#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

Plus some progress pictures! Flats, lines and sketch

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)

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

The process of putting this together was long and complicated but I had such a great time packing in as much detail as I could, especially on the seabed. There's sea snails, crinoids, brittle stars, and a mostly-hidden shell of the giant ammonite Tropaeum imperator!

The main star of this piece is the small crested plesiosaur Umoonasaurus, and it's surrounded by creatures that we know shared this environment, including ammonites, belemnites, the giant chimaeroid Ptyktoptychion, and Kronosaurus looming overhead

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!

And I also do the occasional smattering of character art and calligraphic shitposts

It's not all ancient stuff though, I've also been doing a lot more modern nature art recently!

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!