it reminds me a lot of this piece by Julius Csotonyi!

www.csotonyi.com/mesozoic-era...

Felix cumpleaños!!!!! happy arrival to the most secret sleeper in the society!

Thank you!! I wish I'd taken photos of the shapes before putting them together but I was very proud of coming up with this way of slotting the feathers from the lower paper through the upper paper!

Plus some progress pictures! Flats, lines and sketch

Thanks so much! I think coming up with colour patterns might be one of my favourite parts of the process

Thank you!! haven't really tackled many projects that size since, hopefully I'll be able to do something about that in the future!

Thank you so much!!

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!

Another reason this is one of my proudest works is because it was accepted into the 2022 Waterhouse Natural Sciences Art Prize exhibition at the South Australian Museum! It was my first time entering, and being accepted and exhibited was so exciting and still feels surreal now

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

This is my most thorough artistic exploration of a fossil ecosystem, and it was fascinating to look into! Early Cretaceous Australia was much closer to the south pole, and what is now baking desert was once a chilly inland sea covered with ice and full of marine life

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!