Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸
@paleobyliam.bsky.social
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
#paleoart
portfolio: www.artstation.com/prehistoryby...
email: liam_elward@yahoo.com
#paleoart
I feel like we take hammerhead sharks for granted. They are insane!!! How does this evolve!!!
December 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I feel like we take hammerhead sharks for granted. They are insane!!! How does this evolve!!!
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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
#paleobotany
December 22, 2025 at 6:30 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
#paleobotany
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
Frederic Edwin Church is my favorite landscape painter for a number of reasons, one being even his unfinished studies are incredible
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
#paleobotany #paleoart #sciart #WIP
December 21, 2025 at 4:27 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
#paleobotany #paleoart #sciart #WIP
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...
#wildlifephotography
flickr.com/photos/a_sem...
December 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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...
#wildlifephotography
flickr.com/photos/a_sem...
New AMAZING reference for reptile/lizard anatomy just dropped and it's open access!!!
The skeleton of the green Iguana iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae) and its intraspecific morphological variation [Rosa et al. 2025]
#sciart #herpetology
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The skeleton of the green Iguana iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae) and its intraspecific morphological variation [Rosa et al. 2025]
#sciart #herpetology
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
New AMAZING reference for reptile/lizard anatomy just dropped and it's open access!!!
The skeleton of the green Iguana iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae) and its intraspecific morphological variation [Rosa et al. 2025]
#sciart #herpetology
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The skeleton of the green Iguana iguana (Squamata: Iguanidae) and its intraspecific morphological variation [Rosa et al. 2025]
#sciart #herpetology
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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After illustrating quite a few ferns, I've now moved on to cycads! Here are some examples of Jurassic cycad morphology. With great thanks to @lepidodendron.bsky.social for his insightful blog post about cycads for #paleoart!
#paleobotany #cycad
#paleobotany #cycad
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
After illustrating quite a few ferns, I've now moved on to cycads! Here are some examples of Jurassic cycad morphology. With great thanks to @lepidodendron.bsky.social for his insightful blog post about cycads for #paleoart!
#paleobotany #cycad
#paleobotany #cycad
December 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
After illustrating quite a few ferns, I've now moved on to cycads! Here are some examples of Jurassic cycad morphology. With great thanks to @lepidodendron.bsky.social for his insightful blog post about cycads for #paleoart!
#paleobotany #cycad
#paleobotany #cycad
While I love the weird & less popular fern types, the family Osmundaceae (Late Permian-present) really have that classic fern look to them
#paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
#paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
While I love the weird & less popular fern types, the family Osmundaceae (Late Permian-present) really have that classic fern look to them
#paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
#paleobotany #paleoart #sciart
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Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Check out our cover article by @timjanicke.bsky.social and colleagues about the role of sexual selection in animal speciation. academic.oup.com/evlett/artic.... The beautiful illustration is by Katharina Bóth.
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More images in a scientific paper that can be described as low quality, of questionable accuracy, environmentally damaging, job stealing and copyright infringing.
Hey, maybe it's time for scientific journals to just stop accepting AI-generated images?
Hey, maybe it's time for scientific journals to just stop accepting AI-generated images?
e.g. to produce these two – which are still problematic – took at least 80 batches of DALL-E 2 generation (each batch making multiple images), and on top of that, required direct editing of the #AI images themselves.
Paper: Magnani & Clindaniel 2023
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Paper: Magnani & Clindaniel 2023
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
More images in a scientific paper that can be described as low quality, of questionable accuracy, environmentally damaging, job stealing and copyright infringing.
Hey, maybe it's time for scientific journals to just stop accepting AI-generated images?
Hey, maybe it's time for scientific journals to just stop accepting AI-generated images?
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it appears plagiorizer William Toosey tries his shit again, that's my Propalorchestes in his "Journey through the Cenozoic".
I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top.
Lots of JRC art here.
I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top.
Lots of JRC art here.
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
it appears plagiorizer William Toosey tries his shit again, that's my Propalorchestes in his "Journey through the Cenozoic".
I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top.
Lots of JRC art here.
I suspect this is just the tip of it. Many of these are just other people's work with a new texture slapped on top.
Lots of JRC art here.
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Do you have photos of sauropods in exhibitions?? Please, share them with me, so we can all enjoy the week with these amazing dinosaurs!
This is the triad of the @mfnberlin.bsky.social: Giraffatitan (middle), Dicraeosaurus (left) and Diplodocus (right).
🦕❤️🦕
This is the triad of the @mfnberlin.bsky.social: Giraffatitan (middle), Dicraeosaurus (left) and Diplodocus (right).
🦕❤️🦕
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Do you have photos of sauropods in exhibitions?? Please, share them with me, so we can all enjoy the week with these amazing dinosaurs!
This is the triad of the @mfnberlin.bsky.social: Giraffatitan (middle), Dicraeosaurus (left) and Diplodocus (right).
🦕❤️🦕
This is the triad of the @mfnberlin.bsky.social: Giraffatitan (middle), Dicraeosaurus (left) and Diplodocus (right).
🦕❤️🦕
More paleobotanical studies - this time the Mesozoic dipteridacean fern Hausmannia. Another example of how ferns during this time exhibited a diversity of forms that can spice up #paleoart
#paleobotany #sciart
#paleobotany #sciart
December 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
More paleobotanical studies - this time the Mesozoic dipteridacean fern Hausmannia. Another example of how ferns during this time exhibited a diversity of forms that can spice up #paleoart
#paleobotany #sciart
#paleobotany #sciart
Continuing my exploration of Jurassic paleobotany, this time with ferns of the family Dipteridaceae. Fossil taxa like Clathropteris have a really interesting shape that for me is pretty difficult to get right.
#paleobotany
#paleobotany
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Continuing my exploration of Jurassic paleobotany, this time with ferns of the family Dipteridaceae. Fossil taxa like Clathropteris have a really interesting shape that for me is pretty difficult to get right.
#paleobotany
#paleobotany
Thought I'd share a thread of artistic depictions of forests, woodlands & jungles that I find inspiring. Please reply with your personal favorites!
Starting with "Ghosts of the Rainforest" - bongo illustration (Paul Augustinus)
#sciart #landscape #art
Starting with "Ghosts of the Rainforest" - bongo illustration (Paul Augustinus)
#sciart #landscape #art
November 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Thought I'd share a thread of artistic depictions of forests, woodlands & jungles that I find inspiring. Please reply with your personal favorites!
Starting with "Ghosts of the Rainforest" - bongo illustration (Paul Augustinus)
#sciart #landscape #art
Starting with "Ghosts of the Rainforest" - bongo illustration (Paul Augustinus)
#sciart #landscape #art