Tas, drawer of Things
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Australian palaeontology undergrad and artist of the palaeo-and-other variety! Living on unceded Kaurna land
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Okayyy artist introduction time! Hey, my name's Tas and I'm an Australian palaeontology student and palaeoartist. I've been captivated by prehistory almost my whole life and trying to draw it for just as long! I mostly do digital, pencil and papercraft work but anything else is fun too!
#Papercraft art of the lovely nankeen kestrel! Always a good time coming across one of these guys in the wild, I'm a big fan
May 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
#Papercraft art of the lovely nankeen kestrel! Always a good time coming across one of these guys in the wild, I'm a big fan
Watched the documentary #Dinosaurs of the Frozen Continent recently and found it pretty enjoyable and interesting! Had a lot about the process of finding and extracting fossils from Antarctica that I didn't know which was neat. Anyway here's some #Cryolophosaurus #paleoart inspired by that watch!
April 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Watched the documentary #Dinosaurs of the Frozen Continent recently and found it pretty enjoyable and interesting! Had a lot about the process of finding and extracting fossils from Antarctica that I didn't know which was neat. Anyway here's some #Cryolophosaurus #paleoart inspired by that watch!
Some #papercraft art from last month that I made as a gift for my bestie after they came home from working in Japan! It's a pair of rock ptarmigans (Lagopus muta), which are the official bird of Nagano Prefecture. They're a beautiful bird that also makes fantastic noises (look them up)
April 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Some #papercraft art from last month that I made as a gift for my bestie after they came home from working in Japan! It's a pair of rock ptarmigans (Lagopus muta), which are the official bird of Nagano Prefecture. They're a beautiful bird that also makes fantastic noises (look them up)
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Giant cephalopods were another childhood fascination of mine. Who wouldn't be entranced by statements like "The squid has never been seen alive in its natural habitat..."? I always hoped I'd get to see someday. Now we're getting those glimpses, and it's wonderful.
Oh my gosh look at this perfect baby.
First Confirmed Footage of a Colossal Squid—and it’s a Baby! - Schmidt Ocean Institute
One hundred years after its discovery, the colossal squid has been filmed alive in its environment for the first time by a team on board Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor (too) in waters off the So...
schmidtocean.org
April 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Giant cephalopods were another childhood fascination of mine. Who wouldn't be entranced by statements like "The squid has never been seen alive in its natural habitat..."? I always hoped I'd get to see someday. Now we're getting those glimpses, and it's wonderful.
The floof squad! In order: Zhenyuanlong suni, Daurlong wangi, Iyuku raathi, and Sanxiasaurus modaoxiensis
I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!
#paleoart
I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!
#paleoart
April 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The floof squad! In order: Zhenyuanlong suni, Daurlong wangi, Iyuku raathi, and Sanxiasaurus modaoxiensis
I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!
#paleoart
I just love feathered #dinosaurs so much, and I like the challenge of taking inspiration from patterns that tend to appear in modern birds without copying any one species wholesale!
#paleoart
Nobody wants to fund my de-extinction project to bring back the fastest canid to ever live, the driver wolves
Nobody wants to fund my de-extinction project to bring back the operators of Late Pleistocene restaurants, the diner wolves
Nobody wants to fund my de-extinction project to bring back the animals that can remove moisture, the dryer wolves
April 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Nobody wants to fund my de-extinction project to bring back the fastest canid to ever live, the driver wolves
While I'm new here, I thought I'd show off some of my favourite art I've done in the past! This is one of my very proudest #paleoart pieces, a multi-layered paper #lightbox rendition of the Bulldog Shale fossil formation, from the Early Cretaceous of what is now South Australia!
April 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Okayyy artist introduction time! Hey, my name's Tas and I'm an Australian palaeontology student and palaeoartist. I've been captivated by prehistory almost my whole life and trying to draw it for just as long! I mostly do digital, pencil and papercraft work but anything else is fun too!
April 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Okayyy artist introduction time! Hey, my name's Tas and I'm an Australian palaeontology student and palaeoartist. I've been captivated by prehistory almost my whole life and trying to draw it for just as long! I mostly do digital, pencil and papercraft work but anything else is fun too!