Here is a spread from "Galaxy Guide" - a spec-evo sketchbook I kept between 1999 and 2002.
I will share an image from this series every Friday, and I hope you will enjoy the journey!
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"Galaxy Guide" was a guide to an immense artificial habitat known as "the Wall" - where creatures from all timelines and all planets ...
2022-11-18 14:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks in part to your support, work continues day and night on the All Tomorrows rewrite!
Now I have reached to the end of the Quhanim (Qu) invasion, and am writing about the successive eras of their domination. There are 11 mysterious sub-chapters in this dark part of our book...
Thank you all for your support on Patreo...
Although my sketchbook page is public and completely free; only you, my Patreon supporters, get to see exclusive raw sketchbook pages with otherwise top-secret Snaiad and All Tomorrows sketches.
Thank you all once more for your support!
2022-11-14 17:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I illustrated one of the strange "Mastigaunts" that I had sketched earlier this year. (Check attachments to see all my Mastigaunt sketches).
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Mastigaunts are crescent-shaped advanced nanomachines that hover above the ground thanks to their long, grounding tail filaments. If the tail breaks contract with the gr...
Behold "The Musical Troupe", acrylics on canvas, approx. 75 x 40 cm. What sort of music they play, I have no idea... :)
Thank you all, once more, for supporting me on Patreon, and beyond...
Work on the Snaiad book is continuing non-stop!
Here are the two drawings I completed during my recent Youtube urbexing video, which you can watch on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3b8-HdEcJU !
Despite their different body plans, the Staff-ja...
Here is a sneak reveal of one of the hundreds of "boring" herbivorous clades that will appear on the new Snaiad book.
Skoloderms are medium-to-small sized harbivores of arid highlands and mountains that reproduce by laying leathery "egg purses" in crevices and burrows. They are specialist feeders on tubers, and indigenous succulent-and-li...
What a nice day, three new Patrons have joined to support me :)
Welcome to Nail, Seth Howard and Scott Burns. Thank you so much!
In honour of your arrival to Kosemen country, I am sharing three hitherto-unseen pages from my colourful sketchbooks!
Here is a bunch of ink-and-watercolour sketches of, and inspired by - Glycon the scam serpent god, the subject of my latest Youtube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSsAZ2anGac
Thank you all for your support on Patreon. com !
Here are the Powerpoint and PDF presentations that accompany my talk on my most recent big Youtube documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSsAZ2anGac
2022-10-25 13:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Although my sketchbook page is public and completely free; only you, my Patreon supporters, get to see exclusive raw sketchbook pages with otherwise top-secret Snaiad and All Tomorrows sketches. Thank you all once more for your support!
2022-10-20 09:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post
3 trilateralans and one picozoan... All having a ball!
2022-10-19 12:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to your support, every week I can take 1-2 days off my work and concentrate purely on Snaiad and All Tomorrows. I draw and write everywhere I go!
Here are three new species from Snaiad for your eyes only. Provisionally termed "Vaardogs", these are small to medium-sized archaic herbivores with lithe bodies...
The #Snaiad project has been translated into Spanish thanks to the selfless efforts of Christian Gamez!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WsS...
;) The book is coming along nicely! Couldn't have done it without y'all!
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My lifetime Patreon supporters will ALL be credited, in print, when this book comes out :)
All are free for you to download! Enjoy, and feel free to use them in your creative projects.
2022-10-11 12:44:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A few years ago I had a personal project of illustrating ALL creatures and sophont races mentioned in Jack Vance's works.
Due to other priorities I only got one illustration done - an Aluph from the Durdane series. I loved those creatures with their pedal scent organs, their "dog-spider faces" and overall hint of lapsed sapience. ...
2022-10-10 11:11:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is my illustration of Zhenyuanopterus that accompanied this tutorial on my Youtube channel. Thank you all for your support on Patreon! :)
2022-10-05 12:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a recent ink-and-digital portrait of Rhamphorhynchus - a pterosaur that's very fun to illustrate. Although I will move this image to my online gallery in a week, Patreon friends get to see it first! :)
2022-10-03 11:23:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to your hints, this surreal painting is now complete. @HH HH had mentioned adding "something serpentine" in the final hour - which I also worked into the painting.
It added a nice bit of drama; the spirit couple seemed to be reacting to something, and the snake-like ectoplasm was a great fit. So I called this painting "Surprised". ...
A new painting is taking shape...
I read your suggestions and added a couple of poly-limbed, and slightly manticore-like forms.
I'll keep updating this series until the painting is complete!
A new painting is taking shape...
What sort of spirit creatures should I paint on this background?
I'll keep updating this series until the painting is complete!
The 1000+ name lexicon on the alien world of #Snaiad contains many "uncanned" prehistoric languages alongside scientific Greek/Latin.
General convention is to couple one Greek/Latin word root with one from another language for genus names - creatin...
2022-09-21 14:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is a template to help you draw radial creatures easily.
Please feel free to download and use these guide papers as you wish! (FILE ATTACHED)
I created the radial angle template you can see in the attachment. It has horizontal and vertical planes for 12, 90, 72 and 60 degree slices. This means you can easily draw...
2022-09-21 10:47:05 +0000 UTC View Post
For years I have been thinking about these strange, radially-symmetrical animals on Snaiad - my long-running project about the natural history of another planet.
Drawing radially-symmetrical animals is a big challenge! One has to repeat the same details over and over - and it is very easy to get the whole thing off. My brain has difficulty...
2022-09-21 07:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
My big new podcast on frog cryptids is now up on Youtube - at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FYWveUCKhY ! You can find the presentation files under this post!
Thank you all for your continued support - it makes these Youtube videos possible!
Although I re-post many of my sketches on my website; only you, my Patreon supporters, get to see full sketch pages that reveal uncensored details from Snaiad, All Tomorrows, and my associated horror story projects.
2022-09-10 12:41:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I need your feedback on these five alternatives of the main logotype for the Snaiad book project. Which one is your favourite? :)
2022-09-09 14:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A new study based on one of my enduring non-scientific hunches - that Permian-era Lystrosaurs had some sort of mole-rat-like "civilisation" which caused the end-Permian extinction.
This is also an art style test for the upcoming All Tomorrows book! :)
Midjourney and A.I.-created art is fast becoming banal and commonplace; but I am still trying to push its envelope by collaging and painting over Midjourney creations; trying to create works that look traditionally-made, whimsical, mystifying... and just plain beautiful! :)