u/TyrannoNinja

A gentleman hunter in the early 20th century was looking forward to his safari in the Nigerian savanna, but little had he counted on the locals not taking kindly to Europeans overexploiting their wildlife.

I can’t say I blame them. The colonizers’ penchant for rapacious overhunting did a lot of damage to animal populations in Africa during this period, and unfortunately the current trend of poaching for materials like rhinoceros horn and ivory continues to impede these creatures’ recovery. We can only hope that conservation efforts will prevail in the end.

I made this concept art as part of an ideation process for my next project in the game development course I've been taking this year. I'm going to learn the Unreal Engine soon, but since it's the artsy side of game development that interests me most, my mentor in the program suggested I do some drawings like this as a way of stockpiling potential project ideas.

Anyway, my idea here was that these would be the "worker" units for a real-time strategy game with a prehistoric-fantasy theme. You would control a clan of hunter-gatherers struggling to survive and feuding with other clans in a world beset with dinosaurs and other predators as well as natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and hurricanes. It'd be like Age of Empires if it was set exclusively in the Stone Age.

Two pages of marker studies from my sketchbook. First is T. rex and the second is Triceratops.