Figuring out the artstyle for the silly goober raptors that will be in the comic (i am biased with my dinosaur choices so there will be many.....)
if this post gets 10000000 likes i will add cowboy velociraptor as a character in the comic
ko-fi.com/fajmanmayday Kind of, pulling up the curtain here a little, it's pride month after all! And i nervously come with a kind request and a little story So i am Nonbinary- I consider myself Agender, and thusly completely out of the gender spectrum. I also think of myself as trans, because it takes some serious interfering with my body to be comfortable with it. The most pressing being- top surgery. However, where I live, the Czech Republic, the laws regarding trans people are - to be blunt - inhumane and objectifying. If i was to get to surgery through insurance, i'd have to get approved by my psych, a sexologist (a real thing here), all while pretending to be a trans man. Id likely have to go on hormones, which i don't want, and likely- be forced to get sterilised. Yes, yes this is a real thing here. Trans people have to get sterilised to transition. While that may not be a necessary step for me to just get insurance paid top surgery, this gives you an idea of how systems here treat us- As subhuman, and it is not something i could realistically go through with my mental state, which already causes me to be unable to work and do most things. No one should be treated like this, but it's not something i could ever just- bite to get top surgery. All of this to say- i am asking anyone able to, for donations- It set as a goal on my ko.fi Every donation i receive from there will go straight to my savings towards this cause. Plus you will get to see anything i post on there! If you donate over 20euro, you can request something to draw! Just type it in the donation, plus your socials, so i can send it to you- Anyway, sorry, i really hate asking for money, and don't at all feel pressured to give any to me. But uh- Happy pride!
Sinornithosaurus! With stylish bell bottoms!
Little Albino Bambiraptor!
Just wanted to have some fun painting a white baby dromeosaur.
hamipterus
Deinonychus Restingby Fred Wierum
Figuring out the artstyle for the silly goober raptors that will be in the comic (i am biased with my dinosaur choices so there will be many.....)
if this post gets 10000000 likes i will add cowboy velociraptor as a character in the comic
I'll try and post more, but I have been really busy, and haven't had much time to draw, and when I did, it wasn't dinosaurs or anything of the like. But perhaps I will post more often!
I’m going to go into more detail about my workplace eventually but for now it’s important to make public that ethanol holdings in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA, Gainesville) are completely neglected and actively rotting. Holotypes (the original specimen of a plant or animal used to define a species, completely priceless and the pride and joy of any good collection) are already ruined. Don’t ever donate your stuff there, it will go to waste.
Everything that is not personally interesting to the administrators has clearly been totally ignored for decades and priceless scientific information has been lost as a result. It is the worst I have ever seen, having worked in three other collections previously. I was lucky I had not formally donated most of my own collection material there because I guarantee they would have barred me from ever accessing the specimens again and then neglected them all to destruction anyway. Other people have not been so lucky and multiple scientists have their life’s work trapped in there and deteriorating. Admin is not above blocking former employees or whistle blowers from using the collection, even if it is your own material.
Here is how FSCA was keeping the holotype of the rare cave millipede Scoterpes rudis. The ethanol should be clear, but I had to fish the actual specimen out of the opaque yellow slime with forceps. Many others were just like this when I found them, and I did my best to care for them all but there was clearly already permanent damage years before I was even hired. I’m really sorry for the poor solifugid biologist who has to try to get useful information out of the holotype that is just a small wad of legs and glue now.
Many of the specimens, including some holotypes, are like this centipede, with the rubber stopper having degraded into a glue-like material and dripped onto the specimen. Reaching this state requires years of total neglect because you can see the rubber start to wilt long before it drips. All it takes to fix this is replacing the stopper more than once in a century, but apparently that was too much to expect of the “world class” FSCA.
FSCA higher-ups recently presented a big cheesy video at the Entomology Society of America meeting in Nov 2022 in Vancouver, patting themselves on the back for the size of the collection and soliciting new collaborators and donations. They are constantly seeking to acquire more material even though they are running out of space and totally incapable of maintaining what they have already. The other staff are completely aware, but apparently only concerned with their own personal research material and individual favorite bugs.
I would appreciate if you all could share this with anyone you know interested in entomology, natural history collections, or biology in general. I suspect my former position will open for new applicants almost immediately because of how many different aspects of the operation I supported out of a genuine love for entomology and curation. Now that I am gone, the ethanol collection is likely completely abandoned. Please do not give this pathetic institution and its staff more things to ruin.
-Mossworm
Theropod sketches! Please excuse the inactivity, I've been busy. ^^"
Afrovenator abakensis, Tawa Hallae, Carnotaurus sastrei, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, Zanabazar junior
Another #paleostream sketch!
In this one I put a little bit more effort, Borealopelta is known from such a fantastic fossil!
Volgadraco was a pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Cretaceous of Russia.
License this stock resource at: https://paleostock.com/resource/volgadraco-stock-photo
Illustration by Joshua Tedder
my forever mood
A Coelophysis pair enjoying the early morning hours
hi! are you against people using your art as pfps with proper credit? if not no worries!
I am ok with people using my art for pfps/banners as long as credit is given somewhere easily accessible, yes! (preferably a link back to my page) Pretty much as long as you are not profiting from my work (exceptions for educational content) and I am credited, I do not mind at all. ^^ (I will also appreciate a reblog on the artwork you plan to use, although that is not necessary)
