I am Julio (he/him), a brazilian illustrator and paleoartist, focused on extinct vertebrates 🦕
You can check all my relevant links through my Linktree but here are some cool ones:
Some of my ongoing series are the naturalistic Pokémon posters and the Extended Family portraits, but you can go through my tag directory to find all my content easily!
📧 For licensing and commissions, please contact me at [email protected]
Thanks for stopping by!
I just wanted to say, I'm so happy that I looked you up! I've watched a lot of PBS Eons videos and seen your art of "Early Human Running from Hyenas" many times, but I FINALLY decided to look you up and all your art is so good! It's so cool to see that you're out here making new paleo art all the time like this!
Thank you so much and yeah! I'm doing stuff for Eons up to this day (working on something for them right now even)!
I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??
I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.
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Recent updates to this series: Glyptodon and Thylacine!
OK SO a frozen baby Homotherium mummy has been found in Siberian permafrost and everybody is going nuts (including me). I had to make another installmente for this series with a figurine that has long been debated to either depict either a lion or Homotherium; Despite anatomical details pointing to the latter, there was no record of surviving Homotherium from the time the figurine was dated to have been made, so it was mostly believed to have been a cave lion. However, the frozen cub closes that temporal gap and makes it more likely that this was in fact the subject of the sculpture. So even though it's not a painting, here it is brought to life.
Love love love your art!! You’re extremely talented and I love seeing so many species come to life thank you
Thank YOU 🙏
Boy & Bear Spooky encounter with a cave bear for this year's Halloween 🎃
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"And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual"
Macrauchenia born with polycephaly, inspired by the poem "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin.
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Would you visit this aquarium?
This is a remake of an old image, which was part of a series on prehistoric creatures exhibited on an aquarium. I may go over some of these again! Patreon • Ko-fi • BlueSky • Instagram • Prints & Merch
Would you consider drawing pliosaurs
I've done a few!
Unrestrained Summer Fun
Angaturama/Irritator?, Cretaceous Brazil Patreon • Ko-fi • Facebook • Twitter • Prints & Merch
A beautiful sight for compound eyes
(Eurypterids coming ashore under the recently-proposed rings of ancient Earth)
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Mind where you step!
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Wardens of the Clouds
Ornithocheirus/Pteranodon (Geosternbergia)
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Niobrara
Pteranodon, Geosternbergia, Nyctosaurus, Ichthyornis, Hesperornis, Styxosaurus
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I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??
I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.
Patreon • Ko-fi • Facebook • Twitter • Prints & Merch
Recent updates to this series: Glyptodon and Thylacine!
As above, so below
Mamenchisaurus, Jiangjunosaurus, Sericipterus.
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Lucky Find
A Tyrannosaurus finds the recently deceased body of an Edmontosaurus slumped into a creek in the forest. Around them are a softshell turtle, a salamander, a dragonfly, an enantiornithine bird and two small arboreal mammals fighting each other.
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