Here are some excerpts from my sketchbook! I'm not the cleanest or most thorough sketcher in the world, which is why I'm usually a little shy about posting bits from my sketchbook, but I am sure no one minds as much as I do.
I've scanned all the best bits from this year's sketchbook and will be po...
2017-05-16 14:30:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I was really nervous about the reptile portion of the class because I thought everyone would be bored to tears, but it wound up being their favorite class! Probably because they got to see the best video ever . And t...
2017-05-11 13:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post
So as some of you may know, I've been teaching an after-school class about animal diversity and evolution once a week, and the big project at the end is for students to create their own animal using what they've learned about adaptations. But some of the students aren't able to draw or design their ...
2017-05-10 17:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Styracosaurus was an herbivorous ceratopsian, like Triceratops, though with many more fun accessories on its frill. All the ceratopsians had such interesting heads, they're really fun to draw!
Ceratopsians are close relatives of pachycephalosaurs, and they share a fluffy common ancestor (Kulindadr...
2017-05-09 13:24:33 +0000 UTC View Post
How is everyone not instantly enamored with our adorable great great great (etc) grandparent Dimetrodon. But alas, the tweens were steadfast in their "meh"ness.
2017-05-04 15:02:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The Sistertime Podcast is back!! For a three-part video series in which we play Zoo Tycoon. I apologize for how low-res the game is, it is an ancient computer game.
In case you were wondering why there haven't been many Sistertimes lately, Maddie is thoroughly entrenched in local politics and "mak...
2017-05-01 14:58:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay so it's been a LONG time since I've done minis, but here I am, back with some small comics. Though this time I'm not quite going for the jokes as much as I am doing journal comics, because I like reading other people's journal comics, and I've been doing some weird and interesting things lately...
2017-04-28 15:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoo, it's been a while since I posted an extinct creature! Guess I got a little burnt out on drawing them after working on the Mesozoic book. But here we are with Pachycephalosaurus, one of my ...
2017-04-27 04:37:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, folks! This update will be going up on the site probably just after midnight, but here it is for y'all fresh out of photoshop. I'm so happy I finished this update!!
I have missed being able to put comics up consistently. It's not that the actual comics take any more time than they usual...
2017-04-02 20:25:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoops I did not realize that I had not yet posted this here!! I made the image and everything, but I guess things have been a little hectic as of late. Though when are they not am I RIGHT
So hey! I can finally talk about the big secret project I was working on for most of last year. I was writing...
2017-03-18 20:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, my dearest Patreon supporters. You've probably noticed I've been kind of absent for a few months now, and I want to let you know it's not because I have given up on my comics or gone down a depression spiral or moved to a cabin in the woods stocked with MREs and survival gear-- I've just been...
2017-01-27 20:11:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Whew!! A new Sistertime that doesn't sound terrible. There are even some beautiful Spoons yells in there.
Get into the holiday spirit with us in this episode, where we discuss an animated short that was about snow but also political action. It wound up being ~pretty relevant~ I suppose.
<... 2016-12-20 19:25:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Sssssooooo we aren't really sure what happened, but we recorded this episode and the recording turned out pretty bad. Maybe the mic got jostled or the wrong mic was used, but in the end, the result is a podcast that is still kinda okay, if you like the way phone calls sound.
That being said, I did...
2016-11-22 23:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
So it's not exactly forgotten entertainment, but I liked the idea of talking to our pals Carey Pietsch and Megan Brennan about something we all think is super cool-- Animorphs! Both the show and the books.
2016-10-25 04:51:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Last Halloween is coming back this month for the start of BOOK 2! It is a pretty exciting book with really fun and interesting characters, I think folks are gonna like it. And maybe also be mad at me? But I guess that's what the world is like. So far everyone seems to be not-mad so that is prett...
2016-10-07 15:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Boy! This one was pretty rough!! Would not recommend this one, pals. I don't even know if the veil of nostalgia could rescue this one for anybody. But ey, we watched it anyway, listen to us discuss if you'd like!
2016-10-06 19:18:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the last pterosaur I'll be posting for pterosaur week, and finally one that eats fish, Nyctosaurus. It lived in the late-ish (but not as late as Quetzalcoatlus) Cretaceous in what is now North America, where there was once a vast shallow sea. It likely remained in the air for long periods of...
2016-09-30 21:48:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Check THIS guy out. What a handsome boy he is! The male Tupandactlyus imperator had probably the largest crest of any known pterosaur, making him a special friend indeed. This species lived in the mid-Cretaceous of what is now Brazil, and was another example of pterosaurs with unique feeding habits....
2016-09-29 16:27:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Anurognathus is by far the cutest pterosaur. Sorry to all other pterosaurs, you just can't beat this little flat-faced, big-eyed bug eater.
Anurognathus lived in the late Jurassic of what is now Germany. It hunted insects during dusk and twilight, which is why its eyes are so adorably big. In Mark...
2016-09-28 18:23:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we have Pterodaustro, a cute small friend who has around 1000 teeth. Pterodaustro lived in South America during the early Cretaceous, and probably used its long bristle-like teeth to sift through water and silt for tasty invertebrates and other small organisms. So actually, that little drawi...
2016-09-28 02:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay so this week, to make up for my many weeks away, I'll be posting extinct creatures daily! And all of them will be pterosaurs because I haven't done any yet and they are my absolute favorite things and sometimes I cry when I think about them.
So pterosaurs. They are not dinosaurs, though they ...
2016-09-26 18:22:58 +0000 UTC View Post
It has been so relaxing finishing these JSPH updates so far in advance! I've been traveling a lot this month, so I've had to finish them early for scanning. I'm glad I have stuff I can give you guys in thanks for all you do for me! You are wonderful, and I hope you have a great day.
-Abby
2016-09-08 14:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I am gonna be traveling this weekend so I have already finished next week's JSPH, which was inspired by a very suspicious CD that arrived in my mail the other day. It claimed to be "the software that you ordered" (I have ordered no software) and you could practically smell the viruses within its pla...
2016-08-31 20:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostWhoo we're back at it! We watched a movie about a sweet little unicorn boy, and we recorded this episode in the ~same room~ instead of 3000 miles apart.
2016-08-29 17:31:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, Gigantoraptor erlianensis, what a beautiful and frightening beast! It lived in what is now Mongolia around 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous, and it was most likely a predator (though there is still some speculation about its diet).
Gigantoraptor might share some superficial similar...
2016-08-24 17:53:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week I shared with you a couple herbivorous dinosaurs of the Gondwanan mid-Cretaceous, which naturally led some folks to ask about one of the most popular carnivorous dinosaurs of that time and place-- Spinosaurus aegypticus. It also happens to be one of my top fave dinosaurs, because it is so ...
2016-08-16 19:59:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey hey we got us some extinct creatures again, at last! I've still been sketching them regularly, just not finalizing them. But it means I have a backlog to choose from.
Here we have two herbivores from the middle Cretaceous (like 112 mya or so) of Central Africa-- the first is Ouranosaurus, an i...
2016-08-10 16:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post
It's that time again, the time when I feel the need to draw the characters from my middle school novel (well, novella. It was like 100 pages.) And because it's my birthday, you HAVE to listen to me! Those are the rules.
It was all about the lion girl, Alabaster, who was put in charge of making sur...
2016-08-03 14:45:31 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-07-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
What, two whole minis in one day! Yes.
Wednesday is very confused by hair and gets lost in mine a lot
2016-07-29 16:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post