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" - w...
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.....
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.
Tha...
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 ...
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 !
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 ...
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 sk...
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 you...
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...
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...
The #Snaiad project has been translated into Spanish thanks to the selfless efforts of Christian Gamez!
2022-10-15 11:51:14 +0000 UTC
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;) 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-s...
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 ...
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 o...
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 an...
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 t...
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 - i...
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! :)