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...
For a couple of years now, I have been collaborating with the fantastic Sci-fi author, Daniel Bensen. We have been working to assemble a sci-fi story about a scenario in which man has been contacted by a convention that spans the many alternate timelines of earth, those that have produced Sapient, civilization-building species, ones with advanced technology, ones like us. We call this story "Fellow Tetrapod". It was a long and arduous process, but it turned out that we collaborated very well. I provided my services as a conceptualist and creature designer, along with Dan who is also very proficient at this. I was also the main illustrator of chapter-headers. In order to promote this work of fiction, I am posting a rogues gallery of the many and varied persons which we meet in this book. Each species that we see is part of the Convention of Sophonts, which is very exclusive, divisive, weird, and potentially teetering ever on the verge of an inter-timeline war. Those who wish...
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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