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Magestone - Platypus-bear Concept

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Hello again for the third time today, For those interested in Mette Aumala's Magestone universe, we have still been trying to collaborate on it when we can. - One concept that I wanted to put in that Mette seems to have agreed on, is my little riff upon Avatar: The Last Airbender, namely the platypus-bear (which I love). This version is of course different and more feasible. The Ovoursus is the biggest known Monotreme upon Gea. Approaching a brown-bear in size, this mammal is thought to be related to forms preceding the split between Platypus, Echidna and the Duckbunny. Apparently descended from semi-aquatic ancestors, its snout lacks the rubbery sensory array of the platypus, but seems to have reverted to a more therian state from something like that of a platypus. An omnivore with powerful high-cusped teeth, it also has large canine tusks that allow it to kill small and mid-sized vertebrates, or defend itself against interlopers. Omnivorous with a preference for meat, it feeds on...
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Celebrating the book release All Tomorrows

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 Hello once again, It has come to pass that my dear friend and kindred-mind Memo Kosemen has just launched the print-book version of his viral classic of Spec-Evo, "All Tomorrows". It is available to pre-order here: https://wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/all-tomorrows?variant=52325288968519 In celebration of this event, I have drawn a creature in the style-and-spirit of All Tomorrows. That is, this is a post-human derived from tampering and GMO by a powerful race of extraterrestrial. - This is the Chow-man, an unusual and somewhat disturbing kind of genetically-modified human being, found in the greater civilized corners of the universe. The highest seat of governance in the civilized universe has for a long time outlawed the consumption of the meat of any sapient race. When this law was introduced, the consumption of the meat of human beings was a black-market industry, and as a way-around this new law, one species engineered the Chow-men. Having very little intelligence, no...
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Hensonism - in the footsteps of doll-wiggling....

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 Hello again,  Anyone who knows me personally will know I am a huge fan of Jim Henson's work, and that of the people at the Jim Henson Company and the Muppets, as well as Jim Henson's Creature Shop. In some ways he was a big influence on me creatively, although I rarely do my art in a style that resembles his. I would say some of my work approaches a Creature-Shop sort of vibe more than a Muppet vibe. Recently I decided to try to sketch and paint some expressive characters in a spontaneous way that tries to emulate the style of Jim Henson. And here are the results. -       - All images, designs and writing on this site are the property of Timothy Donald Morris, do not use, reproduce, or copy them without my permission. © Timothy Donald Morris 2025
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After Man After Man - A one-off scenario.

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 Hello again, I have been a little quiet on here, from putting my backlog of Aion stuff and other things together into some coherent shapes in order to make them into project-websites. But I'm back in order to share with you a fun idea I recently had, that could go without being drawn.' A much maligned but classic book in Speculative Evolution as a genre is Dougal Dixon's "Man After Man". Criticized as being rather unfeasible, and often downright uncanny, it is nevertheless influential in the genre of post humans, following in the footsteps of Olaf Stapleton, and inspiring the likes of Memo Kosemen. It was dogged by some issues of theft of intellectual property, of which there is some backstory that remains a closely guarded confidence among some people in this profession. Regardless of that, it was an influential book in my upbringing as a child, an aspiring speculative-zoologist and creature designer. Thanks to my boyfriend I eventually got my own copy in good s...
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Important news about The World of Aion!

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 Hello, It is my pleasure to inform you that my world-building project, The World of Aion is in the final stages of being fully written up, uploaded and polished as a proper website. All being well it should be published tomorrow, and it contains full descriptions of each fictional creature, and extensive lists of familiar fauna and flora that are also found there. Also present are the maps and race-entries from this blog, all of this project's material, old and new.  So please be patient just a little while longer and you will be able to enjoy it in its full glory. For the sake of space I have deleted the original posts from this blog, as everything has been transferred over.  Excelsior as always, from Tim.  - All images, designs and writing on this site are the property of Timothy Donald Morris, do not use, reproduce, or copy them without my permission. © Timothy Donald Morris 2022-2025
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The Cryptozoologicon Response - Re-post

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 Hello again,   After ill-advisedly deleting some of my old project-websites as a sort of spring-cleaning a few months ago, I promised to re-post them here. So here we are.   I am posting below all of the portraits of different cryptids I did for my Cryptozoologicon responses project. The text always felt superfluous so I will only do small captions now.   -     The Clawed Pygmy Goat, shown here as a relative of the American Mountain-Goat.   The Kappa, shown here as a sparse-furred, aquatic kind of Macaque.   Father of All the Turtles, portrayed as an enormous pelagic Protostegid Turtle. Ahuizotl, here portrayed as a leopard-sized semi-aquatic Opossum.   Iraq Anfish, shown here as a species of Perch that is notable for a coating of fleshy filaments.   The Southern Narwhal, portrayed as a tusked Monodontid Whale.   Auli or Water-Calf, portrayed here as a freshwater kind of Protosirenidae.   Bis-Cobra, portrayed here as a venom-s...
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