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James-Tarleton
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Irish PaleoArtist, Learning Game Development, Colour Blind
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James-Tarleton @jamestarleton27.bsky.social · 8d
First work of 2026, an Eremotherium going into labour is followed closely by a young Arctotherium.
#Art #PaleoArt #Paleontology #Procreate #DigitalArt #Nature
Eremotherium giving birth in the presence of danger
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Doing some prep work for a large piece that i am planning out.
January 7, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Most wholesome warmup sketch today ... #blessed
A pencil sketch off the video of David Attenborough taking to a peregrine chick which is getting tagged.
January 8, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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I’d love to go sometime
January 7, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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Is that some CM Koseman stuff in the bottom left?
January 7, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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I like the moody atmosphere a lot
January 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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First new #paleoart piece finished for 2026: a super modern, 100% accurate take on Mosasaurus and a plesiosaur.

In unrelated news, I had the spirit of the early 19th-century palaeoartist John Martin exorcised from my house over the weekend.

#paleontology #fossil #sciart #retropaleoart #art
A night scene of warring marine reptiles inspired by the palaeoart of the 19th-century painter John Martin. A full moon peers through a bank of cloud to illuminate two figures rising from a turbulent sea: a long-necked plesiosaur and the spiralling tail and body of a mosasaur (fun historofact: fossils of mosasaurs were among the first Mesozoic reptiles to be put on record, but they weren't restored in palaeoart until the 1850s, decades after other marine reptiles). They threaten and bellow at each other with whipping tongues and clawed flippers because John Martin. A rocky arch can be seen on the right, and a third reptile, its identity uncertain, arches from the water on the left. Go draw some Martineseque Mesozoic animals, folks, it's hellafun.
January 6, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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The Blue Lias
Bleeding plesiosaur with Dimorphodon, ammonited, crinoids on logs.
January 5, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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First work of 2026, an Eremotherium going into labour is followed closely by a young Arctotherium.
#Art #PaleoArt #Paleontology #Procreate #DigitalArt #Nature
Eremotherium giving birth in the presence of danger
January 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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ive been on the quiter side of thing for a while so here is some Spec Evo stuff i worked on a few months ago, some Oligocene dinosaurs and whales
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Quickie little guide to T. rex faces. I feel like I've gotten into the habit of only sharing big final works but let me know if you'd like me to post more of my little sketches.
sketch of a T. rex skull and soft tissue from front and side views. Being able to draw a good T. rex should be a mandatory skill one has in order to graduate art school.
October 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The Kiss

#paleoart #berensart2025
"fighting dinosaurs" fossil reimagined as The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
October 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A Thylacoleo and Her Joey
A Thylacoleo carnifex rests with her young joey in a cave, the joey lying with its head on its mother's arm. Some light shines on the cave floor through an opening somewhere. Thylacoleo was a carnivorous marsupial (sometimes known as the marsupial lion) that once lived in Australia.
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Mirasaura #Paleoart #Art #Paleontology
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Pterodaustro Doodle
June 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!!

today we sketched Himalayasaurus, Typothorax, Lunataspis (i drew L. aurora), and Kunpengopterus (drinking the nectar from a Weltrichia)

#paleoart #sciart #invertart #paleobotany #plantart
a Himalayasaurus has killed a smaller ichthyosaur, it swims away with the corpse still bleeding in its mouth Himalayasaurus is a kind of ichthyosaur (fully marine reptiles with four flippers, dorsal fins, and tails used for swimming), specifically a shastasaurid (a group of the largest ichthyosaurs from the Upper Triassic). Himalayasaurus was found in Tibet and unlike other shastasaurids had ziphodont teeth (teeth made for cutting) suggesting it ate large prey, rather than having no teeth like other shastasaurids a Typothorax is laying eggs in its mound nest, its cloacal osteoderms move away to make sure they dont crush the delicate eggs. Typothorax is a kind of aetosaur (armoured herbivorous relatives of crocodiles and dinosaurs) that possessed an upturned snout and most curiously osteoderms around its cloaca two Lunataspis aurora move towards the camera. the nervous system of the left Lunataspis is visible through its thin carapace, the one on the right is climbing over the left individual allowing the viewer to see its underside Lunataspis aurora is an extinct species horseshoe crab from the Late Ordovician of Canada. it was flatter than modern horseshoe crabs and lacked a fused abdomen, instead its abdomen was made of individual segments much like other arthropods. it was also very small being around only 3-4cm long a Kunpengopterus sticks its tongue into a Weltrichia to lap up the sweet nectar within the cup of the flower-like structure, pollinating it in the process. two other bennettitale branches are seen in the back, all the branches are similar to the genus Kimuriella in growth form Kunpengopterus is an arboreal pterosaur (flying reptiles that flew using a bat-like wings) with a long tail, soft tissue crest, and potentially an opposed "thumb" on its hands Weltrichia is a male form genus of bennettitalian (flower-like plants). most species were probably wind pollinated, however, some were beetle pollinated, it's possible they could've also been pollinated by animals too. the female form genus counterpart of Weltrichia is Williamsonia, which is known from the Tiaojishan Formation, where Kunpengopterus is from. Weltrichia has been associated with the genus Kimuriella, however, no species are contemporary with Kunpengopterus, so this depiction of a Kimuriella-like whole plant is speculative
May 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Happy birthday Sir David :) God ray not added in post I swear.
Sir David Attenborough and Darren Naish at a filming event.
May 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Virtual #Paleoart Gallery Participants (4/5)

Just about one more week to go with artwork from
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Get your tickets here tinyurl.com/4zw5m89e, spread the word & join the event!

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May 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Lunar Colony - Rock TurnTable
#GameDev #Artist #3DArtist #Blender
April 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Lunar Colony - Robot Turntable
#Gamedev #Artist #3DArtist #3D #Modeling
April 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Final UE5 Environment - Abandoned Lunar Colony
#GameDev #Artist #3DArtist #UE5
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"A local river giant"

A revamp of a piece i did 2 years ago. Featuring Baryonyx circa 125 million years ago. England.
April 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Two small ornithischians: the super long-tailed (probably) Leaellynasaura amicagraphica from Eatly Cretaceous Australia and the well known Hypsilophodon foxii from Early Cretaceous Europe

#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs
Reconstructions of Leaellynasaura (top) and Hypsilophodon (bottom)
April 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Fuel Pipe -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine
March 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Habitat -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

Shape language and overall inspiration taken from Paul Jouard on Artstation

(I do apoligize for the weird glitchy look)

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine
March 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Creating an environment based around a Lunar Colony
- Keyboard -
Modeled in Maya
Turntable in Stager

#GameDev #3D #Modeling #Environment #UnrealEngine
March 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM