#extinct animal illustration

[artemholubievgolubev]

Artwork elephant, large canvas wall art prints

Unusual gift for boyfriend, girlfriend gift, husband gift, new home gift.

This is a European forest elephant that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene. Along with the forest rhinoceros, "Merka" was one of the main ecosystem engineers in Europe.



[awkwardbirdsdaily]

Its 2024!!! Happy new year, or happy new year's eve depending on where in the world you are.

And a great time to begin a new art challenge. I have a list of extinct birds for january, starting (ofc) with the passenger pigeon. These are such a great representative species for extinct birds imo - they used to be one of the most numerous birds on Earth, numbering in the billions, yet they vanished within a century. So gorgeous too!

As a communally roosting bird, their sheer numbers used to snap even large branches and they often piled on top of each other to roost. And then. Poof. None left.

[saint-nevermore]

drawing i did of the yule Deinonychus skin from Prior Extinction! it’s one of my favs haha

[extinctionstories]

This 36x48” oil on canvas diptych is part of a series I’ve been working on based on the thylacine, also known as the “Tasmanian Tiger” or marsupial wolf.

One of my biggest interests has always been animals, and in particular the ones that humans have destroyed. Every lost or vanishing species is its own story, and as an illustrator theirs are the stories that I am the most invested in telling (hence the blog).

The thylacine is one of the classic examples of human-caused extinction: an utterly unique creature, deliberately exterminated due to a combination of greed, ignorance, hubris, and fear.

Scared or anxious marsupials have a habit of stretching their jaws in a display known as a yawn (you’ve probably seen memes of opossums that look like they’re yelling—it’s the same thing). This display was especially striking in the thylacine, which could open its jaw to over 90°. Some of the most famous photos of thylacines capture them in this attitude of fear.

Unfortunately for the thylacine, humans have more direct methods of dealing with the things that scare them.

The title of this pair of paintings is ‘When They Are Frightened, They Show Their Teeth’.

The overall series is called ‘Here Be Monsters’, as a nod to both the far-flung environs of the thylacine, and the behavior of those who intruded upon it.

Stay tuned for more.

[frognapsart]

A little thylacine :)

[rthwrms]

we'll meet again

[dogfruit01]

timeline of the evolution of the dog spanning over 50~ million years 🌿

(not 100% accurate but I tried my best)

[malvacae]

[rinusuarez]

Introducing an updated illustrated poster featuring all the tigers of the world! While it was once believed that there were nine subspecies of tigers, recent scientific research has shown that there are actually only two: those that live on the continent and those that reside on islands. However, within these two subspecies, there are various populations of tigers that were previously classified as distinct subspecies. Creating this poster was a labor of love that required a significant amount of time and effort. Some of the animals featured on the poster were particularly challenging to illustrate due to their extinction, which meant there was limited photographic evidence available to use as a reference. I am thrilled with the final product and hope that others will appreciate the attention to detail and care that went into each illustration. If you are interested in buying this art print, please click here Thank you for your support

[percivalias]

Oh, extinct birds, how I love you and miss you.

In order:

White swamphen (Porphyrio albus), native to Lord Howe Island

Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris), native to Aotearoa New Zealand

Dodo (Raphus cucullatus), native to Mauritius

Laughing owl (Ninox albifacies), native to Aotearoa New Zealand

Mysterious starling (Aplonis mavornata), native to Mauke

North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae), native to Aotearoa New Zealand

O'ahu 'ō'ō (Moho apicalis), native to O'ahu

[Image IDs in alt text.]

[teethchease]

little raptor!

[artemholubievgolubev]

Artwork elephant - Forest European elephant - Palaeoloxodon antiquus

This is a European forest elephant that lived in Europe during the Pleistocene. Along with the forest rhinoceros, "Merka" was one of the main ecosystem engineers in Europe.

This exclusive and unrepeatable painting can be purchased here: https://www.etsy.com/KapelkaStudio/listing/1498323241

[awkwardbirdsdaily]

Day 18 of extinct birds - the Carolina parakeet or Carolina conure

The Carolina parakeet was one of only three species of parrot native to the US. They were very social birds, found in large flocks, and multiple females will lay eggs in a single nest. Interestingly, they were known to eat a lot of cocklebur seeds which are toxic (at least to mammals). Another interesting thing is that the last captive parakeet died in the same cage that the last passenger pigeon died, 4 years after.

[willczek-art]

Concepts for Illustration class!

Prompt: GET ANGRY focused on how the previous generation ruined our planet

[vickykawaiisblog]

[arthistoryanimalia]

#ThylacineThursday:

'The Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus Cynocephalus)” - hand-coloured lithographic plate

Plate XII in Gerard Krefft’s The Mammals of Australia (1871), illustrated by sisters Helena & Harriet Scott; this one by Harriet.

National Library of Australia collection: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-33627803