#cover fossil

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

#pokemon #pokemon cards #tcg #ryo ueda #cover fossil #noble victories #black & white

[pallanophblargh]

Well, I found all my old cover illustration originals. However… some of them faded dramatically while in storage. They were light to begin with (likely due to the tendinitis I was wrestling at the time) and the resulting scan… left a lot to be desired. The meager paper texture has started to compete with the lightest areas. I remember this one being a massive pain in the ass to scan and adjust the first time around.

So since I’m a Luddite, I’m manually darkening key areas. It needed doing anyway. You can see the whole left hand side of the piece is being darkened, while the head and forelegs and far wing are as pasty as I found them.

I guess it’s been good to see how much I have improved over the years at the very least.

Someday there will be prints, I’m still going to make that work out.

#work in progress #illustration #fantasy art #book cover #crosshatching #traditional media #equine #winged horse #Pegasus #green rider series #why do I make my job harder by drawing so light? #feel free to make fun of me #even though it’s not nice to make fun of fossils

[tmkeesey]

The front cover for my upcoming comic book, Paleocene #4. Check out the campaign to get it printed!

Sixty-six million years ago, the world ended.

A meteorite over ten kilometers in diameter slammed into the Earth. The explosion released two million times as much energy as the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. All life in the vicinity was instantly obliterated.

For the rest of the world, death was slower. A shroud of soot and dust engulfed the Earth. Without sunlight, plants withered and died, setting off a domino effect up the food chain, all the way to mighty predators like Tyrannosaurus rex. Three quarters of all life on Earth perished, starving in the darkness.

But we survived.

Not “we” as in humankind. This was much earlier. But our early primate ancestors—they persisted. With clutched hands and shining eyes, they witnessed the end of the world … and the early dawn of a new one.

What's in the new issue?

After witnessing a predatory bird devour their fellow troop member, Mamma and Brother continue their search for Sister … now in the freezing cold of winter.

Could the little child possibly have survived? What will happen to Auntie and the rest of the troop in their absence? And, as Brother grows up, will he stay with his Mamma?

If you've been following the story so far, you'll definitely want to read this one, because, I promise, you will finally discover Sister's fate!

#paleontology #comic covers #comicart #comics #dinosaur #paleoart #palaeoblr #primates #evolution #fossils #prehistoric #biology #zoology #paleofiction #cenozoic #palaeontology #paleocene #reptile #comic books #dinos and comics #comic art #extinction #deep time

[ancientmedicineotd]

dav 29 , mod leaf/fuel 7|=|e las7 7|=|in9 i wan7 7o |=|old is vou

#not a request #not queued #painkiller objectified #fossil objectified #mod leaf/fuel #day 29 #redraw from 7|=|e cover pa9e 9rrrrrrrrrr . no7 main7a99in9

[topazshadowwolf]

ok we know Nightmare plays Animal Crossing but what would his opinion on Stardew Valley be?

I think his opinion would be “meh.” It is cute and there is some collecting involved but it’s all pixels, farms aren’t interesting to him, and the dating aspect Killer explained made him roll his eyelight. He doesn’t need or want a virtual spouse.

#i looooved Harvest Moon for the Super Nintendo. #I played it so much #I read about it in a Nintendo power magazine and was all set on buying it #but they stores near me never got it on the release day. #found my copy in a game stop on a trip to my grandma’s house #she didn’t have a Super Nintendo and her TV was old… so I had to wait to play it a week before we went home. #I read the instruction manual cover to cover every day in anticipation #I knew how to play that game like I had been playing it all my life when I turned it on #played it the very next day after we got home #I was never an early riser but I got up that day before everyone else and played all day… #then I got my mom into it X3 #basically #I think I’d like Stardew Valley if I ever get around to playing it #since I loved Harvest Moon so much #and I heard it was like the original Harvest Moons. #the first few when the focus was your farm and life #what Nightmare likes most about Animal Crossing is the collection aspect of it. #you collect for the museum fossils n bugs n fishe #you collect furniture n floors n wall styles #heck #you even collect clothing and pictures of residents when they move #that is what he enjoys #collecting #flowers #forgot that you collect those #and yes #he will make sure to hire Dust to go through and water the flowers for him to make sure he has at least one of each color. #but he is a busy skeleton and forgets at times #he does need someone to either remind him to water the flowers or do it for him #and he trusts Dust to not accidentally run through his roses.

[perenlop]

?????????? ok i switched back to the dub cause its working again and this recording uses a fan cover of one two three instead of the english op??

#and the rest of the episode is clearly like the japanese footage with the dub on top cause its got the japanese credits #???? im bewildered this was a shock to the system. i was so prepared to skip #i mean good to go the extra mile of finding a fan cover for the patchwork upload thats pretty neat #im just confused djfjdjjfjfj idk why its the pewter fossil episode #echoed voice #jn lb

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

On the one hand, hybrid work means I'm gonna have trouble shutting off after a workday again when working from home.

On the other, it means that on those days, I don't have to shave my face. I don't have to worry about legitimately concerned questions if I wear clothing I can comfortably wear for eight hours. I don't have to lose fifty fucking minutes to medication each morning before I can "start my day".

#hirsutism #IBS #fibromyalgia #chronic illness #polypharmacy #pill burden #why are clean sweatpants and a graphic tee more worrying than a luridly bright shirtdress covered in an inadvisable amount of minions? #“you shouldn't care what people look like and just not shave your face! uwu” #I have had kids ask their parents to explain why a grown woman might have a beard #usually quite politely for their age #and the fully grown adult entrusted with keeping a human being alive acted like their child had just pointed out an eldritch horror and ran #and because I work for a company with fossils for CEOs #I only get acces to this 49% of the month

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

Adrift In Starlight

space opera adventure romance

a courtesan is hired to seduce the soon-to-be-wife of a famous actor

a historian who’s focused on her career & has no idea her marriage has been arranged by her rich parents

after a museum tour they and two co-workers accidentally resurrect an ancient alien artifact and end up on the run from the law, traveling from planet to planet

pan nonbinary transfemme MC, touch-averse ace MC

#adrift in starlight #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #I enjoyed this to an extent! but there's also things i'm iffy about. #while there’s clearly a lot of thought put into the worldbuilding and plot; it still ultimately feels like it’s built around the romance #pacings a bit weird. it goes from a to b very fast. #it really very suddenly pivots to Surviving In The Wild On A Random Planet like……..was that really your only choice?????? #and then suddenly not. they resurrect this ancient alien fossil and go to its home planet and then it’s just like. #next scene now we’re on a pirate station lets go to the baths HUH??? #i get that you have a magic thing that teleports you places fast but like. it doesn’t mean the narrative has to be abrupt too #there’s a lot of ace stuff but also some of it made me ???? #like the author is ace but yknow sometimes intention =/= being able to portray things with nuance in writing #allo character hearing she’s ace and being like ‘oh she’ll only want friendship’ despite supposedly ‘knowing all about asexuality’ #and adjacent: kinda has the vibe that her touch repulsion is Caused By something and has to be Fixed #it makes it clear that that and asexuality are two separate things and the asexual thing is def not something to be changed #but also…..regardless of sexuality; does touch repulsion need to be fixed? if someone’s fine with it? #some very….alloromantic monogamous rhetoric that felt a bit off #-and like to be clear this is me being very picky about little things but idk #another thing: the MC’s size is only mentioned in regards to people being fatphobic at her. #like not excessively but her weight is not ever described neutrally or positively at all? and since she’s thin on the cover I was like….. #is she? or is it just normal in this universe to insult someone’s size as an insult regardless? #(I do understand it can be hard for indie authors to get accurate cover models. but you could have made the contents of the book better) #this is all complaints LOL it's not terrible i gave it 3.5 stars? there's many good aspects but idk #asexual books

[opens-up-4-nobody]

I've decided I'm gonna be Haku or young ANBU tenzo for Halloween this year

#i just wanna make the masks. we'll see which ones comes out best #itll be a really lowkey effort on the actual outfits bc im only gonna buy stuff thst i can fit into my actual wardrobe #ive already started the process bc im too jacked up on caffeine to sit down and draw #bc the dude i was hanging out with today is obsessed with boba tea #he wants to hang out with me next week as well. and anytime a guy wants to hang out with me i get suspicious #like i am too asexual to deal with feelings. pls let this be platonic interest #well see what happens. but it was fun to see the fossils and we went to a fort in the middle of a storm #the situation was kinda crazy. hiding behind a 150yr old adobe wall with a parasol for cover and #lightning going off all over haha #unrelated

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

#pokemon #pokemon cards #tcg #ryo ueda #cover fossil #noble victories #black & white

[smillingcartoonist]

Dream Fossil: The Complete Stories of Satoshi Kon Cover

Satoshi Kon

#Satoshi Kon #Dream Fossil: The Complete Stories of Satoshi Kon #Covers #In the Reading List

[visualtones]

The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic

1990

#the sundays #Reading Writing and Arithmetic #1990s #1990 #album cover #seashell #fossil #b&w

[leaping-laelaps]

Aegirocassis benmoulai is such a bullshit animal. Nothing about it makes sense and none of the proportions look right even when they're directly traced from the best preserved fossils.

This thing is fucked up even for a radiodont, even for a hurdiid. Poor Walcott may have produced some funny interpretations for Anomalocaris/Peytoia/Laggania & co., but one can only wonder what marvelously creative ways he would've found to deal with fucking Aegirocassis.

Out of the many reconstructions of it that have been made since its description (Van Roy et al. 2015) almost none of them are accurate to the published data because all the artists must've looked at the original description and figured fossils and very reasonably thought "that can't be right"

I've spent hours modelling just the frontal appendages, and that's after having personally seen a bunch of these fossils and spent hours talking to the guy who's been working on them for the last 2 years. Really makes me wonder how many past reconstructions I've fucked up because I wasn't as deeply familiar with those organisms as I am with this swimming concentrate of absurdity.

Anyway, back to work.

#m #aegirocassis #also on a much more practical note Aegirocassis is also a pain in the ass to study because its huge and now made of rock #so all the fossils weigh a fucking ton and are a nightmare to handle and photograph #to all novice palaeontology people: when you have to pick a research project make sure the organisms you're going to study are small #or at least that your lab is equipped to deal with big fossils :| #why did i have to do a masters on these and commit to making a 3d reconstruction for the cover page #when i could've just done stupid experimental taphonomy and slapped a photo of a dead shrimp on it #or just. not committed to making a 3d render that would've helped i know i know #and yes i know Whiteaves was the first one to describe and interpret Anomalocaris as a shrimp #but he just found the frontal appendages #and Walcott was the one to make up all the (somewhat understandable) nonsense that followed about the other body parts and species

[krizste]

#fanart #my art #tpp #fossil #cover #twitch plays pokemon

[malliya]

bro: mom is stressed about what to get you for christmas, gimme some suggestions i can pass on

me: a cool bug

bro: where the hell is she going to get a bug

me: ok, then a cool rock

bro: why cant you ask for something normal

#listen i may not know a place to buy cool bugs but me and my mom DO know a place to get cool rocks so she's got this covered ok #im hoping she gets me a fossil of a bug #two birds one stone #or maybe uh two bugs one rock

[vectorthatfox]

Cover and internal illustrations for Britannica Magazine! 

The brief was to create a vibrant dinosaur coming to life from a fossil, and an Antarctic scene. 

I chose Baryonyx as it’s one of the more teethy British Isle discoveries, and also mega fun to draw.  vectorthatfox.co.uk

#Vector That Fox #vectorthatfox #dinosaur #dinosaurs #dinosaur skull #dinosaur fossil #fossil #dinosaur art #magazine #magazine illustration #magazine cover #magazine art #magazine design #art for kids #art #editorial illustration #editorial illustrator #baryonyx #glacialisaurus #chryolophosaurus