Paleoart by Julio Lacerda

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Hi there! 👋

I am Julio (he/him), a brazilian illustrator and paleoartist, focused on extinct vertebrates 🦕

You can check all my relevant links through my Linktree but here are some cool ones:

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Some of my ongoing series are the naturalistic Pokémon posters and the Extended Family portraits, but you can go through my tag directory to find all my content easily!

📧 For licensing and commissions, please contact me at [email protected]

Thanks for stopping by!

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Some funky looking bugs 'round here 🐜

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POV: you're in the museum's Ice Age dioramas hall

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Foggy morning in Late Pleistocene Patagonia.

Animals depicted are: Macrauchenia, Megatherium, guanacos, patagonian mara, crested caracara.

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Felt like doing a piece inspired by paleoart aesthetics that were common when I was growing up. This is mostly based on a particular one by Mark Hallet, though I think I channeled some other influences as well.

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Lightcatcher

Oxalaia quilombensis

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Only crested birds allowed ✋🏻🚫

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Even though I did kinda jump on the badwagon back when the frozen Homotherium cub was published, I decided to focus on the adult interpretation, though I knew eventually I would like to do something featuring cubs.

And here it is! A nice family portrait.

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Miracinonyx watching a herd of reindeer somewhere in nothern USA, Late Pleistocene.

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Had loads of fun making these two illustrations for PBS Eons' latest video, on how Neanderthals were incredibly adept apex predators.

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I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

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Recent updates to this series: Glyptodon and Thylacine!

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OK SO a frozen baby Homotherium mummy has been found in Siberian permafrost and everybody is going nuts (including me). I had to make another installmente for this series with a figurine that has long been debated to either depict either a lion or Homotherium; Despite anatomical details pointing to the latter, there was no record of surviving Homotherium from the time the figurine was dated to have been made, so it was mostly believed to have been a cave lion. However, the frozen cub closes that temporal gap and makes it more likely that this was in fact the subject of the sculpture. So even though it’s not a painting, here it is brought to life.

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Two new updates:

A remake of the first ever piece I did for the series, the Megaloceros, given that although the piece of cave art I chose is often labeled as being that species, a more critical look to the antlers in particular makes me think it's a red deer instead. I picked a more agreed-upon depiction of Megaloceros and also took the opportunity to make it a little more anatomically accurate.

Also, birb

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Early Bird

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~It's tidepooling season~

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Sick World

Inostrancevia, end Permian.

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I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

Patreon • Ko-fi • Facebook  • Twitter • Prints & Merch      

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Recent updates to this series: Glyptodon and Thylacine!

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OK SO a frozen baby Homotherium mummy has been found in Siberian permafrost and everybody is going nuts (including me). I had to make another installmente for this series with a figurine that has long been debated to either depict either a lion or Homotherium; Despite anatomical details pointing to the latter, there was no record of surviving Homotherium from the time the figurine was dated to have been made, so it was mostly believed to have been a cave lion. However, the frozen cub closes that temporal gap and makes it more likely that this was in fact the subject of the sculpture. So even though it's not a painting, here it is brought to life.

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Boy & Bear Spooky encounter with a cave bear for this year's Halloween 🎃

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"And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual"

Macrauchenia born with polycephaly, inspired by the poem "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin.

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