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Snaiad: Skoloderm illustration

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 feeders on tubers, and indigenous succulent-and-lichen like "plants" found on high altitudes. Freed from the burden of carrying growing fetuses, their first heads have shrunk to an almost reptilian st...

New hitherto-unseen sketchbook pages for new supporters

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 sketchbooks!

Glycon sketch bash!

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 your support on Patreon. com !

Slide packs for my Glycon talk!

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

New sketchbook pages, October 2022

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 your support!

You flip a stone on Snaiad. These bois are having a party.

3 trilateralans and one picozoan... All having a ball!

Snaiad: The show goes on!

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 medium-sized archaic herbivores with lithe bodies. I need to create a lot of these "boring herbivores" to properly balance Snaiad's predator-packed ecosystems :)

Once more, thank you all for y...

Snaiad is now in Spanish!

The #Snaiad project has been translated into Spanish thanks to the selfless efforts of Christian Gamez!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WsSKhYpjq8RJWtRhmSDnVxQyQgdI-7cE/view

Please consider supporting Christian on Patreon! 2022-10-15 11:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post

All Tomorrows - Qu name plot reveal

;) 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 :)

RESOURCE DROP: 900+ images of traditional Turkish patterns!

All are free for you to download! Enjoy, and feel free to use them in your creative projects.

A predatory Aluph from Jack Vance's Durdane series

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-spider faces" and overall hint of lapsed sapience. Mr. Vance really had a way of building worlds no other author - living or dead - possessed. This week I finally got around to cleaning and screen-toni...

Zhenyuanopterus

Here is my illustration of Zhenyuanopterus that accompanied this tutorial on my Youtube channel. Thank you all for your support on Patreon! :)

First dibs on Rhamphorhynchus

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! :)

Painting process post #3 - final form!

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 great fit. So I called this painting "Surprised".

Thank you all for sitting through this process with me!

Painting process post #2

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!

Painting process post #1

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!

Snaiad scientific name lexicon - updated edition

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 one from another language for genus names - creating cool possibilities like Tsaruborhynkhos, Magnasellahia, and Hursaura.

Feel free to use this lexicon in your own projects!

RESOURCE DROP: Free radial drawing template!

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 and 60 degree slices. This means you can easily draw 3, 4, 5 and 6 - sided animals quite easily.

Print these papers on any home or school inkjet printer, and just draw on them regularly. After sc...

The elusive Snaiad Trilateralans revealed!

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 to get the whole thing off. My brain has difficulty grasping non-bilaterally-symmetrical creatures! 

So I designed a method to draw radial forms easily.

I created the radial angle pape...

Frog cryptids MEGA podcast - presentation files here!

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 - it makes these Youtube videos possible! 

September 2022 sketch batch

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.

Snaiad - book logotype design poll

I need your feedback on these five alternatives of the main logotype for the Snaiad book project. Which one is your favourite? :)

Prosauropod dinosaur by the ruins of the bygone Lystrosaur civilization

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 art: New batch sneak reveal for Patrons only!

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! :)