@paperiapina
Formerly a chronic art student, currently possibly a forest troll roaming the woods of Finland when not busy geeking out about dinosaurs or imaginary creatures in variety of headworlds. Cosplaying as a warehouse worker by day. Minted in 1987. (they/she)
Dang. The real thing is so cool too! I remember the first time I saw a video of it in a documentary, and *I* was fooled. It doesn't need to be like actual spider to be impressive.
I started it sometime back in 2014-ish or something. It's been very slow going as I'm technically a full time warehouse worker, and have bunch of other projects, but I've sworn to make something print worthy of it one day!
I shall keep an eye out for that, then! 👀
Mine is still a work in progress, but it's about a small clan of troodontid dinosaurs (the "Singing People") and their lives herding their domesticated Einiosaurus cows, among other things. Based around species found in late Cretaceous Laramidia.
I would absolutely buy a book with your art! Finding good dinosaur books for kids and young people these days is so rare.
Seeing your dinosaur art over at deviantArt forever ago was one of my biggest inspirations that got me started on my own dinosaur project thingy back in the day. The way you could do accurate dinosaurs while still drawing them in stylized and cartoony was a huge spark to me!
A pencil drawingnof two centaurs standing in a neutral pose side by side. The one on the lwft appears to be a mostly solid dun/buckskin color (judging by a label written below it instead of actually habing any color), the one on the right is piebald. The right one also has a tiny profile sketch showing her other side, as her markings are asymmetric.
Two sketches of the previous centaurs drawn in profile (posed kinda looking like ancient egyptian hieroglyphs, not gonna lie) and colored with watercolors, mapping out their colors and markings, as light golden brown with darker manes, tails and mostly legs, though the left one has one white leg while the piebald one has three.
Designed two more centaurs to keep company for the gray lady from the other day. This time a pair of sisters.
Mostly just my own imagination. There is some general corvid influence with the head shape, and alvarezsaur and basal tyrannosaurid for the arms, but mostly just having fun with creature designing.
GASPPP!! I NEED!
Hope you don't mind!
I have a system for keeping track of things on tumblr, I just haven't gotten around to do the same for this site. (Or figured out how to.)
I should... probably learn to tag things over here. I'm ADHD, and have approximately half a dozen separate headworlds in the works simultaneously at any given time, so whenever the inspiration strikes I can post stuff from WILDLY different, completely unrelated settings back to back.
Redesigning my old birdmonsters, color edition!
Pencil drawing of a monstrous bird creature that vaguely resembles a bipedal griffin of some sort. It has an owl-like face, tiny abelisaur-like arms, feathered wings proportionally too small for flying, which have claws and paw pads on their underside, and a long, fluffy tail resembling that of a snow leopard. It is covered in little fleck like spots like freckles. It is very fluffy!
Another birdmonster in roughly the same body plan as the previous one, this one with more corvid flavoured facial proportions than the other one. It also has tiny arms, but more in the flavour of alvarezsaur or basal tyrannosaur, and its clawed, feathery wings don't have paw pads like the other did.
Oh, I realized I never shared these here!
Been reworking couple old ARPG characters into my own brand of birdmonsters in the hopes of reviving them into another project at some point. I've been having so much fun with them!
Further design thoughts for the character. Long mane, all socks and black roan type coloring.
I am very intrigued! ✨️👀
The fact that this coincided with the lunar new year for the year of the horse is purely accidental, but I will happily take it!
A pencil drawing of a centaur character standing in a basic, neutral pose. She's fluffy.
Started designing characters for the hoof people thing, starting with a centaur lady built like a tank.
There was a need for floofy feetsies.
Eee, thank yous for the kind words! 🧡
I just love your work so much! The textures! The lighting! The dangly ear jewelry, and the neck floof flowing out of the collar! Just so much joy to look at.
Oh, they are So Shapes! I love it, just delightful!
I don't know what it is exactly, but there's something extra pleasing in his design. Love the blend of all different bears, I like spotting all the features from different species! Delightful!
Oh, that is the face of a cat who's so content! 🧡
D'awww, thank you!
I had some further Thoughts(tm) about this. Specifically on how to build centaurs.
The upper torso is neck, the rib cage is a ginormous and highly specialized hyoid apparatus, specifically to support the arms (with a side job as housing an air sac for precision control for speech).
I am SO MAD I can't get them because of no-shipping-to-EU reasons. They are perfect, and I love them!
painted headshot commission finished! If you'd like your own, they're $90 and available here: forms.gle/4fiZ7oB8PFs3...
A really loosely sketched 2-panel comic. In the first panel there are three angry looking centaurs. One of them is pointing with a finger and saying "You're not seriously bringing one of those BEASTS with us!" In the other panel there are four equally angry looking fauns and a minotaur facing the centaurs. The centaur is pointing at the minotaur, who is twice the size of the fauns standing besides and in front her. One of the fauns is shouting back "Fuck off! She's ours!" refereing to the minotaur. As a brilliant show of myself being a creature/animal artist and not a human one, only the minotaur's face has any detail, while everyone else has stick figure faces.
Started cooking up a potential new story setting over the holidays (as my ADHD tends to manifest in the form of headworlds), and I doodled this messy sketch as a concept for myself.
For some reason tumblr really likes this one.
I don't know why, but I really love how you draw small cats, specifically. There's just something extra charming that I can't really put my finger on, but it delights me every time.
Oh, this is such a luxurious look! Great work!
Hot dang, a treasure find! ✨️👀
Digital painted bust portrait of an anthro bovid-like animal with a long triceratops-ish crest on the back of his head with many curved horns on it.
Icon for @paperiapina.bsky.social of their character Arcanth! Used a handy 3D model by @hanmonster.bsky.social for the crest!
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