Trilobite Boy featured on io9

(cross-posted from here)

Trilobite Boy and some of my other paintings and drawings were featured on io9 this morning, written up by editor-in-chief Annalee Newitz.  Trilobite Boy appeared right on the front page between Captain America and Captain Jack Sparrow.

The article is a lot of fun, and yes, I'd love to work with James Cameron on the next Avatar.  Or Gore Verbinski, George Lucas or Guillermo del Toro, for that matter. ;-P

Thanks to Marilyn Terrell for sharing Trilobite Boy with Annalee in the first place!

More Trilobite Boy blog posts here, and dA gallery here. I hope to have the first installment of the comic complete before the end of March. 

Speedpaint; Feb18

Tomorrow you not only get to pick an inspirational post by Andrea Cau but also the humor of google's auto translation.

Spread the word!

You know you've been there...

The stigma of paleoart... thought I'd share toady's speedpaint. It just came out.

Dead Bowhead whale says "Ouch"

My Friday Speed : Dead Bowhead Whale says "Ouch"

Friday Speeds

Whoah... almost missed the announcement! But here it is: tomorrow's speed session takes aim at Darren Naish's fantastic blog Tetrapod Zoology. Pick a post and do a speed paint / sketch / sculpt.
He has loads of valuable tidbits, and if you're looking to cut corners with the next Terror Bird gallery, you're in luck.

Octopus limbs

For David Maas's Ask A Biologist speedpaint challenge, I chose the question, Do octopus limbs grow back?

Though the answer is no, I gave my octopus a few split digits, as though a new tip grew next to a partially severed one. Painted in ArtRage in 30 minutes.  Still learning to speedpaint digitally: I didn't expect the "glitter" setting to make that much texture under the other layers of paint.

Cross-posted on my blog.

Panda Dating

My ask a biologist paint is on the question of panda sex by Nick. I went a bit over. Spent about 40 minutes, including getting caught up in the idea of that dating advice pamphlet on the floor. A panda dating advisor from "askAbiologist".

Bear V. Shark V. Eagle speed-paint!

Yesterday morning, Dave Maas invited the Art Evolved crew to a Speed Paint challenge, based on questions posed to the extremely useful (and oftentimes unintentionally amusing) website Ask a Biologist. For the unfamiliar, a Speed-Paint is a quick digital (or not) painting finished within a half-hour or less.

For this week's game, I chose this question, because who could resist? "Who would win, a harpy eagle or a grizzly bear?" With this question for the ages and the memory of an excellent satirical book that is more than a little tangentially related in mind, I spent twenty minutes on this:



I will confess I cheated a tiny bit: I just had to double-check on what a Harpy eagle looks like. Wound up mostly going from my memory anyway.

(NOTE: Simulposted at my blog. Also, I apologize for the hugeness; I have since re-sized it. Hopefully, you can click it to see the big version.)