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You know when you’re falling asleep and a random image or meme blips into your vision? Yeah

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And all together now! I opened my ask box for names again. In March, I'll look in there and choose someone else! Planning to draw Azure, Boethiah, Mephala, Naryu Virian, Martin Septim and Cosades or Curio

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the king of games in all his glory

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HERE IT IS!

For some time now I have been waiting to reveal to you my press release artwork of Alpkarakush kyrgyzicus, a new metriacanthosaur from the mid Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan doesn't have many dinosaurs described so far and there is little funding for research and excavations which is why this is a German/Kyrgyz cooperation. Previous excavations had already hinted at it but Kyrgyzstan seems have potential for a lot of important fossil find.

Here the paper: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/201/4/zlae090/7736730

The material recovered so far consists of two specimen, an adult and a sub-adult, found disarticulated next to each other. The hindlimbs are largely complete but much is still missing. Still, the remains reveal an impressive animal.

In my reconstruction I largely patched things up with Sinraptor and Yangchuanosaurus resulting in an nearly 8 m long animal. In theory it could also go up to 9 m, but these guys appear to have a rather short tail. (not all theropod postcrania are the same!)

Two skull bones have been recovered, plus some teeth. Most interesting here are the postorbitals, these show some gnarly bosses which were probably much larger in life.

The teeth, likewise, are interesting, while most are your typical theropod blades two, maybe from the premaxillary, are round in cross section and rather slender. Without any other theropods in the locality they are tentatively referred to Alpkarakush as well.

I worked on the reconstruction of this animal for quite a while and one of the main discussion points we had was the restoration of the postorbital bosses. I made several different versions before we settled on the one you see in the next tweet.

A combination of these charismatic lizards led to the shape you see now in my restoration.

The composition for this piece came together quickly, but refining it took a while. As an important note: this image doesn't reflect precisely the environment Alpkarakush was found in. But for dramatic sake we added a little elevation into this piece.

The prey item of our theropod here is a basal stegosaur of which a few dorsal vertebrae are know. While being an early member of this group it was already impressively large.

Other animals from the Balabansai Formation include the sauropod Ferganasaurus, the small, dubious ornithischian Ferganocephale as well as turtles, pterosaurs, crocodiles and some of the youngest temnospondyl remains. And potentially lots more!

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It wasn't there 😔

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Moodboard for when you look in a character tag

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One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally can’t code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we can’t seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.

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i remembered this absolute peak image from back in the day

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I NEED HELP TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS

I have $125 left to pay on July’s rent and I’m really fucking scared. I have nowhere to go. I don’t know what to do with my service animal. I don’t even have a car to live out of.

I need help. Please I’m so scared

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sometimes i think about the golden record and i want to cry

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Stole this from twitter. Gotta love horses remembering their old jobs (in this case, racing)! They're playing the call to the gate tune!

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vintage weapon foundry stickers and unique drink bottle cap buttons

design notes below the break

these were some fun design exercises. the stickers are based off of vintage fruit stickers. The theme was to take destiny 2's very strong design and branding and turn it into something completely different.

some were easy to brainstorm (tex mechanica) while others were :war: (cassoid).

The mida one was soooo high concept i'm not sure if anyone actually understands what the hell i was doing with it (it's supposed to be mars cut in half with the white flashes being the anomaly thats at the center. is this making any sense.).

funnily enough the hardest one for me was the infinite forge. below are the iterations i went through before finally settling for the 3rd one.

as for the buttons, i actually dont have much to say about them. i made them soooo long ago that any thought i have about it has left my head. i do remember i made the saint-14 lavender tea one specifically to fill out a spot on my saint-14 itabag ahaha

not sure if people enjoy these design notes but im hoping any aspiring artists out there find this helpful or something? i also think showing process and failed designs to be important, even though they didn't work out they still deserve to be seen.

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ARIEL NEEDS LEGS

I was gonna make Emmy draw this but she said no so I drew it myself.

I’ve never drawn a comic before!

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