MOVING DAY IS UPON ME

Moving day is almost here!

Haven't had time for The Online lately for this reason. Turns out the house I bought had a lot more wrong with it than the inspector originally found (like the ceiling fans being potential death traps). Pretty much everything had to be replaced, so it's been under renovation for the past few months.

But after that and some intense cleaning, it's finally done. I'm gonna start living in it this weekend and am really looking forward to getting my life on track. I'm eternally grateful to my parents for helping me after the fire and with the new house, but after two years of living with them, all parties are happy I'm moving out lol. I still miss Vala horribly, but it'll be nice to give more kitties a home (I'll have room for two now).

Once I get everything organized I'll be online more, but honestly it's been nice just doing more irl things away from social media. My friends started a D&D campaign and that's been TONS of fun so far. I'm also looking into (somehow) doing paleontology stuff irl, and going out more in general.

 

Scrappy Dog Sketch + Updates

Haven't updated anything in a while, but basically life and house renovations go on. Bathroom is finally a WIP, and once that, the painters, and some basic furniture and appliances are ordered, I can actually move in, hopefully by the end of August. 

Art wise, behind the scenes I've been hyper-focusing on production for a short fan comic, hence why I haven't posted any public stuff in a bit. (And the Isle got new dinos, so that was a week of my life gone.) I've also been working some writing and long term projects I've neglected. It's been a nice change of pace. Once I get settled in my house, I can focus on being online more and try to maintain some kind of more balanced schedule. 

Anyway, a scrappy dog. 

Obsidian Studies

 That I never really finished. 

Refs used.

Spino Pelican

 

If it ain't ichthyosaurs, it's these guys. 

It's cool, but it also sucks because Irritator is yet another case of scientific colonialism and the fossil black market. Not only that, but fossil poachers broke and defiled the skull to smuggle it out of the country. It was named "Irritator" because it was irritating to figure out which parts were real bones and which were plaster.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/massive-dino-from-brazil-ate-like-a-pelican-controversial-new-study-finds-why-is-it-causing-an-uproar

Here's a good vid on it too. 

Ichthyosaur Origins

 

Once thought to have appeared in the Triassic, apparently ichthyosaurs decided to screw with paleontology and evolve way before the Permian mass-extinction instead. The mass extinction that killed 90% of life on earth, and these guys were just chillin'.

https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-ichthyosaur-known-to-science-discovered-on-remote-arctic-island

Good for them.

Broken Crown

 

I feel this one came out looking worse than the thumbnails. Oh well, can't win 'em all.

Fox Familar

 

This piece was certainly a lesson in patience. 

A two-legged fox showed up on the internet early this year.

I wonder if medieval people might have thought it was demonic, or if weird mutated animals didn't mean anything. Regretfully I could not capture the utter "life sucks but idgaf" mood of medieval woodcuts.

Death the Wolf Sketches

Let's be real, the creators of 'Puss in Boots: the Last Wish' knew exactly who they were catering to when they made Death a big handsome scary wolf man.

Anubis Lineart

 

Zooophagus Gift

 

For my pal Zooophagus.

2023 Sketches (so far)

From now on I'll make each sketch it's own post once, or do a monthly sketch dump, not sure yet. Anyway, some sketches so far:

The dilo dog. 

Sorry Ernie, you look less like a pachy and more like a deformed dodo. 

Only I can make a very handsome man this awkward lmao