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FOM: Varan (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of Varan; one of the most feared of the ancient Titans to the Kilaak Empire, Varan was one of three pseudo-saurian kaiju designated by them as "disaster gods", his vast wings were a shadow of death capable of bringing about a cataclysmic gale greater than any storm. Few kaiju can compare to Varan in terms of all-terrain mobility; a true triphibian, he is swift and agile on land, in the air, and underwater, as well as a surprisingly adept digger. 

His hide and wings ...

Serina: Thornslayer

You might recognize that thorngrazer, because that is the brontocorn because it ended up getting put into a standalone entry. This was how it was originally drawn back in February of 2022, as an unnamed prey of the large macropredatory carnackles shown here, huge descendants of the slayer carnackle from 290 MYH (called the dread carnackle, a name which should be familiar to anyone who saw the trunko family tree).

The carnackles were removed when it got timeshifted and t...

Serina: Snootbirds

Purely hypothetical illustrations of face-walking mitten descendants I drew back in 2017. The first depicts the generalized ancestor of the ones in the second illustration, which show a heavily-built grazer hunted by a pair of spider-like predatory forms. In the former, the feet have become purely display organs, while in the latter the legs have degenerated but the toes are elongated into spindly grasping organs.

Sheather did not like this idea.... but I still think it's good.... I int...

R'lyeh: Offal

Illustration of a bugbear eating a juvenile southern elephant seal I drew back in early 2018. The anatomy of the bugbear is a little wonky compared to how it is now, but it's overall still good.

Serina: Pom Pom Bird

A crude sketch I did back in, I think 2018, of some sort of aquatic metamorph bird that fed like a vampire shrimp, using long arms with brush-like filaments to catch plankton and stray organic particles in the water column.

The idea did eventually get used as the "fanfingers" in the "Ocean Age Avimanders" entry all the way into 2022. The idea definitely sat on the shelf for a very long time...

Remember the Alamo

An illustration of Tyrannosaurus feeding on a juvenile Alamosaurus I drew back in mid-2017. I don't remember if I actually ended up using this picture for anything, but I still really like it. There should be more depictions of tyrannosaurs hunting sauropods.

Bird Turtle

I drew this several years ago as a fan-made illustration for Serina as a hypothetical jellyfish-eating bloon(!). Yes, a bloon, so that should give you an idea how long ago that was. It didn't end up working out as a bloon because the spiky leatherback turtle-inspired mouth spikes were counterintuitive for a group of birds that hold their eggs in their throat.

Anyway, some time later Sheather asked if he could use the picture for a different group of marine birds called the burdles. I di...

Surviving Dinosaurs (2)

Several years ago, I was part of a collaborative no-K/Pg project; it didn't really have a name, but we called it Surviving Dinosaurs as a permanent placeholder title. Ironically, despite its title, the project did not survive and basically flopped due to lack of clear direction and personal conflicts between the project members. Alas, too grand of a vision it was.

Anyway, these are some of the concepts I illustrated for the project about a group of large, predatory, sabre-toothed pachyc...

Surviving Dinosaurs (1)

Several years ago, I was part of a collaborative no-K/Pg project; it didn't really have a name, but we called it Surviving Dinosaurs as a permanent placeholder title. Ironically, despite its title, the project did not survive and basically flopped due to lack of clear direction and personal conflicts between the project members. Alas, too grand of a vision it was.

Anyway, these are some of the concepts I illustrated for the project about a group of large, predatory, sabre-toothed pachyc...

Sharovipteryx Tribbethere

This was the original crude sketch I did back in April of 2020 that eventually became the tweezertoothed glider.

Serina: Ant Crab

A very rough sketch of an, admittedly silly, idea of a tiny crab which lived in shoggoth colonies as a specialized myrmecophile. It walks sideways, but manages to camouflage itself visually through holding up two of its legs to mimic antennae, while two extensions of the carapace mimic the head and abdomen. It's not a good disguise, but ants don't have good eyesight and use mostly smell to communicate so it's still good enough.

At the time I did not realize that true crabs did not live ...

Striders (WIP)

(FROM LEFT TO RIGHT)

Cave Strider, King Strider, Star Strider, Nebulous Strider

(Not Included Yet: Swamp Strider and Cuttlecrab)

Further information will be forthcoming when all six are illustrated.

Burgersdorp Formation

Another sketch I did for the Mesozoic graphic novel idea a long time ago, featuring Cynognathus (intended to be the main characters) and Kannemeyeria. This was meant to help establish the environment, although I never ended up colouring it.

The sketch is meant to show the arrival of the polar winter heralding the end of the prime feeding season. The herds of large herbivores are fleeing north, while smaller burrowing animals are preparing to hunker down in preparation ...

FOM: Mothra (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of Mothra; not much was changed honestly, although I retroactively ended up changing the wings in the final designs to be rounded instead of pointed to further differentiate them from her eventual male counterpart. The body also got a lot bulkier so that it would seem more plausible she could fight physically as well as with long-range attacks.

In case you're curious, the choice of a six-winged design in part comes from the long-extinct palaeodictyopteran insects of the ...

Serina: Generic Snoots

The art I did designing some hothouse snoots for the giant early hothouse panorama illustration Sheather did. I already showed this on a DeviantArt comment so this is just being reposted here for posterity. I drew this back in November of 2021 so that should give you an idea how long that panorama was in the making.

Just in case you're wondering, there was no further thought put into it beyond tropical-weather snoots and I never thought of a name for them. You can just barely see this e...

Erythrosuchus

A drawing I did in mid-2017 for a project that is in perpetual and glacial development. It's a graphic novel story with no words or narration set during the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, part of a series involving life in the Mesozoic Era. I always wanted to do a comic story like that, but the idea of actually sitting down and drawing a comic strip hurts me inside due to the amount of effort involved. Maybe one day...

Colouring it red was probably a little too on the nose though...

Serina: Hookjaw Carnackle

The initial illustration I did for the hookjaw carnackle back in January 2022. I planned it as a 290 MYH carnackle, but Sheather ended up using the idea for a 275 MYH species instead. The final design is more-or-less identical to how I drew it except the tail became a bit longer and Sheather gave it more personable eyes to help illustrate its intelligence.

The idea behind the design and ecology of the hookjaw carnackle was a spinosaur carnackle, even if the final idea was more "heron bu...

FOM: Gezora (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of Gezora; as you can tell, it changed very little between this and the final design. The main differences are that I removed the foot "pads" this one had because I found them visually distracting, and added the longer feeding tentacles.

Serina: Snurtle (Sketch)

A large, terrestrial gup descended from the sandlubber. It has re-evolved a hard, spiny shell to deter predation and is one of the largest terrestrial snarks to ever live thanks to its incredibly sturdy external and internal bony supports. Unlike real turtles, its limbs cannot retract, but they are covered in thick scutes that make them too tough for most predators to handle anyway.

Because it is too slow to catch most animals, it is primarily herbivorous, grazing continuously and indis...

The Mecha (WIP)

Picture of My Dog

This one is free because I think everyone should look at him. 

FOM: Baragon (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of Baragon; the biggest difference between this sketch and the final design is that I swapped the armadillo-like plates for pangolin-like scales, because I found the plates did not look as good when enlarged. Also her body got bigger in comparison to her head and her tail became a much more intimidating armoured, spiky club to help differentiate Baragon further. 

End of Serina

I did this dumb drawing back in May of 2022 for the conclusion of Eve and Fellstar's story arc. 

Sheather did not understand the reference, but at least most other people did.

Serina: Fellstar (Sketch)

Sketch of Fellstar I did back in April of 2022 when Sheather first purposed the idea (before the idea even had a name). The design is a bit more technologically primitive and clearly mechanical than the final design, partly because drawing machine stuff is a bit tough to do over and over so it was more convenient for him to draw it more organic and with few parts sticking out.

R'lyeh: Aent (Concept Art)

Drew this back in March of 2017, can't recall if I ever used it for anything. The species is still canon although I'm not sure how close the final version will look to this version.

This is a species of pararthropod planimal, part of a group known as the veggiewalkers, one of the largest species which remains semi-motile even in full maturity, although it moves very rarely due to its massive size, remaining stationary for months at a time. Its offspring are centipede-like in appearance....

FOM: Kumonga (Concept Art)

Coloured sketches of Kumonga; some of the earlier designs had features of other arachnid groups. The second sketch was one more closely based on a tailless whipscorpion, while the final design had more sunspider and mygalomorph inspirations, although with scorpion and uraraneid-like features. 

A mildly Interesting factoid is that Kumonga was actually one of the last kaiju designed for the project; originally, when the project was envisioned as being much shorter, she was just ...

Serina: Brontocorn

Drew this for a size chart, back when it was meant to live 290 MYH rather than 275 MYH. This species was created long before the hothouse thorngrazer radiation and the later dominance of skuorcs was thought up, so it ended up being shunted back when it became clear that it would not fit in the late hothouse ecosystem rather than being wasted. This drawing in particular ended up being used for the size silhouette in the entry. 

FOM: Mokele-Mbembe (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of the Mokele-Mbembe; this was done for the Goliath entry to visualize what M&M looks like neutrally in order to depict it in a dynamic angle.

An ancient mammalian hybrid, the Mokele-Mbembe likely originated as a pachyderm, either proboscid or rhinocerotoid, numerous atavistic mutations, giving it a long reptilian tail, scaly skin, and crocodile-like jaws filled with sharp, monodont teeth. It kaiju biology was further augmented over millennia by assimilation of flora...

FOM: Mokele-Mbembe (Sketch)

Rough sketches of the Mokele-Mbembe; depicted very closely as it was described in the KOTM novelization (although I ended up colouring it green rather than the grey it was described as).

Serina: Trunkos (Sketch)

This incredibly rough sketch done back in December 2020 is where the trunkos (still called neckbeards back then) came from. The initial concept, as you can plainly see, only involved five different species, and even then I didn't think I'd end up doing not only all five of them, but nearly triple that number in the initial batch. And then they ended up becoming one of the most successful groups of the Ultimocene just like that.

(A) Ziraphan
(B) Snoodswine
(C) Carnackle
(D) Boom...