✧ Alaska ✧

Animator / Illustrator

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✧ Hi! I'm Alaska, an animator/illustrator who loves history, fantasy, and dinosaurs ✧

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✧ Commissions | Open ✧

✧ The Paleo Post - Art Shop ✧

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The Paleo Post is a project that combines human history with prehistoric animals! If you're interested, feel free to check it out <3

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Artfight revenge for Darkumbreon92!

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For Diamopiratryx - Artfight revenge

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First Artfight attack of the year - for @byrobird

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Achillobator | The Mongol Empire

Featuring the uurga and the steppe! Wanted this to be more of an action-focused piece.

Art marketing below:

If you want the piece above as a print, it’s available on my website here! You’ll also get a sticker and a letter about the inspiration/history behind the art.

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Junco, Emrys, and Kip - for Artfight

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can I use your art as a pfp on here? with credit of course

Yeah, feel free! And this goes for anyone - if you happen to like one of my pieces and want to use it for something (as long as it's for non-commercial purposes and isn't a piece made for someone else - i.e. commissions, gifts, etc., which can only be used by the recipient), you're absolutely okay to do so :D

And, as you mentioned, crediting is very much appreciated <3

Thanks so much for asking! And for anyone else who's interested, take this as permission!

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Eastern Bluebird!

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Patagotitan / Buriolestes | The Inca Empire

This one was a lot of fun! I directly referenced the qullqas above Ollantaytambo, Peru for this piece (as well as the use of khipus to record information). The Patagotitans are a little too big but I've always liked exaggerating the size of dinosaurs LOL.

Plus a little Stegouros! The patterns in the background are based off of patterns on an Inca tunic, and the base on which the Stegouros is standing is based off of an Inca lime spoon.

This was all done for my mail club, The Paleo Post! Art marketing below:

The Paleo Post is a mail club that focuses on a combination of prehistoric animals and human history - if you sign up, every month, for $10, you get a 5x7 print, a sticker, and a letter that describes the history behind the piece as well as what I was thinking as I made it! It's a fun little way to get something neat in your mail each month <3

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Vintage Magazine Cover | Austroraptor

This was my part of a paleoartist collab! Based the layout off of Leyendecker's beautiful work - genuinely had so much fun with this one <3

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American Kestrel | Raptors of North America

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Hatzegopteryx | The Golden Age of Piracy

For May I wanted to do something about the Golden Age of Piracy! This is technically nearer to the end of it (since it features Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and John 'Calico Jack' Rackham - and they only sailed together for about two to three months before being captured), but I thought it would be fun to work with Mary Read's history (as defined in A General History of the Pyrates, by (pen name) Captain Charles Johnson, which means it's likely completely made up... but interesting regardless). The book suggests she was a disguised Dutch cavalry trooper during the Nine Years War before becoming a pirate, so hey, why not have her horse be a Hatzegopteryx instead? One that she brought with her when she traveled to the West Indies? Of course that part of her past is all conjecture, but it worked so well that I had to include it.

I mean, Azhdarchids in naval warfare?? SOO neat. I want to draw more related to this, but illustrating this ship (sloop, specifically... ish) was KILLER so I might need to take a break before exploring that again HAH

And guess who finally figured out how to do a read more link (art marketing below lol):

The Paleo Post is a mail club (link to the shop here) that focuses on a combination of prehistoric animals and human history - if you sign up, every month, for $10, you get a 5x7 print, a sticker, and a letter that describes the history behind the piece as well as what I was thinking as I made it! It's a fun little way to get something neat in your mail, and you'd also be supporting an artist too <3 Here's the little graphic that shows what's available for May:

I appreciate you all very very much <3

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Spinosaurus Mirabilis | Crocodile Fishing

Looked into the Songhai Empire for this one! It was based on the seventh book of The Cosmography and Geography of Africa, specifically the crocodile section which talked a little bit about how crocodile fishing was done in the 16th century!

Prints / The Paleo Post

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Because I too would cheat at cards if I had as long of a neck as a sauropod…

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Cuju Practice | Caudipteryx

For The Paleo Post this month, I wanted to draw something connected to the Song Dynasty! More specifically, cuju, a game considered to be the origin of soccer (or football). I was inspired by an illustration of Emperor Taizu playing cuju and kinda found a way to shove a dinosaur into it, because that’s what we do here :D

As always, March’s edition is available until the 15th - I’ll share some historical info about the sticker part of it later.

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Taking a short break from my dinosaur + history pieces to do a bit of fanart!! I’ve been loving A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and Lyonel Baratheon with all those stag motifs?? I NEEDED to draw him

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The Tuskegee Airmen | Quetzalcoatlus

Since The Paleo Post (my snail mail club) is about WWll this month, I also wanted to do something in connection to WWII pilots! This piece features Edward C. Gleed and Benjamin O. Davis Jr. both of whom were part of the 99th Pursuit Squadron (Davis being the commander). They participated in the Mediterranean Theater and were also in the Battle of Monte Cassino, so hey! A connection to February’s print!