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Cryptid commission - the "Montauk monster" as a realistic animal

Created for generous patron T. M.
A depiction of the "Montauk monster" as a unique marine mammal with hardened hands and mouthparts for preying on feisty crustacean prey.

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Quantum memory alien design

A walking spectacle of a creature, an immortal species with quantum memory...
One of my most ambitious creature paintings so far, created as a commission for generous patron J. M.
Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Giant, anuran-like posthuman species

A giant post-human that convergently resembles tree frogs, perhaps from the All Tomorrows universe? :) Its colours were referenced from known occurrences of blue and yellow pigment in primates, giving it a more realistic look.

Created as a commission for generous patron N.
Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Commissioned "obsidian" alien race

Member of a hulking, monolith-like race that communicates with bio-light semaphores.
Created as a commission for generous patron C.
Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Personal dragon figure

Created as a commission for generous patron K.
Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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All Tomorrows Redux: The fate of the Striders

The Striders face not one, but THREE forms of derived chicken-beasts in the expanded re-write. Thank you all for your patience with this book.

It will REALLY be worth the wait, and the names of my lifetime Patreon supporters will accompany it in a special "thank you" section.

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Daemonic brain imp

Created for generous patron H. S. - himself an incredible creature artist with skills far exceeding mine.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Post-cambrian arthropod-oid sophont

An intelligent relative of Habelia-like arthropods, created for generous patron A. T.
Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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New commissioned artwork - alien sleeper in biomechanical throne

Created for generous patron A. M.
Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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New surreal painting: Angular Divinity with Stigmata

30 cm. high, watercolour and wax pencil on art paper.
This painting is already sold, but you can get others through www.cmkosemen.com/art.html and through this page.
As always, thanks for supporting me on Patreon and beyond.

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New big series of surreal RISO type prints

  • "Repto-Sphinx" series, 11 x 8.5 inches.
    Created in collaboration with fellow artist Caro Yagjiyan of Oakland, CA.
    The inimitable Ather Promethium returns as the model.
    ✅ You can buy these limited edition prints for only 6 dollars each (US orders).
    International ord...

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Commission: Shadow genetic engineer race

Created for generous patron S. H. - an arcane race that meddled in human evolution and created H. erectus from anatomically modern humans. Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Frog lords of Pennsylvania presentation files

Here are the presentation files that accompanied my earlier Youtube video on the frog lords of Pennsylvania.

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Giant sponges presentation file

Here are the presentation files that accompanied my earlier video on giant fossil sponges

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Four new surreal paintings

Sorry for the photo-only captures, I'm having scanner issues - but will get them fixed really soon! Thank you all for your support! Also, let me know if you want to purchase these paintings!

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Creature designs for Simon Roy's Altamira project

"Ruasp", "grappler", and para-arthropod creature concepts from my dear friend Simon Roy's Altamira world project - a setting for one of his upcoming comic books.

In upcoming weeks I'll fully render these sketches and you'll be able to see them here...

Please follow Simon on Patreon as well! 

I'm not a big fan of paywalls but this is the only way for us niche-alien-design people to survive ...

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Commissioned conjoined alien

Created for generous patron J. - member of an alien species whose "halved" genders fuse and mate for life.

Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Giant pterosaur at the moment of the K-T impact

A semi-surreal digital painting, created as a commission for generous patron Joseph W.

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New surreal painting - "Revenge"

Charcoal and watercolours on art paper, 21x29 cm.

Thank you for supporting my art on Patreon, and beyond!
Please let me know if you want to purchase this painting.

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Commissioned alien marine sophont

Created for generous patron S. H. - he also suggested the vivid green colour scheme reminiscent of green wolf eel blennies - Congrogadus subducens - which went amazingly good with this body plan.

Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Illustration of Naskreckiana kosemeni - the grasshopper species named after me!

Earlier, in 2023, a new species of Costa Rican grasshoppers was named after me

To thank the authors who named it for their incredible generosity, I made this illustration of the said grasshopper. I will soon send th...

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New spec-evo concept, a sauropod-convergent giant stegosaur

With their long necks, some stegosaurs were extremely sauropod-like... Here is my idea of a very large, plateless stegosaur-descendant, perhaps from the Cretaceous era.

This is an exercise in speculative evolution, but don't be surprised if something like this shows up in the fossil record some day.

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New big surreal painting - "Parade of Spirits"

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New surreal painting: Snake Owl

A tiny watercolour piece, only 6 cm. wide. :)

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All Tomorrows-themed commission - Modular Overlord

Oh yes, you can commission All Tomorrows-themed artwork too! This is a "modular overlord" created for generous patron J. Its resemblance to "the Author" is coincidental. This creature is not a canonical part of the upcoming All Tomorrows rewrite, but it might be too...

Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Free-form commission: Desert hexapod

Created for generous patron Brenda B. She just gave me a list of her favourite animals and left me free to go wild as I pleased. These sorts of commissions really are the best. :)

This is a desert-living hexapod alien, somewhat analogous to a camel. Due to the vast distances in its habitat and scarcity of mates, it relies on flying "pollinators" to carry its pollen-like seed to mates.

Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

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Commissioned alien warrior race

Created for generous patron S. H.

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For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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Big batch of recent surreal paintings

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Close-up wall scans of my 2024 art exhibit

Here is the entirety of my wall display at the "When Trees Talk" exhibit which will take place between January and April 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey. These paintings were mostly created during the COVID pandemic lockdowns, when my domestic setup forced me to work only in very small dimensions. Which paintings do you like the most? Let me know and I can ship them to you!

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Commissioned impaling alien

An exotic alien predator with redundant legs evolved into tail-like balance organs, created for generous patron L. F.

Thank you all so much for supporting me on this platform.

For more on commissions, visit www.cmkosemen.com/comms.html

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