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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸
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Chicago-based paleoartist. He/him. Email for commissions/inquiries at liam_elward@yahoo.com
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I'm Liam Elward, paleoartist looking for work in scientific illustration & paleontology. Specializing in detailed, well-researched digital paintings of extinct & extant organisms.
portfolio: www.artstation.com/prehistoryby...
email: liam_elward@yahoo.com
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Amazing aerial photos of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) by Carlos Gauna, AKA “The Malibu Artist”. Observing via drone is probably the least invasive option and is a new, fresh perspective on a heavily-photographed subject
January 21, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Some pencil studies of the most iconic & feared of all sharks, the great white (Carcharodon carcharias). They have a distinctive "torpedo-shaped" body and bizarre eyes with horizontal pupils
#sciart #shark
January 19, 2026 at 6:14 PM
In my opinion this might be the Megalodon #paleoart that best conveys a sense of scale - it looks appropriately enormous
(by Esther van Hulsen @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social)
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January 17, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Megalodon is such an interesting case in #paleoart - one of the most popular, widely-recognized extinct organisms, w/ almost no direct fossil evidence telling us what it actually looked like. Attracts the awesomebros & shark nerds alike. Spinosaurus is a bit similar in that way
#sciart
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Very rough pencil sketches of extant & extinct (Cenozoic) herrings 🐟

The curvy ones are based on photos of fossils, hence the ambiguous fin shapes
#paleoart #sciart
January 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Just visited the Shedd Aquarium here in Chicago to see & study some sharks in person. One thing I noticed is how big and high the dorsal fin of the sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) is, pretty distinctive
January 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Shoutout to a great artist specializing in marine life, Delphine Mestdagh @delphine-art.bsky.social. The textures and brushstrokes are so inspiring!!!
#sciart
January 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Studying sharks some more…
🦈 #sciart
January 12, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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Liam's been a regular presence in the online palaeontology community for quite a while now and is an unbelievably talented artist whose work you've surely seen before. Support him on Ko-Fi if you can!
January 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 10:11 PM
The #paleoart I am probably best known for on the Internet:
January 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Bringing Extinct Animals To Life: Is Artificial Intelligence Helping Or Harming Palaeoart? www.iflscience.com/bringing-ext...

"생성형 AI가 팔레오아트에 도움이 될까?" 라는 주제의 글. (스포일러: 그딴 거 없다)
Is Artificial Intelligence Helping Or Harming Palaeoart? We Asked The Artists
Scientifically, artistically, and environmentally speaking, there’s a lot to take into account.
www.iflscience.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I feel like artificially-lit deep sea #paleoart is a unique artifact of our time where photography/video of the deepest & darkest parts of the ocean is fairly commonplace and accessible
#sciart
January 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Some pencil studies/sketches in preparation for an exciting commission I can't say too much about 👀
#paleoart #sciart
December 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
One of the greatest wildlife artists ever - Stanley Meltzoff
#sciart
December 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
An old #WIP of the Devonian shark Cladoselache. Mainly referenced the work of Ewa wahine'oniuhinui & Tyler Greenfield to reconstruct this. I suck at shading but liked how it looked at this stage
#sciart #paleoart
December 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I feel like we take hammerhead sharks for granted. They are insane!!! How does this evolve!!!
December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
More Jurassic cycad studies, looking at cones & stems/trunks primarily. There are some fossilized cycad cones (Androstrobus, Leptocycas, etc) and plenty of extant forms to draw inspiration/reference from.
#paleobotany
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Old, probably inaccurate reconstruction of Livyatan melvillei. You almost never see it shown with its mouth closed
#paleoart #sciart
December 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Frederic Edwin Church is my favorite landscape painter for a number of reasons, one being even his unfinished studies are incredible
December 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Cycad cones have deceptively complex features that, for me at least, require me to start as simple as possible and very slowly build in contour & detail.
#paleobotany #paleoart #sciart #WIP
December 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Alexander Semenov is perhaps my favorite photographer when it comes to marine invertebrates. He covers a wide range of organisms and has an incredible eye for color & detail
#wildlifephotography
flickr.com/photos/a_sem...
December 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Glad to see more #paleoart on the timeline of the criminally underrated Triassic allokotosaur Teraterpeton. Still pretty happy with my old reconstruction
#sciart
December 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM