Category: commissioned work

Eons Roundup 4

Some more recent commission work for PBS Eons!

  • An illustration of an extinct entelodont, an omnivorous hoofed mammal. It has a hippo-like head and a body proportioned rather like a hyena, with high shoulders and long slender legs. It has cloven-hoofed feet and a short tail, and its body is covered in a coat of short bristly fur.
    Eoentelodon
  • An illustration of an extinct entelodont, an omnivorous hoofed mammal. It has a hippo-like head and a body proportioned rather like a hyena, with high shoulders and long slender legs. It has cloven-hoofed feet and a short tail, and its body is covered in a coat of short bristly fur.
    Brachyhyops

The entelodonts Eoentelodon and Brachyhyops, from “The Hellacious Lives of the Hell Pigs”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trJpxwMGoCw

  • An illustration of an extinct ichthyosaur, an ancient marine reptile. It has a short narrow snout full of rounded teeth, large eyes, a long tapering body, four flippers, and a long tail ending in a vertical fin.
    Tholodus
  • An illustration of an extinct mosasaur, an ancient marine reptile. It has long triangular jaws full of many small sharp teeth, a long lizard-like body, four paddle-like flippers, and a long tail ending in a vertical fin.
    Pluridens

The early ichthyosaur Tholodus and the mosasaurPluridens, from “When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V342aXQs9XY

  • An illustration of an extinct early bat in flight. It has claws on all five fingers on each wing, along with small ears and a long tail.
    Onychonycteris
  • An illustration of an extinct early bat in flight. It has claws on both its thumb and the first wing finger one each wing, along with small ears and a long tail.
    Icaronycteris

The early bats Onychonycteris and Icaronycteris, from “When Bats Took Flight”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWeYCULC0UQ

Eons Roundup 3

Some more recent work I’ve done for PBS Eons!

  • Hibbertopterus scouleri
  • Brachyopterus stubblefieldi

The eurypterids Hibbertopterus and Brachyopterus, from “When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sQXTXbuLYo

  • Plionarctos edensis
  • Arctotherium angustidens

The short-faced bears Plionarctos and Arctotherium, from “The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtsOhmBb92E

  • Panthera blytheae
  • Panthera atrox

The big cats Panthera blytheae and Panthera atrox, from “The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPJnqWke5n8

Eons Roundup 2

  • California Channel Island pygmy mammoth (Mammuthus exilis) and Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi)

And speaking of island elephants, I recently illustrated some for PBS Eons’ episode on the California Channel Island pygmy mammoths:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXwoKEDtdlM

Eons Roundup

This year I’ve been lucky enough to have some of my work featured in several PBS Eons videos – and I even recently got the opportunity to do some custom images for them! Since I didn’t show any of these off at the time, here they are now:

  • Iberospondylus schultzei

The basal temnospondyl amphibian Iberospondylus, from “When Giant Amphibians Reigned”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGthtRZl8B0

  • Lithornis sp.

The flying paleognath bird Lithornis, from “When Birds Stopped Flying”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3h05ajJw0o

  • Nematherium sp.

The ground sloth Nematherium, from “How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt9tBtQoAHo

Happy new year, everybody!