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:iconglendonmellow:
A ladybug & trilobite.

Pencil on paper.

Check out the entry about this on my blog.

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Mood: Caring *TheRealMaestro Dec 22, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I love family reunions :-)
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:iconbeeblebroxz:
Wonderful. Very, very cool. Have you considered maybe penciling in the "arthropods" and discarding the digital title? And your name in the corner? Could be epic. Again, very cool.
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:iconglendonmellow:
~GlendonMellow Jun 10, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks! This is from my early internet days when I plastered my name much larger on things than I do now. I may not revisit it at the moment, but noted. ;-)
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~GlendonMellow Sep 15, 2010  Professional Traditional Artist
I just like the kind-of "Encino Man" moment of this.

And thank you.
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:iconfuiron:
Beautiful. It really is interesting to see the differences and similarities between modern animals and their long-gone relatives.
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:iconharris2300:
And the ladybug is thinking: Must be a distant ancestor.

But unfortunately they're only related by phylum alone. Trilobites fell under their own sub-phylum of arthropods independently from hexapods like insects. They were the Paleozoic era's greatest success story but when the Permian period started, their numbers dropped, and when the era ended, they went kaput with 90% of all other life.
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~GlendonMellow Jun 30, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
You're correct of course - the relationship is remote and distant and they did not even share ecological niches, since the ladybug's hadn't even developed yet. But fascinating to contemplate nonetheless, or at least fascinating enough to me to produce this sketch.
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:iconkoolasuchus:
It`s beatiful...

Very simple and it makes me to think...
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:iconjacquelinerae:
Ah! I love it! That's weird, my invert zoo professor actually talked about how cute it would be to see a trilobite meet an extant arthropod.
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~GlendonMellow Sep 9, 2007  Professional Traditional Artist
Thanks JacquelineRae!

Perhaps your invert zoo professor (pity the poor professor hasn't got a spine...oh wait, now I see-) perhaps they and I should be doing a children's book together. The target audience would be ladybug children. Unless we wanted it to be a horror novel, then we could market it for aphids.

I wrote some things about this piece on my site, here:
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