Tim Morris' Art and Project Blog

 Hello again, it has been a while.  For you today I have a one-shot concept that I had been thinking about. The idea came to me when I noticed that both the Na'vi of Avatar, and the Gelfling of The Dark Crystal, are a humanoid race but descended from more typically animalistic ancestors. This brought me to briefly consider the characters of the furry fandom. I have disdain for the general lack of creativity inherent in these characters. The formula seems to always be - the cutest aspects of a popular animal, plus the sexy aspects of a human (male or female generally), given original and sometimes poorly chosen colors and backstory. My disdain for this stuff is purely on a creative basis, people are free to create what they want and find community spirit as they like. But the two aforementioned subjects sort of galvanized an idea in my mind, a vaguely anthropomorphic sapient species, that evolved from an ancestor that would give it more of an "animal" appearance. Then I th...

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...

 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...

 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