My paleoart images of the White River Badlands fossil beds reconstructions of sabertooth cats, three-toed horses, and titanotheres has just been published in the beautiful book The White River Badlands: Geology and Paleontology, by Rachel Benton, Dennis Terry Jr., Emmett Evanoff, and H. Gregory McDonald, Indaian University Press (Bloomington & Indianapolis) 2015. I just received a copy in the mail, and it is a richly designed book full of the latest research on the 30-35 million-year-old fossil beds of South Dakota. See my earlier post on 6/5/16 about how I painted these mural images for the museum.
Explosion of Interest in Block Diagrams
Pen and ink, colored pencil on paper. I have not posted here in a while, because I am trying to crowdsource funds to write new books and publish them through Patreon.com lately. But when I posted this geology-hydrology block diagram on my Twitter page , it went viral. That surprised me, as this was an old-fashioned, hand-drawn illustration. But it raised some interesting questions about the loss of traditional artistic techniques, and methods of presenting scientific information. Perhaps computer-driven digital graphics still lack something (unless you have a gigantic budget to hire Hollywood film-quality graphic designers). I whipped this block diagram illustration out easily in a day. I started with a rough pencil sketch, using the principles of perspective. Then I traced over the pencil lines with pen and ink. Lastly, I colored in the diagram with colored pencils. On paper. Seems primitive nowadays. But the response from social media has been tremend...
Books look really good and worth reading. Look at the pictures, I hope content of the book would be good as well. Going to get my copy, thanks for sharing it
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