iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬ ‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"If the Big 4 does not survive this, it also spells the death knell for most printed sewing patterns like ours, since there will no longer be a printer capable of producing large-scale tissue sheets." I … did not know I should be worried I might not be able to get patterns ever again

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DILONG @dilong96.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

DO NOT BUY JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 3 They’re using ai generation in their game, boycott this shit and force their hand to remove this garbage from their game entirely. store.steampowered.com/app/2958130/...

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27/05/2025

They used to make commercials about this

You wouldn't download everything every artist has ever made and put it into environmental destruction clippy, in the you wouldn't download a car meme format

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Great Blue Heron Inkwash, watercolor, gouache #birds #art #wildlifeart

Watercolor painting of a great blue heron standing in shallow water, underneath branches of live oaks.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in inkwash 4x6" #birds #wildlifeart #art

A grayscale painting of three whistling ducks.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A mother unenlagiine hunts in shallow waters, followed by her three chicks. Watercolor and white ink. #paleoart #sciart

A long, horizontal watercolor painting. The painting is mostly green and gray. Seen from below, looking up through the water, an adult unenlagiine picks a mollusk up from the riverbed. Behind her, her three chicks swim, chasing after minnows. Near her foot is a salamander trying to stay inconspicuous.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It would be great if my pets would stop dying or having medical crises one after another. Awesome, even.

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Holly @sparrowlucero.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

some how to train your dragon stuff

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Crustaceans abandoning their more familiar (to us) forms and becoming messed-up parasites is peak body horror to me. Cronenberg eat your heart out, dendrogaster exists

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Tiffany Baxter - MCM London F-19 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Btw artists if you want to help combat AI slop sneaking into your research I am begging you to STOP relying on Pinterest for reference gathering. Familiarise yourself with the free online collections of museums of which there are several and how to search them effectively

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hey everyone! I'm open to #paleoart work! Realism (with a painterly touch), cartoons, anything in between. Reconstructions, illustrations, fine art. (possible painting sizes anywhere from 5x7" to 16x20", 350dpi scans) Some more examples and information on availability in the replies! #sciart #art

A painting of an Ichthyosaur in watercolor and ink

A collection of paintings in water media: a pair of Hatzegopteryx on the beach, two Daspletosaurus competing for food, a deceased Microraptor lying among gingko leaves, and a Spinosaurus swimming seen from below.

A collection of paintings and drawings: A graphite bust of Deinocheirus, an oil painting of Microraptor, an ink painting of two Velociraptor, and a watercolor painting of two Kulindadromeus.

A collection of cartoon digital drawings: Kulindadromeus, a Mosasaur, and a Microraptor eating chips out of a bag like a modern-day blackbird.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

the eternal struggle with doing a webcomic: trying to balance "I'm only human, let's not torture myself with drawing something complicated" with "don't be a fucking coward and do the cool shit"

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas, everyone! And happy holidays!

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Parasaurolophus I salvaged from a basic dinosaur origami tutorial I messed up almost immediately Merry Christmas!!

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Found this unfinished Microraptor drawing. Might turn it into something

An unfinished drawing of a Microraptor. Its wings are semi-folded, and it looks over its shoulder.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#commission for @fairyshotgun.bsky.social ! Had a ton of fun with this. Such a great design for really leaning into the heavy spot-blacks on the lineart.

Illustration of a fantasy character reaching toward the camera with their hand wreathed in blue-green flame. The character wears a hooded capelet, within which their face is two glowing eyes and a sharp, pointed grin. Below the capelet their torso is an exaggerated ribcage with a blue-green light at its core. They wear a belt made of bony, diamond-shaped plates.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

"This Will Matter" 7x8.5", ink, watercolor, colored pencil. 2024.

Paleoart of a deceased Microraptor zhaoianus nestled in fallen gingko leaves. Painted in watercolor and colored pencil, the Microraptor is iridescent blue-green and purple; the leaves behind are a vibrant warm green. A bright white halo rings the Microraptor's head.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

*Will Smith poses at my little digital cartoons* As the holidays roll around these make great gifts for people with specific favorite dinosaurs, creature OCs, pets, etc. Starting at $40 USD; each additional one is 25% off ($30/each). ~1 week turnaround. Multiple slots open. #commissions

A cartoon drawing of the pterosaur Dearc Sgiathanach in flight against a gray background. The pterosaur has a blue body wirh orange wings.

Three cartoon digital drawings: A gray and red Kulindadromeus, an iridescent black Microraptor eating a bag of chips, and a blue and gray Mosasaur

A cartoon drawing of a blue-green Anurognathus. Its eyes are pink, with wide round pupils and exaggerated highlights to emphasize its cuteness.

Cute cartoon of a black long-furred cat with orange eyes, with a vacant stare and its tongue out in a 'blep'. It's wearing an orange witch hat with a lighter orange patch.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I also do fantasy artwork! Need a token for your ttrpg? I'm your gal. (And while I'm here--I write a webcomic! It's a sci-fi called Falling Leaves with characters/settings based on cells and their molecules. Read for free at www.fallingleavescomic.com and on comicfury and webtoon canvas!)

A painting of a rabbit leaping, with the sun forming a halo behind him. From the right emerges an amalgamation of wings and snapping skeletal canine teeth. The painting is based on the opening mythos of the novel Watership Down: The Prince With a Thousand Enemies.

A dragon boss token designed and drawn for a homebrew dungeons and dragons campaign I was in at the time. It's snakelike, with three pairs of legs (two of them arms) and has the wings of a luna moth. It holds an energy orb that gives off a trail of smoke.

A digital piece. Ninea, the protagonist of my webcomic Falling Leaves, stands on a plane of pink glass beneath a sky full of stars and blue-green clouds. Below her, the glass is cracking. She is an alien species created for the comic: she is humanoid, green, with clawed feet and a tail, with frills on her tail, shoulders, and head. She wears a simple gray tunic and pants, and a flowing gray scarf.

A page from my webcomic Falling Leaves. In it, a group of unknown soldiers runs past a defeated mech (shaped, broadly, like a paper nautilus's "shell") and toward a long winding staircase down into a hole in the planet flanked with concrete and metal struts. Dialogue indicates that they have breached the planet's Nucleus.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I have some ongoing projects at the moment as well, so I'm open to probably one painting at a time (with the exception of the simple digital cartoons.) DM me or email me at dani.mays.art@gmail.com to inquire for details and pricing!

Business card illustration for Matthew S. depicting a red T. Rex as a games producer, with formatting like the king of hearts playing card.

A digital sketch of Jormungandr walhallensis diving into the sea

A pen-and-ink timelapse comic of a fox decomposing

Two cartoon velociraptors drawn for Lindsay Haddon. They're both smiling, one facing left the other facing right. One is beige and blue, the other is gray and tan.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

New to the internet #paleoart: "Ubirajara jubatus", the strangely filamented Brazilian compsognathid famous for its history as an illegally exported fossil. Here, it's signalling to us with colourful mouthparts and a fetching bower of twigs and pinecones. Drawn for @palaeogames.bsky.social.

A small bipedal dinosaur hunches over a dead branch against an arid, parched landscape. The dinosaur has yellow-orange quills over its back, face and tail, with paler legs and facial ruff. The snout is blue and the interior of the mouth yellow. Stiffened quills project upward from the shoulders. A collection of twigs and pinecones at the base of the image represents a bowerbird-like display structure.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 09/12/2024

Indie devs and a major game storefront losing revenue because Funko used an AI tool to confuse a domain registrar that has no appeals process is a very 2024 enshittification stew

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Working my way through my WIP drawer a bit before starting something totally new

WIP of an oil painting of a Deinonychus. The Deinonychus is underpainted in reddish brown; some foliage is blocked in behind it in greens and browns.

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Watching some landscape oil painting timelapses makes me kind of want to do another hell creek painting in oils. The last one I did was in 2022, it was my second ever oil painting, time to approach the concept again.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If you see this, post a Dino

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Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If you see this, post a Dino … or four

Stegosaurus in a dark Jurassic forest with three small Hesperornithoides next to it, climbing a tree

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

If you see this, post a dino 🦖

A watercolor painting of a deceased microraptor, iridescent blue-green-to-purple, resting in a bright green bed of gingko leaves. It has a thin white halo behind its head.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

the instant and society-wide push to generative AI has been extremely instructive to show that the CEOs of every single corporation and institution spend every day extremely furious that they have to pay people anything at all to extract value from them

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Nathan Miller Fine Art @nathanmillerartist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Spoonbill in Flight 16” x 20” Acrylic on Panel #spoonbill #birdart #wildlifeart

A painting of a roseate spoonbill flying next to a palm tree.

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Watercolor of a pair of the small bristled dinosaur, Tianyulong. I didn’t make up the arrangement of those feathers. This Dino is known from more than one beautifully preserved specimens. #sciart #paleoart

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Black Friday? Black Sicklebill! This is one of the cards in the #boardgame Birdwatcher. These strange birds have long spoon-shaped feathers hanging off their shoulders which are *not* the wings - these can be folded to convert the bird into his strange display shape 🎨🪶🐡 see reply for video!

Illustration of a Black Sicklebill, a large black bird of paradise with a reflective turquoise patch on his back, red eyes, and a very long tail. The strangest feature are the wide rounded feathers that cascade past his shoulders, for use in display, but here they are folded in a resting position.

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Dr Nathan Barling @palaeogames.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We're delighted to announce today that our next book will be coming to Kickstarter early next year. Professor Primula's Portfolio of Palaeontology is the sequel book to Dr Dhrolin's Dictionary of Dinosaurs, expanding on the same topics. Expect dinos, mammals, and more! #dnd #dnd5e #dinosaur #scicomm

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Sophie M. @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Velociraptor wasn’t terribly popular in art until Jurassic Park made it a household name, but there are a few notable pieces from the 80s and early 90s that predate that explosion in popularity. Here’s a few of my favourites! (By Mark Hallett, Wayne Barlowe, Greg Paul, and Douglas Henderson)

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Joschua Knüppe @joschuaknuppe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

All the dragons from the HTTYD stream. Detailed images below... 🧵 #paleostream #specevo #creaturedesign #sketches

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Sketching along so far with the #paleostream How to Train your Dragon stream, reimagining some of the HTTYD dragons. (Mine lean less into realism but c'est la vie) I've loved HTTYD since childhood--this has been fun! So far: Whispering Death, Rumblehorn, Nadder, Razorwhip.

A reimagining of the Whispering Death from How to Train your Dragon, as a stocky lizard-like dragon with large blank eyes, small wings and legs, spines along its head and tail, and a large fleshy nose. Its teeth face inward, and when it opens its mouth it stretches to the side and exposes bright green oral tissue. The dragon is blue-green and green; its nose and spines are red.

Reimagining of the Rumblehorn from How to Train your Dragon. It's a large, stocky dragon, with small, short, lizardlike legs and a short tail. It's predominantly green, with red spines on its upper limbs and tail. Much of its back and stomach are covered in lighter green armored scutes. Its head is red, with golden antlers and insect-like mandibles. It has three sets of wings; the first is green with a red underside, forming an elytra of sorts. The second two are bright golden, and merge into the same set of membrane, forming a shape resembling a beetle's wings.

Reimagining of the Deadly Nadder from How to Train your Dragon. It's a slender, theropod-like dragon, covered in feathers, with membranous wings. Its face is a blunt beak with a large horn, fleshy wattles, and yellow eyes. Its legs feature a fan of feathers, and its tail has long feathery structures that it's capable of kicking in a tarantula-esque fashion. It's predominantly blue, with a tan belly and feathers, and yellow wings.

Reimagining of the razorwhip dragon from How to Train your Dragon. It's metallic silver throughout, with a long neck and large head, with an arcing horn over the nose. Its back is covered in plates, its chest is covered in spines. It has large membranous wings, and an incredibly long whiplike tail with an elaborate, spiky thagomizer at the end.

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Isopod Fan Account @bedupolker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Contrary to popular belief, there are only four kinds of bats.

Illustrated image divided into four panels, each showing a head of a bat with a text label. Top left: little guy, a regular looking back with a dark face and light colored fur, top right: little guy deluxe, a bat with a mask and large ears alongside a bat with a leaf shaped nose, bottom left: what is even going on here, a visored bat with a large forehead next to a bat with a large, wrinkly nose, bottom right: o hi doggie, a fruit bat with its tongue sticking out.

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Ami Thompson @amithompson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The lord of The rings - Eowyn

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modmad @modmad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Jumping on this cool hashtag #meetthewebcomic my comic is called The Property of Hate! #TPoH is the tag I use for it - This story possessed me 12 years ago and I am stuck making it until it is finished or I die - I Truly Have No Idea what Genre It Is - jolleycomics.com/TPoH/The_Hoo... - enjoy?!

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

'I'm Nobody' Kulindadromeus and Unicorn (With Emily Dickinson) Pencil on Moleskine sketchbook paper, 208 × 125 mm. A good reminder to myself, too, whenever I start feeling ill used by the vagaries of social media. 🥲 Original artwork available at auction. 🙏 www.facebook.com/share/p/1D6j...

Pencil drawing of a Kulindadromeus looking quizzically up at a unicorn, who looks down with a gentle, melancholy expression. The drawing is accompanied by Emily Dickinson's lyric verse, written in a cursive hand:

'I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!'

Kulindadromeus is a small, herbivorous neornithischian dinosaur from the middle Jurassic. It's almost wholly covered in feather-like integument, excepting its scaly tail, limb extremities, and snout. Its overall appearance might be playfully described as a kind of bird-lizard-wallaby.

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Ania Mohrbacher @aniamohrbacher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The painting that I’m most proud of this year!

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Dani Mays @danimays.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

If you see this, post a bird 🐦

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