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Published: 2018-10-28 18:49:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 3959018; Favourites: 2936; Downloads: 570
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Description When I was a kid I was fascinated by these long neck fellas. When you're a kid you don't really think about how strange their crazy necks are, only as an adult did I spend any time thinking about it. I came to the conclusion that they likely kept their large bodies out of sight and sidled their toothy little heads on up to groups of fish. Only after doing this painting was I told thats the prevailing theory on the subject. "Whoops, accidentally did alright" is what I hope they put on my gravestone. Overall I'm quite pleased with this piece, it was a fun challenge to figure out a time friendly method of how to paint a school of fish. Those fish are Pachyrhizodus minimus btw. 

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to work on a new book called Monster Sharks: Megalodon and Other Giant Prehistoric Predators of the Deep  and got to paint a bunch of fun prehistoric sea critters. 


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greatwhiteshark1993 [2023-10-05 15:58:37 +0000 UTC]

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Rajade [2023-06-26 01:01:18 +0000 UTC]

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Cerberus-Chaos [2023-06-24 14:08:27 +0000 UTC]

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ArtPrisma In reply to Cerberus-Chaos [2024-08-25 06:56:49 +0000 UTC]

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Cerberus-Chaos In reply to ArtPrisma [2024-08-25 11:56:11 +0000 UTC]

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greatwhiteshark1993 [2022-10-11 18:39:38 +0000 UTC]

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Jimbowyrick1 [2021-12-04 04:26:09 +0000 UTC]

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shankar2302 [2019-04-01 05:18:08 +0000 UTC]

Stunning..... to think all these fellows used to roam the earth..... 

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jflaxman [2019-03-13 05:48:20 +0000 UTC]

The blurred fish make this even better!

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hannahelizabethh [2019-03-07 04:06:56 +0000 UTC]

nice art

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shockaLocKer [2018-12-05 02:32:01 +0000 UTC]

'they put on gravestone'

whos gravestone?

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KarakNornClansman In reply to shockaLocKer [2019-02-22 11:27:13 +0000 UTC]

The artist's gravestone: "on my gravestone."

Fine artwork.

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Fire-Link [2018-11-21 15:03:11 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work. How's things going?

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Miss-Tbones [2018-11-21 12:55:10 +0000 UTC]

Amazing piece of work!

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Harleydane [2018-11-17 19:21:25 +0000 UTC]

Look at those chompers! I love how you've done the school of fish

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Pookowatchi [2018-11-12 22:41:48 +0000 UTC]

great!

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Dragonstar1278 [2018-11-08 04:48:52 +0000 UTC]

Pretty awesome.

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Blackvegetable [2018-11-06 11:59:15 +0000 UTC]

Impressive! Makes me think of Edward Drinker Cope, the guy who put the Elasmosaurus' skull on it's tail!

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reaper222ofdarkness [2018-11-05 21:08:18 +0000 UTC]

this is cool

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klausiboy [2018-11-04 11:34:52 +0000 UTC]

I think it's incredible, that even after having been extinct for so many years, this, and many other prehistoric beasts can instill terror in the minds of beings who have never even experienced anything like it. Just it's remains many years after it's death is enough to terrify us

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MightyMorphinPower4 [2018-11-03 17:53:43 +0000 UTC]

Awesome

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herofan135 [2018-11-02 18:47:40 +0000 UTC]

Love the details, looks so incredible!

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levelupbuck5 [2018-11-02 04:47:41 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous, as always.

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ThePrimevalArtist [2018-11-01 12:53:37 +0000 UTC]

He’s a fat man

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Saiyanstrong [2018-10-31 22:48:28 +0000 UTC]

Looks wonderful.

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BulbaFriend [2018-10-30 19:54:44 +0000 UTC]

I was looking at the wrong end, thinking it was its head!

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Saiyanstrong In reply to BulbaFriend [2018-10-31 22:48:56 +0000 UTC]

It’s funny, cause that’s where it’s head was originally place!!!

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kaze26 [2018-10-30 17:43:12 +0000 UTC]

Amazing

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12CArt [2018-10-30 17:19:48 +0000 UTC]

 
 BRAVO ! ! !

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DeadCobra [2018-10-30 16:16:21 +0000 UTC]

Quite impressive

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notpongkong [2018-10-29 22:11:04 +0000 UTC]

its funny you mentioned finding a time friendly method for painting a school of fish. i was zooming in and trying to find out how you did it myself haha, did you create a brush or was it more analogue?

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Olmagon In reply to notpongkong [2018-10-30 08:13:55 +0000 UTC]

I'm thinking of South African sardine migrations now

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SyconSenti [2018-10-29 21:02:33 +0000 UTC]

that stubby tail <3

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MonsterKingOfKarmen [2018-10-29 18:14:35 +0000 UTC]

Great Job.

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themexicanduck [2018-10-29 17:11:10 +0000 UTC]

nessie?

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Pterobat [2018-10-29 16:50:26 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful drawing of an underrated critter. Marine reptiles need more love.

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QuirkyBrainiac [2018-10-29 16:38:37 +0000 UTC]

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designjunkies [2018-10-29 16:12:09 +0000 UTC]

This is undeniably beautiful. It feels like it's moving. This is indeed a very thicc boi.

    

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FloridanPhotographer [2018-10-29 15:43:02 +0000 UTC]

Badass.

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jianxiaodu7899 [2018-10-29 15:04:27 +0000 UTC]

excellent!

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44120GGi [2018-10-29 13:38:47 +0000 UTC]

Cool.

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Ravendeviant [2018-10-29 13:23:27 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful work!  I love these guys too!

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rbmagic8 [2018-10-29 12:12:43 +0000 UTC]

STOP TAKING PHOTOS OF ME!!!

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World-Weaver8 [2018-10-29 11:47:49 +0000 UTC]

NOOOOO! My neck is too short, get back here wall of fishes!

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tuomaskoivurinne [2018-10-29 11:11:57 +0000 UTC]

Looks like he's sneezing and the fishies are just blown away. The ones on the foreground eyeballing back, "what the hell was that?"
Great work! I love this collection you did for the book.

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dlambeaut [2018-10-29 10:53:50 +0000 UTC]

I like its skin pattern: Very appropriate in shallow waters with sandy bottom... 

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kuzim [2018-10-29 10:11:53 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous, as always

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TheNightmareCooper [2018-10-29 09:14:31 +0000 UTC]

They look kind of adorable now that I think about it.

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JoshuaDunlop [2018-10-29 08:40:29 +0000 UTC]

Just gorgeous mate!

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RioFluttershy [2018-10-29 08:02:08 +0000 UTC]

Cool ^^

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