Here's another entry I contributed to that no K-Pg extinction project that ended up never coming out, ah the continuous allure of the dinosaurs and their survival for speculative evolution...
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Abelisauridae
After the end of the Mesozoic, the abelisaurs found great success in the worldwide hothouse climate that developed, and in an evolutionary path th...
2023-02-13 20:56:47 +0000 UTC View Post
An idea for a species of tree-dwelling tribtile that had giant ear-operculum things that it could use for gliding with that I sketched up in March of 2020. Sheather liked the idea and I'm pretty sure he drew it out, but for whatever reason it never ended up coming out.
Well, who knows, perhaps the idea will eventually see life, trees are back and the lumpuses are still around after all......
2023-02-13 04:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone commissioned this scene a few days ago, so you'll get to see this getting done for the next week. Big win for people who wanted to see the river dragon in action and/or were interesting in seeing more skulossi.
Also, there is a red devil relative in the back because they commissioned the red devil and suggested it in the back.
2023-02-12 20:12:00 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the most morphologically aberrant xenotherian groups, they are immediately recognizable at even a glance. Their unique shape of an extremely tall and upright upper body standing atop four digitigrade legs is utterly unlike any other animal group, although it does at times make them uncannily human in silhouette. These are the only specialized browsers among the xenotherians, the equivale...
2023-02-12 07:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This was the first version of the illustration of the Monarch ship arriving at Skull Island. However I didn't like this version because (a) the perspective looked a bit wonky, (b) the scale just didn't seem big enough, and (c) it seemed too mundane.
I ended up scrapping it and redoing the whole thing, which is what is now "Hellmouth" on DeviantArt.
2023-02-11 20:36:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Siberian/Horned Droc (Monocerasaurus robustus)
One of the largest of the drocs, reaching over three-hundred kilograms (660 lbs), the Siberian droc is one of northern Russia’s most feared carnivores. Pairs of the large carnivorous ornithischians stalk the cold taiga forests in search of prey; they hunt large animals, using coordinated tactics to bring down prey....
2023-02-11 02:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This was the rough sketch of Deutalios used as reference for the "Scorched Earth" illustration. If you're wondering why he didn't get an entry, well it's complicated, it'll be clear eventually...
2023-02-10 08:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
This was the initial drawing the skulossi, done back in June of 2022. You might notice that means it was drawn well before the first cygnosaurs. And that's because it was originally a visualization of the "giant sauropod-like skuorc" idea Sheather had.
He liked the concept drawn out, but it was different from what he envisioned (more diplodocid-like than macronarian). Rather than di...
2023-02-10 07:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This started as a joke, but I ended up drawing it out anyway (back in May, 2022). The proliferation of crocodile ideas for hothouse animals led to the creation of this atrocity... probably non-canon though...
2023-02-10 06:49:12 +0000 UTC View Post
With the end of the ice age, the warm climate has had a massive cascading effect on all life on Serina. With the constant precipitation and waterways that riddle the continents, plant life flourishes like never before. With the plant life flourishing, the herbivores that feed upon it grow to immense proportions and numbers. With herbivores in great size and population, the predators too have gr...
2023-02-10 01:07:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I posted the artwork here already, but a friend helped find the written documents that accompanied them, so I'll repost the artwork with the text that was written with it.
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Among the numerous theropod and crocodyliform predators across the world is one group of dinosaurian carnivores that is unique for having emerged from ornithischian stock. Able to survive further north than th...
2023-02-09 08:49:53 +0000 UTC View Post
King of the waterways.
Skuorc slayer.
Drinkers beware.
2023-02-08 22:52:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh yeah, it's comin', the Serinan beastie everyone's been clamouring for...
2023-02-08 10:53:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It totally slipped my mind that I never posted the text for this anywhere. So here's another Diyu entry that never officially came out (the picture was posted in the collage on DeviantArt however).
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Monkey Crab (Pithecocaris gigacancer)
Diyu is a three-dimensional environment and life clambers and crawls over its floor, its walls, the ceiling; nowh...
2023-02-07 23:16:51 +0000 UTC View Post
All except swamp strider
(technically, the cuttlecrab is not a true strider, but might as well include in this rather than a later miscellaneous parade)
2023-02-07 22:38:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of the initial sketches for the wormy mitten and its descendants drawn back in March of 2020 (the second image drawn in May). The initial idea was for them to be aquatic boras specifically (hence why the wormy mitten had only two muscular tentacles and the other four tentacles were reduced), but Sheather told me to change them into more generic mittens.
A sea mittens part 2 was plann...
2023-02-07 08:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you were ever curious to know what the Skullcrawlers looked like without their clothes on...
2023-02-06 22:27:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I already posted this picture on DeviantArt in the compilation image, but I don't think I got around to ever posting the writing of the emperor walk-topus publicly, so I'll put it here for any patrons still interested in seeing it.
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Emperor Walk-topus (Pithecoteuthis grandis)
Standing eight feet tall and weighing more than two hundred kilogra...
2023-02-06 19:40:40 +0000 UTC View Post
My uncle works at Serina and he told me today that this is the direction that hothouse circuagodonts are headed in. This will dominate the skies by 300 MYH and outcompete both birds, tribbats, and even insects.
Trust me, I have the exclusive insider knowledge.
2023-02-06 07:04:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Really old artwork for the designs of Rodan and Hedorah, made in... I think it was early 2018. Back then, the design aesthetic for FOM was more Shin Godzilla inspired, with more kaiju that were grotesque mutations, but it became less so later on with later designs. As you can also see, the idea of Rodan fighting Hedorah was established very early on.
2023-02-06 02:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
An early drawing of the bogthumper, then called the grumplump before I confused the two names. This was also before the lumps were established to have an upper and lower pair of flanges, so the face looks a little different from the later lumps.
A few minor differences are the lack of the horns above the eyes (given to make it more similar to the other horned lumps) and making its feather...
2023-02-05 19:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Another very old illustration I did for my Cynognathus Assemblage Zone story. I coloured things with much lighter hues back then, wonder what happened with that?
Anyway, this is a really interesting animal, it was a non-mammalian cynodont that was a social burrowing animal that was known to have lived in large communal underground colonies, making it like the Triassic equiv...
2023-02-05 08:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Coloured sketch of Hedorah; this was one of the first kaiju designed for the project, before the project even had a name yet. The earliest design points were that it had to have more than two eyes and that it would be more fungus-based rather than simply indiscriminate muck.
The final design discarded the ringed frill around the neck and the webbed mycelium because I didn't think they loo...
2023-02-05 08:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Every evolutionary chart for Serinan animal groups done thus far, accurate up until April 17th, 2023. Now, just gotta wait until there are enough lumpuses, seed-snatchers, and eelsnakes species for them to get their trees...
This will get edited periodically as new species are added, probably more quickly than it is on Sheather's patreon... probably...
2023-02-05 07:12:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Old coloured sketch of a sabrebeast having caught and killed a stingbeast. Some minor anatomical oddities present, the sabrebeast doesn't have the four claws on its feet, and the stingbeast's appendages are jointed rather than curved as I remade them, but otherwise it's still good.
2023-02-05 06:23:25 +0000 UTC View Post
