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tanadrin · 1 year ago

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why is all paleoart so stiff and boring? like is it just 90% of what you see is cheap stuff commissioned to illustrate grade-school textbooks. or what? there's gotta be some paleoartists out there just killing it.

#if you accidentally use good lighting or composition in your illustration of the carboniferous period #the Secret Guild of Paleoartists comes to your house and skeletonizes you #before mounting you in a display as a warning to others #a lot of astronomical art has this problem too #especially of like views from exoplanets' surfaces #like i think it's doing a bad job of communicating information #“this is what the silurian might have looked like”#no this is what a bunch of random silurian animals that are anatomically correct #but look like they're made of stiff plastic might have looked like #this may seem like a stupid gripe *and it is*#but this is one of those areas where representational art is still like important #and contributes to the culture!

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