This is a collab I made with my dear friend trinket_collector (go check his account and follow him, you will find great adopts and cool stuff, plus he is very enjoyable to interact with) about the thylacine. Lineart, flat colours and description are done by me while shading, details and background are done by him.
In the link you can find an extensive description about this animal but here I want to add something more in order to make this collab more varied.
The thylacine not only played a role in Tasmania, Australian and New Guinea ecosystems but it still plays a role on a cultural level. Think about the Tasmanian coat of arms or its use a official logo for the Tasmanian government and the City of Launceston. It is also used on the University of Tasmania's ceremonial mace and the badge of the submarine HMAS Dechaineux. The animal transformed from being unjustly seen as a pest into an iconic symbol of Australia. The best known illustrations of thylacine were those in John Gould's The Mammals of Australia (1845–1863), often copied since its publication and the most frequently reproduced.
The famous pair of thylacine depict them with dark, slanted eyes and threatening expressions. This is extremely interesting from an intertextual point of view because that served to define anything in the vicinity of the East as depraved and other – “a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, the West, ‘us’) and the strange”. Remember that colonial prejudice was prevalent at that time and Northern Hemisphere was considered superior:
https://web.archive.org/web/2009100.....d_head_sml.jpg
Notice the dark and threatening expression of the animal in this drawing of the head when we know the animal was actually very shy and timid. The pair of thylacines that were models for the drawing arrived at Regents Park Zoo, London, in 1850. They were the first of the species to be displayed in a European zoo and great excitement accompanied their arrival. Artists and writers invested their representations of the species with particularly obvious signifiers of the exotic, savage and strange. For instance, the large plant beneath Gould’s ‘head of a male’ is not endemic to Tasmania, but is similar to plant species that grow in tropical environments.
Tasmanian author Louisa Anne Meredith traced Gould’s picture for her work Tasmanian Friends and Foes. Although sympathetic to the thylacine, in a previous book called My Home in Tasmania she commented that a young, captured thylacine “resisted all endeavours to civilise and tame it”. The animal was killed and its skin made into a rug (I hate all animal rugs and if you have one of them, you can fuck off. I seriously can't stand them, total disrespect towards the animal). Her observations contrast with the report of Tasmanian naturalist, RC Gunn: “my living thylacine is becoming tamer: it seems far from a vicious animal at its worst, and the name tiger or Hyena gives a most unjust idea of its fierceness”.
I leave you a study about archaeological findings on thylacine rock depictions in Australia: https://media.australian.museum/med.....6_complete.pdf
EDIT 24/03/2024: I thank Dreamwood for the working links as the previous ones didn't work for him and me too. Thank you!
In the link you can find an extensive description about this animal but here I want to add something more in order to make this collab more varied.
The thylacine not only played a role in Tasmania, Australian and New Guinea ecosystems but it still plays a role on a cultural level. Think about the Tasmanian coat of arms or its use a official logo for the Tasmanian government and the City of Launceston. It is also used on the University of Tasmania's ceremonial mace and the badge of the submarine HMAS Dechaineux. The animal transformed from being unjustly seen as a pest into an iconic symbol of Australia. The best known illustrations of thylacine were those in John Gould's The Mammals of Australia (1845–1863), often copied since its publication and the most frequently reproduced.
The famous pair of thylacine depict them with dark, slanted eyes and threatening expressions. This is extremely interesting from an intertextual point of view because that served to define anything in the vicinity of the East as depraved and other – “a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar (Europe, the West, ‘us’) and the strange”. Remember that colonial prejudice was prevalent at that time and Northern Hemisphere was considered superior:
https://web.archive.org/web/2009100.....d_head_sml.jpg
Notice the dark and threatening expression of the animal in this drawing of the head when we know the animal was actually very shy and timid. The pair of thylacines that were models for the drawing arrived at Regents Park Zoo, London, in 1850. They were the first of the species to be displayed in a European zoo and great excitement accompanied their arrival. Artists and writers invested their representations of the species with particularly obvious signifiers of the exotic, savage and strange. For instance, the large plant beneath Gould’s ‘head of a male’ is not endemic to Tasmania, but is similar to plant species that grow in tropical environments.
Tasmanian author Louisa Anne Meredith traced Gould’s picture for her work Tasmanian Friends and Foes. Although sympathetic to the thylacine, in a previous book called My Home in Tasmania she commented that a young, captured thylacine “resisted all endeavours to civilise and tame it”. The animal was killed and its skin made into a rug (I hate all animal rugs and if you have one of them, you can fuck off. I seriously can't stand them, total disrespect towards the animal). Her observations contrast with the report of Tasmanian naturalist, RC Gunn: “my living thylacine is becoming tamer: it seems far from a vicious animal at its worst, and the name tiger or Hyena gives a most unjust idea of its fierceness”.
I leave you a study about archaeological findings on thylacine rock depictions in Australia: https://media.australian.museum/med.....6_complete.pdf
EDIT 24/03/2024: I thank Dreamwood for the working links as the previous ones didn't work for him and me too. Thank you!
Category Artwork (Digital) / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Thylacine
Gender Any
Size 1288 x 876px
Listed in Folders
Lovely collab! It's always nice to work on art with a friend
Thank you^^
I like them, same applies with art trades. I suggest you to check the link to his page since the description is different from the one you read here^^
I like them, same applies with art trades. I suggest you to check the link to his page since the description is different from the one you read here^^
Grazie, è merito del mio amico la parte dei colori caldi^^
è stato molto bravo, io mi sono divertita tanto col lineart che con il flat colour. Più impegnativa è stata la parte della descrizione perché ho voluto trovare roba leggermente diversa dalle solite notizie. Se vai nel link troverai una descrizione differente da questa perché ho voluto variare e far si di indurre il lettore a vedere lo stesso disegno da un'angolatura diversa.
Questa collab mi ha ulteriormente motivata in futuro a fare una serie sugli animali estinti, ma voglio parlare soprattutto di quelli che non si caga mai nessuno e che purtroppo non inducono nei più "l'effetto Bambi".
è stato molto bravo, io mi sono divertita tanto col lineart che con il flat colour. Più impegnativa è stata la parte della descrizione perché ho voluto trovare roba leggermente diversa dalle solite notizie. Se vai nel link troverai una descrizione differente da questa perché ho voluto variare e far si di indurre il lettore a vedere lo stesso disegno da un'angolatura diversa.
Questa collab mi ha ulteriormente motivata in futuro a fare una serie sugli animali estinti, ma voglio parlare soprattutto di quelli che non si caga mai nessuno e che purtroppo non inducono nei più "l'effetto Bambi".
Thank you for engaging in this collaboration,
and for sharing it with us!
The picture is gorgeous, and conveys a sense of loss and tragedy of these wonderful beasts.
Was this the picture you used for reference, by any chance?
The story about the public perceptions of thylacines at the time they still walked the Earth
is very important and illuminating, and I thank you sincerely for writing and sourcing it!
Two links to the pictures from the University of Tasmania Library seem to be faulty, and won't load for me.
Here are the fixed links:
https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exh.....eredith_lg.jpg
https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exh.....gould_pair.jpg
and for sharing it with us!
The picture is gorgeous, and conveys a sense of loss and tragedy of these wonderful beasts.
Was this the picture you used for reference, by any chance?
The story about the public perceptions of thylacines at the time they still walked the Earth
is very important and illuminating, and I thank you sincerely for writing and sourcing it!
Two links to the pictures from the University of Tasmania Library seem to be faulty, and won't load for me.
Here are the fixed links:
https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exh.....eredith_lg.jpg
https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exh.....gould_pair.jpg
Hiiii, thank you for the working links and sorry for very late reply but I am busy with University courses and exams (I am preparing two exams after passing another one last week hence my deep absence from social media). I did put the right links now.
Yes I did you that image for the frown view of the head because I wanted something that conveyed the idea "why did you do this to me?". I have no problems with lateral view of the animal but a face looking directly at the viewer was something I needed.
You are welcome^^ I plan in future to talk about other less known species who got extinct thanks to human greed, ignorance, stupidity of simply arrogance.
Yes I did you that image for the frown view of the head because I wanted something that conveyed the idea "why did you do this to me?". I have no problems with lateral view of the animal but a face looking directly at the viewer was something I needed.
You are welcome^^ I plan in future to talk about other less known species who got extinct thanks to human greed, ignorance, stupidity of simply arrogance.
No worries about the timing! Real life takes precedence.
Thank you for explaining your creative process,
and I'll be happy to see you make similarly
informative presentations down the line!
Take care!
Thank you for explaining your creative process,
and I'll be happy to see you make similarly
informative presentations down the line!
Take care!
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