Heres my first full infodump page!! I've been thinking of filming me writing them in a time lapse type thing and uploading it to YouTube let me know about that !
Hi guys, another long silence I know. It’s busy with the train driver’s course - on top of regular driving I’ve had training for and taken a couple more exams (all passed, thankfully). It’s coming to an end though - within a few months I should be driving independently! Looking forward to it, as well as being able to pick up drawing again.
To show I’m not dead, here’s some more illustrations from last year’s big commission: the sperm whale. Males are quite differently proportioned from females, most notably that huge head! On big bulls it can be almost 1/3 of their total length - I’ve kept it a bit more modest here because at some point it just starts looking wrong to me lol. I’m very pleased with how these came out. I feel I’ve never managed to get sperm whales right, but these two are much more to my satisfaction (especially the female). Couldn’t resist putting some elaborate markings on the male because they are just so pretty. I hope you’ll like these swimming sonar-boosters too!
Acrophyseter — рід вимерлих кашалотів, який жив у пізньому міоцені біля узбережжя Перу і включає два види: A. deinodon і A. robustus. Це частина групи кашалотів, що були пристосованими для полювання на велику здобич та мали для цього спільні адаптації, як-от глибоко вкорінені та товсті зуби. Acrophyseter був завдовжки 3,9–4,3 метри, що робило його найменшим…
Marseille, Villa Méditerranée. La réplique de la Grotte Cosquer.
- les 3 premières : Une reconstitution en hologramme des Calanques à l’époque paléolithique, montrant entre autre autre un Mégacéros et des Grands Pingouins
Pour le reste, moulages d’originaux:
- pendeloque d’os avec cachalot gravé- grotte de Bourouilla (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), -24.000 ans
- pendeloque de canine d’Ours des cavernes, avec phoque gravé - Abri Duruthy, Landes, -15.000 ans
- dent de cachalot avec bouquetin gravé - grotte du Mas d’Azil (Ariège), -14.000 ans
- coiffe de la “Dame du Cavillon”, en coquillages Cyclope nerita, canines de cerf et résille en ortie - grotte du Cavillon, Ventimille , -24.000 ans
- bâton en bois de renne avec phoque gravé - grotte de Montgaudier (Charente), -15.000 ans
When I said how much I loved ‘Cachalot’ Alan Dean Foster reached out personally to recommend ‘Oshenerth’ and have to make time to read this over the holidays (and catch up on my TBR!) Do you have a favourite novel set in the ocean, be it on Earth or on another planet?
finished gods (that was why i re did the continents) and now i need images of... discoloured cetaceans. preferable odontocetes. think melanism, leucism, pibaldism... etc.
Two small models inspired by ocean-themed science fiction books.
Sklar's Sailboat
The Blue World - Vance, Jack - 1966
Cachalot Apartments
Cachalot - Foster, Alan Dean - 1980