The Ordovician trilobite Hoplolichas furcifer ("Friend of Hercules, scoundrel") in bronze and fully reconstructed in ink. Spiny little tank!

#fossil #reconstruction #trilobite #paleoart #palaeoart #ink #sketchbook #InverteFest

My sculpture on the left (from scratch, no scans), specimens on the right.

Many lichid trilobites have this wonderful carbuncle texture to them, fun to capture -- though I made this before I learned how to not always work in mirror symmetry!

#comparison #trilobite #texture #paleoart

@dadrummond Easily the best thing I've seen all day. (It's only six in the morning, but I'm sure I won't see anything better today. Come to think of it, I COULD just go back to bed.)
@packbawky Ha! Absolutely, quit while you’re ahead. Merry Christmas and thank you!