Unbeknownst to many cryptozoology enthusiasts, Turkey's Lake Van is home to a native cryptid, a horse-and-dinosaur-like monster known as the "Lake Van Monster", or "Cano".
Perhaps inspired by the Pegasoferae hypothesis, which groups odd-toed ungulates, carnivorans, and bats in a single clade, generous patron M. D. commissioned me to draw giant flightless bats used as beasts of burden ...
If you want to be good as a surreal artist, you have to wrap your mind around real things first. Figure drawing is a wonderful way to acquaint yourself with reality.
A whimsical portrait of a patron as a pre-colonial post-human from the #AllTomorrows universe. Arms and legs get blocky and flatten - and fit together with others like an M. C. Escher pattern.
Once again, generous donor J.M. asked me to create a commission from Robert Reed's "Great Ship" universe - this time the low-energy ecosystem inhabited by the "Luckies" - a genus of tiny hive intell...
Created for generous patron T. T., a character that evolved into "...a particularly aggressive carpet, after an incredibly long passage of time and a series of unfortunate events."
Some of the largest freshwater (above), and marine (below), arthrognaths from the upcoming Snaiad re-release. Arthrognaths are a phylum of fish-equivalents on Snaiad, characterised by quasi-exoskeletal forelegs evolved into jaw-like structures, and eight (sometimes less) sets of fleshy, lobe-like...
Keenan Taylor's Tales of Kaimere is an incredible speculative evolution project that really needs more attention. I have really been enjoying Kaimere and its creatures for a while, so I decided to create fan-art for t...
Once again, generous patron J. M. commissioned me to illustrate an alien from Robert Reed's "Great Ship" universe. Here is how the "Phoenix" race was described:
Nearly every day I put in extra work to Snaiad. It's taking time, but it will be worth it. Here's a preliminary layout featuring two "Elythrakephalid" herbivores with (independently-evolved) flamboyant display structures.
Thank you all for your support of Snaiad! When it c...