lil reznors can we bring these guys back to Mario games again… i miss them… Bonus:

Also I revamped Fen’s old design. I’ve been meaning to do this for some time, the colors of his old design were atrocious and have bugged me from the start. And at the time I made his first design it was purely for giggles- my role play partner mech-station and I hadn’t come up with the story he and his partner in crime are involved in until after I already posted his initial design. Now with the setting inspired by 1940’s Vegas (Caldera, as the city is called in our story), Fen’s old design and clothing were no longer fitting for his story.  So, finally did that much desired revamp a few weeks ago and just forgot to post it. I’m happy my boy is looking more like his pretty self now :D

Here are some of the free art requests I did for my first art stream - dinos based on The Isle models.

If you wanna join my stream sometime: https://www.twitch.tv/jigziejam

Robotic animals by Hajime Sorayama

Waaay back in 2nd grade my teacher had us write a book called "My Pet Dinosaur", describing what we would do if we could have any dinosaur as a pet. This being the early 90s and having freshly watched Jurassic Park, I decided to skip the T rexes and sauropods, wanting something that would fit in my house and wouldn't eat me. So, I got out my trusty 1987 "Dinosaurs!" Childcraft Annual to pick something more practical, and decided on Psittacosaurus.

^ the illustration in the 1987 book, versus this recent, much more accurate depiction by Bob Nicholls.

So, three decades later, I found the ever-talented @bookrat and their incredible paleo taxidermy art blog. I knew I wanted to commission them, so I decided to fulfill a childhood dream at the same time! I chose a model of a psittacosaurus hatchling because the 14 inch hatchling would take up far less space than a 4 foot long adult, and actually be in my budget. I asked for a green color because of the 1987 illustration above, but more accurate and less mock turtle, lol.

it came out gorgeous! I have my new "pet" here posing adorably with two of my actual-factual pets. Thank you again @bookrat for your beautiful work! I'll have to get a collar soon to take more pics :)

My beloved boy

Beast wars Megatron fanart!

teeny weeny fuzzy anjanath chick . be nice she hasnt grown into her feets yet

gay people will romanticize anything. fossilization is an act of love. the earth holds the child that returned to her so tight in hopes that she never has to let go. eventually you'll fall away from her grasp no matter what, but at least you can leave behind an impression that she'll hold onto forever. fuck. hold on bad example. gimme a minute. fuck.

‘nother batch of doodles and warmups

The Weirdest Toy-Candy Combo I've Seen to Date

Zuru, the toy dinosaur people, have this new thing called "Gumi Yum Surprise", clearly trying to bite Kinder Joy's style and at more or less the same price point. And look, the plastic egg it comes in is all gummy colors!

Except that's not the plastic egg.

That's the actual gummy. The candy is in strips around the egg that you peel off and eat before opening. This is a neat idea, but also makes holding onto the package until you're done essential, as it's an egg, you can't stand it up in a way that the gummy surface won't hit the table or whatever you set it on.

Once you strip away the festive gummy layers (which were decent, kinda like slightly sweeter and firmer Jello Jigglers) you pop open the egg and there's a kit toy inside.

In my case, a baby T-rex.

Not bad, Zuru.

im kind of obsessed with this graphic.

Nikolai Litvinenko

I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

I’m so emotional about dinosaur stuffed animals,,, there are these creatures, extinct long before any of us were alive, but we found their bones and their eggs and their footprints. And we made drawings and models of what they could’ve looked like. And we made them into stuffed animals so we could hold them. We made them soft so we could love them. I’m sobbing

Yeah, we're the animal so preoccupied with petting other animals we're sort of collectively upset there are animals we never get to pet, so we make proxies to snuggle and tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here.

...and tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here.

Hang on i just have to cry for a minute

45 minutes late to the party. compsognanos (compsognathus) for dinovember day 7

an early phase 1 recon model, this bot’s long, immobile, antennae-amplifying tail doubles as a counterweight. flexible regions forgo plate housing in favor of lightweight polyester proofing