The original ink drawing behind my "Aliens from Johannes Kepler's Somnium" poster - For patrons only.
Thank you for all of your support of my creative endeavors...
This is a high-resolution image for my patrons only! Feel free to print it as a poster!
A vision inspired by the aliens portrayed in Johannes Kepler’s posthumous 1634 book Somnium (“The Dream”), arguably one of the first works of world-building science fiction. In this book; our moon, referred to as “the island of Levania”, is inhabited by various creatures that are hazily described as being snake-like; bird-like; and “...
2020-06-17 10:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Some snapshots and the preview of an aquatic Kahydrontiform - for patrons only!
Enjoy, and stay safe! :)
The coronavirus crisis is really hurting my country's currency against the dollar. This means your contributions are becoming ever-more-valuable as time passes by. Thank you for supporting me!
Despite quarantine measures, work on the Snaiad book is proceeding full-steam!
Due to the immense number of clades portrayed in the book, the images will all be in black-and-white.
But this will not mean that they will be low on detail. Here is the full, pen-and-pencil rendition of a semi-arboreal Griffoniorm predator.
In sharing this image, I want to thank you all for your valuable support during these difficult days...
Hi everyone, I hope you are safe in the coronavirus pandemic, and I am thankful to your support, which has made this month far better for me. I keep working and producing, and all seems well for now.
For solidarity, I am dropping one of my biggest secret book projects FOR FREE as a gift to everyone I know. Behold >DECADE< - a total catalogue of all paintings, drawings, silkscreen and digital prints I created between 2010 and 2020.
2020-04-08 11:53:55 +0000 UTC
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Here is a sneak preview of the Snaiad book.
All animals from the previous website, plus many more, are being re-drawn.
You can see an updated drawing of Urunyx above; with the old, colour drawing from all the way back in 2005. When complete, the drawings will be placed in the page, and text will be added.
The book still has 1-2 years of work left - with your contributions I will keep on working to complete it...
Thank you once more !
Today I completed scanning the first 120+ illustrations for Snaiad: The Natural History of an Alien Planet, out of a planned 800, or more. The page layouts to accommodate them are also ready. This will be an exciting, landmark volume of speculative zoology, and I am thankful to you all for supporting me on the way. :)
Here is a low-res sneak preview to all my patrons. I could not have gotten this far without your support! :)
2020-01-20 15:14:04 +0000 UTC View Post
BOOM! If you like Star Wars, you (possibly might) love my new Star Wars SPECTACULAR podcast! Made possible in part by your donations from Patreon!
2019-12-16 11:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Work on Snaiad is going full-speed ahead, thanks in part to your support from Patreon. I have now illustrated 100 species from different groups, but there are hundreds more left to go. MANY animals will be completely new to the Snaiad ecosystem.
As a gift to you, here is a shading test & anatomical study of Lophophiphagus, a predatory animal that has specialised to capture armoured, snake-like prey.
A new painting from October 2019.
As usual, my Patreon supporters get to see it first.
Thanks for your continued support of my creative endeavor!
The creature illustrations for Snaiad, my long-running project on the evolution of life on an extraterrestrial planet, keep rolling off the drawing table. Here are two groups of large herbivorous animals. We are currently at 98 illustrations, out of many hundreds...
So, thanks everyone! Your support on Patreon is vital for Snaiad!
2019-10-18 08:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post
See more on www.cmkosemen.com/collages.html
This is hidden page dedicated to the colourful but frivolous collages of I produced during the first half of the 2010s.
Now, my Patrons can get the first look at them... I used some of these collages as templates for silkscreen prints, but most have remained unseen until now. <...
2019-09-16 08:24:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I just completed this new painting.
It will soon be unveiled at an upcoming exhibit.
Patrons get to see it before anyone else... :)
Thank you all for supporting me!
Time for a V A P O R W A V E expedition in Istanbul: Join me for a video-adventure inside a dead Turkish shopping mall!
Highlights include:
- Many empty shops
- A toilet sign untouched since 1995
- An abandoned chess club
- An abandoned culture centre with nothing inside
- A mysterious door
- Mirror-coated escalators
- "THOSE ANIMALS" a surreal attraction that few can explain
-...and many, many more!
This month, thanks in part to your contributions, I was able to realise three big-scale illustrations on speculative evolution.
Two of these are of flying gecko lizards which may evolve in the future.
The big one, on the other hand, depicts the possibility of a pre-human intelligent species in the ages past; in the form of a Scutellosaurus (an actual dinosaur) sheltering under the ruins left by an unknown civilization.
Thank you once more for your suppor...
2019-08-07 08:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to your support I was able to record and publish a long, sermon-like podcast on Area 51; including a brief overview of its history; the vast expanse of secret US government programmes; the July 2019 meme/event participated by 1.700.000 people to “raid” it an divulge its “alien” secrets; speculations on how such a raid would really play out; finished by a long, rambling discussion on what it would really mean to encounter humanoid “grey” alien bodies in such a facility. &nbs...
2019-07-25 13:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I found this magnificent beetle during a recent expedition in Anatolia.
This trip was almost entirely financed by your donations - thanks once again for supporting me !
Design and extensive natural history of the extraterrestrial "Octopteran" race, from 1998, back when I was only fourteen...
2019-05-10 17:18:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Design and extensive natural history of the extraterrestrial "Wheeler" race, from 1998, back when I was only fourteen...
2019-05-10 17:16:34 +0000 UTC View Post
A long, fun-filled movie review where I compare the 1977 and 2018 incarnations of the ballet-house-witch thriller Suspiria, and reflect on why the art of storytelling seems to be failing in big-studio movie productions. I top things off by launching into a tangent rant about how I'd film Suspiria, if given an unlimited budget and opportunities.
2019-04-15 09:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Snaiad book will feature hundreds of new species, clades and illustrations. I work on it almost every day. When complete, it will be a landmark volume of speculative zoology. Here are three related families of forest animals, from a clade known as Antibrachia.
2019-04-10 18:17:35 +0000 UTC View Post
ANOTHER podcast is up, my critique of the premise behind the 2006 film, Idiocracy.
2019-04-08 10:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Boom - a new podcast video is up, a paleo-profile on Aistopods and Lysorophians, snakelike prehistoric amphibians.
2019-04-08 10:25:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The felid bauplan has also evolved on Snaiad. One of the hundreds of new clades that will feature in the upcoming Snaiad book. A drawing in progress.
2019-04-02 18:50:16 +0000 UTC View Post
...for patrons' eyes only!
2019-03-28 18:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I had access to an expansive studio space, and painted dozens of surreal works on planks, pieces of cardboard, wood, etc. between 2014 and 2017.
This studio was part of the advertising agency that I worked for as an English copy-editor. The ad agency had to downsize at the end of 2017 - and while they did not let me go; they did have to cut back on their office space - and off went my painting studio...
2019-03-28 11:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Strange architectural details, local birds and insects, as well as my recent works, can be seen and "liked" on www.instagram.com/cmkosemen .
2019-03-08 13:50:32 +0000 UTC View Post
An old work from 2016, later exhibited in print form - visible online for the first time to my patrons...
2019-03-08 13:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post