Our next Triassic Weirdo is Icarosaurus, a gliding relative of lizards and snakes. This particular form of gliding, where the ribs support a membrane, has actually evolved independently several times,...
2017-08-27 16:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Continuing with the Triassic Weirdos, here's Sharovipteryx, a creature closely related to archosaurs (it's in the group archosauromorpha, all creatures more closely related to archosaurs than to lizar...
2017-08-26 17:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A paper was published a few days ago describing this dude, and included a skeletal reconstruction that made it look.... pretty unreal, so I decided I had to draw it! I recommend doing a google image s...
2017-08-25 14:15:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Sketch Chunks!!
Also look out next week, $5 patrons, I'll be posting some process art from Dinosaur Empire~
Thank you so much for your support!
2017-08-24 13:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Look I know plenty of other people who have understanding partners about these things, it's NOT WEIRD
2017-08-22 21:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Who knows what mysteries lurk in the woods around my mom's house. Some turtles probably. And peacocks now I guess.
2017-08-17 22:48:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, just sending out a reminder that we're on for Jackbox right now! It's not too late to join, we'll probably be going until at least 10:30 if not later. Hope to see you there!
2017-08-17 00:06:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, folks! Sorry it's been a little while, from here on out I'm gonna nail down a more rigid schedule, I swear. Check it out, I even included a calendar this time! I'm a professional now.
So our ne...
2017-08-10 14:40:11 +0000 UTC View Post
If you stare at a cat for too long their features become indistinguishable from a human's and that's just the way it is. I look at Spoons and cannot name something that makes her different from a huma...
2017-08-10 14:31:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The actual act of walking through the woods is a wonderful experience and one I always enjoy, but when other humans are involved I get all anxious because I don't wanna exercise in front of people, es...
2017-08-02 16:19:56 +0000 UTC View Post
My class ended in the spring, and some of the students gave presentations of animals they had made up to fit certain niches. I think they had fun?? And some of them really got it, while others kind of...
2017-07-28 13:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I drew the cast of The Land Before Time, slightly more accurate! The original designs aren't half bad, because most of the creatures they picked are pretty tough to mess up, but here are the main edit...
2017-07-27 18:18:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The first three pages of the story I illustrated, written by my pal Eli Church, for the 2017-07-26 15:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Another chunk of sketches for you! This was still in the thick of Dinosaur Empire, as you can see. I started quite a few paleo posts in this time, but was pretty unsatisfied with the way the sketches ...
2017-07-18 20:12:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, folks! Sorry for the wait on these, decided to post em all at once to catch up for the weeks I missed. I'll have two more for you next week!
The day I brought Wednesday in to see the kids was s...
2017-07-17 15:29:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Regaliceratops was a ceratopsian that lived in the late Cretaceous of Canada, and I think it was quite pretty! Ceratopsians are all so cool and chunky, I love em.
I'm down visiting my mom for her bi...
2017-06-23 14:36:08 +0000 UTC View Post
On my way back from Wisconsin, my flight was delayed by like three hours, which gave me so much time to catch up on Patreon stuff. Like this journal comic about that very subject, which was drawn in a...
2017-06-21 21:02:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's sketches are from the time I was working on Dinosaur Empire pencils, so there are a lot of extinct creatures! This was also around the time I started doing the paleo posts, but none of th...
2017-06-19 13:31:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Speaking of "mammal-like reptiles", here's an example of one of my absolute favorites-- Lycaenops, which is a kind of Gorgonopsid. Gorgonopsids were medium to large predators that lived near the end o...
2017-06-15 19:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for all the emails y'all have been getting from me lately, scheduling just takes a bit of doing.
We're gonna try to play some JackBox games tonight around 9pm EST, though that is quite flexibl...
2017-06-13 22:41:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I was offered the Official Handshake of the Youth and I completed it successfully. Talking about animals and letting the kids pet your snake is the secret to gaining their trust.
(PS: in case you we...
2017-06-13 13:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostHey, my good pals of the $10 tier (and some of the $20 tier)! So I was on deadline last week, then had to deal with my Collapsing Ceiling™on top of finding a new roommate, so it's been tricky to fin...
2017-06-12 02:08:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's extinct creature is a relative of ours! In the time before the dinosaurs, the world was ruled by "mammal-like reptiles", which are the creatures that existed between our more reptilian-ish...
2017-06-11 01:02:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Kept putting off doing something about the leaking swell of slowly rotting wood above my studio because I am busy dealing with the "now" problems and plus, what's a leak every now and then, how bad co...
2017-06-08 12:34:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I was asked by Kel McDonald to make a stretch goal print for her anthology of cute werewolf ...
2017-06-06 17:53:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, folks! Some of you may have noticed that a couple things have been changed in the past month or so, and I've just finished polishing up all the changes, so here's a post about all this!!
The $...
2017-05-31 21:17:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Changing it up a little from our usual vertebrates and doing a creature from long long ago in the Cambrian-- Opabinia!
Opabinia is an ocean-dwelling creature we think might be related to arthropods ...
2017-05-31 18:24:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I loved this kid!! Caught her drawing dragons and dragon boyfriends and reading dark YA books instead of doing classwork and every time I was just like "kid, you do you." The look of horror on her fac...
2017-05-29 22:57:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Last time I mentioned this guy, and I figured it was about time it got a post!
Kulindadromeus was a small herbivorous Ornithischian ("bird-hipped" dinosaur-- the sister group to Saurischia, the grou...
2017-05-24 14:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It is the spring which means it is the time for cleaning. And also the time of shedding all that winter fur, which then coats my floor and makes it so anyone with cat allergies dies when they enter my...
2017-05-17 13:59:27 +0000 UTC View Post