Kelenken Is Doing A Lot Better After Some More Work And Support From Super Sculpey Soft. Still Hot Lots

Kelenken is doing a lot better after some more work and support from super sculpey soft. Still hot lots to do, but it's getting there. Decided to go for some larger tail feathers after all after looking at Jack Mayer Wood's @thewoodparable kelenken painting. I'm positive, but I'm also working out more and more stuff i want different with it😬 #miniature #artistofinstagram #artistoninstagram #paleoartist #sculptor #sculpture #supersculpy #paleoart #terrorbird #art #artist #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #dinosaurart #iceage #iceageanimal #kelenken #kelenkenguillermoi #paleontology #supersculpey #wip #workinprogress #phorusrhacos #phorusrhacid #bird https://www.instagram.com/p/B4fQLf_F82_/?igshid=6meiu984l90k

Unicorns! I'm on my way to Berlin for a short week so i nabbed some pictures of my page of unicorns. This feels very relevant atm because I've been looking up horse evolution and trying to find a good point for unicorns to branch off from horses, and through my reseearch I've seen some nice mounts/life reconstructions that seems to be in the NHM of Berlin, so I'm actually a little stoked over that specifically! Anyway, here are two of the first possible members of the unicorn family representing their respective theories on when the split happened. First theory is that of protoceratherium, a small animal that shot off from the likes of eohippus. The second theory is that they split off from the likes of mycohippus, a part of the genus equus, with unoceratherium. Their longer legs allowed them to partake in the grassland ecosystems aswell as their prefered forest bioms, with a better survival chance than their predecessors, and their basal three hoofed legs gave them advantages of stealth and grip on the slippery forest floor. Might do more indepth post on both of these critters later on. Still research and naming to do too🤔 #art #artist #artistofinstagram #artistoninstagram #paleoartist #fantasyart #unicorn #fantasyscience #fantasy #fantasticbeasts #conceptart #creaturedesign #creaturedesigner #creatureart #horse #horseart #conceptartist https://www.instagram.com/p/B3_O-3ZFtWP/?igshid=11u96epssshji

Here it is! Kelenken guillermoi. This apex predator ruled Argentina ca 17 million years ago. One of the largest of the known terror birds, it had the largest skull of any known bird ever! The holotype specimin sported a skull meassuring 70 centimeters, and it might not have been fully grown yet. This callback to the non-avian dinosaurs likely used it's long and well-developed legs to ambush and run down the unique megafauna of South America, dispatching them with vicious kicks, pecks reminiscent of being picked by a pickaxe, or by grabbing them and violently throwing them to the ground, like it's closestliving relatives; the seriema. . Finally! I've been working on this for a LONG time! It feels really good to have the sculpture finished. I learned a lot making this one, and you can see a clear progression from the first model i posted, and this one. This is sort of a re-take on that first model, tho the actual remake of the first one is still early on in the making, being a scantly clad armature for now. Credit to the tagged creator of the skeletal i based it on, check them out, they've got some good sketches! And a later inspiration posted by the amazing @thewoodparable that's more active on twitter #miniature #artistofinstagram #artistoninstagram #paleoartist #sculptor #sculpture #supersculpy #paleoart #terrorbird #art #artist #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #dinosaurart #iceage #iceageanimal #kelenken #kelenkenguillermoi #arksurvival #theropods #toymaker #prehistoricanimal #prehistoriccreature #paleoartista #paleoarte #titanis #phorusrhacos #creaturedesign #prehistoricbird #prehistoricbeast https://www.instagram.com/p/B5X6G6Iljf3/?igshid=o385wtz07t86

Future post... tease? I've worked on the natural, and unnatural, origin of the unicorn for a personal project of mine that I should really work more on (other than frantically writing notes at 3 in the morning) so I can share more creature designs and beastiary entries. Here's a small collage of some headshots, in no particular order, of the majeatic beasties coming up. Fellow world builders..what to do if the only name you have for a world is specific to ONE (1) of the many stories set in said world? #art #artist #artistofinstagram #artistoninstagram #paleoartist #fantasyart #conceptual #conceptart #unicorn #speculativeevolution #specevo #fantasyscience #fantasycreature #fantasticbeasts #fantasyartist https://www.instagram.com/p/B33_vYiFXGu/?igshid=d9vk0gh7r46o

*goes to bed for five years*