Tas, drawer of Things

Judithian Campanian Cretaceous | Mesozoic Era: Cretaceous Period

it reminds me a lot of this piece by Julius Csotonyi!

www.csotonyi.com/mesozoic-era...

Felix cumpleaños!!!!! happy arrival to the most secret sleeper in the society!

#Papercraft art of the lovely nankeen kestrel! Always a good time coming across one of these guys in the wild, I'm a big fan

Thank you!! I wish I'd taken photos of the shapes before putting them together but I was very proud of coming up with this way of slotting the feathers from the lower paper through the upper paper!

Plus some progress pictures! Flats, lines and sketch

Digital artwork of the Antarctic carnivorous dinosaur Cryolophosaurus, standing on a mossy forest floor. It is facing to the right, and has a spotted dark brown coat of feathers

Watched the documentary #Dinosaurs of the Frozen Continent recently and found it pretty enjoyable and interesting! Had a lot about the process of finding and extracting fossils from Antarctica that I didn't know which was neat. Anyway here's some #Cryolophosaurus #paleoart inspired by that watch!

Some #papercraft art from last month that I made as a gift for my bestie after they came home from working in Japan! It's a pair of rock ptarmigans (Lagopus muta), which are the official bird of Nagano Prefecture. They're a beautiful bird that also makes fantastic noises (look them up)

Giant cephalopods were another childhood fascination of mine. Who wouldn't be entranced by statements like "The squid has never been seen alive in its natural habitat..."? I always hoped I'd get to see someday. Now we're getting those glimpses, and it's wonderful.

The floof squad! In order: Zhenyuanlong suni, Daurlong wangi, Iyuku raathi, and Sanxiasaurus modaoxiensis

I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!

#paleoart

Thanks so much! I think coming up with colour patterns might be one of my favourite parts of the process

Thank you!! haven't really tackled many projects that size since, hopefully I'll be able to do something about that in the future!

Thank you so much!!

Nobody wants to fund my de-extinction project to bring back the fastest canid to ever live, the driver wolves

The process of putting this together was long and complicated but I had such a great time packing in as much detail as I could, especially on the seabed. There's sea snails, crinoids, brittle stars, and a mostly-hidden shell of the giant ammonite Tropaeum imperator!

Another reason this is one of my proudest works is because it was accepted into the 2022 Waterhouse Natural Sciences Art Prize exhibition at the South Australian Museum! It was my first time entering, and being accepted and exhibited was so exciting and still feels surreal now

The main star of this piece is the small crested plesiosaur Umoonasaurus, and it's surrounded by creatures that we know shared this environment, including ammonites, belemnites, the giant chimaeroid Ptyktoptychion, and Kronosaurus looming overhead

This is my most thorough artistic exploration of a fossil ecosystem, and it was fascinating to look into! Early Cretaceous Australia was much closer to the south pole, and what is now baking desert was once a chilly inland sea covered with ice and full of marine life

While I'm new here, I thought I'd show off some of my favourite art I've done in the past! This is one of my very proudest #paleoart pieces, a multi-layered paper #lightbox rendition of the Bulldog Shale fossil formation, from the Early Cretaceous of what is now South Australia!

Digital artwork of my brother's dnd character, a copper dragonborn monk

Digital artwork of an original character, a space fantasy themed navy admiral

Blackletter calligraphy rendition of the Spiders Georg tumblr post

A medieval manuscript style drawing of a peasant reacting to a deep sea isopod

And I also do the occasional smattering of character art and calligraphic shitposts

Artwork of a coconut crab, made from hand cut coloured paper

Compilation of lino prints of deep-sea creatures

Artwork of a forest kingfisher diving for fish, made from hand cut coloured paper

Artwork of two rock ptarmigans, made from hand cut coloured paper

It's not all ancient stuff though, I've also been doing a lot more modern nature art recently!

Digital artwork of the lizardlike prehistoric synapsid Ascendonanus. One is climbing up a tree branch while another is trying not to fall off said tree branch

Digital artwork of the small feathered dinosaur Liaoningvenator

Graphite sketch of the predatory dinosaur Herrerasaurus being harrassed by a flock of Eodromaeus

Backlit papercraft diorama of the Cretaceous Bulldog Shale formation including the plesiosaur Umoonasaurus, ammonites, belemnites and chimaeras

Okayyy artist introduction time! Hey, my name's Tas and I'm an Australian palaeontology student and palaeoartist. I've been captivated by prehistory almost my whole life and trying to draw it for just as long! I mostly do digital, pencil and papercraft work but anything else is fun too!