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H. McGill
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Indie Gamedev Artist
Webcomics: Amphiox, RAWR! Dinosaur Friends
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I will post an extinct animal every day until the 24th!

Day 1: Velociraptor

Chomp chomp! This guy was actually as small as a housecat.

#artadventcalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #dinosaur #velociraptor
Digital cel-shaded art of a little velociraptor with a big nasty attitude. The velociraptor is posed in an attack position with its mouth wide open, tiny needle teeth ready to chomp. It is colored somewhat like a roadrunner with speckled brown feathers and red eyes. The velociraptor is perched on a square isometric chunk of rock meant to look like a bit of Gobi Desert where this dinosaur once dwelled millions of years ago. Tufts of desert grass stick out from the chunk.
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Day 15: Giant Ground Sloth

'Wild avocados depended on ground sloths eating them to survive' may be an oversimplified science meme...but it's cute, so I will draw it

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #GroundSloth #Pleistocene #SciArt #Avocado #Green #PaleoArt #Megafauna #Sloth #Animal #Nature
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a giant ground sloth chowing down on avocados, straight from the avocado tree. This sloth is twelve feet tall with gorgeous locks of algae-yellow hair all over its body. Its face bears the typical sloth ‘mask’ of dark spots around the eyes and a white muzzle with a wet snuffly nose at the end. The sloth’s mouth is open, bearing two absurdly long upper fangs and equally sharp-looking lower fangs, while an entire avocado gets crushed between its molars. The tree is small compared to the sloth, and planted into an isometric square chunk of prehistoric South American earth. The ground sloth grasps the tree in both of its arms and bends its trunk over one hairy shoulder in order to nab one tricky avocado in its mouth. More plump avocados await the beast’s appetite as they dangle in the tree’s branches. Knowing how fast a sloth goes it’s probably set for a few hours, if not days, of feasting. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Day 14: Dunkleosteus

Aww, it's a sea puppy! Sea puppies explore their surroundings with their mouth

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Blue #Fish #Thalassophobia #Ocean #PaleoArt #SciArt #Devonian #Paleontology
Digital cel-shaded artwork of an ancient Devonian apex predator fish, Dunkleosteus. It’s just a very very large fish with a very large mouth and big, scale-like bony teeth on a bony face. This one is countershaded with dark shades on top and a white belly, with freckle-dappled midtones between them. Usually this fish is portrayed as being very long and slim, but this dunkleosteus has been rendered more like a, well, for lack of a better term, short king. Very short body. Still fierce and also adorable. The fish is suspended over an isometeric square chunk of sandy seafloor. Water reflections dance over the fish’s skin, hard rocks poking out of the sand, and a discarded nautilus shell. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Day 13: Amargasaurus

I’m really excited about the water refraction effect I managed to paint here...May need to use it further

#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #Art #DigitalArt #Dinosaur #Sauropod #Orange #Nature #PaleoArt #Paleontology
Digital cel-shaded artwork of an enormous orange sauropod, Amargasaurus, traipsing through a flooded isometric square chunk of swamp. The animal casually towers over nearby cypress trees. It looks over one shoulder but for its size, few things would alarm it. Pterosaurs flap away from it, diminuitive in comparison to the dinosaur. The Amargasaurus has giraffe-like hexagonal markings all over its body, mingling with spots and concentric rings along its back. Its trademark head and neck fins have been rendered as fully enclosed by flesh, rather than spiky like many reconstructions depict. The swamp water is green with algae and other yummy stuff for a big browsing herbivore to enjoy. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Day 12: Oviraptor

It's not technically stealing if it's your own egg, right?

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #SciArt #Dinosaur #Raptor #Bird #Blue #Nature #Cute
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a blue oviraptor sitting on a dirt nest of giant, speckled blue eggs. It holds one of the eggs in its big chunky beak playfully. It’s probably a cannibal! Its head resembles a cassowary head with a bony crest on top and a short, powerful beak in front, with dark eyes and orange freckles around the orbit. This oviraptor was colored with inspiration from a Stellar’s Jay, so its front half is darker, less-saturated blue, while it brightens towards the tail. It has black stripes on its wing pinions and tail feathers, and flashes of iridescence crest its chest and wing. The drawing is part of a series of prehistoric animals sitting on isometric square ‘chunks’ of land, so this chunk shows a cross-section of the dirt nest. A pair of eggs have attempted to escape the chunk, one on each side. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Day 11: Smilodon

This picture is brought to you by me trying to figure out how someone would pick up a kitten if their only option to do so was a big cat mouth with saber canines

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #PaleoArt #SciArt #Paleontology #Pleistocene #Sabertooth #Animal #Cat #IceAge #DigitalArt
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a saber-toothed tiger (smilodon) parent picking up its kitten by the nape of the neck with its mouth, as cats do. The kitten appears to be a little unsure of itself, as anyone would be with a giant curved canine right near their throat. The parent has no intent to harm its baby, it's just trying to move the child from one place to another. Sabertooth tigers tend to be stockier than most modern big cats, with a bigger head. These two big cats in particular have been rendered with countershading: Light tan underbellies, and an orange coat that fades into sunset-like reds and purples. Leopard-like spots mark the cat’s shoulders but fade towards the short stubby tail and belly. The scene is posed on top of an isometric chunk of grassland at sunset, when everything takes on golden shadows. A small, windblown sagebrush bush rests at the front paw of the smilodon. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Day 10: Hallucigenia

Is it the little Cambrian worm who is right-side up, or the world that is upside-down?

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Hallucigenia #Cambrian #Paleoart #SciArt #geology #invertebrate #purple #worm
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a purple Hallucigenia worm perched on an isometric chunk of rocky blue seafloor. Yellow spots line its sides. It has a long, tubelike body that narrows at the neck, resulting in a beady-eyed face constantly in a state of surprise with its mouth open like a small letter ‘o’. It has many legs al down its long body. The first six legs are little more than tentacles that wobble around freely in the currents. The Hallucigenia has fourteen additional legs that end in feet with two tiny claws per foot. On its back are two sets of eight defensive spikes, each tipped in white. Overall the creature is gelatinous and slightly see-through, a delicate specimen. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Day 9: Ichthyosaur

Apparently the closest living relative to an ichthyosaur is a turtle? Can anyone out there correct me on this?

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #Ichthyosaur #SciArt #Reptile #Nature #Animal #ocean #blue
Digital cel-shaded art of an ichthyosaur leaping, dolphin-like, out of an isometric square chunk of open, frothing ocean water. The ichthyosaur has been colored like a mashup between a sea turtle and a common dolphin, with a long white stripe along its sleek body, white countershading on the belly and under each fin, and a pop of yellow around each eye. Its eye takes heavier inspiration from sea turtles with sideways, wrinkly eyelids and broad but hydrodynamic scale patterns all over the face. In most respects this animal looks like a dolphin except for its nostrils being closer to its eyes, tail being vertically-oriented instead of the mammalian horizontal orientation, and a big toothy grin full of reptilian teeth in its beak. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Day 8: Inostrancevia

It's such a shame that it will be 251 million years before this gorgonopsid can try to fit through a narrow doorway and not realize the bone can't go with them (bonk)

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #SciArt #gorgonopsid #permian #animal #science #dogs
Digital cel-shaded art of a gorgonopsid, inostrancevia, one of the Late Permian reptilian mammals (or perhaps mammalian reptile). This animal most closely resembles a pit bull’s musculature crossed with a monitor lizard’s splayed legs. It is colored with big brown patches on yellow, orange, and green lizard-like scales, inspired slightly by komodo dragons but more bright and saturated. It’s very freckled and speckled all over with its patches of color migrating into each other. It sits in a pose reminiscent of how dogs sit when they don’t care about being noble: Leaning to one side, legs akimbo, tongue dangling out. It parked its silly butt on an isometric chunk of sea-green limestone. The gorgonopsid has a giant head compared to dogs, proportionally, and in its mouth is the thick femur bone of a dicynodont. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Day 7: Psittacosaurus

Say you're on your daily jog through the forest and then this jumps out at you, like so!

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #dinosaur #paleoart #SciArt #paleontology
Digital cel-shaded art of a leaping psittacosaurus, a bipedal precursor to triceratops. It is largely orange-brown with white countershading on its underside. The dinosaur has small stripes and spots marking the gradiation between its dark side and its light side. It’s jumping over a log and a bush set in some sun-dappled woods in the deep past. Worms inch inside of an isometric square of dirt that grounds the whole scene. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Small etiquette notes on correcting my artwork:

Ask before correcting stuff please!

I might not correct the art directly in the post itself, but may update it behind the scenes for future use

Some stuff is stylized/won't be corrected

You may share similar animals on my art; credit your sources
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Day 6: Dickinsonia

Nobody:

Absolutely no one:

The Ediacaran: Flesh plants. Flesh plants! Great wobbling frisbee beasts! Flesh plants—

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #digitalart #paleoart #SciArt #dickinsonia #charnia #geology #science #paleontology
Digital cel-shaded art of a wibbly wobbly Dickinsonia, a weird wobbly lifeform from before the Cambrian era. It looks like a floppy frisbee with bilateral lines sectioning its body into many gelatinous ribs. It lives underwater surrounded by fleshy ‘plants’, including orange charnia with spots and neon green hylaecullulus. Since I’ve interpreted Dickinsonia as a transparent creature, the other life forms can be fuzzily seen through its body. This little scene is set on an isometric square chunk of sandy seafloor. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Day 5: Borealopelta

I went speculative on the ‘red’ coloration of this extremely well-preserved fossil, and I have little information on the fossilized Cretaceous flower I found other than it sort of looked like a tulip?

#dinosaur #art #ArtAdventCalendar #digitalart #paleoart #SciArt
Digital cel-shaded art of a Borealopelta, an ankylosaurus most well known for being ‘mummified’ in stone. The dinosaur sits in an isometric, square chunk of sunlit meadow, surrounded by purple tulip-like flowers stretching upwards. The borealpelta is largely peach-colored with neon pink knobs lining its armored shell. It barely fits on the chunk of earth. Its long tail, which lacks the typical ‘knob’ associated with ankylosaurs, curls around the resting spot from behind. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Day 4: Rhamphorynchus

The beaks on these guys make me so uncomfortable!… so of course I drew it

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #SciArt #pterosaur #digitalart #art
Digital cel-shaded art of a rhamphorynchus, a small shore-dwelling pterosaur known for its bent beak and mouth full of sharp teeth. It has two membranous wings attached to its long pinkie finger and a narrow tail that ends in a spade shape. The pterosaur was colored with inspiration from a red-footed booby, and features a blue and magenta beak to accent its largely yellowish/grayish body. The pterosaur dips its toe into a bit of tropical ocean water, which is contained inside of a stylized ‘cube’ of the animal’s environment. Watermark on the image: http://hmcgill.art
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Day 3: Kentrosaurus

Gave nighttime coloring a stab for this big critter — otherwise I am going to end up with a lot of green jungle-dwellers in this set

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #digitalart #paleoart #dinosaur #SciArt #paleontology #stegosaurus
Digital cel-shaded art of a kentrosaurus, a stegosaur notable for two big spikes poking out of its shoulders. The kentrosaurus browses an ancient African jungle at night under the light of a crescent moon. It leans against a cycad while perched on an isometric, square chunk of forest earth with trailing roots. Everything is painted with stylized blue and teal tones. The moonlight catches briefly on the kentrosaurus’s spines. Watermark on the image: http://hmcgill.art
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Day 2: Diplocaulus

One of my personal favorites! I love this guy’s head. If he existed I would have to make friends with someone who owned one so I could look at it every day.

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #SciArt #amphibian #animal
Digital cel-shaded art of a diplocaulus, which is an ancient amphibian with a wide, boomerang-shaped head. The diplocaulus is depicted underwater in some kind of pond, floating over a chunk of pond dirt that contains underwater plans and fallen fern leaves dissolving into green muck. The animal has orange spots on its dark green skin, and the light of water overhead dances across its form.
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I will post an extinct animal every day until the 24th!

Day 1: Velociraptor

Chomp chomp! This guy was actually as small as a housecat.

#artadventcalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #dinosaur #velociraptor
Digital cel-shaded art of a little velociraptor with a big nasty attitude. The velociraptor is posed in an attack position with its mouth wide open, tiny needle teeth ready to chomp. It is colored somewhat like a roadrunner with speckled brown feathers and red eyes. The velociraptor is perched on a square isometric chunk of rock meant to look like a bit of Gobi Desert where this dinosaur once dwelled millions of years ago. Tufts of desert grass stick out from the chunk.
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Hello new followers! If you're bored and like free webcomics, here's mine!

It's a complete short story about a ruined world full of alternative energy...and magic doom eels.

(Includes detailed transcripts on every page)

amphiox.hmcgill.art/comic/amphio...

#webcomics #amphiox #comics #indie
Image depicted is the cover to the webcomic, Amphiox. It's a black cover with criss-crossing blue serpent coils taking up most of the background. The coils writhe around each other with faint glimmers of scales highlighted, before vanishing into darkness. This is a teaser for the beast that will be encountered and explained within the webcomic. Layered over the writing coils of the Amphiox is its tail, oddly centered and still compared to the rest of its body. An amphiox's tail ends in a fin with rounded tips. The fin's color is a bright, bioluminescent gradient composed of yellow fading into bright skyblue, before tapering into a darker cerulean. The tail has vibrating red highlights. It casts a rainbow of highlights onto its own scales. Attached to this tail are two more, lesser pectoral and dorsal fins, in cerulean blue. The pectoral fin pokes out near the tail, and the dorsal fin is further up, and larger. White text overlaid on top: AMPHIOX H. McGIll http://hmcgill.art
June 2, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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Why would a fish god be in a volcano?

This Dunkleosteus was consumed by an abyssal vent over 350 million years ago...Before the volcanic island breached the ocean's surface! It is the oldest god in the volcanic pantheon from my game about extinction.

#gamedev #art #sciart #paleoart #madewithspine
Concept art of a giant flaming dunkleosteus skeleton, animated by magma flesh, leaping into the air over an erupting volcano. The scene is drawn in a 2D cel-shaded style with heavy emphasis on saturated blues and super-saturated red and orange colors. The dunkleosteus's bones are all blue like volcanic rock, and its jaws are molten orange, and its eyes are made of blue fire. Distantly, through a purple ashen haze, the rest of the island paradise can be seen, but who knows if it will stay pleasant for long in the wake of a godly volcanic eruption.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Why would a fish god be in a volcano?

This Dunkleosteus was consumed by an abyssal vent over 350 million years ago...Before the volcanic island breached the ocean's surface! It is the oldest god in the volcanic pantheon from my game about extinction.

#gamedev #art #sciart #paleoart #madewithspine
Concept art of a giant flaming dunkleosteus skeleton, animated by magma flesh, leaping into the air over an erupting volcano. The scene is drawn in a 2D cel-shaded style with heavy emphasis on saturated blues and super-saturated red and orange colors. The dunkleosteus's bones are all blue like volcanic rock, and its jaws are molten orange, and its eyes are made of blue fire. Distantly, through a purple ashen haze, the rest of the island paradise can be seen, but who knows if it will stay pleasant for long in the wake of a godly volcanic eruption.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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It’s a ‘purchase 74 gelly rolls for bulk pricing’ kind of day
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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So far my 2D rigging workflow is like:

1. Attach physics constraints ASAP
2. Wiggle the bone chains around!!! WHEEE
...
...
3. ...Deep regrets
4. Remove physics constraints ASAP
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Do any other game artists prefer designing backgrounds and settings to characters?

I'm really happy with how my game's tropical islands turned out. (If only all my characters were islands, too!)

#gamedev #indie #art #digitalart #nature
A digital painting of panoramic-style view of a very very distant, enormous island, clearly volcanic in nature. The style is painterly cel-shading with lots of soft shadows and highlights gradually building up into each other. The point of view is from high up, with a little bit of mountain and close vegetation including acai trees and various bushes visible. The island itself takes up most of the composition,with its vibrant blue mountains, lush forestry in the foothills, and a little spiraling spit of sand curling around a small patch of ocean. The ocean is glassy, sky-blue, and smooth, perfectly reflecting clouds above.
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Watch out!

Dodo attack

(Animation from my in-progress game about animals fighting on a volcano)

#gamedev #digitalart #animation #dodo #madewithspine
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Playing card designs for my roulette game about recently-extinct animals on a volcano! Numbers indicate how far you can move

1 - Wiggle like Hallucigenia
2 - Crawl like Tiktaalik
3 - Leap like Archeopteryx
M - Enlist the "help" of monkeys

#gamedev #indie #digitalart #design #paleoart #sciart #art
Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 1 with a blue border, surrounded by red hallucigenia with white spikes and yellow tentacles, yellow flowers, on a black field. Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 2, with a yellow border, surrounded by blue tiktaalik with white eyes and geometric scale patterns, and red diamond/yellow sunburst designs on a black field. Digital playing card done in the style of a typical Bicycle playing card, only with prehistoric animals instead of king/queen/etc faces. This card features a big white number 3 with a red border, surrounded by fancy yellow archaeopteryx with blue and red highlight feathers, with a tail made of hearts, on a black field. A special, minimalistic playing card with a black M surrounded by yellow, blue, and red borders in that order, with a monkey’s face and attacking palms pointed towards the viewer aggressively. Text under this graphic reads ‘MONKEYS’ in capitalized black Futura.
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM