#because there's no way on earth i'm drawing a cheirurid in a non-neutral pose with just my imagination and a few top view photos/diagrams

[leaping-laelaps-art]

The Devonian trilobite Crotalocephalina gibba.

Made as a more or less successful exercise to emulate the style of Junnn11, the person who illustrated many of the wikipedia articles on Cambrian arthropods and Paleozoic euchelicerates (and whose art I happen to like very much).

#very accidental lesbian color scheme #i swear i didn't do it on purpose the colors just looked nice #i only realized two hours after picking the colors and went with it #it's not my fault if lesbians have the best pride flag #(perhaps with the exception of the aro and aroace ones - but there certainly is no reason for my opinion on these to biased hehe) #anyway #drawing based on a fossil i have on my desk #minus the appendages of course (those are mainly adapted from Ceraurus pleurexanthemus) #because there's no way on earth i'm drawing a cheirurid in a non-neutral pose with just my imagination and a few top view photos/diagrams #all these furrows and little knobs around the articulations!!! #also heeeeeyy i'm not dead i'm still making art #between work travel and the fact that i've started sketching on paper again over the last 6 months #i haven't done much digital art worth posting #(still hesitating to post my paper sketches on here) #but i do have some cool 3d projects in the works #so i will probably be posting some pieces in my usual style in the more or less near future #crotalocephalina #cheirurid #trilobite #arthropod #devonian #paleozoic #paleontology #palaeoblr #paleoart #my art