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LEXLOTHOR โ AE Poppy Field
Published: 2008-06-28 00:48:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 4021; Favourites: 99; Downloads: 46
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More of my paleontology illustration appears in this gallery:[link]
Since my "Alternate Earths" illustrations have been well received I am uploading another.
This one depicts a world in which the K-T asteroid impact never happened and dinosaurs continued to evolve into the Cenozoic.
The poppy field motif is inspired by "The Wizard of Oz"
art (c) John P. Alexander
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I appreciate the amount of details and vivid colors a lot, with the reflective city being the best thing here. The entire scene in general looks like a futuristic Dinotopia.
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THANX.
I drew this in 1981, long before Dinotopia was published. It was a study for a novel that I never finished.
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love it...funny thing, there has been life on this planet sufficiently long for "intelligence" to have developed multiple times over and been eradicated without leaving a trace, so floating disco balls in space for dinosaurs definitely is not too farfetched 
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THANX.
I did the Rapidograph ink drawing in 1982. I created the color version around 2002, so I skipped the 90's.
Check out my main gallery as I have returned to this subject for the first time in decades.
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will do
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Cybertrons!
I kid you. I love your art man, and I went on a fave spree (sorry about that...) But I really cannot take my eyes off your alien worlds and its creatures, landscapes and cities! It's all very beautiful!
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THANX for the faves and watching. I appreciate your response. I have just had great success selling my astro art at Orycon. I already have more on the way and will be doing more soon.
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I've never considered what life would have been like on Earth if key point in the history of the planet never came to pass. Truly beautiful work.
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I tend to consider such "what-ifs" all the time.
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THANX.
The ink work was done with "0" & "00" Rapidograph pens. The original art is actually fairly small.
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So if dinosaur never went extincty they would develop giant cristal soccer balls???
AWESOME!
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Come to think of it, the adult's teeth do look a little sharp...as for 'clunky,' these guys look pretty svelte by 80's standards. I think those cute little pieces of floral headgear threw me off as well.
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I quote LEXLOTHOR; "The structures in the sky were meant to be antigravity habitations within the atmosphere. Were they in orbit they would be subtending shadows that would spread to the horizon."
I actaully find them to be looking like giant soccerballs. Strange, รจh?
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INDEED the floating structures are giant soccer balls. The use of pentagons and hexagons to enclose a sphere is a simple geometric solution to a topological problem.
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Concise, elegant explanation...factor in the Cretaceous period's toothed seabirds like Hesperornis, and it's clear that the divergence wasn't a last-minute K-T affair.
As for this piece...what a striking contrast between the verdant hill and the "Diamond City" beyond...not to mention the twin "Death Stars," although I take it the white beams are more akin to Dinotopia's benign beacon system. Come to think of it, a superlaser platform or twelve would've come in handy for preventing Chixulub-level events.
The foreground trio are elegantly rendered as well...would these be hypsilophodonts or hadrosaur descendants?
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Again, these were supposed to be dromaeosaur derivatives. I wouldn't make them as clunky today.
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they didn't evolve in to birds. really beautiful landscape.what are those things in the sky really look like diamond incrested moons
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There has been a general misunderstanding among the public as to the dinosaurian origin of birds. Highly derived theropods such as Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor did not evolve INTO birds as we know them. They share a common ancestor in the Jurassic that also produced the avian lineage. Some of the problem is that since the time of Linneus the definition of Aves (birds) has been based on a far too narrow a set of criteria. When one looks at the fossil record one sees many different evolutionary experiments that led to dead ends. It is also likely that maniraptors such as Velociraptor evolved from forms as bird-like as Archaeopteryx that secondarally lost the ability to fly as indicated by the shape of the forearms and wrist bones.
The structures in the sky were meant to be antigravity habitations within the atmosphere. Were they in orbit they would be subtending shadows that would spread to the horizon.
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THANK YOU!
But why do they have alien technology?
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The technology depicted is entirely created by the dinosaurs themselves.
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