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Emily Stepp
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Freelance illustrator / concept artist / paleoartist. Please email me at EmilySteppArt@gmail.com for business inquiries.
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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · Jul 24
Hey, everyone! I'm here hoping to keep sharing my paleoart and paleo-inspired art with the world.
Digital self portrait of artist Emily Stepp 2022 holding the small dinosaur Jakapil. Digital self portrait of artist Emily Stepp 2021 holding a hatchling Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur with a larger one behind.
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Cats are really a gift. What a weird mouth you have there, Zuko.
My male medium hair brown tabby cat named Zuko yawning this morning with his mouth open as wide as it can be, photo taken from below. You can see the spots of melanin on the roof of his mouth.
February 19, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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I know this is a really low stakes problem, but I feel so dejected that the Avatar: The Game I just bought and had shipped here keeps failing to install on my PS3. I don't know if it's the game or my PS3 either. I know it's a risk with old used games, but nothing ever works.
February 18, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Jurassic artwork for James Stryker's paleoart project featuring the pterosaur Harpactognathus and the sauropod dinosaur Apatosaurus.

#Jurassic #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Illustration #Dinosaur #Pterosaur #Harpactognathus #Apatosaurus
A painterly digital illustration of a herd of Apatosaurus migrating with a cleared trackway in the middle leading to new feeding grounds in the distance with forest on every side. A couple Harpactognathus soar in the deep blue and partially cloudy sky.
February 18, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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Courage is such a funny dinosaur guy. His beard has finally mostly grown back after he let his hens eat it. His back is so short, which is part of why he was culled from the breeding program he was a part of with the lady who hatched him, but that just adds to his silly charm.
My chocolate wheaten Ameraucana rooster I named Courage looking at me near the dirt bath area next to the fence.
February 17, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Bad timing to be getting sick. My partner probably got exposed at work then in turn exposed me. Hoping I don't get too sick since I'm boosted for flu and covid, but he's unfortunately not and so far much more sick than I am. His fever is 2 degrees F higher than mine.
February 17, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Triassic artwork for James Stryker's paleoart project featuring a cynognathian cynodont and a coelophysid dinosaur.

#Triassic #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Illustration #Dinosaur #Gomphodontia
Painterly digital illustration of a mammal-like gomphodontian approaching the entrance of its burrow sharing an uneasy stare with a Procompsognathus or other closely related coelophysid theropod dinosaur resting on a fallen log just outside of the burrow with various Triassic plants in the morning light.
February 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Watched the new Dracula yesterday and thought it was really good. Liked it much better than Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992. I'm a much bigger fan of Nosferatu 2024, but still a very nice vampire movie to see on Valentine's Day.
February 15, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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This mated pair of ducks have been hanging out in my yard and haven't wanted to go back home to my neighbors' so I guess they're mine for now. The drake on the left is probably a mule duck right? I don't need to worry about him inadvertently parenting any ducklings since he's sterile?
A black and brown probable hybrid of a Muscovy and Mallard on the left and a Muscovy female on the right with some of my Muscovy hens in the background.
February 12, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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Found some brand new cat furniture at the thrift store today. I'd say they like it. Zuko really doesn't fit, but he's trying as best he can.
Ginger, my female medium hair brown tabby cat, curled up on top of the furniture, Zuko, my male medium hair brown tabby cat, sitting in multiple levels of it on the inside. They have lots of cat towers, but both want to try out this new one.
February 12, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Biggest CRT television I've probably ever seen. Jurassic World Ampelosaurus for scale.
Corner of a thrift store booth with a very large Mitsubishi glass screen television and a Jurassic World sauropod toy that is over a foot long on top for a sense of scale.
February 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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Permian illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project featuring two species of Lystrosaurus.

#Permian #Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Lystrosaurus #Lystrosaurusmaccaigi #Lystrosauruscurvatus
Painterly illustration of a large L. maccaigi at an evaporating stream looking at a smaller L. curvatus peeking out of its burrow in a desolate canyon bathed in orange sunset light.
February 11, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Age of Monsters: Classical: Dragons and Serpents Commissioned, art directed, and written by James Conlon. The project is likely to take the form of a book, but keep an eye out for news on that in the future! #Dragons #Serpents #AgeofMonsters #Worldbuilding #Amphiptere #Amphisbaena #Basilisk #Hydra
The four dragon / serpent creatures illustrated in the four corners of a cracked marble slab background with written descriptions. Clockwise there is: Amphiptere clinging onto a tree, Amphisbaena in a defensive posture on the ground, Basilsk winding around a gnarled tree trunk, and Hydra in the shallows catching fish while one head keeps a lookout and another takes a nap.
February 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Carboniferous illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project.

#Carboniferous #Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration
Painterly illustration of light filtering into a Carboniferous swamp with various invertebrates including Arthropleura, Megasecopterans, Palaeodictyopterans, and the eyes of an ambiguous tetrapod peeking out of the water's surface.
February 8, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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Underwater art nearly 30 years apart.
Artwork I drew in 1997 of Fred the Fish and his family on notebook paper ductaped together into a book on the left. Artwork I painted digitally in Procreate for iPad on the right of an underwater Cambrian ocean floor scene.
February 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Devonian illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project featuring the sarcopterygians Tiktaalik and Panderichthys.

#Devonian #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Illustration #Tiktaalik #Panderichthys
Painterly illustration of the two lobe-finned fish partially resting outside of their freshwater stream environment with muddy banks and a foggy atmosphere.
February 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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Silurian illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project.

#Silurian #Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration
Painterly underwater illustration showing a column of light illuminating multiple sea creatures in an otherwise dark open ocean. There are smaller placoderms being preyed on by lobe-finned fish and a eurypterid.
February 4, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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I really did love Iron Lung. I can see how general audiences may not be into it, but as a huge fan of slow burn Lovecraftian horror I was really happy. It was so tactile and tense. Markiplier was entertaining the whole time. Reminiscent of In the Mouth of Madness.
February 3, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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Ordovician illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project.

#Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Ordovician
Underwater painterly illustration of an Ordovician seafloor with various animals including crinoids, coral, trilobites, and nautiloids.
February 3, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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I probably need to wait till I get a newer iPad, but I've really been wanting to get Procreate Dreams to dabble in a little bit of animation on my illustrations here or there.
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 AM
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Cambrian illustration for James Stryker's paleoart project.

#Illustration #Paleoart #Paleoillustration #Cambrian
Shallow underwater illustration of various Cambrian animals including early vertebrates swimming above different trilobites in dappled light.
February 2, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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I think I'll go see Iron Lung on discount Tuesday. I like going to see movies I don't think my partner or best friend would necessarily be into or excited about on my own. It really sounds like something I'm going to like, though I'm avoiding knowing much about it at all.
February 2, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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Devilbat Pteranodon / alien hybrid creature speedpaint study.

#Pteranodon #Monster #Creature #Hybrid #Alien
Hour long speedpaint of a hybrid Pteranodon and alien creature from The Arkos Chronicles requested by JurassicChaos facing right.
February 1, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Design study of the bat-winged retro Pteranodon from the 1966 film One Million Years B.C. for DracoTyrannus.

#Retrosaur #Pterosaur #Pteranodon #OneMillionYearsBC
Line design study drawn in Photoshop with a wacom pen of the pterosaur facing left on top and forward on bottom.
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Mara Brown Alamosaurus cross-species hybrid Hyperion design. @marabrownwd.bsky.social

#Creature #Mutant #Hybrid #DinosaurHybrid #Alamosaurus
Sketch of a drooping bipedal mutant of a sauropod facing left, coloration faded compared to a normal franchise Alamosaurus.
January 29, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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I worked for 2 weeks without a day off, then I finally had to take a couple days off (I still drew a little on one of those days) due to thumb pain. It is like they say, if you don't schedule breaks your body will decide to take them for you.
January 28, 2026 at 7:15 PM