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Artist • Photographer • Birdwatcher. 23 y/o he/him featured in the new book MESOZOIC ART

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@BStokkermans
Brennan Stokkermans
10 months
Hello #PortfolioDay !!! My name is Brennan and I’m mostly a Paleoartist who loves big landscapes 🦖 But I’m also a birdwatcher and nature photographer 🦆📸 I’m also currently branching into medical illustration 👁️ If you’re into any of those things drop me a follow 😄
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Hahahaha I have just discovered that baby frogmouths look like angry little cotton balls and it’s destroying me!!! This is too good to be real
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A diagram from the hawk ridge bird observatory showing eye color change with maturity Paleoartists take note - eye color can be very linked to diet, niche, display and age.
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I think I might have a new contender for my favorite bird Wallcreepers are either creepers or nuthatches (debated) from high elevation cliff faces in Europe/Central Asia And wow just look at those wings! So gorgeous
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“Seafoam pass” A flock of Arcticodactylus soar through the waves of Triassic Greenland
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2 years
Remember to give your velociraptor a hug today 🐓 ❤️
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1 year
Horizon: where the earth, sea, and sky meet
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1 year
Wait WHAT?!??
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@jackthevulture
🕸Jack The Vulture🕸
1 year
i love palm nut vultures bc they dont look all that different from other birds of prey but like no thats primarily a frugivore
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“The Hippo Wolf” An andrewsarchus yawns displaying its impressive jaws scaring two Rhynchaeites, early relatives of ibis, out of the vegetation
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2 years
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3 months
Long tailed widow birds look like a red wing blackbird went through a pokemon type evolution
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Nightjars in general are cool but the great eared nightjar by far takes the cake Native to Southeast Asia it’s the largest in the family being the size of a small hawk, with the majestic ear tufts of an owl to boot
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1 year
The Artist / The Art
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@WryCritic
Natalia Jagielska
1 year
The Artist / The Art
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@BStokkermans
Brennan Stokkermans
8 months
Advertise your account with one image 🏝
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@Ourka_Art
Ourka - Inès Rotzinger 🐓
8 months
Advertise your account with one image 🌊
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I just learned that smew ducks are a thing and wow!!! What an absolutely gorgeous duck, look at those neck band lines
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Boat billed herons are some of the weirdest yet coolest birds out there
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1 year
30 min horseshoe crab study
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1 year
Balaenognathus is basically just a northern shoveler but pterosaur
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@JoschuaKnuppe
Joschua Knüppe
1 year
Here now my complete post on Balaenognathus maeuseri, a new ctenochasmid from Wattendorf, the northern-most Plattenkalk deposit. It was a bizarre creature and is known from a fantastic specimen. (🧵)
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2 years
The journey is long here take this dovekie
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2 years
Do 2d animation they said It’ll be quick and fun they said
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2 years
Someone please stop me I really should be studying for exams this is going too far
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@BStokkermans
Brennan Stokkermans
2 years
Me to literally anyone who decides they want to talk to me today
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2 years
Friend of mine convinced me to hop on this trend Some of this old art is so embarrassing haha
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Brennan Stokkermans
3 years
Many people know about the river dolphins of the Amazon, but in the Mekong river of Southeast Asia there is another that is just as amazing! The Irrawaddy river dolphin known as the smiling dolphin due to its rounded face, Is critically endangered with only 92 individuals left.
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1 year
Argentavis magnificens chases down an almost meter long macroeuphractes With large robust legs and a skull adapted for gripping, it’s possible teratorns like argentavis were terrestrial pursuit predators, chasing down its prey on foot and swallowing it whole.
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2 years
Well it looks like spinosaurids were divided in the same way as ducks I’m here for it🦆
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2 years
You all realize arsinotherium still exists right? Art by @MarkWitton
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Brennan Stokkermans
3 years
I think about how amazing the cinematography is in BBC documentaries an unhealthy amount
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“Winter morning” A lone bull Muttaburrasaurus emerges to a fresh blanket of snow. It’s warm breath heated from its large nasal passages can be seen in the brisk air
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Wooly necked storks are true dinosaurs
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2 years
Sketch Vs. Final
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2 years
I was today years old when I learned marbled murrelets (endangered relatives of puffins) nest in redwood tree’s!!!
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Daurlong wangi
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3 years
The largest owl in the world is one you’ve probably never heard of The Blakiston's fish owl is an incredibly elusive and endangered resident of Eastern Asia. They can weigh up to 3.6 kg and and can achieve wings spans of almost seven feet!!!
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1 year
WARNING GRUESOME VIDEO Photographer is charged by dangerous giant tortoise much violence ensues
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2 years
Thinking about how far I’ve come in four years
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Brennan Stokkermans
3 years
This one in particular makes me laugh every time. He looks so judgmental
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7 months
This one tends to be quite popular
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@Malek53382013
Malek | Dungeon Meshi postin | FREE PALASTINE 🇵🇸
7 months
YOU! PALEOARTIST! Show me your art of dinosaurs and people coexisting. (Can be any other prehistoric animal. Can be mounts, pets, an animals that farmers like having around because it helps the ecosystem, or the more realistic dinosaurs hunting humans in spec evo)
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3 years
Just a boy and his murder bird
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3 years
My second animation for fossil Friday! Here’s a little Buitreraptor doing a big yawn I really tried to go all in on this one I hope you guys like it 😄
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3 years
Let’s make this a trend! Paleoartists know what we’re doing it’s not all guesswork
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@WryCritic
Natalia Jagielska
3 years
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“The Rapids” A Wulong bohaiensis displays its gorgeous tail while briefly perching atop a log over a white water rapid in the Jiufotang Formation, China.
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2 years
HOLY SHIT
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Brennan Stokkermans
10 months
Quite fond of the brushwork I pulled off in this one. I should do some more stuff a little less on the side of realism again
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Brennan Stokkermans
11 months
Happy #WorldOceanDay From the Jurassic Tethys sea
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Brennan Stokkermans
4 months
Painting of achillobator for @Beast_SculptKit Painting a large dromaeosaur like this was incredibly fun. I particularly enjoyed the challenge of working it into a cold environment while making sure those warm tones still pop.
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3 years
Happy #FossilFriday everyone! Don’t forget to give your velociraptor a hug today 🤗 🐓
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Brennan Stokkermans
2 years
#Ceratosaurus is trending so have this very old saltriovenator portrait instead
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3 years
Apparently dinosaurs are being “claimed” as icons for particular hate groups so here’s a friendly reminder
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2 years
“A very large bird” Happy final day of #PrehistoricPlanet everyone! I thought today would be a good day to share this albertosaurus commission in celebration of such an amazing show #FossilFriday
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Name a piece of paleoart that had a large impact on you. Mine is this piece by Ralph Herrera Lomotan. I remember seeing it early on as a paleoartist and being so inspired
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Brennan Stokkermans
2 years
Theropods
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3 years
Still quite happy with these paleo anachronisms I did a while back :)
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1 year
The deeper and deeper I get into paleoart the more I realize that it’s all just knowing how muscles work
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2 years
Happy 200th birthday to Mosasaurus Hoffmanni and the term paleontology it’s self! Described and coined in 1822.
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2 years
Apparently a ton of people have posted pictures of them hugging their chickens underneath this post AND TWITTER DIDN’T ALERT ME This is a failure in every way
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2 years
Remember to give your velociraptor a hug today 🐓 ❤️
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A Great currasow framed by the rainforest understory
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6 months
Had the honor of producing the illustrations for this wonderful paper on vegetation openness and composition before Homo sapiens in Europe. Special thanks and congratulations to the authors!
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@elena_pearce
Elena Pearce
6 months
How open were European forests before strong human impacts? 🌳 Check out our new paper in Science Advances! Thanks to the team @JCSvenning @MazierFlorence @SigneNormand and many others, and to @BStokkermans for the beautiful illustrations!
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Brennan Stokkermans
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We’re only four months into the year and I’ve already finished four major paintings I don’t think this have ever happened before! Hopefully the trend continues 😄
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Brennan Stokkermans
1 year
I’ve seen many variations of theropod integument from bare heads to beaks but very rarely feathers all the way down the face. Seeing as they didn’t have beaks like birds I see no reason why this couldn’t be a possibility, so here’s a Tsaagan portrait depicting that. #dinosaurs
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It’s been a while since I’ve drawn an allosaurus
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“Indigo moonlight”
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Getting the itch to paint microraptorids again I still think this is one of my most natural looking works to date
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Cool bird info post! The white eared night heron might be one of the rarest herons with only 60 some observations From eastern China it has some of the craziest eye to head proportions I have ever seen Truly an alien of a bird
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3 years
Me and who?
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2 years
This piece by @TheWoodParable still remains one of my favorite pieces of paleoart of all time
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Brennan Stokkermans
3 years
This is your friendly reminder that there is an animal out there called a numbat Numbats are an endangered (and incredibly cute) marsupial from Australia that fill a niche similar to ant eaters They are one of the closest living relatives to the now extinct thylacine!
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1 year
His nickname is wormsaber
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@WryCritic
Natalia Jagielska
1 year
How can one not love, Leptostomia begaaensis, look at this weird ptero-fellow
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Brennan Stokkermans
1 year
#HumanArtists here who really likes birds and dinosaurs 🦤 I’d like to see ai try and interpret scientific literature into an art piece. Paleoart feels like something it still can’t do as of yet if ever :))
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Corythosaurus disturbs some butterflies while munching
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A fisherman and his halzkaraptor
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2 years
Today’s morning study is one of my favorite birds the green kingfisher!
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Amargasaurus makes much more sense to me
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1 year
The newly discovered Daurlong wangi. What a beautiful specimen, it’s been a while since I’ve flexed my dromaeosaurid muscles I enjoyed this quite a bit
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3 years
Cormorants have the most stunning eyes
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8 months
Since argentavis seems to be a topic lately here’s my interpretation of the largest bird to take flight :)
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3 years
"An Ocean Between the Waves" A pair of kelenken patrol the beach as a great storm approaches blending the sky into the waves as the sun sets. This is my first full painting I've done on procreate! Although I'm itching to get back on PS, it was fun discovering a new process here
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3 years
My two best @Procreate pieces have something in common ⛅️🌅🟣
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2 years
Officially watched both episodes out of #PrehistoricPlanet and wow did it blow my mind! Take one look at my art it’s very clear this is what I’ve wanted my whole life
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I’m convinced ankylosaurs are some of the most aesthetic dinosaurs to ever existed Almost worth figuring out how to draw a billion scutes in perspective
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Caribou study
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Advertise your account with one animation
@aldrich_kia
Kiabugboy
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Advertise your account with one animation
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3 years
Friendly reminder that stingrays are massive. This is the giant freshwater stingray and it is undoubtedly the largest pancake I have ever seen
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1 year
Been excited for this years #GetYourArtUnderwater !!! I’ve got a lot of new aquatic art to share 🌊 🐟🏝️
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1 year
Drop something green from your gallery. 🌊🪽🦎
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@Alariko_
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Drop something green off your gallery 🫡💐🥝
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A series of hadrosaurs and their flying companions I’m sure they would have been sources of insect snacks
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4 years
“Nomads” Two Terminocavus crest a windswept hill in the Cretaceous Kirkland formation. This painting is inspired by both the styles of great north American wildlife artist such as Carl rungius and the plein air works of artist like Edgar Payne. #paleoart #paleontology #dinosaur
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4 months
This is probably the most horrible image I have ever created
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1 year
WRT w/ your blue art 💙🦋🐟
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@JuliotheArtist
Julio the Artist 🦕🌿
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🔹🔷QRT with your blue art 🔷🔹
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In light of ai bros thinking that photography is just a click of a button, share your most creative photography!!! Here is some of mine
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2 years
Seeing small feathered therepods just being …regular animals in #PrehistoricPlanet had me tearing up That exact thing is what made 15 year old me reignite his interest in dinosaurs and start paleoart
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Actually let’s start a trend from this Paleoartists show me your extant animal art vs your extinct ones Extant vs. extinct art
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Brennan Stokkermans
2 years
I find it really interesting how paleoartists art of living animals compares to their extinct ones Stylizations that aren’t based on anatomy come out and it gives a clearer picture of how that artist is interpreting that fossil
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Resharing some of my 2D animation
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3 years
It’s Megaloceras week! decided to jump on the bandwagon and paint this absolute unit of a deer being it’s speedy cursorial self. Big thanks to @Midiaou7 for help with the anatomy coloration and the likes
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Lambeosaurus is one of the most aesthetic dinosaurs
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1 year
Wing studies during a tornado warning today 🌪️🦅
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Brennan Stokkermans
3 years
Happy Halloween everyone! Here’s another piece in which I’ve diversified my style a bit. Depicting an achillobator braving some strong winds from its perch this illustration is very pop art inspired
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2 years
Excited to announce my first piece done for a publication today! This is Marmorerpeton wakei one of the oldest salamanders from the early Jurassic that sheds important light on early salamander evolution Was a joy to work on this 😄
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3 years
“Mirror pool” A Stenonychosaurus (formally troodon) sits on its nest mound as the evening sky spectacularly reflects upon the lake within the prince creek formation
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Based on discussions about therepod posture recently This graciliraptor defaults at an angled posture but leans forward to take his little steps His name is glub
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