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Julio the Artist
@lacerdajulio.bsky.social
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🇧🇷 Listens to lofi and draws long-gone beings • he/him
🖼️ All my art on #artbyjulio
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Not Your Mastodon!

(it's Notiomastodon)
A rendered model of the elephant-adjacent Notiomastodon against black background "clay" render of the previous image
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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A few more shots because I think he's pretty
December 10, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Having a lot of fun lately making/remaking some models to learn new techniques, and trying to put as much detail as I can into them.

Fun fact- through my teenage years, Carnotaurus was my favorite dinosaur. Yet it is severely underrepresented in my portfolio 🤷‍♂️
December 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Sometimes you just wanna pose some dinosaurs in Blender, you know?
December 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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WIP of a horrible goblin
December 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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I was very much inspired by this beautiful piece, A Tiger With His Prey, by Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert. Including the lovely painterly style, which I tried to approach more than usual (and am very happy with!)
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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POV: you're in the museum's Ice Age dioramas hall

#SciArt #artbyjulio
A Homotherium stands by the downed body of a Megaloceros, its huge antlers standing out against the drab colored grassland landscape framed by snowy hills in the background.
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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biiiiig stretch!
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Making some fresh models to sharpen my 3D skills, and what better subject to do that than our lovely brazilian Pleistocene megafauna?

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November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia.

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A scene depicting the Patagonian scrubland in the early morning, dotted with araucarias and framed by foggy mountains in the background. A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene.
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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He’s doing great! A very sweet boy, always making funny faces and asking for pets.
September 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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August 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Felt inspired to do a piece inspired by paleoart aesthetics that were common when I was growing up. This is mostly based on a particular one by Mark Hallet, though I think I channeled some other influences as well.

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A small group of diplodocid sauropods walks through an expanse of dry ground, with scattered rocks and puddles. In the background lies a forest covered in mist, and impressive cloud formations in the sky. A few rhamphorhynchid pterosaurs fly by, and a small ornithopod moves away from a puddle as the sauropods approach.
June 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Lightcatcher
(Oxalaia quilombensis)

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An Oxalaia quilombensis (very close Spinosaurus relative from Brazil) crosses a tidal flat under a dark, cloudy sky. The dinosaur has its tail resting or dragging across the muddy ground, powerful arms, long neck and head and a rectangular-shaped sail on its back giving it a kaiju-like appearance. To its right there's a discarded turtle shell, and to its right, a pile of driftwood. Soft light is hitting its sail and part of its neck making them look brighter and more vivid than the somber looking environment.
April 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Only crested birds allowed ✋🏻🚫
#pokemon #artbyjulio
A vintage-style poster showing some bird Pokémon from gen IV in a realistic style, accompanied by labels.
April 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Not 100% satisfied with this piece but it's been a long time since I've made some paleoart for funsies so

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A panoramic view of a red sand desert, with dunes and scattered bushes. Some mountains reach upwards in the background. The lighting is moody and somber, coming from the right side and highlighting a Velociraptor running along the top of a dune to the left of the image. The dinosaur is kicking up a plume of sand in its wake. In a shaded area, surrounded by some bushes, lays a partial skeleton.
April 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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edit: someone on Instagram correctly pointed out that Homotherium's incisors were in fact monstruous
February 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Even though I did kinda jump on the badwagon back when the frozen Homotherium cub was published, I decided to focus on the adult interpretation, though I knew eventually I would like to do something featuring cubs. And here it is! A nice family portrait.

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A momma Homotherium accompanied by her two playful cubs on a snowy field. The animals are rusty-colored with some light cream and white lighlights, mirroring the colors of the environment around them.
February 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Bonus footage
January 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The photo // the photographer
A caracara standing on a beach near the water A distant picture of me crawling on the beach to get a good photo of the caracara
January 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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This baby turned 3 this week ♥️
January 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Going through an art block since the end of last year but managed to do something involving three things I aesthetically enjoy

✔️snowy grasslands
✔️northern lights
✔️cheetah-adjacent cats

Miracinonyx watching a herd of reindeer somewhere in nothern USA, Late Pleistocene

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A cheetah-like Miracinonyx stands on top of a small boulder in a snowy prairie. In the background, a herd of reindeer move amidst a cloud of dust. Beyond them there's mountains on the horizon, and greenish northern lights on a dark blue sky with faint stars.
January 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Haunting sightings of humanoid elves caught on camera
December 25, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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Mer crisis
December 24, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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Had loads of fun making these two illustrations for PBS Eons' latest video, on how Neanderthals were incredibly adept apex predators. #paleoart #SciArt #artbyjulio
A cave lion rests obliviously on a steppe with snow-capped mountains in the background. Behind it, two Neanderthals are crouched, wearing animal pelts and holding spears. A Paleoloxodon (giant extinct elephant) is surrounded by a group of Neanderthals on a field. The Neanderthals are using varying types of clothing made of animal pelts, and hold spears. Two spears are lodged into the stomach of the elephant.
December 17, 2024 at 4:35 PM