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1/2 I’m back once more, and I brought a little history along. Of who? Donny! My favorite of favorite characters. Donny developed in early 2018, turning two years old this February.

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2020-02-28

WIP of a Monty plate for Truncated! I’m planning on doing a few of these at 18x24 for other proboscideans. Within, I tried a few new rendering styles in illustrator and photoshop.

(Corrections/critiques welcome)

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2020-01-19

Time for another Fossil Fracas related update for Truncated:

My Long Wall of Proboscideans is full of all sorts of bizarre characters. Eventually I’m planning on characterizing every species.

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2020-01-16

Tonight’s the night! A Merry Christmas to all, and Happy Holidays from Monty and I!

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2019-12-25

Finals are over, and I’m back to working on Truncated! Here’s some mammoths wading into a suspicious pit...

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2019-12-19

Since I can’t post the massive, 12 foot long version here (yet), a smaller copy of my mastodon digital composite should be suitable!

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2019-12-06

A sketch of Cuvieronius after a good thanksgiving day. After doing some habitat analysis, you’ll notice this guy’s a more mountainous grey than my other elephants.

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2019-11-30

Working on a few new things involving local proboscideans... With an American Mastodon to start.

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2019-11-28

Redesigned extinct proboscidean

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2019-11-04

There's a lot of to cover. So far I've gotten about 20 characters done, very few of which you could make out in this pile.

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2019-11-04

WIP (Work In Progress): Fossil Fracas related elephants may be my most prolific work, but I've also been working on more realistic renders of elephants. Pictured here, a prototype poster layout for my Forest Elephant.

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2019-10-17

Proboscideans have a long evolutionary history. They first appear around 60 million years ago in North Africa and were quite small. By ~37 million years ago, proboscideans like the hippo-like Moeritherium which didn’t have a trunk or tusks had evolved

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2019-08-12

Tomorrow is So I thought I'd dig up this old project I never finished. Some semi-caricatured fossil elephants hangin' out. First pic is a mock up of what i wanted to do originally.

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2019-08-12

Aaand the biggest proboscidean ever, the massive Palaeoloxodon namadicus. This one I can really hear the elephant-like rumble every time I look at it. https://t.co/rL3HgZ2cs0

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2019-03-06

My FINAL proboscidean is Mammuthus primigenius, aka the woolly mammoth. This is one of the most popular of extinct organisms, serving as the iconic "mascot" to the Cenozoic. It is characterized by its instantly recognizable shaggy coat and long, strongly-curving tusks.

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2018-12-17

I chose a different pose than typical proboscidean reconstructions, because those trunks were highly flexible, mobile and dextrous appendages and I think that's important to note.

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2018-11-27

Meet Zygolophodon, bearer of perhaps the largest tusks of any animal living or extinct. This massive proboscidean was one of the biggest land mammals EVER, and otherwise differed from living elephants in having a longer body and proportionally smaller head.

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2018-11-27

I set out to reconstruct the basal proboscidean Barytherium, but ended up channeling my inner and accidentally made a realistic Drowzee

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2018-11-26

Gomphotherium, a proboscidean from the Miocene and Pleistocene of Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Unlike its distant modern relatives, Gomphotherium had 4 tusks: 2 longer ones on the upper jaw, and two shorter, shovel-like ones on the lower jaw.

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2018-11-25