#paleoart #sciart

Newtonsaurus cambrensis

Color scheme is based on Drossel Keinz from <Black butler> season 1 and modern-day rufous-necked hornbill(Aceros nipalensis)

#blackbutler #kuroshitsuji #warhammer

Another crazy mashup between <Black butler> and <Warhammer> universe, here comes Sebastian × Kairos Fateweaver!

*partly based on Sebastian's crow-demon concept in anime season 1-2, and japanese voice actor joke

From 2026: the dinosaur-like reptile Nyasasaurus sprints after a tiny beaked reptile, a rhynchosaur, in Triassic Tanzania. Trees, living and dead, erupt from shallow banks surrounding a shallow stream, across which Nyasasaurus has splashed.

My old 2012 take on Nyasasaurs, produced in association with Sterling Nesbitt and Paul Barrett. Here, Nyasasaurus examines the remains of an uprooted cycad, while rhynchosaurs munch foliage in the distance. I'd been producing palaeoart semi-professionally for a few years when I created this, but drawing was still a side gig. It wasn't long after I made this image that I began taking my art more seriously, investing in better equipment and leaning more into it as a career.

I get a lot of licensing requests for my 2012 #paleoart of (what might be) the oldest known dinosaur, Nyasasaurus. 2012 was a professional lifetime ago, so I've prepared a nicer version for new clients. Nyasasaurus is so poorly known that you could take a recon. in several directions. #sciart

New large pterosaur tracks from Korea and their implications on terrestrial behavior - Scientific Reports Pterosaurs were important components of Mesozoic ecosystems, occupying diverse ecological niches from the Late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous. Among them, neoazhdarchians have been hypothesized...

New paper: possible track evidence of a small reptile or salamander being pursued by an azhdarchid-like pterosaur. Validation of the Witton and @tetzoo.bsky.social model of azhdarchid foraging? Maybe.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Omeisaurus, an especially long-necked member of the long-necked dinosaur group, displays his dark skin to an unseen audience. We often show dinosaurs displaying with bright colours, but melanin - which turns skin browns, blacks, greys and earthy-hues, is also widely used as a display colour among living animals. Pigments of any kind are expensive to create or source, so their presence is an honest signal of health and vitality, even if they aren't bright.

It's that time of the week again, folks: TGIO: Thank God it's Omeisaurus.

(Prints of this and my other artworks are available: www.markwitton.co.uk/product-page...)

#FossilFriday #dinosaur #fossil #paleoart #sciart

One of the most famous mosasaurs, Tylosaurus proriger, submerges after taking a breath. It is dark above and light below, as tentatively suggested by some palaeocolour data. The challenges of interpreting scaly reptile palaeocolour, and the tiny scraps of colour data we have for this animal, preclude much confidence in chromatic interpretations of this species, however. Also, if you stare at this long enough, you'll see a few sharks. No foolin'.

Been thinking marine-reptiley thoughts today. Here's one of my latest #paleoart efforts along that line: Tylosaurus proriger. The colour is based on fossil colour data, although it's far from certain that this animal was black and countershaded.

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A mari in a harry clarke and Aubrey Beardsley style cloak with lots of patterns hands outstretched casting magic

The conjurer

"Earl Phantomhive, what killed your butler?"
"...a kitten-level cuteness of certain exorcist."

Sinosauropteryx and Psittacosaurus

Got this

#paleoart #sciart

Doolysaurus huhmini

#dgrayman #dgm #blackbutler #kuroshitsuji

Lenalee with Sebastian, a kitten-level cutiepie exorcist with cat-lover demon

#paleoart #sciart

Natovenator polydontus and Harenadraco prima

Dedicated to their first autor, Dr.Sungjin Lee

燕青くん

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#fanart #art #illustration #FGO

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アナログ30min

#leagueoflegends #LOL #sona

Didn't drawn LOL fanart for a long time. So anyway, here comes casual Sona

A black and white, turkey-like dinosaur stands on an icy lake in Cretaceous China. It braces against the slow splay of its legs. As its body incrementally lowers, inching closer to the ice, it hears a voice. The ghosts of the icy forest, perhaps? The spirits of its ancestors? Perhaps nothing else can hear it, but it's getting louder, sharper. Now it can make out a sequence of sounds. They are... words? The same phrase, repeated over and over? First a whisper, then a chant. Yes, it's very clear now. Louder again - a roar! A chorus! They cry: "GET BACK TO WORK, MARK, YOU HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT TO FINISH YOUR BOOK. THIS IS NOT A PRODUCTIVE USE OF YOUR TIME." Man, even my alt-text won't give me a break.

Another "I'm not dead post" while slugging away on Book 7. Here're revisions made to my recent Caudipteryx #paleoart piece after revisiting the distribution of melanised feathers in referred specimens. I also closed the split tail, following feedback from @albertonykus.bsky.social - thanks, Albert!

Pink pterosaurs, pink water. A flock of pterosaurs adapted for filter-feeding soar along a Jurassic coast undergoing a phytoplankton bloom, exposing the source of the pink carotenoids that they sequester into their fuzz to make their bodies and faces pink. Marine carotenoids would have been especially common from the Mesozoic onwards, and it's very plausible that animals like pterosaurs would have picked them up in their diets.

Still alive as work on Book 7 enters the last few days, though I am quite sleep-deprived. And which joker organised daylight savings so close to my deadline? Thanks, jerk.

Here's some #paleoart of the Jurassic pterosaur Balaenognathus soaring over dinoflagellates, the source of their pink bodies.

Spinosaurus mirabilis, the newly-described tall-crested Spinosaur variant, wanders past a rivebank covered with tiny, dark-green glowing insects. She's seen this show before, so pays no attention. The Moon, conversely, is watching intensely. REAL intensely. Like, back off a bit, guy, give the bugs some space.

New at #Patreon: #paleoart of Cretaceous fireflies and #Spinosaurus mirabilis. Fireflies have existed for 100 million years and, thanks to some cool science, we know what colours they illuminated themselves with. Details (+ more new art) at www.patreon.com/markwitton. #dinosaur #fossil #art

I've just added nine new/revised #paleoart print options at my store: Spinosaurus with fireflies! Omeisaurus! Psittacosaurus! Tylosaurus! Smilodon! And More!

Check them out at www.markwitton.co.uk/category/all... (and remember that my Patrons can get 20% off all orders!)

#art #dinosaurs #fossils

#paleoart #sciart

Vectidromeus insularis

Color scheme is based on king quail(Synoicus chinensis) and Ciel Phantomhive from <Black butler>

#dgrayman #dgm #doom

Very crazy crossover between <D.gray-man> and <DOOM>, here comes Tyki Mikk × Doom slayer!

+dedicated to their english voice actor and motion capture actor Brad Hawkins

therizinosaurus

PinkPantheress brought Kuroshitsuji on stage :D

#kuroshitsuji #sanrio

the character vs how u drew the character

Digital flat color illustration of Our Ciel Phantomhive and Sebastian Michaelis from Black Butler, Ciel drawn up close and Sebastian further in the back from the knees up. Ciel is frowning at Sebastian and saying "I think standing in the darkest part of the room doesn't automatically make you cool". Sebastian is standing in the corner with his upper half body covered in shadow, only his eyes can be seen and they look sad.

It’s Sebastian bullying hours ☺️

From 2024 #eli's-art #art #digital-art #procreate #drawing #illustration #memes #meme #meme-monday #meme-redraw #fanart #kuroshitsuji #black-butler #ciel-phantomhive #our-ciel #ociel #o!ciel #sebastian-michaelis #old-piece

Sebastian Michaelis fanart ❤️

#blackbutler #sebastianmichaelis #illust