Nazca Peru Whale In The Desert

MY ASSIGNMENT FROM STEVE ALTEN: Steve Alten wanted me to draw the Nazca Whale for his "Domain" book trilogy. I completed this around 2001 or '02. Please notice the tiny little humans drawn into the picture for scale: . . . And: Was this supposed to depict an orca? Or a gray whale?

FROM STEVEALTEN.COM: Domain: An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasn’t an asteroid… For 32 years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel has investigated the Mayan Calendar, a 2,500 year old enigma of time and space that predicts Humanity will perish on December 21st, 2012 (winter solstice).

Julius believes certain unexplainable sites: The Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau, the Temple of Angkor Wat, the Pyramid of the Sun, and the key site–the Kukulcan Pyramid in Chichen Itza in the Yucatan Peninsula (site of the ancient asteroid impact) represent pieces of a global puzzle linked to the salvation of our species. Ridiculed by his peers, Julius dies before he can solve the Doomsday prophecy. Now, only one person can prevent our annihilation–Julius’s son, Michael, a patient locked up in a Miami mental asylum.

Miami: 2012 Psychology major Dominique Vazquez reports to the Miami asylum to complete her graduate internship. The new director assigns her to a special patient–Mick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high I.Q. Mick attempts to charm her into believing his father’s theories of the Apocalypse so he can escape. What Dominique doesn’t realize is that she represents Mick’s last hope of saving humanity.

Fall Equinox: 2012 As it has done for a thousand years, a serpent’s shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcan Pyramid…as a rare galactic alignment occurs and a deep space radio transmission reaches Earth, activating the remnants of an object buried long ago in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the Beginning of the End…

FROM GOODREADS.COM:
The Domain Trilogy by Steve Alten:
Archaeologist Julius Gabriel devoted his life to studying the Mayan calendar, a 2500-year-old enigma that predicts the end of humanity. But when Julius dies before solving the prophecy, only one person can save the human race from annihilation: Julius’s son Mick, a patient in a mental hospital.

Meanwhile, on the fall equinox, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcan Pyramid, just as it has done for a thousand years. But this time, a rare galactic alignment occurs, and a space transmission reaches Earth.

It is the beginning of the end . . .