Part 1: ECE
Truncated East Coast Elephants was designed to be exhibited in a gallery space. Comprising largely of posters, certain sculptures and interactive features are currently absent from the "exhibition". New content will be uploaded throughout April, though images will be prioritized over text at first.
-Lucas Petrin
Elephant Expedition
Digital Layout, 2020
Elephant Expedition captures a great deal of the history of elephant evolution. Designed to be massive for physical display, the layout is huge, with a huge amount of characters and writing.
Additional callouts and narrative chunks in progress...
Manson
Digital Layout, 2020
The first layout in this series happens to be the character involved in Truncated's logo. Manson is a local, wandering New Jersey north to south. While being based on Rutger's Manny the Mastodon (which was originally from my local district of Salem County), the name Manny has unfortunately been taken by way too many proboscideans, from Ice Age to, well, Rutgers.
Monty
Digital Layout, 2020
Monty was the first character to be designed specifically for Fossil Fracas, and one of my favorite designs period. Here in his Calligraphic Fracas style, Monty is looking sharper than ever.
Fun Fact: Monty is a derivative of "Mamont" close to Russian for mammoth. It's close to Manny, but not too close for a character of the same species as well. Ice Age played a major infl
Coco
Digital Layout, 2020
Coco is the last character of Truncated: East Coast Elephants, and certainly the oddest. From Florida to Peru, Cuvieronius was one of the last gomphotheres of the Americas.
Morphology: Sketches of Elephantimorphs
Digital Layout, Watercolor, Ink, 2020
From the article "Mammoth?Mastodon?" found here.
By sketching the full bodies of the animals involved in Truncated: East Coast Elephants, I was able to gain a greater understanding of their proportions, differences and body-plan. Laying those sketches out like this allows for a comprehensive sheet to compare from.
Plenty
Watercolor, Ink, 2019
With a great interest in local specimens, this sketch of American Mastodons feasting on walnut drupes was meant to portray the animals as we may have seen them 11,000 years ago. While northern mastodons were acclimated to boreal forests and conifers, the further south they traveled the more deciduous and fruiting trees they encountered. Thus, it is no stretch to portray
Feast
Watercolor, Ink, 2019
Further north and west, the Woolly Mammoth roamed the grasslands and pleistocene plains of North America and Eurasia. In this image, mammoths stride into the brackish water of a pit, looking to cross. Little do they know, the skulls lining the drop have been placed there for good reason.
Many mammoths would die to environmental hazards such as mud and tar. It is safe to a
Mastodon Poster
Digitized Watercolor, 2020
Expanding on the sketch within Plenty, this poster was painting, vectorized, and then rasterized to capture the scale, texture and proportions of an American Mastodon.
At around 8x12 feet, this poster towers over the viewer and dominates any wall it has the glory of hanging on.
Bulldozer
Ink, Digital, 2020
Originally stippled and inked for "The Summonengh 2018", Bulldozer displays a young bull Amebelodon engaging a Bear-Dog (possibly Amphicyon).
Beads
Watercolor, 2019
Beads, on first glance, is what they are. Red, bloody, strung beads. Yet nothing could be more strange than hunting an elephant to wear its skin and fat.
These beads are carved from an Asian Elephant. One of the factors of poaching has often been traditional myths. They have no value, no medicinal properties, and are a needless and cruel example of waste. By poisoning, shooting