolium. In spite of its reptilian appearance, Edaphosaurus is more closely related to mammals. Edaphosaurids were one of the first tetrapod groups to become dedicated herbivores. …
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Perry
The Permian was the last period of the Paleozoic Era; it ended with the most severe mass extinction in Earth’s history. This period was a time of great diversification and experimentation by a number of plant and animal clades, only a few of which made it through the great extinction to be the founders of …
Seymouria sanjuanensis
Here’s another colored-pencil-on-colored-paper drawing; this time it’s a reconstruction of a long-extinct animal. Seymouria sanjuanensis was a tetrapod that lived during the early Permian period, more than 270 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and other newcomers had arrived on the scene. It was a stocky little lizard-like creature about two feet …
Night Beast #1
This blog is off to as good a start as everything else in this ingrown hair of a year. Anyhow, here’s a monster I doodled for Hallowe’en. It’s done in colored pencil on black paper. This is my first time trying this technique; I think I like it.
A is for Amazon
I love classical mythology. And I love to draw! Also, I love illustrated alphabets. So I’m going to put the three together and make some mythological drawings – one for each letter of the (Roman) alphabet. As it turns out, the number of letters in the alphabet is the same as the number of fortnights …
Introduction
Howdy! My name is Nathan and I live in Music City USA – Nashville, Tennessee. I don’t make music, but I do draw, paint, and sculpt. My work is mostly representational and naturalistic, and my subject matter is mostly organic (animals, plants, and people) but I aim to branch out a bit. It’s 2020, the …