A watercolour painting looking diagonally downward at a jagged, cliffy landscape. The foreground of the painting is taken up by the upper parts of an island-like cliff. Its steep sides are jagged and rocky and there is a Procompsognathus climbing upward. It is a small, coelophysid dinosaur - two legged, though it is using its front paws to climb up too. Aside from the head and feet, it is covered in brown protofeathers that resemble fur. Its tail is brown-and-white striped. Its head and feet are greyish-green, with a blue 'bandit mask' across the face. The Procompsognathus has nearly reached the forested clifftop and is about to bite the dangling tail of one of three Peteinosauruses. They are small, basal pterosaurs with large, slightly boxy heads and short wings. They are sitting on top of trees on the clifftop. Two of them are perched and watching the third Peteinosaurus - the one whose tail is about to be bitten - stand up with its wings extended in display. They are different shades of reddish-brown, with the displaying one nearly yellow with orange markings on its wings. On the left side of the watercolour, past the edge of the cliff, we can see another, lower cliff in the background. A narrow stream of water descends to it over a waterfall, then runs horizontal for a few metres, and then falls off in another waterfall. At the horizontal bit, a Paratypothorax is about to drink. It is a heavily armoured aetosaur - a herbivorous crocodile relative. It is a grey, quadrupedal animal with an armoured back and a pointy snout. A series of ridges are visible along its back. It is drinking next to a large mossy boulder. Further up at the upper waterfall, a dead tree is suspended by rocks, heavily mossed where the waterfall comes close to it. The rocky terrain in the painting is dominated by red tints, while the plants are mostly conifers.

A Peteinosaurus shows off on a Williamsonia atop a small overgrown cliff, unaware of the Procompsognathus climbing the cliff to sneak up on him. Behind and below them, a Paratypothorax has come to her favourite stream to drink.

#Paleoart #Triassic #MyArt #Dinosaur #Pterosaur #Pseudosuchan

A pencil Slay the Princess fanart. In it, the Witch, a somewhat feral and raggedy form of the princess with a cat mouth and tail, stretches like a cat, on all fours with her back bent up sharply.

The Witch doing the kitty stretch.

#SlayThePrincess #StpWitch #StpArt #MyArt

"we are both so very awful"
#slaytheprincess

And before anyone brings it up: yes, Nightmare doesn't have legs in-game. Her having them in Kiss the Nightmare is in fact plot-relevant.

A pencil art depicting the Nightmare from Slay the Princess. She looks at the viewer with a tense and angry expression under her mask, pointing at them with a gloved hand. Her eyes are bloodshot, the veins in them very visible. She has one leg raised, a heeled foot visible just at the bottom of the frame, where the feathers of Quiet's chest she's p

The Nightmare pinning Long Quiet down with her foot in a moment of anger as she feels betrayed by his refusal to let her out of the cabin. An illustration from Kiss the Nightmare. archiveofourown.org/works/58505818

#SlayThePrincess #StpNightmare #StpArt #MyArt

A watercolour depicting a Psittacosaurus trying to climb up to a tree on a slight incline. But at the base of the tree is a group of Sinosauropteryx. One of them makes a threat display at the Psittacosaurus, the others don't seem particularly welcoming either. The scene is set at sunset.

A Psittacosaurus wants to get to a tree claimed by a group of Sinosauropteryxes, but they’re having none of it. Meanwhile, a Yutyrannus takes a much-needed bath, some Elanodactyluses fly past, and a pack of Euhelopus have dinner.

#Paleoart #Cretaceous #Sinosauropteryx #Psittacosaurus #MyArt

A watercolour painting depicting a southward view from the tip of the rock of gibraltar, 5.3 million years ago. Where the strait of Gibraltar currently is, there is instead a gigantic waterfall producing much mist. The bottom of the waterfall cannot be seen in the mist, and downstream from it only vague glimpses of a great mudslide can be glimpsed through the mist. Large chunks of land are breaking off from the southern side of the forming strait and falling into the mist, most of them surrounded by tiny distant falling trees and rocks. Fish and a distant humpback whale are visible falling in the cascade too. There are a few white sea birds visible trying to catch the fish. Above the ocean surface four Pelagornis fly. They are very large birds with narrow black wings and white bodies. In the foreground, a gerbil, mouse, wall lizard, barbary macaque, and beetle are visible on the tip of the Rock of Gibraltar. They are watching the distant catastrophe with a concerned yet mesmerised look, except for the beetle which is going about its beetly business. The weather is overcast and the colours are a bit muted.

6 million years ago, the Mediterranean got cut off from the oceans, dried up and became a deep,dry,salty lowland. But 5.3 million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar formed and the entire sea refilled in a massive flood. This depicts the early days of said flood.

#Paleoart #Neogene #MyArt #Gibraltar

A pencil art of the Burned Grey from Slay the Princess. Her mouth is open as she speaks and there's an intense expression on her ghostly face. Stars made of fire blaze in her eyes, their light visible through her nose and mouth as well. The background is dark, but the nearer it gets to her face the more it turns to the colour of fire.

The flame inside Burned Grey beginning to come out in a moment of fury. This is an illustration from Kiss the Burned Grey archiveofourown.org/works/62265093

#SlayThePrincess #stpBurnedGrey #stpArt #MyArt

Why was I invited to Beast Studios? YouTube video by Folding Ideas

Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4

The Prisoner and the Damsel from Slay the Princess kissing. They both have calm, restful expressions. The Damsel's dress is white while the Prisoner's is dark grey and Damsel looks a bit chubbier than Prisoner.

Prisoner and Damsel kissing, they make for such a lovely mirror to each other.

#SlayThePrincess #StpPrisoner #StpDamsel #MyArt #StpArt

A highly contrasted watercolour depicting a Caihong, a small feathered dinosaur, looking at a Kalligrammatid in a Sequoia tree while other Kalligrammatids fly around. The background is black and the foreground is lit sharply from behind, showing only silhouettes and transparent wings. Caihong is covered in bright blue and green feathers on its neck and head, while dimmer blue feathers dominate on its back and wings. The Kalligrammatid in the tree has large yellow-and grey wings that mimic the head of a maniraptoran dinosaur. They have a sharp dividing line resembling a mouth with teeth along their middle and a bright blue eyespot. A second member of the species is flapping around. Other Kalligrammatids are flying around too; several of them have eyespots. One of them instead has many smaller white spots amidst a dark area on the edge of its wings. Their wings are transparent and form the brightest parts of the image with their backlighting, only dimming where they are shaded by the insects' bodies or another wing behind them. Although their wings do resemble those of butterflies, they are clearly separate unlike those of butterflies, and the hindwings in particular are swept further backwards. The insects' bodies, although mostly only visible in silhouette, resemble those of other lacewings rather than butterflies.

In a dense Sequoia forest where the darkness is broken by only a single solarbeam, a Caihong curiously inspects a Kalligrammatid, seeing a face not unlike its own staring back from the strange insect’s transparent wings.

#Caihong #Kalligrammatidae #Paleoart #Jurassic #MyArt

A pencil sketch depicting the Razor from Slay the Princess. She is a sharp-angled Princess with the ability to unfold her bones into metal blades. In the left panel, she is looking down a bit while touching her elbows together, pushing her boobs together and emphasising her cleavage with a smile on her face. In the second panel, she has thrown her arms wide and six blades have emerged from her chest, leaving long horizontal wounds along it, and her grin has turned wicked, showing off her razor-sharp metal teeth.

Whenever I see art featuring Razor rocking a ton of cleavage, I always feel like her rib blades are about to unfold and skewer me, so I decided to draw exactly that. This one's also an illustration for Kiss the Razor! archiveofourown.org/works/568573...

#SlayThePrincess #stpRazor #MyArt #stpArt

A watercolour showing a scene partially under water and partially above it. The water's surface breaks the frame about three quarters of the way up. Underwater, the scene is dominated by a Tiktaalik - a large grey lobe-finned fish with a broad, triangular head. Its body is diagonal to the viewer, but its face stares straight at us with its mouth open in threat. Its eyes are small and close together. It it slightly propper up on its front fins and its tailfin has a display structure featuring a light-coloured stripe and a blueish stripe. All around it is a dense patch of Chara algae, long stalks that branch into bunches of leaf-like structures several times (typically four times but some of the algae depicted differ). Several of the algal leafs around the Tiktaalik are speckled with small white eggs. Further in the background, the forest river's water and the algae prevent us from seeing very much. What is visible are another Tiktaalik and three smaller fish: two Bothriolepis, placoderms with a vaguely mandolin-shaped body and long frontal fins. One of them is kicking up a cloud of dust around it as it digs into the sediment. The other is farther away and near the second Tiktaalik - who is mostly hidden behind a sunken log and looking at the distant Bothriolepis. The final visible fish, a Coccosteus, is about the same size as the Bothriolepis and swimming towards the nearer one. The surface of the water is showing the impact of many raindrops. In the top quarter of the watercolour, we can see the forested shores of the river, obscured by a lot of rain. The right bank is closest and its nearest part is a muddy shore overgrown by Rhacophyton, a somewhat fern-like plant, and Archaeopteris trees can be seen on its far side. They grow straight from the ground without side branches until they suddenly branch out into a series of horizontal flat round canopies. A few small spiders can be spotted on the shores.

On a rainy Devonian day, a Tiktaalik father guards his eggs in a small forest river. Meanwhile, his hunting mate has her eye on a Bothriolepis. Another Bothriolepis is eating something buried in the river sediment, drawing the attention of a Coccosteus.

#Tiktaalik #Devonian #paleoart #MyArt

A watercolour painting of an underwater scene depicting a bunch of Cambrian organisms. Central and by far the largest of them all is Anomalocaris, a strange brown arthropod with long, curved mouthparts and many wavy swimming limbs. It is lit from behind and casts a dark, ominous shadow over most of the scene, while a cloud of brown dust emanates around it. The other creatures are all far smaller and all arranged to look at Anomalocaris in a rocky undersea landscape with several sponges. They include Opabinia, a bizarre colourful creature with five eyes; Hallucigenia, a long purple wormy creature with yellow spikes on its back and five pairs of feet; Pikaia, a worm-like pale grey chordate with a thickened area on its back; Canadia, a spiny purple worm-like creature; Burgessia, a round green arthropod with a long tail and antennae on a higher rock than most others; Marella, an arthropod with many long curved bits arranged in vaguely T-like shapes; and Elrathia, a ruddy trilobite. Each of them has some sort of rock or small ridge between them and the much larger Anomalocaris. The foreground is largely brown where the light falls on it, and the background behind Anomalocaris is blue sea, brighter towards the upper left where the light is coming from. The shadows are dark and ominous, especially the ones cast by Anomalocaris.

Mighty Anomalocaris stirs, spreading dust and terror throughout the Cambrian sea. Opabinia, Hallucigenia, Pikaia, Canadia, Burgessia, Marella, and Elrathia can only hope the rocks and ridges they cover behind will hide them.
#Cambrian #Paleoart #MyArt #Anomalocaris

A pencil illustration depicting the Fury and the Long Quiet from Slay the Princess. She is a tall, flayed, demonic Princess and he is a much smaller bird-like creature. He is crying into his knees and the arms wrapped around them, and she has awkwardly reached out a hand to his shoulder to comfort him, while looking generally unsure of herself.

An illustration from Kiss the Tower and the Fury archiveofourown.org/works/600631... , of Fury awkwardly comforting Quiet. I really enjoyed working on both this fic and this drawing! Fury's anatomy makes her so much fun to draw.

#SlayThePrincess #stpFury #stpLongQuiet #MyArt

A watercolour depicting a flowering steppe landscape in spring on the edge of a snowy mountain range. It is a sunny day, there are many colourful flowers amidst the grasses, and a small river runs meandering through the left side of the image, starting in a valley in the mountains. A raven flies over the entire scene. Below it, there are steppe mammoths bathing in the river. There are seven of them: four adults, all with tusks though one of them has a broken tusk, and three calfs of various sizes. They are large, furry brown elephants, though not as furry as woolly mammoths and with straighter tusks. Two of them are spraying water from their snouts and they are all having a good time. Across the river, a Megaloceros is kneeling to eat some riverbank plants. It is a large deer with extremely impressive antlers. In the lower right corner are two roe deer, quite small compared to the megafauna, keeping an eye on their surroundings. Further in the background we see a herd of steppe bison. They are large, beefy bovids with a big bump on their backs. There are about twenty of them, mostly adults but some smaller young mixed in, and they leave a muddy trampled and grazed trail behind them. Even farther away there are four wolves observing the bison. Behind the wolves the mountains start. Very soon after the landscape's height starts increasing, it becomes snow-covered, and barely any bare rock is visible on the icy mountains. Several birds and the gibbous Moon are visible in the clear blue sky. One is a circling buzzard, a brown bird of prey. The other is a flock of six geese flying to the left.

350k years ago, just beyond the western edge of the icy Schwarzwald, spring has come to the mammoth steppe. A raven flies over a group of mammoths enjoying a cold bath in the river, while a Megaloceros grazes on some choice plants growing on the riverbanks.
#Mammoth #Pleistocene #Paleoart #MyArt

The head of the Cage from Slay the Princess lying on a platter. She is glancing up at the viewer with a smile playing around her lips and her long hair flowing off the plate.

A while ago, I visited a museum where I encountered a gorgeous 15th century sculpture of John the Baptist’s head on a plate. It inspired me to draw the Cage like that!
#SlayThePrincess #stpCage #MyArt

I've been on here for a bit now, it's about time I start reposting some of my art here. I mainly do #paleoart and #SlayThePrincess fanart, so expect to see a lot of those!

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

this has become a very important video to me

Hi, this is Vicky! Your art is amazing, the lighting is so so good, I love it!

Trans athletes have been able to compete at the Olympics for decades, and in that time there have been around SIX.
They have not medaled nor even placed highly.
A “solution” of a non-issue to virtue-signal bigotry.

The added ban against any athlete with DSD arbitrarily punishes the exceptional.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

New season of Past Lives starts now! Introducing Bodily Experiences - every episode focuses on the life of a person we know through their remains, like skeletons and mummies. Thanks to new archaeological tools, we can understand past people in ways never before possible. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

Re: my last reposts

“Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

A watercolour depicting Dustin Mum and the Scarlet Estate from Scarlet Hollow. The estate is a large wooden American mansion that's in a poor state, its entire left side notably sunk down and full of cracks and broken windows as it teeters on the edge of a cliff. Dustin Mum and her kids are posing in front of it. They are opossums. She is opening her mouth in either a threat display or a greeting, and her kids are small fuzzballs on her woolly back.

Dustin Mum and her kids (including Dustin at the lower right) in front of the Scarlet Estate. #ScarletHollow #shFanart #MyArt #Opossum

Any use of genAI always reads to me like:

“We just used a little bit of shit in our cake because we couldn’t afford chocolate.”

Me returning from the Cretaceous with a suspiciously Doolysaurus Huhmini shaped suitcase(s).........
#paleoart #paleontology

I can't wait! I recall it's coming out right around my birthday, so I'm definitely asking for it as a present.

FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A CAT This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some! He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs. Let me out! I don't know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime. He keeps my rooms clean for me. In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love. Often at night when / can hear mysterious and magic voices, when / can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don't imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and 1 meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood. But don't think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices. Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.

From the Point of View of a Cat ~ Karel Capek (translated by Dora Round - originally published in Intimate Things, 1935)