Pop Paleoさんのイラストまとめ

Obscure King Kong vs Prehistorics Media 🧵
Part I: Kong in Shonen magazines

1 & 2) Digimon
3 & 4) Pokemon (including unreleased critters)

What's up with anime's love affair with plesiosaurs?

1) Time Patrol Bon
2) Doraemon
3) Yu-Gi-Oh!
4) One Piece

A field guide to kaiju footprints.

Mr. Caselli is still alive. Up to a few years ago, he was doing anthropology discussions on YouTube. I have a feeling the man has retired from illustrating, but after making the pictures & writing the texts for hundreds of books, a person should be able to rest on their laurels.

Caselli completed a number of illustrations of prehistoric primates & people which are deliciously detailed. They may be second only to Burian’s depictions of similar fauna & folks.

Caselli also illustrated a book called “The Amazing Fact Book of Monsters”, which for whatever reason skipped putting the word “prehistoric” in the title. The images are all what the kids call “retrosaurs”, but I think some of the coloration Caselli chose is pretty unique.

For my buck, Caselli’s best pieces from that book are his yellow-drenched Triassic scenes.
His art work is very clean. It had the look of being done with ink pen, watercolors & gouache, with the occasional airbrush, though I am just guessing.

or a number of books where he illustrated various mythologies.

Giovanni Caselli was born in Florence in 1939. He began his career as an illustrator in ’57. As an anthropologist, many readers might know his work from children’s books about science & history…