Macrauchenia
by Daniel Eskridge
Title
Macrauchenia
Artist
Daniel Eskridge
Medium
Digital Art - Digital
Description
These were once real creatures. They lived during the late Pleistocene in South America and went extinct roughly 20,000 years ago. They don't really have any close cousins among modern animals. At least, that is what I could find in my admittedly cursory research on the web.
This was really my first attempt at creating a macrauchenia image. I'd done other animals for paleo art, but I found this one to be one of the most interesting with its almost alien appearance. In fact, this has often been mistaken for fantasy art or scifi art by some viewers.
I was particularly pleased with how this work turned out. Though I rendered it with computer software, I really like the way it looks like a traditional painting with a great cloudscape and moody atmosphere. In fact, I like it so much that I used it as my windows desktop wallpaper.
This work was awarded a Daily Deviation on Deviant art.
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June 29th, 2011
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Comments (9)
Sharon Mau
. enjoy your amazing work of art and your fascinating description very much Daniel . . wouldn't it be fantastic if these creatures still walked the earth . .
Dean Harte
Bizar Daniel, and the fact that they were actual creatures makes it even more bizar! F/V!
Suzanne Gaff
Love your fantastical digital art! It has a reallife quality to it! thank you for your comment on my Old South Series photo, too! Many blessings to you! Suzanne
Fabrizio Terzi
Woooow..Do u work by night also at digital animation Daniel ?? your Art it will lovely in movement...!! greate work..!!
Daniel Eskridge replied:
Thanks, Fabrizio. No, I don't do animations, I just don't have the time for it.
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