American Quaternary Panorama

Armed with my digital camera I traipsed across the snowy fields in our village to take some reference shots of a marshy bit of land next to the cricket pitch... this was the starting point for the scene below. A Panorama of Quaternary North America featuring a few of the animals that roamed the earth then.

Ornimegalonyx, Teratornis, Bison Latifrons, Canus Dirus, Mammut Americanum and Castoroides Ohioensis all feature here. Commissioned by DeAgostini Japan.

odd extinct creatures from Oz

The Tertiary Period saw the evolution of animals which appear at first glance familiar, but upon further inspection reveal themselves as quite odd. Australia was, and to some point still is, no exception to this.


Australian Tertiary Landscape featuring a giant wombat (Diprotodon), giant carnivorous bird (Dromornis), Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo), Thylacine, Yarala and Sthenurus.




I struggled with the composition on this one a bit. I had to include all of the animals (the size of which varies from a few centimetres to several metres in length) as well as allowing space for text overlays.

In reality the other animals would not have been anywhere near the fearsome marsupial lion. I added a waterhole and a recent kill to give reason for the (all-too-close) proximity of the other animals.

Again this image was created for Japanese publisher DeAgostini this year (2011).

Update (or new start)

Hello and welcome to all.

It has been ages since I last updated my blog, so much so that I decided to delete all the old posts and make a fresh start.

I will be posting new artworks , as well as old ones which I think still stand the test of time, as well as some eclectic entries featuring things of interest and other random bits and bobs that I find amusing or interesting and wish to share with others.

A Fresh Start?

2010 saw me returning back to live in the UK after being away for 10 years, not much has changed here, but my portfolio of work has moved on quite a bit, including game art assets (models and texturing) plus digital illustration for merchandising, games and publishing.

Seeing as though I can't seem to find a way of posting weblinks in my profile, I will have to make do and post them here instead:

Game art asset creation for the game "Darkfall Online": http://www.darkfallonline.com
Collaborative website with my creative partner Russell Gooday: http://www.pixel-shack.com
Galleries of additional artwork here: http://www.jfhdigital.com

I will start off this new improved attempt at keeping up-to-date with my postings by showing some work commissioned over the past year. A small synopsis will accompany each image, so, sitting comfortably?.. here we go:

"Asian Tertiary Landscape" featuring
Deinotherium, Indricotherium, Machiroidus, Hyaenodon, Scandentia, Soricidae and a flock of Vultures.

This image was created for DeAgostini Japan in 2010 and reminds me of an 18th Century oil painting of the colonies somewhere...