We also have a huge range of drop in art activities, displays, and some truly incredible colouring sheets from @tetzoo.bsky.social @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social @saralutra.bsky.social @gaffamondo.bsky.social and more!! Such a fantastic way to get creative or just chill down after a busy day! 🦖

These absolutely brilliant colouring sheets are part of the art activities at next weekends @dinoconuk.bsky.social found in our creative space to relax, inspire, or chill out. Thanks to incredible @saralutra.bsky.social and the ever lovely @gaffamondo.bsky.social 🏴‍☠️🖤🦖

Never forget

So very close to walking out on my job.

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

Sheep don't only devastate ecosystems by eating all tree seedlings and other diverse wild flora, they trample and consume the eggs of ground-nesting birds like curlew. Time to give farmers the option of being paid for NOT farming, ie rewilding. youtu.be/6NMHMpuREaw?...

#ArtBoost today is for Firda Assoy aka firdassoy, of mysterious position about the globe, who produces beautiful, complex, colourful images showing #dinosaurs #pterosaurs #marinemammals #fossilfish and more. Main gallery is on Instagram. Real #palaeoart champion, love the work! Not sure if on BSky.

Now at over 4,000 signatures. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

How did they go from a reasonable design in #JurassicPark3 to the absolute disaster in #JurassicWorldRebirth? Anyway, #Spinosaurus is trending again. . #JurassicPark #dinosaur #theropod #palaeontology #paleontology #paleoart #palaeoart #illustration

Packing up to move house, and classic wooden #Tyrannosaurus kit emerges from the half-finished V1 model and the cobwebs...

Think of all the artists who just post commissions. That's all they ever have time for. You don't know what they like or who their OCs are because they're always working. throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.

A bit of #specevo, showing a giant land #penguin going at an acacia. Uses its immense frame to down trees for its chicks. . #dinosaur #theropod #speculativeevolution #sciart #illustration #bird #ornithology

#Pride flag #Spinosaurus I did for a Pride exhibition at #HiveArts, #Blackpool – a last-minute piece to plug a gap on the night. (It’s actually repurposed from a ‘your ad here’ sign. . #sciart #dinosaur #theropod

A photo of my Granddad in his flying gear in the early ‘30s and my 13yo daughter at the IBCC in Lincoln.

Recent unsealed internal messages from Facebook expose FB 100% knew they trained their GenAi on stolen works. It also shows how concerned FB is that lawmakers listen to rightholders (creatives, academics, etc) of the works they stole. Never stop calling GenAi what it is: Theft!

For #museumselfieday: Andy Brain (@bewaretheradio.bsky.social) and me at Preston’s Harris Museum, running a #poetry and #illustration workshop in support of our 2019 edition of Vincent Cartwright Vickers’s #TheGoogleBook. #sciart

Playing around with an idea for a #comic. The proliferation of AI makes me want to do all of it traditionally.

My grandparents had this back in '85. The idea of pterosaurs existing in my lifetime (the radio-controlled Pteranodon was pretty convincing to nearly-five-year-old me) blew me away. #pterosaur #dimorphodon #pteranodon #palaeontology #paleontology #bbc #davidattenborough #sciart

Republicans are continuing their push to sort everyone by sex assigned at birth and erase trans people. Their focus on enforcing a strict, unchangable binary is an effort to prevent anyone from seeing the further cruelty they intend on. If we don’t legally exist, who is going to notice what happens?

The set I made with Alice for the cover of my #illustration book, ‘A Disarray Of #Palaeoart’ (available via Lulu). . #sciart #scientificillustration #paleoart #ichthyosaur #palaeontology #paleontology #art

One of the earliest surviving drawings by me – and it’s not a dinosaur! Sketched on tissue paper when I was 4 in 1984, presumably of an #AvroLancaster. (A few of my family served in the RAF, so I was surrounded by #aviationart.) Grateful to my grandmother for hanging on to this. #art #illustration

Responding to a ‘draw a peacock’ prompt (not a recent one). Apparently, she (my lovely wife) wanted a serious natural history illustration. . #peafowl #peacock #illustration #sciart

Some social media graphics and #illustration work from Christmas and New Year, for #TheGoogleBookProject and #StarWarsMeetUpNiamos respectively. . #starwars #thegooglebook

If you see this, post a dino: Anatotitan (?) diorama from the Liverpool World Museum.

NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵

It’s a kinda-Anomalocaris kinda day. #sciart #burgessshale #cambrian #palaeoart #paleoart #palaeontology #paleotology

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

Nnng. The realisation that it’s nearly a year since I gave myself a year to get out of my current job. 😭

If you don't want elves on your shelves, get a house cat. And a mop.

Rest easy, #Stegosaurus. You’ve had a busy day. . #dinosaur #illustration #cartoon #sketch #doodle #palaeoart #paleoart #palaeontology #paleontology

BLOCK THIS ACCOUNT!!!

A bit of ink practice. Picked up some #Pentel JM20 fountain pens which are good for scratchy line work. Can’t say I liked them for this exercise. Not bad for inking text. Most of this is #UniPin. . #waroftheworlds #hgwells #illustration #scifi #sciencefiction #jeffwayne

#WarOfTheWorlds makes me happy, despite depicting a rough time for humans. Here's some tripods, all facing the same direction (maybe cos I'm L-handed?). . #hgwells #illustration #Mars #Martian #scifi #sciencefiction #georgepal #StevenSpielberg #steampunk #jeffwayne

#throwbackthursday A #Nyctosaurus I painted a free years back. Gouache on paper. . #pterosaur #palaeontology #palaeontology #palaeoart #paleoart #illustration #sciart #scientificandnaturalhistoryillustration

#PostABunny… I did this one when an account I follow forgot to post an image with its accompanying text, so I tried to guess what it would look like from the description. Can’t remember how close I got, but I quite liked the result.

We recently shared Bluesky’s stance on user data and AI training, which has not changed. Bluesky will not train generative AI on user data. bsky.app/profile/bsky...

Amazing fossil alert. Jurassic salamander from China. You can see the soft tissue of the eye, gills, limbs, even the folds of its tail. And its last meal its stomach… 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

A customer just told me that the economy is going wrong, the government, asylum seekers, the WiFi – AND ME!!!

Process for my cover of MedMaster's "Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple" textbook from a couple years ago. Really enjoyed inking the nerves in negative on this one. #sciart Check out their new website, I did most of the illustrations on there too: medmaster.net

Some digital illustrations I did few years back, looking at #ichthyosaur, #cetacean and #chondrichthyan tails, with a view to reconstructing ichthyosaurs more accurately (i.e., not too skinny). . #illustration #palaeoart #paleoart #paleontology #palaeontology #marinebiology #anatomy #zoology #SciArt

A #Tyrannosaurus hanging of #BlackpoolTower. (#KingKong screenwriter #EdgarWallace stood as a Liberal in #Blackpool, England during the 1931 general election; when this failed he moved to the States and worked for #RKO as a scriptwriter and wrote an early draft of KK. . #dinosaur #art #illustration

Me at Sci-fi Weekender In The City (of Sheffield) a few years back. (Sorry to say I don’t know who the photographer was.) I rarely look this good. . #doctorwho #drwho #cyberman #tenthplanet #scifi #bbc #sciencefiction

Whenever I feel stupid, I think back to my manager, during the main thrust of COVID, telling visiting engineers that they didn’t need to wear masks in our building because, “you’re in our bubble now.”

#throwbackthursday #theropodthursday Some old sketches… plus #mosasaur & #ichthyosaur bits. . #SciArt #palaeoart 🐡 #paleoart #palaeontology #paleontology #dinosaur #dromaeosaur #illustration

Thrilled to share: out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social (!) just in time for Thanksgiving, the dinosaurian history of how your turkey does the twist. Fibular reduction enabled mid-drumstick mobility, unlocking extreme knee long-axis rotation in theropods 🍗🦖🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08251-w

Playing around with cartoonifying a #Velociraptor. Pretty pleased with it. Had thought about developing it into something, but other things came up. . #dinosaur #dromaeosaur #paleoart #palaeoart #palaeontology #paleontology #comic #cartoon #theropod #SciArt 🐡 #illustration

It's #OldWorkWednesday. Post your old stuff with the hashtag. (10/2022) A bit of #specevo: a giant future-penguin, converging with #plesiosaurs. . Pencil + gouache. . #plesiosaur #evolution #penguin #ave #bird #ornithology #illustration #marinereptile #sketch #doodle #pencilsketch #SciArt 🐡

My #droid ice-cream design for next year's #StarWars Meet-Up at the #Andor shooting location in #Cleveleys, Lancashire. Each year gets a new 99. (Ink, digital.) . #illustration #scifi #fyldecoast #mangastudio.

Another one from the vaults. I do not remember why I did this. . #herpetology #snake #cartoon

One from the vaults... I dunno, I just really like this #Nyctosaurus #sketch. He's got some character. . #pterosaur #mesozoic #palaeontology #paleontology #palaeoart #paleoart #illustration