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I am Julio (he/him), a brazilian illustrator and paleoartist, focused on extinct vertebrates 🦕
You can check all my relevant links through my Linktree but here are some cool ones:
Some of my ongoing series are the naturalistic Pokémon posters and the Extended Family portraits, but you can go through my tag directory to find all my content easily!
📧 For licensing and commissions, please contact me at lacerda.julio@outlook.com
Thanks for stopping by!
Então no ano passado arranjei um livro que foi ilustrado por ti, Dinossauros e outros monstros pré históricos: uma viagem a pré história do Brasil e ali pude concluir que você é um dos melhores paleoartistas contemporâneos que conheço!
E um dos mais conhecidos também, toda hora em vÃdeos gringos alguma arte sua aparece para agradável surpresa! Alguém até fez uma série de Paleoartistas pelo Mundo e sem surpresa, tu está nela :D, infelizmente não puseram nenhuma música brasileira de fundo ( um crime contra toda a humanidade, sei)
Só queria que soubesse disso, alguém por aà te admirar e respeitar muito, continue o bom trabalho!
Muito obrigado!! Fico muito agradecido pelo carinho <3
What kind of fruits dinosaurs would have eaten? Why there are so few paleoart with dinosaurs eating fruits?
I'm not super knowledgeable in paleo botany, but most things we think of as fruits are produced by angiosperms, or flowering plants. Those only evolved towards the end of the Mesozoic, and it took time for the reproductive strategies that involve fruit production to develop, so actual fruits weren't really a thing back then. However, there were other fruit-like structures made by non-angiosperm plants, such as the fleshy husks around the seeds of gingkoes and cycads (both of which are still around today). They are mostly berry-sized and at least in the case of cycads, contain toxic compounds that likely made them unedible for most species with the exception of some that may have been specialized and tolerant.
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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Miracinonyx watching a herd of reindeer somewhere in nothern USA, Late Pleistocene.
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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.
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I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??
I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.
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Recent updates to this series: Glyptodon and Thylacine!
OK SO a frozen baby Homotherium mummy has been found in Siberian permafrost and everybody is going nuts (including me). I had to make another installmente for this series with a figurine that has long been debated to either depict either a lion or Homotherium; Despite anatomical details pointing to the latter, there was no record of surviving Homotherium from the time the figurine was dated to have been made, so it was mostly believed to have been a cave lion. However, the frozen cub closes that temporal gap and makes it more likely that this was in fact the subject of the sculpture. So even though it’s not a painting, here it is brought to life.
Two new updates:
A remake of the first ever piece I did for the series, the Megaloceros, given that although the piece of cave art I chose is often labeled as being that species, a more critical look to the antlers in particular makes me think it's a red deer instead. I picked a more agreed-upon depiction of Megaloceros and also took the opportunity to make it a little more anatomically accurate.
Also, birb
Early Bird
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I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??
I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.
Patreon • Ko-fi • Facebook • Twitter • Prints & Merch
Recent updates to this series: Glyptodon and Thylacine!
OK SO a frozen baby Homotherium mummy has been found in Siberian permafrost and everybody is going nuts (including me). I had to make another installmente for this series with a figurine that has long been debated to either depict either a lion or Homotherium; Despite anatomical details pointing to the latter, there was no record of surviving Homotherium from the time the figurine was dated to have been made, so it was mostly believed to have been a cave lion. However, the frozen cub closes that temporal gap and makes it more likely that this was in fact the subject of the sculpture. So even though it's not a painting, here it is brought to life.
Boy & Bear Spooky encounter with a cave bear for this year's Halloween 🎃
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"And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual"
Macrauchenia born with polycephaly, inspired by the poem "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin.
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Would you visit this aquarium?
This is a remake of an old image, which was part of a series on prehistoric creatures exhibited on an aquarium. I may go over some of these again! Patreon • Ko-fi • BlueSky • Instagram • Prints & Merch
Unrestrained Summer Fun
Angaturama/Irritator?, Cretaceous Brazil Patreon • Ko-fi • Facebook • Twitter • Prints & Merch
A beautiful sight for compound eyes
(Eurypterids coming ashore under the recently-proposed rings of ancient Earth)
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