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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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Well my boy cats are really good about leaving a brooder alone, but the main thing is to keep it in a room that the mammals can't get into unless you're there to supervise. Then cats aren't a concern once the chickens are big, but depending on the dog they might always need a solidly fenced run.
The chicks were being needy so I brought them in the house so I could check on them more often, and Zuko appreciated the warmth of the heat lamp. Zuko checking out the progress of the chicks in their intermediate cage / brooder. I never let him out of my sight with the wire cages because he can reach in. Zuko leading his mostly grown chicks grazing.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Most of the time adult hens would like to eat chicks if they were given the chance lol
My old hen Barbie looking aggressively at chicks in a wire cage to keep them safe while they have time outside.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I've only tried to make a hen adopt a chick she didn't hatch once and that was because she became broody a while after I decided to let them hatch eggs. I put a mostly hatched egg under her and it happened to be one of her own eggs, worked out very well. I'd be afraid to introduce if they're older.
My sweet bantam hen Pecky with her single baby. Pecky with her chick we ended up naming Pecker.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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They're the most entertaining lol. I have some I adopted as adults but I prefer buying them as chicks or letting them hatch their own. Here's some of my previous years' babies.
My easter eggers as chicks that I preordered from the feed store. Roadrunner with her babies that she co-brooded with my turkey Linda. My Whiting True Blue chicks Raven and Blue along with my Dominant Copper chick Copper that I preordered from the feed store. The male muscovy ducklings that my chicken hen Toast hatched but then rejected so I had to hand raise. The one on the right is Nibbler who I still have, the other failed to thrive.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Also Peach has grown such big spurs. Definitely takes after her father. She was the least aggressive of all of his offspring and the only one that could stay in the flock because of that, yet still huge spurs for a hen.
Hybrid offspring of Hei Hei the gamecock and Roadrunner the Welsummer hen that we named Peach due to her peachy colored feathers.
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Evidently my hens Smartypants and One-Eye are closer than I thought.
Three of my hens standing in the run while I was hanging out with them. Smartypants must think it's a little cold and stood underneath One-Eye for warmth. I didn't know these two were this friendly with one another. My brown leghorn hen stands silently judging me for peeping.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops fan DNA variants ± ceratopsian.

#JurassicWorld #JurassicWorldRebirth #Aquilops #Dinosaur
Digital pencil style sketches on a white paper background of variants of the Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops facing right in a standing pose. The top variant has added ceratopsian DNA and is bipedal with tail filaments and a more accurate Aquilops skull structure, middle variant is the base design from the movie showing its mostly recognizable dinosaur shape, and on bottom is the less ceratopsian variant with the animals that fill in the gaps of the DNA much more prominent.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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So lately I've been messaging my partner right when I wake up so I don't forget my dream. They're pretty standard dream slush where I can pinpoint why I'm dreaming about each thing, but they're very vivid.
Facebook messages on Sunday morning where I say "had a dream during my nap that they were holding a big impromptu haunted house in the old apple house building but it was in November and they were pretending it was a christmas store and they had really elaborate roller coasters and I accidentally wasn't aware you steer the direction they go and we bumped into another one and then later there was a poke place in it and it was a grocery store / hotel" and then he answers me about 20 minutes later saying, "Weird one." Facebook messages today at 9:42 am. I say, "Vivid dream Chris had a huge attic all stone with fire coming out of the air vents and a big fireplace that had too much fire and revealed the animated skeletons of vamptires" He then answers me, "Your having weird dreams" and I reply, "Remembering them, dreams standard"
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Mara Brown @marabrownwd.bsky.social Carnotaurus design. There's still some de-extinct creatures in the backlog to post.

#Dinosaur #Carnotaurus
A brightly colored science fiction Carnotaurus sketch facing right.
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Now that the winners have been decided in Goji Center's Hybrid War, here's my sketches of the top 8 dinosaur hybrids battling it out that I never posted on their own. Congratulations to all of the contestants! #HybridWar #DinosaurHybrids
Grayscale digital pencil style sketches of the various top 8 hybrids in separate battles against the Indom 2.0.
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Not as much aurora tonight, but I got to see some before the clouds rolled in. On the bank of the Spokane River looking north.
View of a tree line along a river with stars, clouds, and faint green glow with pillars of pink aurora. View of a tree line along a river with stars, clouds, and faint green glow with pillars of pink aurora.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Ebirah Extreme for Batwing89's fan redesign series Godzilla Extreme.
#Godzilla #Ebirah #Kaiju #GodzillaExtreme
Ebirah as a mutated gigantic pistol shrimp. It is a vibrant cadmium red and shown in a standing pose. There are abilities and pairings between it and Godzilla Extreme illustrated around the sides of the concept sheet. Being a pistol shrimp, Ebirah's most powerful ability is his giant oversized claw. Capable of being used on both in the water and land, using the claw in the water is far more dangerous. The power output is estimated to be billions of times more powerful than the average pistol shrimp. The other claw is significantly smaller, but still dangerous. The insides of the claw are lined with numerous spiked teeth used for gripping and stabbing prey.
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Also got some spirit photography / cryptid pictures of Nibbler when I was trying to get some shots with him in the foreground and the aurora in the background, but he was excited and head bobbing.
A blurry long exposure with a duck in motion on a picnic table.
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The aurora from earlier tonight outside of Spokane, Washington in my light polluted yard. You could clearly see the magenta with the naked eye.
Overhead photo of the magenta aurora, about how bright it was with my eyes. The sickly yellow and green glow with magenta aurora and stars behind my neighbor's tree line. The back of my house with a green aurora behind. A low angle of our picnic table looking up from the seat with Nibbler the duck making an appearance while he hung out with me.
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Jurassic Park 3 and One Million Years B.C. Ceratosaurus design study for DracoTyrannus.

#Dinosaur #Retrosaur #Ceratosaurus #JurassicPark3 #OneMillionYearsBC
Digital pencil style line study of two movie Ceratosaurus designs. Roughly in scale based on what we see on screen compared to the humans in the scene. The 2001 Jurassic Park 3 Ceratosaurus and the 1966 One Million Years B.C. Ceratosaurus commissioned by DracoTyrannus.
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Fionna and Cake is so good. Here's some old Adventure Time fan art of mine. 2012 to 2015.

#AdventureTime #FionnaAndCake
Painted easter eggs from 2012 with various main characters from Adventure Time. Gunter, Ice King, Finn, Jake, Cake, and Fionna. Crossover artwork of CatDog and Adventure Time with CakeJake next to a combination CatDog Treehouse I made for my little brother's birthday in 2013. Fan art spoof title card of a fictional episode where Fionna and Cake and Finn and Jake crossover titled "Doppelgangers" from 2014. Made in 2015 to celebrate marriage equality with Marceline and Bubblegum both in white dresses in front of a rainbow heart holding hands.
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Mara Brown Mosasaurus design. More de-extinct creatures in the backlog I need to post still. @marabrownwd.bsky.social #paleoart #Mosasaurus #mosasaur
Mosasaurus with forked tongue sticking out and facing right. It has vertical stripes on its tail and rosettes on its body. Its coloration is mostly a brownish gray.
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Tropeognathus card I illustrated for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster deck "Silent Giant." #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #Tropeognathus #Pterosaur #JPTCG
The Jurassic Park style pterosaur with mouth open flying and looking over its shoulder with red coloration and darker purplish stripes over a lush river with wispy clouds in a blue sky. Card text is Korean.
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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No thoughts, head empty.
My muscovy duck hens standing in a row by the fence the other day. Behind them is my car and behind that is my neighbors' various trucks and tires and campers etc.
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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And finally Toon-Rex's original design: www.deviantart.com/toon-rex/art...
Cartoon styled Nanotyrannus drawn by Toon-Rex.
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Procreate process for this fun dinosaur.
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Paleoart speedpaint of Jane as the proposed new species Nanotyrannus lethaeus based on Toon-Rex's design. #Dinosaur #Paleoart #Tyrannosaur #Nanotyrannus #Nanotyrannuslethaeus
Jane with proportions based on Scott Hartman's new skeletal diagram but with hands closer in proportion to Bloody Mary the Nanotyrannus lancensis with coloration and integument based directly on Toon-Rex's depiction.
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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And the Procreate process for this 20 minute piece. I might be a few days late, but I've officially completed the entirety of this year's Paleoctober.
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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#Paleoctober2025 day 31 paleoart sketch of the extremely old problematic fossil that might be one of the first eukaryotic organisms Diskagma.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Diskagma
A zoomed in view of the organisms in soil.
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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And the Procreate process for this 1.5 hour piece.
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM