Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
Dmanisi D2700. It's been a while since I posted many sketchbook pages, but I'll fill in the gaps over the next few weeks.
sketchbook
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
This is a preliminary sketch for an oil rendering.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
It's softball season.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
Three skulls. These are not to scale -- in reality, Sangiran 17 is quite a lot bigger than the other two.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
I regard this one as unfinished, but I very much like the way the eyes have turned out, so I cropped it. Watercolors and gouache on an Academie pad.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
More little sketches. This is a famous pair. Richard Leakey and Alan Walker used KNM-ER 3733 (Homo erectus) and KNM-ER 406 (Australopithecus boisei) to illustrate the coexistence of at least two hominid species around Lake Turkana in the Early Pleistocene.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
A girl from India, via Flickr. Watercolors and watercolor pencils on pastel paper. It was a work in progress, and then stopped progressing, so I've moved on to other things.
Photoshop web colors
This is off the usual topics, but I mentioned once how poorly colors were coming out when I save sketchbook pieces as JPG. They look great in Photoshop, but saving as JPG mysteriously dulls all the colors. For the Termineander, I overcorrected the colors and got acceptable results.
But I wanted to point to a post on Viget Inspire, The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift. As with all things art, many people have noticed the problem ahead of me. The simplest solution is to set draft view to "Monitor RGB" (the lowest common denominator for the web) and forget the wonderful saturated colors that Photoshop managed to automatically get out of your scans. Sigh.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
You might guess: I'm working on illustrating the lactase persistence story.
Sketchbook
Today's sketchbook:
The Termineander
I took this on at the suggestion of a reader.
Yes, it's a Geico caveman morphed into the ultimate robot assassin from the future. Well, you were wondering how they got all those cranial wounds, weren't you?
Yes, by drawing a robot in colored pencils, I have become the ultimate high school art geek.
No, I don't suppose "Neandernator" works quite as well.
Pages
Neandertals
For years, I've worked on their bones. Now I'm working on their genes. Read more about the science studying these ancient people.
Denisova
From a finger bone of an ancient human came the record of a completely unexpected population. My lab is working on the science of the Denisova genome.
Acceleration
The advent of agriculture caused natural selection to speed up greatly in humans. We're uncovering some of the ways that populations have rapidly changed during the last 10,000 years.
Malapa
Just outside Johannesburg, the Malapa site is producing some of the most exciting finds in human evolution. This site is the headquarters of the Malapa Soft Tissue Project.