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Tarzan and the Queens of the Nile

It is 30 BC in an alternate timeline, and the Romans have used a sorcerous rite powered by the time god Saturn to pluck Tarzan of the Apes out of the early 20th century into their own time. They tell the poor ape-man that they will let him return home only on the condition that he assassinate those two troublesome Queens of the Nile, Cleopatra of Egypt and Amanirenas of Kush. Can our two heroines fend off Tarzan’s attacks and then offer him an alternate path to his native time period?

This version of Tarzan, by the way, is my interpretation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s original character.

#Tarzan #Tarzan of the Apes #Edgar Rice Burroughs #Cleopatra #Amanirenas #ancient #egyptian #kemet #kushite #nubian #african #black women #women of color #woc #bipoc #alternate history #fanart #illustration #digital art #art

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Silesaurus

Silesaurus opolensis was an dinosauriform archosaur that lived in Europe during the Late Triassic Period around 220 million years ago. An insect-eater with a body length of around seven and a half feet, Silesaurus has been traditionally considered a member of a sister lineage to dinosaurs proper, but some recent paleontological analyses suggest that it may be a true dinosaur at the base of the ornithischian lineage (the grouping of dinosaurs that includes the duck-billed hadrosaurs, the armored stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, and the horn-faced ceratopsians). Like the ornithischians, Silesaurus appears to have had a beak covering the tip of its lower jaw (or predentary).

#Silesaurus #ornithischian #dinosaur #prehistoric #mesozoic #triassic #paleoart #digital art #art

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How Croissants Were Invented

Ever thought that French croissants kinda look like boomerangs? Well, now you know why!

Watch out, Aussies, for the French might be coming for your Vegemite next!

#humor #comic #cartoon #australian #aboriginal #indigenous #dark skin #black man #boomerang #french #croissant #digital art #art

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Just got a new shirt from Redbubble. Artwork is my own (it's my "Cleopatra & Amanirenas versus the Romans" piece).

#selfie #artist behind the art #artists on tumblr #authors on tumblr

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MonsterVerse Gorosaurus

What if Gorosaurus, one of the giant dinosaur-based “kaiju” from Toho’s filmography, were added to Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse as a “Titan” alongside Godzilla and King Kong? I think he would make a worthy adversary for either of them!

#Gorosaurus #Toho #MonsterVerse #kaiju #dinosaur #tyrannosaurid #prehistoric #fanart #digital art #art

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Hypatia of Alexandria, 2024 Edition

This is another depiction of mine of the scholar Hypatia of Alexandria, who lived and studied in Roman Egypt until she died in 415 AD. A teacher and scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy who also built scientific instruments such as astrolabes and hydrometers, she became an adviser to the Roman prefect Orestes, whose conflict with the Christian bishop Cyril would ultimately drag her into the early Christian community’s crosshairs. Hypatia would face a brutal death at the hands of a Christian mob who had her stripped naked and assaulted with ostraka (possibly meaning either roof tiles or oyster shells), dragged through the streets of Alexandria, and set her remains on fire. Some historians have claimed Hypatia’s murder represents the “death of classical antiquity” at the hands of religious fanaticism, but it should be noted that the mob’s reason for targeting Hypatia had more to do with her alliance with Orestes, himself a Christian, than anything she had taught as a scholar and philosopher.

We do not know much about Hypatia’s background other than that she had a father named Theon, and her physical appearance remains unknown to the best of my knowledge. Although her name is of Greek origin, there are records of indigenous Egyptians assuming Greek names during the Greco-Roman periods, so I believe it is possible that she was of Egyptian (or other African) descent rather than strictly Greek as commonly shown in artistic portrayals.

#Hypatia of Alexandria #ancient egypt #egyptian #kemet #african #black woman #woman of color #dark skin #philosopher #historical #ancient #digital art #art

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Interview with KLA the Wanderer

The YouTuber KLA the Wanderer was kind enough to offer me an interview for his channel wherein I would get to talk about my artwork and writing. Please do check it out!

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#interview #self-promotion

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Deinonychus Attack

These Deinonychus antirrhopus have their hungry eyes on a juvenile Sauroposeidon proteles deep in the forest of North America around 115 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous Period. If the young sauropod is able to shake the feathered predators off and reach adulthood, it will become one of the largest dinosaurs of all time, with a length ranging between 89 and 112 feet and a mass of 44 to 66 tons.

#sauroposeidon #deinonychus #dinosaurs #prehistoric #mesozoic #cretaceous #illustration #digital art #art #paleoart

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Australopithecus afarensis

This is my rendition of "Lucy", a female specimen of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis which lived in Africa between 4 and 3 million years ago, during the Pliocene Epoch. Like all hominins, Lucy would have been capable of walking upright, but her species's relatively long forelimbs and curved finger bones suggest a superior climbing ability to modern humans that they would have retained from earlier ape ancestors.

#australopithecus #hominin #hominid #human evolution #paleoanthropology #prehistoric #pliocene #paleoart #digital art #art

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Gladiatrix Battle

In the Roman Colosseum, our Egyptian gladiatrix heroine has just delivered a lethal blow to her Germanic opponent! Whichever fighter they’re rooting for, you can see the Roman spectators are loving this!

If you’re wondering what those big leggings the German girl has on, they are supposed to be thick padded cloth which some gladiators would wear on their arms and legs.

#ancient #roman #colosseum #gladiators #gladiatrices #gladiatrix #egyptian #kemet #african #black woman #woman of color #dark skin #bipoc #woc #germanic #european #blonde #digital art #illustration #art

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Egyptian Gladiatrix

This heroine would be an Egyptian female gladiator (or gladiatrix) who fights for the entertainment of Roman audiences. The design isn’t necessarily meant to be all that historically accurate, but given that female gladiators are known from Roman records (albeit not too many of them) and that Egypt was among the Roman Empire’s most economically important provinces, the existence of a character like her shouldn’t be beyond possibility.

#gladiatrix #gladiator #ancient egypt #egyptian #kemet #african #black woman #bipoc #woc #woman of color #digital art #art #character design

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Helena Walker from Ark

This is my interpretation of Helena Walker, the protagonist of the Ark animated series on Paramount+. Since the character is from Australia, I thought her darker complexion suggested Aboriginal ancestry, so that's how I chose to portray her, even giving her some face paint to further highlight that heritage. Plus, you have to admit tribal face paint suits the franchise's wilderness survival theme very well.

#ark: survival evolved #ark: the animated series #australian #aboriginal #indigenous #dark skin #woman of color #black woman #bipoc #woc #fanart #digital art #art

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Valkyrie

This is my interpretation of one of the Valkyries from Norse mythology, who would guide the souls of men who died in battle to the god Odin’s hall of Valhalla. I did this as a birthday gift for my big sister Samantha.

#valkyrie #norse #viking #germanic #mythology #warrior woman #european #blonde #unicorn #digital art #art

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Rampage of the Carcharodontosaurus

After having been brought over from the lost jungle oasis it once called home, a Carcharodontosaurus saharicus has broken out of captivity and is now on the rampage in ancient Egypt. It has made its way to a sunlit courtyard inside one of the temples, where the Egyptian city guards hope to bring its menace to a halt to the best of their ability!

Aficionados of dinosaur cinema might recognize this as being inspired by a scene in the 1969 Ray Harryhausen film The Valley of Gwangi, in which the titular Allosaurus terrorizes a turn-of-the-century Mexican town and ends up in a Catholic cathedral.

#carcharodontosaurus #dinosaur #prehistoric #ancient egypt #egyptian #kemet #african #black men #dark skin #fantasy #illustration #digital art #art

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Cover Art for "Sinbad and the Lost Continent"

This is the cover art I designed for my recently drafted novella "Sinbad and the Lost Continent" (which I am currently in the process of editing). Inspired by the tales of Sinbad the Sailor in the 1001 Arabian Nights, it follows the story of a separate Sinbad identified in those chapters as Sinbad the Landsman, who seeks to replicate his more famous counterpart's success by searching for ancient treasures in the lost continent of Lemuria out in the Indian Ocean. Guided by the fierce and beautiful local warrior Nemong, Sinbad the Landsman and his companions must brave not only the savage holdovers from prehistory that populate the continent's wilds, but also peril lurking within their own ranks...

#book cover #cover design #cover art #sinbad the sailor #arabian nights #arab #middle eastern #lemuria #lemurian #black woman #woman of color #dark skin #woc #tyrannosaurus #dinosaur #prehistoric #fantasy #lost world #digital art #art #illustration

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The Battle for Antarctica

It is the 1800s in an alternate timeline, and the Zulu and the Maori are fighting over the far southern continent of Antarctica and whatever riches might lie underneath its ice sheets!

Giving both the Zulu and Maori attire suitable for the Antarctic cold while still keeping them recognizable as Zulu and Maori presented a bit of a challenge, I will admit. What I went with was wrapping their limbs with local leopard seal fur as well as giving the Zulu leather cloaks called karosses.

#alternate history #zulu #south african #african #black men #maori #aotearoa #polynesian #battle scene #fantasy #illustration #digital art #art

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Cleopatra & Amanirenas versus the Romans

The Nile Valley queens Cleopatra of Egypt and Amanirenas of Kush are up against the wrath of the Roman legions! Can our heroines fight their way out of this predicament and defeat one the mightiest armies in the first century BC?

This is of course a fictional “alternate history” scenario I did for the sheer fun of it, but I really like the idea of Cleo and Amani teaming up against Rome. One wonders whether Cleopatra’s Egypt might have held up a little longer with more Kushite support…

#cleopatra #ancient egypt #egyptian #kemet #amanirenas #ancient kush #kushite #nubian #african #black women #women of color #warrior women #ancient rome #roman #legionaries #fantasy #alternate history #digital art #art #illustration