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ㅤㅤ🇧🇷 paleoartist · pleistocene fan ㅤㅤbiology student · isaac_owj on instagram

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Oct 31

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Highly adaptable and experienced paleoartist.

- Full body or just bust ranging between 10 and 20 USD. Progress pics each 3-4 days.

- Offer valid till 15th of November, when my commissions will be closed temporarily.

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Apr 6

Expect more spec-evo related projects to be published this week. Here's the full book where this species was developed!

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Here Be Dragons: Book 1 of the Emergence Series

[Premise: First contact between dragons and humans, taking place during the second industrial revolution.][BOOK 1 COMPLETE. REWRITE IN PROGRESS.] What if, billions of years ago, the Earth formed a lit...

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Apr 6

The Raptor: an spec-evo species made by @second-sol that i got commissioned! It was really fun to play with the pattern and test my skills at making raptor-like creatures.

At the side, a 137cm gentleman from this universe and an average 175cm human.

A ‘raptor’ is a creature that resembles a dinosaurian raptor, but unlike their namesake, these creatures descended from a hexapedal ancestor, meaning that they are six-limbed.

Raptors are most similar to avians in nature, but their short wingspan renders them unable to achieve true flight. Instead, their wings are used primarily as cover, as their normally smooth hide is capable of changing color and texture to blend into their background.

While they prefer to use ambush tactics, raptors are fully capable of planning and executing sophisticated hunting strategies together with the rest of their tight-knit pack, which is led by dominant matriarch.

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Feb 15

Wingei's short-faced-bear.

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Feb 11

A Hyaenodon throws hands with an Utahraptor in the middle of an river, commission for a client!

Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Feb 10

Here's a commission i made for @AlorLeonel featuring his speculative big cat, the Double-Fanged-Cat!

Diplomachairodus triantafillos (The Rose Double-Fanged-Cat)

Diplo-machairodontinae (dual knife in greek) or Diplomachairodus is a big cat tribe known for having the unusual two-pair of elongated canine teeth on both sides of their upper mandibles, a much more extreme adaptation compared to those of more commonly known Saber-Tooth cats such as Smilodontini and Homotherini tribes.

Differently from their close relatives, this family has only one extant member alive and he's the only cat within this lineage as we know it.

Also called as Amur-Double-Fanged-Cat, Giant-Rose-Tiger, Imperial-Leopard or King-Leopard: this cat is one of the largest cat species alive today, if not the largest: being perfectly adapted to Taiga-like forests and mountainous regions.

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Nov 24

thank you :)))))

Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Nov 24

Scimitar-tooth.

Fur study, last piece regarding Homotherium for a while.

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Luis mondkatze @luismondkatze.bsky.social · Nov 22

As #homotherium has recently seen an increase in popularity, I decided to play a little with the toothy #cat
#paleoart

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Carlos the Guaiki @carlosarty.bsky.social · Nov 21

The only native marsupial that's not part of the true opossum/shrew opossum group in the Americas ever

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Alex/EC 🌱 @erithacuscreations.bsky.social · Oct 14

Hi! I’m Alex. I do art! I specialize in furries, animals, and sometimes fan art. 🌱 #furryart
🍎 Website: erithacuscreations.carrd.co
🍒Queue: trello.com/b/IugI45qU
🍓 Ko-fi, Bases, & Adopts : ko-fi.com/erithacuscre...

A collage of the artist’s drawings as stickers, with his curly-haired dragon character Rou in the center making a peace sign.

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Illuxtre @illuxtre.bsky.social · Nov 15

Clocked in to draw a little ref for my baby Lucid

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Nov 16

Photography of "Tchutchuquinha", the subadult female Homotherium in the São Paulo Zoo.

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Nov 15

Some studies

Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Nov 15

Other interpretations.

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Isaac @isaacowj.bsky.social · Nov 15

Ladies and Gentlemen, Homotherium latidens. The Scimitar-tooth Cat, remade and reconstructed based on the unique saber-tooth cub of Yakutia.

Yesterday i was caught by surprise by a study that showcased to the world the first glance of a Saber Cat with flesh and blood. Homotherium latidens is once again described on the Late Pleistocene, in the form of a cub. This reconstruction takes into consideration the pigmentation loss and eventual differences on adult and younger individuals, applying a lighter pelt than the one described by the study.

This was made by comparing cubs and adult individuals from modern cats, then stabilizing which features are more common and those who are not. Afterwards, i used my color palette and color identifications to measure the differences in tones by %.

Eventually, i had to deal with the permafrost mummified state which certainly degrades the original colors. So, from the cave lion cubs previously described, i tried a way to restore.

And finally, i used the "restored" calculated colors to produce adult colors following the patterns and measures in the first step.

I'm still speechless, i can't believe i had the chance to see a Saber-tooth, an animal long gone, now feeling so alive and near: despite still being extinct.

I wish that i can atleast see one walk and grow one day.

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · Nov 9

I really enjoy doing series with fixed landscapes showing the passage of time and native fauna. I previously shared one I've made with different times of the day in Pleistocene Central Brazil, and here is an earlier one I did showing the four seasons in Ice Age Beringia (America-Asia land bridge).