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Some random examples among the evolutionary history of plants, not in any order at all.

From left to right and top to bottom. Top row: a collection of the earliest land plants, including Cooksonia and Zosterophyllum. The Jurassic ginkgo species G. huttoni, with narrower leaves but otherwise almost identical. A branch tip and a cone of Araucaria bidwillii. The earliest known flowering plant, Archaefructus, from early Cretaceous.
Bottom row: A collection of Carboniferous trees from the first forests, including tree ferns and tree horsetails. An early cycad. A random grass. A wild magnolia flower, and a collection of cyanobacteria, algae and an amoeba. And last, an example of what the earliest terrestrial insect-like creatures looked like.
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Mood: Big Grin ~TheArchosaurKing Jan 6, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Nice work, plants really don't get enough love. And the fact that you drew them is even better :).
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*Eurwentala Jan 6, 2013
Thanks! I should pay more attention to plants myself. :)
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~TheArchosaurKing Jan 6, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Your welcome :aww:. As fare as I'm concerned, anyone who can draw them has some real skill. Because I've seen few nice looking plants in any kind of artwork or style.
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*Eurwentala Jan 7, 2013
Thank you, really. :)
I'm only beginning to seriously draw plants, but I hope to become better at it in time. With paleoart, the problem is you mostly have to draw ferns and cycads with pinnates leaves, and I'm hopelessly too lazy to do that properly.

I guess that's why ginkgoes are so popular in paleoart...
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~TheArchosaurKing Jan 15, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Your welcome.
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~The-Spoonrider Dec 18, 2012
Superb.
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*Eurwentala Dec 19, 2012
Thanks!
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~Tyrannotitan333 Dec 18, 2012  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Did you put the things like cyanobacteria in it because not that they were necessarily plants, but also being organisms capale photosynthesis?
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*Eurwentala Dec 19, 2012
Mostly for that, and also because they live inside plants today, as chloroplasts.

These were made for sort of a timeline of evolution, where I tried to fit all the most important things from the last 700 million years, and some examples of what life looked like at different times. As the other side was mostly for large animals, this side had a few small organisms in addition to plants.
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Mood: Joy ~BealMister Dec 18, 2012  Student General Artist
Nice work!
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