A showcase for the fantastic art and writing of Brandon Pilcher. Dinosaurs, ancient history, and strong and sexy heroines await ye!
Art Gallery
I’ve been doodling since the tender age of five years old. Over time, I have grown more proficient in digital art software such as Clip Studio Paint and Photoshop, although I still rely on my trusty pencil and paper whenever I’m far away from my computer.
This gallery will be constantly updated as I produce more art. Within each subsection of the gallery, newer pictures will be the ones towards the top and left.
Prints for some of these pieces are available for sale on Redbubble and INPRNT in case you want any of them to decorate your wall at home!
Table of Contents
Dinosaurs, Monsters, and Other Wildlife
An Egyptian princess relaxing with her crocodilian companion.
Joaquinraptor on the prowl in Late Cretaceous South America.
A bull T. rex lets out a territorial cry atop a rocky arch.
A brave warrior defending her village from a spinosaur!
Blaxploitation actress Gloria Hendry as a cavewoman fending off a 1970s-style tyrannosaur!
Commissioned illustration of the ceratopsian Lokiceratops wading through a Cretaceous swamp.
These Asante sportsmen from West Africa are on a hunting safari in the Old American West!
A noble knight from the Upper Nile basin on his trusty hippo mount!
A warrior from ancient Phrygia (in what is now central Turkey) must defend his Kushite lover from an attacking Assyrian demon!
Neovenator attacks some Iguanodon in the forests of Early Cretaceous Europe.
An ancient Egyptian lady swims with her crocodile companion in the Nile River.
An Aboriginal sheila goes face to face against a predatory Varanus priscus in Pleistocene Australia!
An alternate-history scenario in which Taino fishermen from the pre-Columbian Caribbean are stranded on the West African coast!
Two top predators of the jungle are about to clash!
Stygimoloch goes up against T. rex in Late Cretaceous North America!
A commissioned depiction of the prehistoric dolphin Kentriodon.
Two bull Stegosaurus fight for the females’ affection!
Tyrannosaurus rex says “RAWR”!
A digitally colored sketchbook doodle of a stalking Velociraptor.
The huntresses Yandi and Benje are about to attack a mighty bull “hornface”!
A herd of Paralititan lumber through the forests of Middle Cretaceous Africa.
A captive Paralititan is on the loose in ancient Kush!
Spear and Fang from Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal have an unlikely new ally from Hell!
A warrior must defend his community’s homeland from a giant python!
A mugger crocodile must defend its kill from a larger saltwater crocodile in the eastern Indian wetlands!
The giant caiman Purussaurus scavenges the carcass of a beached Megalodon on the coast of Miocene South America.
This couple is fighting against a hungry allosaur on some cliffs!
A Neanderthal huntress braces herself against an attacking cave lioness in Ice Age Europe!
These warriors are defending their sacred megalithic circle from a hungry tyrannosaur!
Atop the Empire State Building, the mighty Kong is engaged in his last battle while his bride from Skull Island watches!
A black caiman has seized a saber-toothed Smilodon populator for its next meal in the Pleistocene Amazon!
A Pachycephalosaurus ram is about to butt into the flank of his competitor during the rutting season!
A bayou scene in the Hell Creek region of North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, 68-66 million years ago.
These Mexican vaqueros (cowboys) are trying to wrangle an Allosaurus in a secluded valley!
Zhuchengtytannus subdues Sinoceratops in Late Cretaceous East Asia!
A young Egyptian prince faces the fiery denwen serpent in its lair!
Asiatyrannus, a small tyrannosaurid dinosaur from Late Cretaceous Asia.
Tyrannosaurus rex roars to a full moon on a steamy Cretaceous night.
Kritosaurus gathering at a salt lick in Late Cretaceous North America.
This Neanderthal/human couple has a cave lion attacking them in Ice Age Europe!
Nanuqsaurus, a medium-sized tyrannosaurid from Cretaceous Alaska.
Before early humans ever met the woolly mammoth of the far north, they would have whetted their hunting skills on the elephants back in their African cradle.
A valiant adventuress confronts a fin-backed pelycosaurian predator within sight of some ancient cliff dwellings.
In prehistoric Africa, the huntress Ekan’e and her saber-toothed friend Orru attack a marauding party of Lovecraftian Deep Ones!
A Deep One from the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
In Oligocene Asia, the giant crocodile Astorgosuchus attacks a young Paraceratherium.
A Paleolithic huntress shows some love to her pet Megantereon.
Head portrait of Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, T. rex’s older cousin.
A saltwater crocodile attacks a bottlenose dolphin out in the open waters of the western Pacific Ocean.
Silesaurus, a Late Triassic archosaur that could have been a primitive member of the ornithischian lineage of dinosaurs.
What if Gorosaurus were added to the MonsterVerse?
A pack of Deinonychus attacks a juvenile Sauroposeidon in Early Cretaceous North America.
A Carcharodontosaurus is on the rampage in ancient Egypt!
A gift for a friend and fellow paleoartist mourning having to euthanize his pet parrot.
Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis versus Sierraceratops!
These time-traveling Roman legionaries are face to face with hungry denizens of the Cretaceous Period!
The Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca has stumbled upon the skull of a mammoth deep in the Alps.
Uintatherium has breakfast in the hot and humid forests of Eocene North America around 56 million years ago.
Miragaia, a long-necked stegosaurid from Late Jurassic Europe.
Sinbad and his expedition hide and watch as an ancient Lemurian idol does battle with a mighty tyrannosaur!
Sinbad faces off against pterosaurs near the coast of the lost continent of Lemuria!
The saber-toothed cat Smilodon attacks a sasquatch in the prehistoric Pacific Northwest!
A Melanesian warrior princess and her pet crocodile are defending the coast of Vanuatu from that demon of the deep, Moby Dick!
King Kong must defend his bride from the predators of his island home!
The mighty Kong is ready to receive his bride!
This Torvosaurus has bagged an Allosaurus in the woods of Late Jurassic North America.
Inostrancevia, the largest of the saber-toothed mammal relatives known as gorgonopsians that lived during the Permian Period.
The Hunting Goddesses Neith, Artemis, and Skadi must defend modern Tokyo from a rampaging kaiju!
My fan redesign for the Jurassic Park/World Spinosaurus.
Toussaint Louverture of Haiti must defend his people’s freedom from Napoleon Bonaparte!
Showdown with a shark off the coast of prehistoric South Africa!
Two Allosaurus fight on the plains of Jurassic North America.
Diplodocus carnegii, one of the longest dinosaurs known from a complete skeleton.
A Melanesian huntress is ready to take on the King of Monsters with her primitive ballista!
These Paleo-Native American hunters are attacking a woolly mammoth in Pleistocene North America!
Otodus megalodon, the giant shark of the Miocene and Pliocene, is munching on an early elephant’s leg!
What if we could visit dinosaurs back in their own time period instead of cloning them for zoos?
Perucetus colossus, an early whale which may have been the most massive animal known to have ever lived.
Mosasaurus, a giant sea lizard that ruled the oceans near the end of the Cretaceous Period.
Mansourasaurus, a relatively small titanosaurian sauropod, strolls through the jungles of Late Cretaceous Africa.
50,000 years ago in Southeast Asia, an ancestress of the Negrito peoples faces off against a tiger!
What if they made an Assassin’s Creed game set in the dinosaur era?
It’s a color wheel with dinosaurs!
Dryptosaurus, a smaller cousin of T. rex from eastern North America.
“It’s…it’s a dinosaur.”
An Egyptian warrior queen riding a Carcharodontosaurus.
Simbakubwa, a large flesh-eating hyaenodont from the early Miocene of Africa.
Carnotaurus jogging across the savannas of Late Cretaceous South America.
A male Oviraptor is offering his mate an egg for breakfast while she broods over their own nest.
Stegosaurus cools itself off in a mud wallow.
This American crocodile is ready to show a hapless jaguar who’s really at the top of the food chain!
Euoplocephalus, a smaller and earlier cousin of the armored Ankylosaurus.
My interpretation of the Tyrannosaurus rex from the documentary series “Prehistoric Planet”.
Dunkleosteus, the terror of the Late Devonian ocean!
Two species of the saber-toothed Smilodon, one from North America and the other from South America.
It’s a family picnic for a mother T. rex and her young.
Proceratosaurus, a small predatory dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Europe.
Portrait of Allosaurus in a “painterly” style.
This mosasaur is curious about a pirate ship sailing over its territory.
Conan the Cimmerian versus a T. rex!
Spinosaurus catches a crocodylomorph for lunch in a Cretaceous African swamp.
Head portrait of Tarbosaurus, T. rex’s smaller cousin.
A saber-toothed Smilodon attacks an ancestor of Native Americans!
Dilophosaurus is on the hunt after Sarahsaurus!
A zebra-riding African skirmisher who throws javelins!
A scene set in Late Cretaceous South America, with a pterosaur soaring over a lake where sauropods have stopped to drink.
It’s an antagonism of the antediluvian age, Tyrannosaurus and Megalosaurus!
Tyrannosaurus rex stalking its prey.
Commissioned scene of a Therizinosaurus trying to get honey.
Australovenator goes on the hunt in Late Cretaceous Australia.
A Haradrim warrior on a Mumak from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth mythos.
An Egyptian centaur in action!
Qianzhousaurus, a narrow-snouted tyrannosaurid from Late Cretaceous China.
Aspidonotus clavocaudus, a fictional species of stegosaurid from my fantasy setting of Panjuru.
T. rex is about to crunch down on the hadrosaur Kritosaurus!
Jason Voorhees versus the Beast!
Nothronychus, a North American therizinosaurid dinosaur.
Meraxes, a smaller cousin of Giganotosaurus from Cretaceous South America.
These tribal hunters must defend their territory from a rampaging super-predator!
Polyceratops, a fictional species of ceratopsian for a fantasy setting.
Roberta from Jurassic Park/World roars!
A mother T. rex takes her young for a stroll along the beach in Late Cretaceous North America.
A pride of saber-toothed Smilodon take on a woolly mammoth!
The African blade-fang, a species of saber-toothed cat from my upcoming novel Women of the Plains.
Velociraptor stands perched on some high rocks in the desert of Cretaceous Mongolia.
Megaraptor, a large theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous of South America.
Nanuqsaurus is taking a stroll through the woods of Cretaceous Alaska in the summer.
How our vision of the King of Dinosaurs has changed over the last century.
Andrewsarchus, a large carnivorous mammal related to whales and hippos.
Hannibal of Carthage rides his war elephant across the plains of Italy in 216 BC.
Giganotosaurus, the apex predator of Cretaceous South America.
Thanatotyrannus imperator, a design for a fantasy species of tyrannosaurid.
The sauropod dinosaur Brachiosaurus “singing” through an inflatable nasal sac.
Commissioned scene of a family of dinosaurs descended from the Cretaceous theropod Neovenator.
Brontosaurus rears up on its hind legs to feed from taller trees on the Jurassic plains.
If T. rex could show love…
Archelon, the largest sea turtle known to have ever lived.
Tyrannosaurus rex jogs through the jungles of Late Cretaceous North America (actually a combo of two earlier artworks I made).
Tyrannosaurus rex on a jog.
The head of Ceratosaurus, from the Late Jurassic of North America.
A logo design featuring a jungle queen and her tyrannosaurid steed!
Tupandactylus feeding on a sauropod carcass in Early Cretaceous South America.
A commissioned creature design for a small raptor species.
A Harappan huntress is going after tigers in the ancient Indus Valley of South Asia!
A headshot of Stegosaurus.
A leopard yawns on the bough of a tree rising up from the Central African rainforest canopy.
A silverback gorilla must defend their infant from predatory dolphins!
This Australopithecus afarensis is feeling pessimistic about his descendants…
T. rex versus Triceratops, Jurassic Park/World-style!
Itaweret, from my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony, has obtained a new battle mount!
A brother and sister going out for a ride on their trusty mounts.
Elasmosaurus, a marine reptile from the Cretaceous Period.
The largest animal known to have ever lived, the blue whale.
A scuffle in the swamp between a fisherwoman and a giant croc!
Commissioned scene of a Spinosaurus and Stegosaurus battling in a gladiatorial arena!
The giant lizard Varanus priscus attacks the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki 400,000 years ago!
It’s a struggle in the sky for our heroine between the jaws of a giant pterosaur!
Avisaurus, a sharp-toothed bird of prey from Late Cretaceous North America.
On the plains of Pleistocene Africa, an early Homo sapiens woman must fend off a pride of hungry lions!
This Smilodon fatalis is brunching on a beached beluga whale on the North American coast.
This huntress must lie low to avoid detection by the tyrant lord of the jungle!
130 million years ago in Spain, the finned carcharodontosaurid Concavenator awakens.
50,000 years ago in Pleistocene Australia, a saltwater crocodile attacks the giant monitor lizard formerly known as Megalania.
Deep in the redwood forests of Pleistocene America roams the American mastodon.
A commissioned adaptation of a dinosaur battle scene from the 1925 film The Lost World.
A pseudo-Egyptian queen is going on a hunt riding a mahout-driven Lurdusaurus.
A female knight with an Allosaurus for a battle mount!
Sahelanthropus, the earliest-known hominin?
Head portrait of Torosaurus, a longer-headed cousin and contemporary of Triceratops.
Tyrannosaurus rex is smelling the air for breakfast on a foggy Late Cretaceous morning.
Ostafrikasaurus, a primitive Jurassic member of the spinosaurid family.
Xiphactinus, a giant carnivorous fish from the Late Cretaceous oceans.
Coelophysis, an early meat-eating dinosaur from the Triassic of North America.
The saber-toothed cat Smilodon roars to declare its supremacy over the Ice Age tundra.
These fierce huntresses are attacking the mighty Triceratops!
Concept art for a dinosaurian warrior character.
Nanuqsaurus wishes you a Cretaceous Christmas!
Deinocheirus, a giant cousin of the “ostrich dinosaurs” that went big and semi-aquatic!
“…and those he tasted with the bite of his jaws named him the Doom Saurian.”
My reconstruction of the Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed “Stan” (aka BHI 3033).
The megalosaurid Torvosaurus goes on the prowl in a Late Jurassic jungle.
Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, pterosaurs like this Quetzalcoatlus would have ruled the skies.
A saber-toothed Megantereon battles a tiger on the plains of prehistoric Northeast Asia!
This raptor is looking at you. That is not good news…for you.
Headshot of Edmontosaurus, among the last of the hadrosaurids.
Notiomastodon, a distant South American cousin of elephants
Did you know that elephants used to be widespread in southern China?
These Arab huntsmen’s hunt for Sinoceratops horns has gone awry!
These raptors are hungry for Italian cuisine!
It’s the king of the dinosaurs versus a giant snake!
Dilophosaurus, a meat-eating dinosaur from the early Jurassic Period.
How about a face mask with a T. rex design?
A bull Alamosaurus, one of the last sauropod dinosaurs to roam North America.
This is how T. rex do father/son bonding experiences!
Allosaurus surveys its territory atop some rocky outcroppings.
A Cretaceous forest clearing, with a pair of Triceratops milling about in the background.
Clashing with a crocodile relative high up in the trees!
These Kushite workmen have harnessed elephant power!
This Triceratops sure likes lianas!
Time for some girl-on-Giganotosaurus action!
Ancient Egyptian soldiers stand off against a Carcharodontosaurus deep in a lost jungle oasis!
Archaeopteryx, the so-called “first bird”…
Giraffatitan, an African cousin of the Brachiosaurus, browses for foliage on an overcast Jurassic day.
Glyptodon, a giant prehistoric armadillo, roams the Amazon rainforest in South America.
These raptors are taking on the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex in a battle for predatory supremacy!
What’s better than a warrior babe on a dinosaur? How about two of them fighting?
Something I did to celebrate my 30th birthday…
Carnotaurus, a medium-sized meat-eating dinosaur from the Cretaceous of South America.
She is fending off a giant python deep in the jungle!
My big fan art for Genndy Tartakovsky’s new animated series “Primal”.
A T-shirt design with a Deinonychus warning you not to pet them!
It’s 218, and Hannibal is leading his men (and elephants) across the Alps to punish the Roman menace once and for all!
Mother Tyrannosaurus escorts her young through the jungle in her jaws, much like a mother crocodile.
Deinotherium bozasi, a distant relative of the elephant which roamed Africa between 7.3 million and 781,000 years ago.
Concept for a princess mage on her tame T. rex. This is supposed to be a more “kid-friendly” design, like something you’d see on a Saturday morning cartoon.
Tyrannosaurus rex answers the crack of volcanic thunder with a roar of its own!
Georgius (or Saint George) faces off against the dragon in this interpretation of his most famous myth!
Kamuysaurus japonicus, a hadrosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Japan.
Always be careful when you’re gathering sticky asphalt for glue at night in Pleistocene North America!
Time to put this rampaging rogue elephant out of its misery!
Two queens from Egypt’s distant past, albeit at VERY different time periods.
It’s a big battle within view of the Flaming Skull!
On a misty morning some seventy million years ago. Albertosaurus is about to have breakfast.
An elephant knight guards the border of her savanna kingdom.
Battle of the Sphinxes, one from Egypt and the other from Mesopotamia.
Titanis, the giant terror bird that ruled Florida until 1.8 million years ago!
It’s Godzilla!
Acrocanthosaurus, which would have been the top predator in North America 40 million years before T. rex!
Paradise is about to be lost…
Ankylosaurus in the uplands of Cretaceous North America.
Since Egyptian culture and gorillas are both from Africa…
Brontosaurus lumbers towards a river for drink.
A pair of Pachyrhinosaurus go on a stroll in the woods of Cretaceous Alaska.
They named a dinosaur after Thanos from Marvel Comics…
A retake on T. rex fighting Triceratops!
A Kushite queen rides her royal elephant.
A dragon I designed, with the idea that it would be related to monitor lizards.
Digital painting of a Tyrannosaurus rex’s bust.
Iguanodon sings in the mist.
A probe from another world visits a planet teeming with life…our own.
Beneath the Cretaceous treetop canopy…
A teenage Tyrannosaurus rex.
These raptors are on the run!
Roar with the heart of a T. rex!
Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops duke it out.
Sinoceratops, a ceratopsian dinosaur from Cretaceous Asia.
The eyes of a T. rex glow in the night.
A predynastic Egyptian king on his elephant in 3700 BC.
A “cavegirl” type of character watches a T. rex and Triceratops fight while hiding behind a tree.
Brontosaurus immerses itself in a river to cool itself.
Tyrannosaurus rex examines you with curiosity in its jungle domain.
Tyrannosaurus rex sniffs the jungle for its breakfast.
Allosaurus battles Stegosaurus on the Jurassic plains.
Ankylosaurus, an armored plant-eater who coexisted with T. rex and Triceratops.
Ceratosaurus, a horned theropod from the Late Jurassic.
An African warrior queen shoots arrows from the back of her tame T. rex
An African warrior woman rides her Triceratops through the jungle.
Saltasaurus browses on jungle vines.
Cryolophosaurus in a Jurassic Antarctic forest.
Fish swim around the feet of a wading brachiosaur.
Deinonychus bolts through a Cretaceous jungle.
Baryonyx eats a monitor lizard
Yehuecauhceratops, a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico.
Triceratops, my second favorite dinosaur after T. rex
Austroraptor scavenges a sauropod carcass.
Carnivores Dinosaur Redesigns
Between the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the Ukrainian game development studio Action Forms produced a trilogy of hunting simulation games known as the Carnivores series, in which the player could hunt prehistoric wildlife on an alien planet. The first two games in the trilogy focused on dinosaurs as the game animals whereas the third, Carnivores: Ice Age, switched to Cenozoic animals in a cold polar environment. Since the dinosaurs in the first two Carnivores games were reconstructed according to a combination of “retro” and 1990s aesthetics, I’ve taken it upon myself to redesign them to better mirror modern ideas of dinosaurs.
Parasaurolophus
Pachycephalosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Stegosaurus
Triceratops
Chasmosaurus
Allosaurus
Velociraptor
Spinosaurus
Ceratosaurus
Tyrannosaurus rex
Human Skull Reconstructions
A couple of Mesolithic Europeans reconstructed from 14,000-year old remains found in Oberkassel, Germany.
A colored portrait of the Zlatý kůň woman from Europe 43,000 years ago.
Reconstruction of a Natufian woman from the prehistoric Levant between 15-11.5 millennia ago. This time, I used an actual Natufian skull as reference.
Reconstruction of a female specimen from the site of Taza in Algeria, who represents the Iberomaurusian culture of prehistoric North Africa.
Reconstruction of a Harappan woman from ancient South Asia.
Reconstruction of a woman from medieval Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) whose skeletal features have suggested African descent.
Reconstruction of a mummified ancient Egyptian woman from the first century BC.
Reconstruction of a young man from the site of Nazlet Khater in southern Egypt circa 33,000 years ago.
Goddesses from World Mythology
Hathor, the ancient Egyptian goddess of love, fertility, and joy.
Inanna, the ancient Sumerian goddess of love and war.
Isis (or Auset), the ancient Egyptian goddess of magic and the wife of Osiris (or Ausar).
Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.
Aja, the Nigerian Yoruba orisha (divinity) of the jungle and herbal medicines.
Commissioned T-shirt design depicting the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet.
Commissioned T-shirt design of the Egyptian goddess Ma’at.
Commissioned T-shirt design depicting the Hindu goddess Kali
Human and Humanoid Characters
An Egyptian Medjay warrior defends her temple from a thieving Japanese ninja who has sneaked in after nightfall!
A couple of subjects from the enigmatic ancient kingdom of Yam in Bronze Age Sudan, probably west of the Nile Valley.
An early woman in prehistoric Africa hunts with her best friend, an African wolf.
A bored princess from the Chola dynasty of medieval India resting on her ship’s railing in the Indian Ocean.
An aristocratic young lady from the kingdom of Kongo in pre-colonial Central Africa.
An ancient Egyptian lady being glamorous by the Nile.
My reconstruction of one of the “Grimaldi Man” specimens from Upper Paleolithic Italy.
A Homo bodoensis portrait referenced from the 600,000-year old Bodo cranium from Ethiopia.
Portraits of a Kiffian and Tenerian man from the Neolithic site of Gobero in what is now Niger.
Portrait of a Homo bodoensis woman in my pseudo-painterly style.
Indiana Jones and his fling of the day have uncovered the hidden trove of Mansa Musa of Mali!
My artistic reconstruction of the human specimen “Cro-Magnon I” from France around 28,000 years ago.
Concept for a Bronze Age sniper bow.
A pair of predynastic Egyptian hunters haul a dorcas gazelle on their way home around 6,000 years ago.
A pin-up of Tzipporah as depicted in The Prince of Egypt
Pinup of an ancient Kushite queen and her pet lion.
A Disney-inspired interpretation of the mythical Aethiopian (aka Kushite) princess Andromeda.
A Zulu mermaid with a great white shark’s tail is ready to attack!
Some portraits of women from different parts of the world.
Trying out a more painterly style of producing digital art with my character Luwi.
An Aurignacian woman from Upper Paleolithic Europe is drilling a stick into tinder to produce fire.
In ancient Palestine (in an alternate timeline), an Egyptian scouting expedition is consulting a local, late-surviving Neanderthals for directions through the desert.
A tribute to the mother continent of all humanity.
What if the next Age of Empires game took place entirely in the Stone Age?
Luwi the huntress and her hyena companions are about to take on some slaving Confederates from the American South!
My character Luwi, a huntress with a pair of hyena companions.
A rural woman from the countryside of ancient Kush.
Tribute to one of my favorite childhood computer game franchises, Age of Empires.
A desert huntsman with his tame Velociraptor partner.
A Mesolithic huntress on the lookout for prey in western Europe 9,000 years ago.
An Aurignacian woman decked out in a fur hoodie in Ice Age Europe 43,000 years ago.
Concept for a superheroine named Gator Girl.
A “Cro-Magnon” lady from the Upper Paleolithic of France, referenced from actress Gabrielle Union.
A Spartan hoplite versus a Nuer warrior from South Sudan!
My interpretation of the biblical Moses, protagonist of the Book of Exodus and founder of Judaism.
My adaptation of the ancient Egyptian “Table of Nations” from their Book of Gates.
A warrior from the frosty north and a pharaoh of the sunny south, whose disparate origins cannot sever their bond.
A Proto-Bantu farmer from the region of Cameroon circa 4500-4000 BC.
An ancient Egyptian dudette enjoying the fragrance of a white lotus flower.
A priestess (or mambo) based on those of the West African Vodun religion.
Early woman versus the serpent!
A huntsman from predynastic Egypt prior to 3100 BC.
A Kushite-inspired princess relaxing with her pet!
Commissioned fanart for the game Age of Mythology showing a wedding between Kastor and Amanra.
A primeval beauty inspired by the model Adeyanju Adeleke.
In 3100 BC, the Upper Egyptian king Narmer is about to perform a ritual smiting of his Lower Egyptian rival before a cheering audience!
An Aboriginal Australian sheila wielding a boomerang. Ain’t she a beauty?
Nadjela of Batela is riding through the Central African jungle on her okapi steed!
A coffee mug design showing the faces of Nile Valley queens Cleopatra and Amanirenas, inspired by ancient Greek “janiform” pottery.
Nadjela, Crown Princess of Batela, and her leopard Ishaga in attack mode!
Servius Scipio, a Roman legate who wants to conquer all of Africa with a stolen enchanted staff that can shoot lightning bolts!
Nadjela, princess of Batela in ancient Central Africa, and her pet leopard Ishaga!
Portrait of a woman representing the Red Deer Cave people of southwestern China between 18-11,500 years ago.
Portrait of a man from Neolithic Jericho in the Middle Eastern Levant.
A Natufian woman from the Mesolithic Fertile Crescent sulking in annoyance.
Gaston, everyone’s favorite French provincial hunter, goes to Africa in search of more challenging game!
Bernice Smith, a Tuskegee Airwoman stranded in the North African desert!
This scholar-mage with a enchanted staff giving off warmth is heading an expedition to the farthest north!
Four heroes from the game Age of Mythology are leaping into battle against some mythical monsters!
Amanra and Arkantos from Age of Mythology enjoying a moment of romantic intimacy!
Concept for citizens from the mythical civilization of Atlantis.
Amanra from Age of Mythology in a bikini!
A warrior heroine surfing through the jungle!
In an alternate timeline’s 500s AD, a Maya army from the New World invades Visigothic Spain!
A missionary from the West African kingdom of Wagadu (or old Ghana) is teaching geography to some Anglo-Saxon children in the 600s AD.
In an alternate timeline, the queens Cleopatra and Amanirenas march with triumph into a newly conquered Rome!
A battle between Egyptians and Kushites!
A Neolithic/Mesolithic European couple in love!
Fanart for the Total War game franchise, in which their portrayal of Memnon of Aethiopia leads his army charging into battle!
A Nubian dancer serving the Nile Valley goddess Hathor, referenced from an ancient figurine.
An Aramean swordsman from the Bronze Age Middle East.
A Bronze Age Kushite spearman from 1750-1550 BC.
An aging and prosperous Sinbad the Sailor offers Sinbad ibn Hassan, the hero of my novella Sinbad and the Lost Continent, an investment with which he can use to go on an epic voyage of his own.
George and Ay’vak, the two leads from my rom-com novel My Girlfriend from 300,000 BC.
300,000 years ago in the highlands of East Africa, the huntress Ay’vak has a pride of lions cornering her atop a cliff overlooking a glacier!
After being trapped in ice in the East African mountains for over a hundred millennia, our Stone Age heroine is now rockin’ in the modern day!
A prehistoric huntress wielding a bow and arrow, one of the first of its kind!
An Aurignacian huntress crouches on a ledge overlooking the steppes of Pleistocene Europe 40,000 years ago.
The sellsword Ezegbe has received an enchanted ancient mask to the priest Akhenhotep. And she’s horrified to learn what he plans to do with its power.
An ancient Germanic seeress, or female shaman.
A centurion from a fantasy culture of my design called the Valerians, who mix Roman, Italian, and Spanish cultural influences.
My depiction of “Lucy”, a famous specimen of the hominin Australopithecus afarensis.
Lucy, a specimen of Australopithecus afarensis, without the traditional thick and chimpanzee-like hair covering.
An ancient Egyptian archer.
A man representing the Western Hunter-Gatherers, the hunter-gatherer population of western Europe between 12-5,000 years ago.
My Melanesian warrior princess Vilimaini and her tame saltwater crocodile Aisake.
Gift art for my art buddy Jonathan Price, featuring his martial-artist character Binah.
Portrait of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III, grandfather of King Tut.
“Adam & Eve”, or a couple of basal Homo sapiens in Africa anywhere between 300-70,000 years ago.
A strolling random African woman.
Commissioned piece of a DeviantArt follower’s Afro-British superheroine.
My interpretation of Amanra from the game Age of Mythology.
A Malian queen stands on her palace’s balcony.
The Queens of the Nile Cleopatra and Amanirenas face off against Tarzan of the Apes!
Hypatia of Alexandria, a female scholar and philosopher from Roman Egypt (2024 edition).
Our Egyptian gladiatrix is fighting a Germanic opponent in the Roman Colosseum!
An Egyptian gladiatrix who fights for the entertainment of Roman audiences (2024 version)!
Helena Walker from the Ark animated series on Paramount+.
A Norse Valkyrie warrior riding a unicorn!
The Zulu and Maori are battling over Antarctica in an alternate timeline!
Cleopatra and Amanirenas face off against the Roman legions!
“We can still do it!”
A Carthaginian woman posing with raised arms.
A warrior queen rallies her troops in the Nuba Hills of southwestern Sudan!
Dea Africa, the Roman personification of Africa.
This Egyptian princess is very fond of her pet monkey, but he doesn’t seem to reciprocate.
The Kushite prince Taharqa leads an invasion of Spain in 700 BC! Inspired by a handful of apocryphal accounts from ancient and medieval historians.
Nemong, a warrior from the legendary lost continent of Lemuria!
Enkidu, a “wild man” character from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.
Portrait of Septimius Severus, a Roman emperor of mixed Italian and North African descent.
A female dancer from the Harappan civilization of ancient South Asia.
Aztec jaguar warriors against Malian cavalry!
Velvette from Hazbin Hotel.
Sherlock Holmes and Watson in the Lost World!
The real Encino Man must defend himself from dire wolves in prehistoric California!
Lt. Uhura fielding the latest in Federation martial technology, which they call a “lightsaber”!
A modern-day beauty in a squatting pose.
A happy Neanderthal/modern human couple in Pleistocene Europe.
A defender of the Congo gazes upon horror at one of the cobalt mines her people have been forced to excavate on behalf of the Global North’s consumer electronics industry.
Aboriginal warriors must defend the land down under from marauding Knights Templar!
Three goddesses of hunting, the Greek Artemis, the Egyptian Neith, and the Norse Skadi.
Modern-day versions of the hunting goddesses Artemis, Neith, and Skadi.
An African fisherwoman sunbathing on some coastal rocks.
This early 19th century Haitian voodoo priestess has uncovered the remains of one of the island’s past apex predators, hoping to resurrect it on behalf of her people against their oppressors.
Captain Jack Sparrow and his local guide (and also current inamorata) are probing for treasure among the ruins of Skull Island, but they’re about to have unwelcome company!
In Pleistocene Europe, a Neanderthal trader offers some furs to an Aurignacian modern human couple.
A female member of the Neanderthal species from prehistoric Europe.
A female Homo bodoensis, an ancestress of modern Homo sapiens, is throwing a spear!
An Olmec warrior defends his home from Egyptian interlopers!
Halawa the Moorish princess encounters a fire-breathing dragon!
A full-body design of my “Moorish Maiden” character. I think I will name her Halawa.
A scimitar-wielding Moorish maiden!
Twosret, the last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt’s Nineteenth Dynasty.
A spooky woman with a skeletal motif.
Col. William Struthers, a villainous British colonel character of mine.
Jack Erwin, the diamond-prospecting male lead from a short story of mine set in British East Africa circa 1896 AD.
A character of mine named Anyango, who is from British East Africa during the late 19th century.
A birthday gift I did for a buddy of mine which shows him as an ancient Carthaginian general.
This huntress from the Lupemban culture of prehistoric Central Africa is ready for the kill!
An Aboriginal Australian hunter with a boomerang.
A huntress of the Lupemban culture from Central Africa over 265,000 years ago.
A commissioned artwork I did of a middle-aged North African woman.
Out on the plains of ancient West Africa, this huntress is aiming her shot with her loyal hyena beside her.
My interpretation of Katara from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Drazhan and Ruva, from my novelette The Slave Prince of Zimbabwe, in a moment of intimacy.
Concept for a traveling mercenary character, mixing elements of Egyptian and Chinese cultures.
Queen Kassi of Mali, the wife of the Mansa Suleyman. His infidelity toward her sparked a civil war around 1352!
Hagar, an enslaved Egyptian woman from the biblical Book of Genesis.
Medea, a mythical princess and prophetess from the land of Colchis (now modern Georgia).
Ungu, an ancestral East Eurasian woman from prehistoric Southeast Asia, and a Denisovan child she has rescued named Tomtuk.
Intrepid archaeologist Latonya Coleman ventures into a canyon in the American Southwest.
This beach beauty’s bikini has a “Black American Heritage Flag” theme.
A Negrito woman from prehistoric Taiwan prior to 6,000 years ago, predating the island’s Proto-Austronesian and then Chinese colonists.
“That’s not a knife. This is a knife.”
Nyanja, my dinosaur-fighting jungle girl heroine, leaps into battle!
A horseman from the empire of Mali in medieval West Africa.
Hatshepsut, who is perhaps my favorite Pharaoh in all ancient Egyptian history.
Homo bodoensis, the immediate ancestor to modern humans that lived 500,000 years ago.
A second beach beauty.
A beauty in her beach outfit!
This jungle dude has a heavy “Tarzan” inspiration, of course.
Another artwork of my rhino-riding warrior woman, whom I’ve named Wangari of the Urewe (her mount’s name is Kimani).
In ancient East Africa, this rhino-riding warrior is defending her home from intruding marauders!
A young beauty from ancient Kush, with a papyrus texture effect applied to the portrait.
Portrait of a woman from Kemet (ancient Egypt) looking over her shoulder.
An ancient Sumerian war wagon drawn by onagers.
A Roman centurion, an officer who would have commanded a unit of one hundred legionaries.
Masinissa, the first king of the ancient North African civilization of Numidia (2023 redraw).
Ibn Tumart, a North African Muslim religious preacher who founded the Almohad movement that wrested control of the region in the 1100s AD.
A guard representing the Nabatean civilization of pre-Islamic Arabia.
Cleopatra and Amanirenas have discovered the Brood of Apep, a clutch of old “dragon eggs”!
Samurai Jack, one of my favorite cartoon characters of all time!
Princesses Cleopatra and Amanirenas must flee hostile Libyan tribesmen out in the Egyptian desert!
A soldier from Agisymba, an obscure African country which the Roman geographer Ptolemy mentioned in his work “Geography”.
A girl from the 1920s, the age of silent movies, jazz music, and all the gangsters in the hood fighting over a completely different illegal mind-altering substance than they do today.
A pair of Neolithic Egyptians gazes upon the Nile Valley for the first time from the vantage of the Saharan plains.
Zuko, Lord of the Fire Nation!
Itaweret, the heroine of my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony, takes a rest on some rocks in the Greek countryside.
A Neanderthal huntsman from prehistoric Europe.
A simple pin-up of a woman bending over.
Latonya Coleman, my archaeologist heroine, as seen from behind.
A bowman from the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ancient Mesopotamia.
The Egyptian Queen Nefertari is catching some balmy evening rays!
Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II “the Great” in military getup.
Sukamek, a supporting character of Native American heritage from my novella Carthage Atlantica.
A Varangian guardsman, one of an elite bodyguard of Viking warriors who protected the Byzantine emperor in medieval times.
Arsinoe IV, Cleopatra’s younger sister (and rival for the Ptolemaic Egyptian throne).
An Aboriginal Australian huntress.
My portrait of the Shulamite, the “dark and comely” heroine of the Biblical Song of Songs.
Ancient Sabaeans, a people of pre-Islamic southern Arabia.
Othello the Moor, one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragic heroes.
Ezana of Aksum, the first Ethiopian king to convert to Christianity.
Our warrior heroine has come under attack from hungry chimpanzees!
My interpretation of Dolores from the fighting game The King of Fighters XV.
This Negrito huntress from prehistoric Southeast Asia is hunting with her tame tiger companion.
Adventure awaits her!
An Egyptian queen’s profile in Egyptian style!
The hunters Nyanja and Bombo are trekking through the jungle in search of game.
Imhotep, ancient Egypt’s most famous architect, stands before the funerary complex he designed for the Pharaoh Djoser.
Even the most proficient warriors must keep their skills sharp with regular practice.
A simple depiction of an ancient Egyptian soldier about to thrust his spear.
Yusuf ibn Tashufin of the Almoravid dynasty and his queen Zaynab, who ruled an empire spanning North Africa and Iberia in the 1000s AD.
Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan explorer who was one of the most well-traveled men in medieval history.
Arishat, an ancient Carthaginian character from my novella Carthage Atlantica, selling some of her homemade textiles.
Moremi Ajasora, a legendary queen of the Yoruba kingdom of Ife in Nigeria.
My take on the biblical Esther, the titular heroine of the Book of Esther.
The biblical David, king of ancient Israel in what is now Palestine.
The Egyptian goddess Isis spreads her wings out.
A priestess from ancient Carthage officiates a ritual in honor of the goddess Tanit.
Cleopatra just standing there chillin’.
The Vikings and Zulu have finally put their grievances aside and made peace!
A Zulu sangoma, or priestess-healer.
This Zulu warrior is about to deliver the killing blow to his Viking opponent!
Vikings versus Zulu!
An agojie, or female soldier, from the West African kingdom of Dahomey.
My interpretation of the Little Mermaid from Hans Christian Andersen’s tragic fairy tale.
A woman of mixed modern human and Neanderthal ancestry in Pleistocene Europe.
This princess is cooling off during a hot summer day!
A Natufian woman from prehistoric West Asia circa 15,000 to 11,500 years ago is deep in thought while gazing upon the landscape.
Nyanja charges back at her attackers with her knife of saurian ivory drawn!
A warrior from the Nok culture of ancient Nigeria, 1500 BC to 500 AD.
Karen Cunningham, an English socialite and heiress who is my archaeologist heroine Latonya Coleman’s nemesis.
My archaeologist heroine Latonya gives her colleague and boyfriend Scott a kiss.
Latonya Coleman the archaeologist hides in some Maya ruins to escape notice from a prowling T. rex!
An Anglo-Saxon warrior from the early medieval period in Britain.
The archaeologist Latonya Coleman must fend off a pack of hungry hyenas in the plains of the Ivory Coast!
Meet Latonya Coleman, the tomb savior!
This ancient Egyptian girl is supposed to be giggling at something.
Did you know that Pocahontas would have really been around twelve years old when she first met the Jamestown colonists?
The professional assassin Maia of Alodia aims her arrow in feudal Japan!
She has a leopard by the throat!
A Sherden warrior in ancient Egypt is enjoying his time with his native Egyptian wife.
A loving couple representing two populations of prehistoric America, “Population Y” and early Native Americans.
30,000 years ago in the American Southwest, a woman representing the enigmatic “Population Y” stands with her tame bald eagle.
An archer from the kingdom of Kongo in central Africa.
A dancer from ancient Carthage beats a frame drum while shaking her stuff!
A 19th-century British cyborg colonel!
Wadjet and Nekhbet, guardian goddesses of ancient Egypt.
Think of these two as a special sort of “Indian” couple (colored version)!
My Egyptian war chariot now has a background to ride through!
Nyanja, a fierce warrior woman from an even fiercer world.
Meritaten, an Egyptian princess whose father was the “heretical” Pharaoh Akhenaten.
A 2022 depiction of Amanirenas, the Kushite warrior queen known for fighting the Roman legions in the first century BC.
It is 200 BC in an alternate timeline, and these travelers from ancient Carthage have discovered a whole new world across the Atlantic Ocean…
Isceradin and Arishat, my two characters from ancient Carthage, enjoy an intimate moment with one another.
A couple from ancient Carthage. The man is of Iberian descent and the woman is native North African.
Hathor, the ancient Egyptian goddess of love and sexuality, fertility, and joy.
A princess from the medieval West African empire of Mali.
Rajaraja I, one of the mightiest rulers of the Chola dynasty in medieval southern India.
Two “genitour” cavalrymen from medieval North Africa.
Antalas, a North African chieftain who fought the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century AD.
Andromeda, princess of Kush, watches Perseus rescue her from the sea monster in this scene from Greek myth.
The daughter of Pharaoh rescues and adopts baby Moses.
A pre-Columbian Maya queen.
A pre-Columbian Maya ruler, or ahau.
Queen Merneith of the Egyptian First Dynasty, possibly the second woman in history to rule the kingdom as regent.
What if Tarzan were of native African descent?
A swordsman from the pre-colonial West African kingdom of Benin.
Two Kushite spearmen standing guard at a temple entrance.
Portrait of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun, aka “King Tut”.
Grayscale version of my illustration for “The Black Cross”.
Colored version of my “The Black Cross” illustration.
This one’s supposed to have an old-fashioned film noir vibe.
Salammbo, the Carthaginian priestess from Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel of the same name, dances with a sacred python.
She is one gangsta girl!
Sobekneferu, a female Pharaoh whose reign marked the end of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom.
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Three characters from a novel of mine set in prehistoric Africa around 100,000 years ago.
Itaweret and Takhaet, two of my ancient Egyptian heroines, greeting one another!
Takhaet, my Egyptian warrior character, in a crouching pose.
Another artwork of that North African huntress character, this time done on my own initiative.
Commissioned artwork of a North African huntress with a club.
Medusa, the snake-haired monster-woman from Greek mythology.
The “mother and child” artistic motif over time, beginning in prehistoric Africa and evolving into the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.
A Roman legionary armed with a pilum (javelin).
A commissioned African warrior queen I did for an Italian author who wanted a character illustration for one of his books.
A huntress from the Sao civilization of ancient Chad.
A second version of my Sao Huntress, for those people who don’t appreciate artistic nudity.
She’s a daring young woman on the swinging liana.
Few things in life are more comfortable than the warm embrace of a loved one.
Admiral Nensela of Kush, from my short story Scorpions of the Sea.
Yasmina bint Faruq, from my short story Scorpions of the Sea.
Salammbo, a Carthaginian priestess who is the titular character of an 1862 historical-fiction novel by Gustave Flaubert.
An ancient Egyptian war chariot!
A warrior is patrolling the jungle with her pet Kaprosuchus.
A front-view facial portrait of Mut, the “Mother Goddess” of the ancient Egyptian pantheon.
Gift art I did to cheer up a friend of mine.
Bek, from my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony, is armed to defend the Egyptian colony of Per-Pehu!
Oja, my character from Paleolithic Africa, has her knife drawn out for combat!
Andromeda, the mythical princess of Aethiopia, stands on the shore of the Red Sea alongside her kingdom.
These Northeast African hunters represent the prehistoric ancestors of Afrasan- (or Afroasiatic) speaking peoples, who have since spread over northern and eastern Africa and even into southwestern Eurasia.
Digital painting of my character Itaweret, from Priestess of the Lost Colony.
Commissioned scene of an Egyptian Pharaoh observing otherworldly visitors hovering over her realm.
ALL HAIL THE GODDESS-EMPRESS OF MANKIND!
Commissioned scene of an Egyptian queen listening to music on her smartphone while studying.
A Fremen woman from the setting of Frank Herbert’s Dune novels
Horus, the vengeful warrior god of ancient Egypt.
A woman representing the enigmatic “Population Y”, who contributed ancestry to both modern Australasian and some Native American groups.
A Roman soldier of Egyptian descent wearing crocodile-hide armor.
A female Homo erectus stands on the beach with a primitive torch in hand.
A character I created for use in the game Saints Row: The Third.
Oshun, the Yoruba orisha of love and beauty, takes a bath in the Nigerian river that bears her name.
Sobek, the crocodile god of ancient Egypt.
Fan art for a comedienne friend of mine from South Carolina, who goes by the moniker “Mz Punkin”.
A young Nubian maiden from the medieval Sudan.
A Nubian “eyesmiter”, or archer, from medieval Sudan.
Nala, a West African warrior whom I drew as gift art for one of my social-media followers.
An updated reinterpretation of the ancient Egyptian goddess Auset (Isis) as portrayed in the game Age of Mythology.
A woman representing the Khoisan peoples of southernmost Africa.
Fanart I made for the “African Royals” DLC for Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition
A Kushite archer taking aim!
An ancient Egyptian warrior charging with a copper battle axe!
An illustration for my historical-fiction novella The Slave Prince of Zimbabwe
Nefertiti, the Egyptian Queen whose husband was the “Heretic” Pharaoh Akhenaten.
Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslim North African general who led the initial Islamic invasion of Iberia in the 710s AD.
A commissioned piece of a father and son bowing before one of their ancestral gods.
My reconstruction of the hominin specimen known as Homo longi, or “Dragon Man”
A spearman from ancient Carthage.
Sophonisba, a Carthaginian noblewoman whom the Romans captured, is about to have her last drink.
Antony and Cleopatra embrace along the shoreline of Alexandria, Egypt in 40 BC.
A North African tribesman representing the group known as “Leucoaethiopes” (or “White Aethiopians”) to the Romans.
The goddess Isis, worshipped by both the ancient Egyptians and the Romans, as a double-faced “janiform” vase.
Our heroine must fend off raptors in the long grass!
Elena, the Kenyan capoeira artist from the Street Fighter games.
Love is love…
Sheva Alomar, the African zombie-slayer from Resident Evil 5
My interpretation of the superheroine Vixen, from DC Comics.
Three famous Queens of the Nile: Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, and Amanirenas.
A space-faring outlaw firing her plasma pistol!
My interpretation of Ororo Munroe, aka Storm, from Marvel Comics’ X-Men.
Itaweret, from my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony, in the old Dreamworks hand-drawn animation style.
Early woman gazes up at the primordial moon above the jungle canopy.
A male priest from ancient Egypt.
A female African archer in service of Islamic Spain’s Almoravid dynasty, circa the 11th century AD.
The People of the Rivers, another culture I created for a novel set in prehistoric Africa.
The People of the Plains, one of two prehistoric cultures I’ve developed for a novel set in Africa a hundred millennia ago.
Itaweret, the protagonist of my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony, in ancient Egyptian style!
An African warrior and her pet leopard must defend their homeland from Viking raiders!
Me as a Viking warrior!
Two warriors from the ninth century AD, a Norse Viking and a Nigerian Igbo.
A Native American warrior with a wolf-themed war club!
This warrior is scanning the savanna in ancient East Africa for potential trouble.
Second attempt at a woman from Jebel Irhoud 300,000 years ago, among the earliest Homo sapiens yet discovered.
Philos, a major male character from my novel “Priestess of the Lost Colony”, as a Disney-style hero.
Itaweret, my Egyptian priestess character, as a Disney heroine.
A humble infantryman from ancient Egypt.
A Kushite Queen stands on a balcony with her back to the brilliant Saharan sun.
Deep in the jungles of prehistoric Southeast Asia, a Negrito woman must defend herself from a tiger!
An Aboriginal Australian beauty, drawn to show solidarity to the Aboriginal people of Australia.
A full-body interpretation of Mut, the mother goddess in ancient Egyptian mythology.
Akhenaten, the “Heretic” Pharaoh of the Egyptian New Kingdom.
It’s a cavegirl with a club!
Aladdin, the protagonist of a famous Middle Eastern folktale which became associated with the so-called “Arabian Nights”.
Oja, an early Homo sapiens woman from prehistoric Africa, is throwing her spear.
Itaweret, the titular Egyptian priestess from my novel “Priestess of the Lost Colony”, in Mycenaean fashion.
A couple of Homo habilis, among of the earliest members of the genus Homo.
11,000 years ago in southern Turkey, a priestess performs a prayer at the temple of Gobekli Tepe.
>100,000 years ago during the Middle Stone Age in Africa, this shaman is retiring to her private enclave.
A digital painting of Wojak, the iconic Internet meme character popularized by the 4chan forums.
Itaweret, my Egyptian priestess character, declares that Black Lives Matter!
A collaborative digital painting of Itaweret, the protagonist of my upcoming novel “Priestess of the Lost Colony”.
My fanart of Mira, a female character who appears in the first season finale for Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal”.
A woman of the Aurignacian culture, the first Upper Paleolithic culture to appear in Europe.
This little Egyptian girl has found herself a new pet!
A couple representing the ancestors of Native Americans, circa 15,000 years ago.
This female warrior wears the pelt of a lioness she has slain.
A piece of gift art I did for one of my friends.
Quick portrait of Aang from Nickelodeon’s “Avatar: The Last Airbender”.
She’s taking her kitty on a walk early in the morning.
This stealthy Jamaican huntress is on the prowl!
A side bust of Ramses II, one of the most famous Egyptian Pharaohs, in his later years.
An African “Madonna” with a shawl hanging down from her head.
A Natufian woman from the prehistoric Levant, 12,500 to 10,000 years ago…(Redone version for 2020)
Itaweret from “Priestess of the Lost Colony” in a defensive posture…
She’s dual-wielding double blades!
Dihya al-Kahina, the Zenata warrior queen of 7th century North Africa, in pin-up mode!
This warrior babe is leaping from a tree with javelin in hand!
This Negrito woman is deep in meditation.
Nubia, the other Wonder Woman from DC Comics…
A Filipino warrior roars out a fierce cry of exultation!
The female scholar and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, redrawn…
Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare.
Another simple doodle of early Homo sapiens…
Portrait of Homo naledi, a relative of early humans that lived in southern Africa between 335,000 and 236,000 years ago.
Cleopatra tells her asp, “Be angry, and dispatch!”
Commissioned artwork starring one of the Barbary corsairs of North Africa. Did you know that two American presidents, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, fought wars against these notorious pirates?
Portrait of a Muslimah, or Muslim woman.
Emulating the ancient Egyptian art style here…
Portrait of an ancient Egyptian princess…
The evolution of humanity, from a female point of view…
Some claim that humanity was created in the image of God. What if, instead, it was humanity that created God in our own image?
It’s a hot day in prehistoric Africa, so this early woman is dressed for the occasion!
Sailor Moon redrawn, my way…
Two bounty huntress characters of mine from the Old West, Plano Penelope (left) and Dawn Beaver (right).
Concept art for an Old West “cowgirl” sort of character
An ancient Egyptian warrior brandishes his khopesh while roaring a victory cry.
Two soldiers from opposite sides of the US Civil War…
A Zulu mermaid from South Africa, who has the tail of a great white shark.
Beware on the Night of the Were-Saurus!
This jungle heroine will fight to the death to protect her adoptive gorilla family!
Inspired by a weird dream in which I caught the coronavirus, and it looked like this character inside of me.
A Queen of the Mangbetu, a Central African people living in the northeastern Congo.
A Kushite warrior princess, drawn in the style of Disney animated heroines.
She is the priestess in a culture that venerates the T. rex as a godlike symbol of power. Beware her sacrificial blade!
Mut, the “Mother Goddess” of the Egyptian pantheon…
An Egyptian redesign for DC Comics’ Catwoman!
This fierce Moorish maiden wields a sword out of the legendarily strong Damascus steel!
An African woman gazes up at the night sky with admiration and wonder in her eyes.
These Egyptians are exploring what will someday be known as Greece. The natives are watching them…
My interpretation of Mowgli, the “man-cub” from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book…
Trying out a different style of digital art with this spunky spearwoman…
Estevanico, an enslaved Moroccan explorer who was one of the first enslaved Africans to set foot in North America.
Did you know that European people can attribute almost a third of their ancestry to additional migrations out of Africa?
If you’re a prehistoric huntress, you can never be too stealthy…or too wary.
Amanitore, another one of the Kushite queens, who reigned between 1 BC and 25 AD.
An “ahosi” warrior with an Afro, which I did as a commission for a Facebook correspondent.
Dihya al-Kahina, the North African warrior queen who fought the Islamic Arab invaders, in chibi style!
This prehistoric woman has adopted what may be the first pet in human history…
Homo erectus, an ancestor of human beings, walks across a field with a stone handaxe in her grip.
Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, charges into battle with nunchucks! (COLORED VERSION)
Between seventy and fifty thousand years ago, these early African humans are about to embark on an epic journey…maybe even out of the continent!
An early Homo sapiens woman from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, circa 300,000 years ago.
A T-shirt design starring the Kushite warrior queen Amanirenas.
Tianyuan Man, one of the earliest modern humans to live in East Asia.
A longbow-woman I drew entirely within the Procreate app on my iPad.
What if genetic engineering got involved in the cosmetics industry?
She and her hyena are on the run!
This Egyptian gladiatrix fights in the arena for the entertainment of Roman audiences.
This is one adventurous princess!
Europa, the princess from Greek mythology who gave her name to the subcontinent of Europe.
A woman from ancient Numidia, whose design is inspired by ancient Greek and Gabonese cultures.
She is achieving balance.
On the African savanna 200,000 years ago, an early Homo sapiens female defends herself against a saber-toothed cat.
An Egyptian Pharaoh decked out for the battlefield.
A necromancer character I designed in celebration of Halloween in 2019.
In the hills of North Africa, a Numidian horseman squares off against a Roman legionary.
She is looking into a valley she plans to claim as her new hunting ground.
A woman from the Jomon culture of prehistoric Japan, 14,000-300 BC.
A beauty from the Upper Nile basin, in what is now South Sudan.
Juba al-Mauri, a Moroccan warrior from my novelette “The Sultan of Finback Isle”.
Isis Lincoln, an adventurous archaeologist from the 1930s. Think of her as a black female contemporary of Indiana Jones.
Reference sheet for Takhaet, an Egyptian warrior character I created for one of my short stories back in 2016.
A little coffee mug design I did. Did you know that coffee ultimately comes from Africa?
Queen Amanirenas of Kush against a Roman legionary!
She stands outside the outer walls of her home city, searching for prey with the help of her trusty Velociraptor.
A little family representing the Kintampo complex, a Neolithic culture from what is now Ghana between 2500 and 1400 BC.
Cover for my novelette “The Sultan of Finback Isle”, wherein the heroes find themselves encircled by a hungry Dimetrodon.
Neith-Ka, a pseudo-Egyptian princess from one of my short stories, wants to shoot some hoops!
It’s a ball game between two cultures, and the loser will be put to death!
Achilles and Memnon, two champions of the Trojan War in Homeric literature, duke it out.
Empress Li, a “tall and black” Chinese imperial consort from the 4th century AD. Once a concubine who received torrents of abuse from her catty colleagues over her skin color and stature, she now says to them, “Haters gonna hate!”
Apidima 1 of Pleistocene Greece circa 210 kya, the oldest specimen of Homo sapiens found outside of Africa.
A poster about a Upper Paleolithic culture that made pottery in what is now southeastern China.
Ancient Egyptian people in modern-style clothes!
A Moorish warrior with a very sharp scimitar.
A Moorish princess does her dance!
A commissioned “waifu pillow” design starring the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut.
A woman of the Tenerian culture, a Neolithic culture which lived in northern Niger between 5200 and 2200 BC.
A Queen of the Garamantes, an ancient civilization deep in the Libyan Sahara.
She’s fighting a raptor with a very big blade!
They’re not her pets. It’s a relationship based on mutual respect.
She is the Lion Queen!
Mansa Musa of Mali, said to have been the richest dude who ever lived.
A herdsman from ancient Algeria, inspired by a Roman mosaic from the area.
She stands in guard outside her native city.
Taharqa, the warrior king of ancient Kush.
A Phoenician merchant counts his shekels.
The predynastic kings of Upper and Lower Egypt, which would in time become two regions of one larger country.
Dihya al-Kahina defends ancient Algeria against the Arab invaders!
Dihya al-Kahina, the warrior queen of ancient Algeria, attacks!
Tanit, an ancient Carthaginian goddess of fertility and the moon.
She looks rather annoyed at something.
A couple representing the Iberomaurusian culture of prehistoric Northwest Africa.
The king of the savanna has met his match!
A Southern belle goes on a stroll through the swamp!
Maia of Alodia, the protagonist of my short story “Arrows of Alodia”.
An ancient Egyptian princess basks by the Nile under the sun’s warm glow.
The Kentake of Kush gives her accolade to one of her best soldiers.
Makeda, the legendary Queen of Sheba from the Bible and Ethiopian religious traditions.
A prehistoric priestess performs a rite to placate the deity of thunder and lightning.
Meet a babe from the future!
This girl has diamonds dazzling on her necklace!
Cleopatra prepares for war!
Portrait of a woman from ancient Greece.
The Queen of Ophir, a legendary kingdom named in the Bible, looks all fabulous with her two guards.
Arab newlyweds enjoy their honeymoon in Oman’s lush and humid Salahah plain.
There’s a new lifeguard to keep watch over the bay!
Our prehistoric fantasy heroine from the Soul Age is climbing up for a better view!
Blaxploitation meets a 1970s-style dinosaur movie!
These Egyptians are marching on through the scorching hot desert!
A female warrior with a horned shield of dinosaur hide and a double-bladed spear.
Did you know that ancient Greek legends claimed that an Egyptian priestess (or “black dove”) founded their country’s oldest oracle?
Rama and Sita, the leading man and lady from the Hindu epic called the Ramayana.
What if the ancient Egyptians really had beaten Columbus to the Americas?
An Egyptian re-design for She-Ra, the twin sister of the 80’s cartoon hero He-Man.
Masinissa of Numidia, a kingdom in what is now Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa.
A girl of the Gaetuli people, who lived in North Africa during Roman times.
Dihya al-Kahina, a North African warrior and seer queen from the 7th century AD.
The Vandals are on the rampage in ancient North Africa!
Cleopatra VII with a triple uraeus (sacred cobras) on her crown.
An Arab warrior from the ancient/medieval Middle East.
This Egyptian girl has gold on her locks!
Queen of the Inca, from ancient South America
Hathor’s hips don’t lie!
Hathor, the love goddess of ancient Egypt, smiles.
Zara Wilson, attorney at law, is in her office.
Cleopatra stands with her royal regalia on a palace balcony. The pose was actually inspired by an old photo of the actress Gabrielle Union.
An Egyptian Arab leads his camel across the desert near Giza.
Meretseger, the Egyptian goddess who protected the Valley of the Kings near modern Luxor.
Serket, the Egyptian scorpion goddess.
These warriors may be surrounded, but they won’t go down without a fight!
A horseman from the ancient North African kingdom of Numidia.
Two hunters steal through the jungle.
The Egyptian Queen Nefertari goes chillin’ on a divan.
An African-American emcee rappin’ on a mic.
A thirsty Capsian woman from prehistoric Tunisia, circa 8000 BC.
A stablehand from ancient Kush leads her horse by the reins.
A West African martial artist practices her knee strike.
Two lovers dance with one another in the 1940s era.
An educational poster on the origin and evolution of modern Western and Middle Eastern alphabets.
An illustration for my short story “Staff of the Red Sun”.
An Egyptian-style traveling warrior hikes through the hills after battle.
Amanirenas, the one-eyed Kushite warrior queen who challenged the might of Rome.
An ancient Egyptian version of a mermaid, with a Nile perch for a tail.
Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, known for her lioness motif
The Egyptian Queen Nefertari admires her royal capital from a balcony.
An Egyptian-style royal guardian
An Egyptian rebel faces Roman soldiers in their lair.
An early farmer girl in the Libya Sahara some 10,000 years ago.
Two love goddesses from African mythology, the Egyptian Hathor and the Yoruba Oshun
This is my “Presidential Portrait” for former POTUS Barack Obama.
Egyptians building the pyramids
Takhaet, the Egyptian protagonist of my short story “The Battle Roar of Sekhmet”.
Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty.
Cleopatra VII is done with her hot bath.
A Roman imperial officer of African heritage.
A jungle huntress examines something below her with curiosity…
This is my redesign for the Egyptian goddess Isis as portrayed in the game “Age of Mythology”
The King and Queen of Kush, a rival kingdom to ancient Egypt which was located along the Middle Nile in what is now Sudan.
What if Nefertiti’s crown was really a headwrap like that worn by modern African women?
A priest from the Indus Valley civilization of ancient South Asia.
Sundiata Keita, the warrior king who brought together the Mali Empire.
A Natufian shaman from the prehistoric Levant, 12,500-10,000 years ago.
If Jesus were a real historical person instead of a mythical figure, what would he have looked like?
Hypatia of Alexandria, an Egyptian female scholar who was murdered by Christian fanatics.
An urban babe flashes a sign to welcome you to her ‘hood.
An Upper Paleolithic European woman weathers the cold of the Ice Age.
Commissioned piece of African-American soldiers in the Civil War marching beside Siamese war elephants!
The goddess Auset, or Isis, as interpreted by Egyptian and then Roman cultures.
Character Model Sheets
Model sheet for an ancient Egyptian spearman.
Model sheet for my character Itaweret, from Priestess of the Lost Colony.
Model sheet for Philos, a supporting character from Priestess of the Lost Colony.
Model sheet for Bek, a supporting character in my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony.
Model sheet for Scylax of Mycenae, the main antagonist of Priestess of the Lost Colony.
Environments
Sang Nila Utama, a medieval Malay prince, has discovered an ancient temple to the Kushite lion god Apedemak on the island of Singapore. No wonder he would call it the “Lion City”!
Concept art for a hypothetical Zulu sailing ship.
A simple African savanna landscape.
My concept for a lost civilization hidden deep in the Sudd wetlands of South Sudan.
Commissioned scene of a village whose inhabitants are a Celtic/African mix.
Vikings sailing along the coast of West Africa.
The subtropical jungle that covered much of western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period,
They say the tomb of Antony and Cleopatra still lies somewhere outside the Egyptian city of Alexandria. How would it have looked?
A jungle on a moon orbiting a giant gas planet…
A ziggurat from ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq and Kuwait), such as those the ancient Sumerians and Babylonians would build.
Two cultures come close to one another somewhere in pre-Columbian Mexico.
An Egyptian interior scene which leads out to an open doorway.
A late Cretaceous coastline.
A steamy jungle from the Cretaceous Period, when dinosaurs still ruled the earth.
Ancient Egyptian-style ruins deep in the jungle.
Entrance to an Egyptian diamond mine in the desert.
A skull-shaped entrance to ancient tombs on a jungle-swathed mountain.
Animations
An animated .gif of my “Evolution of Woman” sequence
Timelapses
Dioramas, Painted Models, and Sculptures
Diorama of cavemen fending off an attacking Allosaurus in a totally accurate representation of human history.
Diorama showing Native American hunters attacking a woolly mammoth.
A diorama in which prehistoric human ancestors attack an elephant on the African plains.
A mini-diorama of Azande warriors from Central Africa charging through the underbrush.
A diorama showing a troop of warrior women fighting a T. rex!
An archetypal African hut I made with modeling clay.
My second T. rex head made with modeling clay.
A modeling clay bust representing a Paleolithic woman.
An artist’s mannequin converted into an Ice Age huntress!
A coffee mug I made with modeling clay, with the color scheme being inspired by ancient Kushite pottery from the Bronze Age.
A modeling-clay sculpture of a pre-Columbian Olmec head.
A cute little Egyptian sphinx in modeling clay.
An ancient Kushite pyramid in modeling clay.
Bust of a Kushite Qore (king) in modeling clay.
A Spartan hoplite in modeling clay.
The biblical Jesus of Nazareth in modeling clay.
The Egyptian goddess Isis in modeling clay.
A simplified Kushite soldier in modeling clay.
A clay sculpture of a woolly mammoth in my mom’s miniature Christmas village.
A Brontosaurus sculpture made with paper clay.
A Carthaginian elephant-riding soldier made with modeling clay.
A Neanderthal man in modeling clay.
A Stegosaurus in modeling clay.
A dancing Egyptian lady in modeling clay.
A clay sculpture of Mansa Musa of medieval Mali.
A Moorish queen’s bust in modeling clay.
A spear-throwing cavewoman I made with modeling clay.
A T. rex head I made with modeling clay!
An Egyptian pharaoh’s head I made with modeling clay and paint.
A generic “caveman” bust I made using modeling clay.
A Cretaceous diorama I made with a couple of my old dinosaur toys.
Two miniature artist’s mannequins I converted into an Egyptian warrior and a prehistoric huntress.
Traditional Media (e.g. Graphite & Colored Pencils, Ink, Paint, etc.)
A Kushite princess practicing her archery, in marker.
A marker doodle of a warrior lady about to throw a forked knife.
Sketchbook doodle of an African warrior who stands with the helmet of a Spartan he has slain.
An Egyptian marine in service of the Achaemenid Persian navy around 480 BC.
A Jurassic Park/World-style T. rex in colored pencil.
A colored-pencil drawing of the Indian sauropod dinosaur Titanosaurus.
A colored-pencil portrait of an Old Kingdom Egyptian potter whose remains were recovered from the site of Nuwayrat.
Sketchbook doodle of Tameryraptor attacking an ancient Egyptian warrior.
Marker doodle of the tyrannosaur ancestor Khankhuuluu from Cretaceous Asia.
A marker doodle of the Asian tyrannosaurid Zhuchengtyrannus.
A couple of Mexican portraits in marker.
Amenirdis I without her vulture crown, rendered in marker.
A couple of portraits of ancient Germanic men rendered in marker.
An ancient Kushite “waifu”-style portrait in marker.
An acrylic painting of Amenirdis I, an ancient Kushite princess and high priestess of Amun.
The Egyptian Queen Nefertari in black ink.
A lovely young Dinka woman in marker.
Marker doodle of a Dreadnoughtus cooling off.
A charging warrior colored in marker.
Marker drawing interpreting Tzipporah, wife of the biblical Moses.
A prehistoric woman with a knife that I doodled while referencing one of the poses on the Posemanics website.
A marker drawing of the Egyptian Queen Nefertari.
The Haint of Hell Creek, a ghostly T. rex rendered in blue marker.
Marker-colored doodle of the Egyptian god Anpu (or Anubis) holding a deceased person’s heart for judgment.
Marker-colored doodle of a male Homo habilis making some crude stone tools.
A fun little doodle of a lady throwing some Central African-style knives on the run.
A marker-shaded doodle of a modern-day African-American woman going out shopping.
It’s snowing on Nanuqsaurus in Cretaceous Alaska!
An ancient Egyptian laborer complaining about back pain from all his labor.
My marker-shaded artistic representation of one of two Neolithic women whose remains were found at a rock shelter in Libya’s Wadi Takarkori.
A retro-style Tyrannosaurus rex shaded with grayscale markers.
A pre-Columbian Maya warrior rendered with grayscale markers.
A Tyrannosaurus rex head I colored in marker.
An ancient Egyptian lady drawn in emulation of Studio Ghilbi’s art style.
Sketchbook portrait of Allosaurus anax, one of the largest known species of the Allosaurus genus.
My painting of the iconic dromaeosaurid Deinonychus.
My interpretation of the mythical Helen of Troy. Inspired by genetic research showing a persistence of darker skin tones in Greece into the Bronze Age.
Painting of a female pirate captain inspired by the Robert E. Howard story “Queen of the Black Coast”.
A painting I’m calling “La Dorada”, or “Golden One”.
Tyrannosaurus rex in the style of the 19th century Crystal Palace dinosaurs.
A doodle of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti taking a stroll, seen from behind.
Doodle of a Jurassic Park/World-style T. rex.
Sketchbook portrait of an American alligator.
Quick portrait of a Turkish dude.
Drawing of the Egyptian queen Ankhesenamun, King Tut’s wife.
Acrylic painting of an Indian queen (pose inspired by the “Mona Lisa”).
Portrait of a Serer saltigue, or priestess, from the Senegambian region of West Africa.
A Viking warrior with a very big axe!
Sketchbook doodle of a warrior dudette wielding dual throwing knives.
Sketchbook doodle of the head of the northeast African carcharodontosaurid Tameryraptor.
A Paleolithic medicine woman.
Painted portrait of the Egyptian Queen Tuya, mother of Pharaoh Ramses II “the Great”.
Portrait of a random Paleolithic dudette.
T. rex enjoying its protein intake
A reconstructed portrait of the human specimen known as Omo I from Ethiopia 233,000 years ago.
Painted portrait of a woman I’ve named Azura, after one of the mythical daughters of Adam and Eve.
Acrylic painting of a T. rex from my sketchbook.
Acrylic painting of the suicidal Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba.
Acrylic painting of a Stegosaurus from my sketchbook.
What if the 1970s bombshell Gloria Hendry got a role in one of the caveman movies of the era?
Sketch of a black caiman’s head.
A pencil-drawn portrait of the Zlatý kůň woman from the Czech Republic 43,000 years ago.
Sketch of an African forest elephant, the elephant species native to Africa’s rainforests.
Portrait sketch of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor infamous for executing Jesus of Nazareth.
Portrait of an ancient Roman military officer in acrylic paints.
Sketchbook drawing of an okapi, an African rainforest-adapted cousin of the giraffe.
Painting of a Central African woman and her pet leopard!
Sketchbook portrait of the Middle Jurassic meat-eating dinosaur Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus.
A colored-pencil drawing of Piye (r. 744-714 BC), the Kushite king who invaded a divided Egypt and established Kushite control over it.
Acrylic painting of an Egyptian palace guard.
Acrylic painting of a Triceratops.
Acrylic painting of a woman based on the 300,000-year-old Kabwe skull from Zambia, traditionally assigned to the hominin species Homo heidelbergensis.
A Neolithic/Mesolithic European couple rendered with colored pencil and a background of green paint.
A colored-pencil portrait of Shabaka (r. 705-690 BC), the second Kushite king to rule over Egypt.
Colored-pencil drawing of the early Egyptian pharaoh Narmer wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.
An Egyptian woman with dreads hanging from one side.
Gojira, King of the Monsters, attacks!
A woman decked out in sunglasses and a black trench coat.
Two faces I drew on one sheet of paper on a family trip to Oregon.
A woman from the Neolithic Macedonian village of Nea Nikomedeia, dated to between 6250 and 6050 BC.
A prehistoric Channel Islander and a pygmy mammoth.
I wanted to make this portrait look like a classical marble bust.
Sketchbook doodle of the head of Masiakasaurus.
THIS IS PATRICK!
The face of Homo bodoensis, the immediate ancestor of Homo sapiens
A female Homo erectus with dreadlocks.
It’s a booty.
An Aboriginal Australian dude with a cork hat.
Pencil drawing of Hatzegopteryx, a giant European pterosaur.
A fun little sketchbook doodle of Cleopatra in battle armor!
A tempskya tree, one of a genus of bizarre tree ferns that thrived during the Cretaceous Period.
Anatomy study of a woman sitting.
This Carnotaurus has lost an arm in a fight.
My drawing of one of the fifty Danaides, daughters of an African king in Greek mythology. One of them, Hypermnestra, founded a ruling dynasty in the Greek city of Argos with her Egyptian husband.
An Arab warrior from one of the medieval Islamic caliphates.
Seshat, the Egyptian goddess presiding over the written word and knowledge.
T. rex doesn’t let short forelimbs get in the way of giving itself a good scratch!
Meet Gator Girl, a human/alligator hybrid heroine!
Woman versus dragon!
A couple representing the Neolithic of Anatolia (modern Turkey), from whence farming would spread into Europe.
Sketchbook doodle of a Natufian forager from 15-10,000 years ago.
A still-life drawing of an African statuette my mom once gave me.
The Egyptian Queen Nefertari, drawn and rendered using colored pencils.
A woman from ancient Numidia (located in what is now Algeria in North Africa) in deep thought.
Sketchbook doodle of a leopard
A Norse berserker, an elite warrior known for going, well, berserk in battle.
“I lay paralyzed in homicidal rage, the anger’s driving me insane…”
Close-up drawing of an ancient Egyptian person’s eye.
A Native American woman in a traditional war bonnet.
Allosaurus turning while running.
Our heroine has an attacking leopard by the throat!
A woman of the Mauri people of ancient North Africa, from whom the term “Moor” originates.
Dimetrodon, perhaps the most famous of the Permian synapsids.
A special type of “Indian” couple!
Allosaurus in colored pencil
Arishat, my Carthaginian heroine, in anime style.
Arishat, my ancient Carthaginian character, expresses disbelief with a little annoyance.
She struts with what is supposed to be confidence. But is it sincere?
Fanart of Mel Medarda from the Netflix series Arcane.
It’s a tale as old as time, Beauty versus the Beast!
A “primitive beauty” drawn as a homage to the great fantasy artist Frank Frazetta.
An elderly man from modern Upper Egypt.
My Carthaginian heroine Arishat with a traditional African headwrap.
Arishat, from my novella Carthage Atlantica, in a lousy mood.
Now our Carthaginian heroine is smiling in a flirty mood.
Portrait of a woman from ancient Carthage in contemplative thought.
My contemplative Carthaginian maiden is now colorized!
A woman from ancient Egypt carrying a pot on her head.
A colorized version of my ancient Egyptian woman carrying a pot.
Naming this one “Afrodite”, as a play on the name of the Greek goddess Aphrodite…
The Egyptian Queen Nefertari grimacing with disgust.
She’s one bad grrl!
The “mother and child” motif across time, evolving into our image of the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus. (Pencil-drawn version)
Carcharodontosaurus, the apex predator of Middle Cretaceous North Africa.
Portrait of Hannibal Barca, the famous Carthaginian general who fought against Rome.
This tiger is ready to strike!
A Chinese Shaolin monk against a Japanese ninja.
Practicing my male anatomy here…
Quick portrait of Nensela, from my short story “Scorpions of the Sea”.
Gallimimus, one of the most famous ornithomimid dinosaurs.
Practicing an approach to shading called “hatching” here.
A simple facial portrait of Cleopatra VII, drawn using a 2008 reconstruction of her as reference.
T. rex taking a relaxed stroll across the page.
Side-view portrait of Cyrus the Great, conquering founder of the Persian Empire.
Itaweret, from my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony, in charcoal pencil!
T. rex yawning.
Doodle of the head of Giganotosaurus.
This Paleolithic huntress is tracking something…
Zugutan, a Pelasgian shaman from my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony.
Sarcosuchus, the “super croc” (or rather super gharial) of Early Cretaceous Africa.
Portrait of a baby who’s supposed to be of mixed African and Southern European ancestry.
Sennuwy, another character from Priestess of the Lost Colony, in the yoke of enslavement.
Dirge and Cerberus, the leading man and his dog from the old “Xombie” webtoon.
Nephthys and Chimera, a reanimated Egyptian mummy and her “pet” Velociraptor from the old webtoon series Xombie.
A kicking T. rex, inspired by a specimen at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Colorado.
Cleopatra showing off some sass here!
Cleopatra says, “Whatchu lookin’ at?”
Argentinosaurus, possibly the biggest dinosaur known to science.
On a dark and chilly day in Late Cretaceous Alaska, this Nanuqsaurus’s breath really stands out!
Ruvarashe, the Mambokadzi (Queen) of Great Zimbabwe in my novella The Slave Prince of Zimbabwe, as seen from the back.
Oja, my prehistoric African heroine from 100,000 years ago, using a spearthrower.
An ancient Egyptian dancer girl shakin’ it.
My character Itaweret dressing up as a mummy in celebration of Halloween.
And so the Jack-O pose was invented!
A man from the Olmec civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.
Portrait of Yutyrannus, a proceratosaurid from Early Cretaceous Asia.
Itaweret, from my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony, wearing a headwrap over her hair.
Portrait of a man representing the Mauri, or “Moors”, of ancient North Africa.
Hypothetical facial armor for T. rex
Sketch of a crocodile’s head.
Two Tyrannosaurus rex in territorial combat.
Unshaded sketch of an urban martial artist delivering a punch on the run.
Itaweret (from my novel Priestess of the Lost Colony) is a bit bored now.
Face of a Neanderthal man in colored pencil.
A roaring (or should that be screeching?) generic dromaeosaurid.
Bust of Sheva Alomar, from the game Resident Evil 5
Quick little portrait of Hypatia of Alexandria looking behind her.
Itaweret does not take nicely to insults against her pride!
A head portrait of Velociraptor.
A small sketch of the Mexican hadrosaurid Tlatolophus.
A nude figure I drew as a fun little anatomy study.
Quick drawing of the head of Brontosaurus excelsus.
A fist of empowerment is raised.
Rhamphorhynchus, one of the most iconic pterosaurs of the Jurassic period.
Random prehistoric babe again. I tried to model her facial features after the actress
Jodie-Turner Smith
and her pose and attire after Raquel Welch in the old movie “One Million Years B.C.”.
A female representative of Homo heidelbergensis, the common ancestor of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and modern humans.
My reconstruction of Kabwe 1, a specimen of Homo heidelbergensis from the Middle Pleistocene of Africa.
This Homo erectus has caught a fish with a barbed bone point.
An ancient Egyptian nobleman wearing a headdress called the “khat”.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
This Gorgosaurus is incubating her nest.
A happy African-American girl in anime style.
Did you know the ancient Egyptians made prosthetic body parts?
Itaweret, my Egyptian priestess character, in colored pencil.
An Egyptian Pharaoh looking pissed off.
A “Blacktober” version of Spear, the caveman from Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal”
T. rex in marker!
More fun with my markers…
An Egyptian queen, done in colored markers.
What would have roosted in caves before bats?
A hoplite (soldier) from the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta.
A speculative African cousin of Neanderthals…
Portrait of a prehistoric woman, done in colored pencil
100,000 years ago, an early human huntress confronts a great white shark off the coast of South Africa.
A portrait of beauty unadorned.
Bistahieversor, a smaller cousin of T. rex which hunted in New Mexico 74.5 million years ago.
Panthera tigris, king of the Asian jungle!
Dihya al-Kahina, the Zenata warrior queen of ancient North Africa, done in colored pencil!
Thanatotheristes, a medium-sized tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, in colored pencil.
Sketches of Homo erectus, an ancestor of human beings that appeared 2 million years ago.
Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, charges into battle with nunchucks!
Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of war, drawn from behind.
An Allosaurus face, with its skin texture drawn in greater detail.
Three female faces drawn in cartoon style…
A stylized portrait of Hammurabi, the Babylonian warrior king and lawgiver.
An Egyptian queen’s portrait, done in the Egyptian style.
A prehistoric chick in the process of throwing a spear.
If tyrannosaurs were still around today, what would they have evolved into?
A princess of Ife, a city in medieval Nigeria that was sacred to the Yoruba people.
Bodhidharma, the Buddhist monk from India who introduced Zen Buddhism to China and founded the Shaolin school of kung-fu fighting.
Siamraptor, a smaller cousin of Giganotosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Southeast Asia.
The Egyptian Queen Nefertari is shakin’ it!
This prehistoric warrior babe is wielding a knife fashioned from a big meat-eater’s fang.
A woman from the Jomon culture of prehistoric Japan, 14,000-300 BC. (Pencil sketch version.)
Juba al-Mauri, a Moroccan warrior character from my self-published novelette “The Sultan of Finback Isle”.
Two warriors from ancient Libya, the land west of pharaonic Egypt.
This Egyptian tomb guard is less than wholly ecstatic to meet you.
Some nostalgic fan art for Empire Earth, an old game I used to play when I was a kid. It was like Age of Empires, except you got to play through the entirety of human history, beginning deep in prehistory and ending in the distant future.
Between fifteen and eleven thousand years ago, one of the first Americans investigates a pool of sticky black muck near his encampment (penciled version.)
A male specimen of the Denisovans, extinct Asian relatives and contemporaries of the Neanderthals.
Few fashions suit a jungle heroine more than the dinosaur-hide bikini!
A portrait reconstruction of Apidima 1, a specimen of early Homo sapiens who lived in Greece 210,000 years ago.
A woman of ancient Mauretania (now part of Algeria and Morocco) visits her country’s famous Royal Mausoleum.
A queen of ancient Numidia, in northwestern Africa.
Determination burns in Queen Nefertiti’s Eyes.
It’s a sweltering hot day on the African plains in 200,000 BC, so this woman is, ahem, “dressed” for the weather. (NSFW)
A kentake (Queen) of Kush, drawn with a charcoal pencil.
Two Egyptians admire their civilization along the Nile River.
A swordswoman springs into action!
Only the bravest scavengers—or the stealthiest and most cunning—would dare steal from the king of dinosaurs’ kill!
The ruins of a lost city deep in the jungles of the African Congo.
Triceratops is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore!
A gorilla stands before an ancient obelisk.
A warrior woman confronts a hungry python among some jungle ruins.
The Egyptian goddess Isis, rendered in colored pencil.
Oya, the Yoruba goddess of storms, rendered in colored pencil
Portrait of an early Homo sapiens, the mother of modern humanity.
A fisher-woman with a trident and a shark she’s caught for her next meal.
Parasaurolophus sings in the late Cretaceous jungle.
Conan the Cimmerian, the most famous creation of the late fantasy author Robert E. Howard
An Egyptian Queen gives someone the side-eye!
Bruce Lee, the famous martial artist and movie star who influenced modern mixed martial arts (MMA).
A martial artist practices her knee strikes.
A couple of designs for an unnamed fantasy heroine.
Concept sketch for a Tuskegee Airwoman from WWII who has crash-landed into a lost world.
A prehistoric babe with an Afro.
And this would be the Afro cavegirl’s male counterpart.
What would Cleopatra VII’s mother have looked like?
A young woman from the Badarian culture of predynastic Egypt, c. 4400-4000 BC.
A predynastic Egyptian girl dancing in her village.
A city overlooking a savanna where Stegosaurus roam.
My take on the famous Renaissance statue “David” by Michelangelo.
Kushite horsemen ride into battle.
An angry Allosaurus
Experiment with drawing without strong outlines.
A baby T. rex playing with a beetle.
My illustration of Cheddar Man, a dark-skinned inhabitant of Mesolithic Britain.
An Egyptian girl with cornrowed hair
Egyptian warriors lay siege to a city somewhere in the Middle East.
An Egyptian woman wearing a do-rag-like garment to protect her hair.
Kaprosuchus, a terrestrial cousin of crocodiles which roamed Africa during the dinosaur age.
Amenirdis, a Kushite priestess who became God’s Wife of Amun after the Kushite conquest of Egypt.
A fire lancer from ancient China, one of the first gunpowder soldiers in history.
Other Digital Works
An ancient Egyptian soldier standing guard, which is my second Blender sculpture.
A bust of a prehistoric woman modeled in Blender.
My colorization of the bust depicting the ancient Numidian/Moorish king Juba II.
A Tyrannosaurus rex I modeled in ZBrush for a class back in 2017.
A Stegosaurus I modeled in ZBrush.
A Triceratops-themed rocket I created for schoolwork in 2017, using the software 3DsMax and then ZBrush.
An Allosaurus I created for schoolwork at Coleman University in 2017.
My colorization of the Narmer Palette, from Early Dynastic Egypt
My colorization of a bust depicting Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt.
Colorization of Michelangelo’s David.
Map showing the spread of Afroasiatic languages between 11,000 BC and 600 AD.
A futuristic hunting rifle.
The monster inside my head…
My colorization of an ancient profile depiction of Masinissa, a Numidian chieftain from North Africa.
A map of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 500 BC.
Colorization of a priestess’s sarcophagus from ancient Carthage.
A map of the ancient Nile Valley in northeastern Africa.
My contribution to the artists’ protest against AI-generated “art”.
A map of Africa I made on commission from bio-anthropologist Dr. Shormaka Keita
The Scramble for Europe, as resolved between African powers at the Timbuktu Conference of 1884.
A map of Egypt and its neighbors during Cleopatra’s reign.
A quick photomanipulation of an expressive Numidian king!
A map of the “Island of the Skull”, a lost world deep in the Atlantic Ocean, that I made in Wonderdraft.
A quick Photoshop experiment aiming to recreate the face of Afro-Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (r. 193-211 AD).
An animal-themed compass illustration.
What if Cleopatra were to combine forces with Amanirenas of Kush and several other African and Middle Eastern powers to crush the Roman threat once and for all?
And finally some humor…
Guess who’s coming to dinner in Ice Age Europe?
“I’m sorry, but your results diagnose you as willfully moronic.”
Hazbin Hotel’s Velvette in her swimwear.
Next thing you know, Aussies, the French will be coming for your Vegemite next!
Meet Florida Man, who would have roamed the state of Florida a million years ago (had I not made him up)!
Cleopatra and Amanirenas are doing a selfie for all their followers to enjoy!
Commissioned artwork for Write Away Books’ 2023 holiday card.
Buddha knows all too well how energy-intensive meditating your way to enlightenment is!
Eggs of the world!
This Triceratops, as a herbivorous dinosaur, is happy that both sugar and flour come from plants!
I’m a strong apex predator who don’t need long arms!
Cretaceous crocodiles are not impressed with Spinosaurus jumping in on their semi-aquatic game.
GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are older than you think!
An ancient Egyptian visitor discovers the earliest ironworking in West Africa.
Did you know that fried chicken was a recipe known in Roman times?
Logo design for a hypothetical pizza chain, using real Egyptian bread!
Hero of Alexandria (10-70 AD) invents the first vending machine.
Your mummy is so fat…
T. rex wants a neighbor over for dinner.
I’m sorry that you seem to be confused…
The more things change, the more they stay the same…
How was minimum wage invented, anyway?
Being a queen and twerking are not mutually exclusive.
