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1 year ago

A digital painting of a Tiktaalik swimming through a river. The Tiktaalik is green and has blotchy markings covering its skin. In the background, two dead trees covered in algae lie in the riverbed.

I just completed this drawing of a tiktaalik :]

I wanted to avoid the trope of depicting tiktaalik crawling out of the water, forever trapped in this liminal space between water and land. I think the images of many prehistoric animals in popular culture tend to be reduced down to one simple thing they're known for, and I want to remind everyone who sees my art that these were real animals with complex lives.