Brennan Stokkermans
@BStokkermans
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Artist • Photographer • Birdwatcher. 24 y/o he/him featured in the new book MESOZOIC ART
Joined November 2019
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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When I say I’ve got that dog in me this is what I mean
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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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Remember to give your velociraptor a hug today 🐓 ❤️
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Wait WHAT?!??
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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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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The Artist / The Art
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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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Balaenognathus is basically just a northern shoveler but pterosaur
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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Do 2d animation they said .It’ll be quick and fun they said
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Someone please stop me I really should be studying for exams this is going too far
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Me to literally anyone who decides they want to talk to me today
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Friend of mine convinced me to hop on this trend .Some of this old art is so embarrassing haha
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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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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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who was going to tell me road runners have iridescent wings?!? An already amazing bird just got even more incredible . 📸 by Rick Bowers
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Well it looks like spinosaurids were divided in the same way as ducks I’m here for it🦆
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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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I was today years old when I learned marbled murrelets (endangered relatives of puffins) nest in redwood tree’s!!!
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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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WARNING GRUESOME VIDEO .Photographer is charged by dangerous giant tortoise much violence ensues
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This one in particular makes me laugh every time. He looks so judgmental
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This one tends to be quite popular
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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I think we can all relate to this yellow crowned night heron sometimes
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Let’s make this a trend!. Paleoartists know what we’re doing it’s not all guesswork
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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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“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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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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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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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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Apparently dinosaurs are being “claimed” as icons for particular hate groups so here’s a friendly reminder
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“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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Still quite happy with these paleo anachronisms I did a while back :)
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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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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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Happy 200th birthday to Mosasaurus Hoffmanni and the term paleontology it’s self! .Described and coined in 1822.
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A Great currasow framed by the rainforest understory
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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!
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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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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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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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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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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This piece by @TheWoodParable still remains one of my favorite pieces of paleoart of all time
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His nickname is wormsaber
How can one not love, Leptostomia begaaensis, look at this weird ptero-fellow
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#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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Today’s morning study is one of my favorite birds the green kingfisher!
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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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Since argentavis seems to be a topic lately here’s my interpretation of the largest bird to take flight :)
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"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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A scansoriopterygid with a fully feathered dorsal membrane has been an idea in my head for a while. @VilleSinkkonen’s wonderful new fur brushes and a flight to the Netherlands gave me just the excuse to bring it to life.
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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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Advertise your account with one animation
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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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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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Been excited for this years #GetYourArtUnderwater!!!.I’ve got a lot of new aquatic art to share 🌊 🐟🏝️
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Drop something green from 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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#PaleoAgainstAI . Using AI imagery takes the heart and wonder of out that makes it such a magical genre. It’s the artist behind the image who marveled at an extinct animal now long gone that makes a piece of paleoart so impactful to me. Here is some of my own marveling vvv
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This is probably the most horrible image I have ever created
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“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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WRT w/ 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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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
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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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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