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Animal Subjects

Illustrations categorized here are animal related illustrations created in realistic style. This type of the traditional science illustration requires a rigorous accuracy in details.

Most of illustrations that I produced here took much time in research before drawing. It usually started from physically studying the specimens at a museum or a university.

Magnuviator ovimonsensis

January 2017

Magnuviator ovimonsensis is the oldest found iguanian in the America. This illustration was used for a blog of Scientific American and a press release of University of Washington.

Owstonia Fish

August 2016

Those fish illustrations were created for Dr. Johnson at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. The study was published in November 2016 at Zootaxa.

Filikomys family

November 2020

Filikomys primaevus is a small mammal lived about 75.5 million years ago in North America. Line drawings of fossils and reconstructed illustrations of Filikomys were used for the paper and the press release.

Didelphodon vorax

December 2016

Didelphodon vorax is one of the largest North American Late Cretaceous mammals so far discovered. This illustration was used for a press release of the Burke Museum and of the University of Washington.

Talpanas lippa

July 2016

Talpanas lippa is an extinct species of duck, so called "mole duck" discovered in Hawaii. This illustration plate was created for Dr. James at the Smithsonian Institution Natural Museum of Natural History. This was used for North American Ornithological Conference and other conferences.

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