Super-fast FAQ.
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Are you a Metalhead? YES! A Furry? NO! The ears are a joke.
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How do you work?
Painting in layers with photoshop and Krita. Over the recent years, I've based Palaeontological work carefully on scientific studies and reputable skeleton reconstructions (eg Scott Hartman), and using a custom ruler tool scaled to meters and measured against individual bones or segments. Also of course, lots of scientific articles, often directly testing for size. My older Palaeo art is just eyeballed (with surprising precision I am proud to say) but lacking scientific research.
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I noticed something incorrect- mind if I let you know?
Please do! That said, the source you use makes a world of difference.. like the difference between Siverson getting upset I wasn't convinced his top-secret 20 meter Megalodon skeleton existed, all the way up to Ovleg convincing me to make a new 18m Megalodon size chart based on his scientific study (Leder, Perez and Badaut, 2016).
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Image usage? Can I link-to/use your images?
Feel free to ask- my answer will probably be "yes"!
I've actually had my images published in books by Penguin, and taken commissions for Ken Derby in the past too (and this is back when I was strapped for time).
We now know what Ptychodus really looked like.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/24/scientists-finally-learn-what-giant-prehistoric-shark-ptychodus-looked-like
Jeez look at this this asshole is mental
Damn something set this guy off- I feel like there's an interesting backstory for this screencap.
Ikr, and he literary spammed trash words to me and made fun of my artwork
like seriously that’s just ridiculous what did I ever do to him 😐
Hmmm, I reckon something you said must have set him off. It could have been as simple as a statement or one of the animals you depicted didn't line up to his expectations maybe? I wouldn't sweat it to be honest.
so good to see you my dear dude buddy.
Hey, letting you know that I'm nearly done with my new manuscript on the size variation for other cetaceans. Probably gonna submit it by mid-November if you have any questions, let me know.