Wayne Douglas Barlowe designs the best aliens. LOOK AT THEM. NONE OF THEM EVEN HAVE EYES OR PROPER HEADS. FUCK AVATAR I WANT A MOVIE ABOUT THESE GUYS.
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After Man by Dougal Dixon. This book made my young mind swirl with possibilities!
My girlfriend sent me this for Christmas, and it just arrived today! Eeee, it is perfect. Totally going to draw a few of my favorites.
BEST BOOK EVER. I love leafing through my copy. I JUST. LOVE ALL THE CRITTERS. ALL OF THEM.
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The Prismalope and Butchertree from Wayne Douglas Barlowe’s “Expedition.”
The huge, female butchertree pokes her leaf-shaped tentacles up out of the ground until a Prismalope’s flicking tongues get caught on the barbs, then impales her prey on one of her huge arms and drains it of body fluids.
The male butchertree is a tiny flying creature closely resembling one of her false leaves, and will help draw Prismalopes into her feeding range.
This book was the basis for the television special “Alien Planet,” but the mockumentary seemed to have left out most of its strangest creatures. I grew up with this book and it’s still one of my favorites!
I have this book
it’s fucking awesome
there are a lot of sketch illustrations that make it feel like the guy was actually there drawing the things he saw as they lumbered around. It’s written like a naturalist journal, too, so that’s probably why.
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Okay, a little about me. I am Acro - 21-year old female, heteroromantic asexual, artist / amateur scientist [specifically regarding biology], and violin mantis person. Majoring in anthropology. I also like to represent myself with something that is essentially an anthropomorphic, okapi-themed lamp, for no reason other than it's fun.
I sometimes post art I've done. I like invertebrates, natural oddities, surreal / fantasy-type art, robots, guys without faces / with partly obscured faces, and things that have a somewhat old-fashioned vibe to them, among other things, so expect to see a bit of that around. Fandoms I post about / reblog include BBC Sherlock, Doctor Who, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Avatar: the Legend of Korra, Shane Acker's 9, Harry Potter, Transformers: Prime / MTMTE / misc. other continuities, and sprinklings of others here and there. I also reblog things about feminism and gender / sexual identities and other debate-sparking topics, so if that kind of thing annoys you then here's your warning before you hit the "follow" button.
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