Just 3 days ago @restingdinoface.bsky.social was all 🤐 about me working on some pieces for Tyrant Lizard Queen, but since she name dropped me today I guess the cat’s out of the bag.

I jury-rigged a little turntable and attached a piece of twine (James Gurney style) to film a turn around video of my Parasaurolophus sculpture. Ignore the crudity of the setup, I was just dinking around. Enjoy.

Hey there followers. USPS has announced an 8% increase in shipping rates starting on April 26th. So if you want something from my store, I'd advise doing it sooner rather than later before I'm also forced to increase my rates. Sticker shipping $1 Print shipping $10 www.emmalerae.com/store.html

I was asked what I use to render scales. I layer the default splatter airbrushes in CSP and then pull out a few scales here and there to highlight texture changes and then add wrinkles and colors. I made a little guide to show what each brush looks like. Always feel free to ask questions.

I was asked what I use to render scales. I layer the default splatter airbrushes in CSP and then pull out a few scales here and there to highlight texture changes and then add wrinkles and colors. I made a little guide to show what each brush looks like. Always feel free to ask questions.

Hey there followers. USPS has announced an 8% increase in shipping rates starting on April 26th. So if you want something from my store, I'd advise doing it sooner rather than later before I'm also forced to increase my rates. Sticker shipping $1 Print shipping $10 www.emmalerae.com/store.html

My wife is out of town again, so I’m watching movies she has no interest in watching. Tonight I finally watched Godzilla Minus One.

Back in 2022 I was inspired by the book "The Last Days of the Dinosaurs" by @restingdinoface.bsky.social to trek from my mossy cave in the PNW to touch the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in Colorado. A moment, marked geologically in time, when the non-avian dinosaurs were murdered by space.

I jury-rigged a little turntable and attached a piece of twine (James Gurney style) to film a turn around video of my Parasaurolophus sculpture. Ignore the crudity of the setup, I was just dinking around. Enjoy.

The majority of history, work, the world in general, is just people doing stupid stuff for stupid men.

It’s a smell I also love, but quite different than a new book. A new book smells of possibilities, an old book smells of well worn murky paths through the woods.

There’s nothing like the smell of a new book.

NASA has really given me a glimmer of optimism in just an absolute cavalcade of horrendous events.

My passport application was paused until I sent a copy of my birth certificate. Both my previous passport and birth certificate are marked with an F. I got my new passport Friday with an M on it as well as this. If you weren't going to use the documents I sent in, why ask for them at all?

Emma, how long have you been working on your sci-fi story? I present its physical manifestation before I started using Scrivener and Clip Studio. Over 20 years of doodles, notes, short stories, characters, and miscellany. 14 years ago I planned to do something with it, but life happened. Soon!

Also happy first contact day. (If only)

Obligatory Easter post.

I’ve done a lot of conventions at this point and many of them designate certain bathrooms as all gender restrooms. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a non queer man in one. It sure seems like men would rather seek out a mens only bathroom than pee in a bathroom with women and queer people. So manly.

Just a reminder where I’ll be all weekend.

While I was falling asleep last night my brain was like “coffee is just a form of herbal tea.” Thanks brain.

I’m so excited for this! I love Riley’s writing and it’s always inspiring.

I take commissions with folks that I trust to nurture my creative spark, and maybe even fan it into a flame.

I'll be at Norwescon from April 2-5 in Seatac, Wa. This will be my last convention until June. I'll be working on some commission work and my sci-fi story until then. I may also start poking at a dinosaur comic. I want to alter my focus and start working on zines and narrative stuff.

Hell yeah, go for launch!!!

Here are my signs for when I need to go leave my booth when I'm at conventions. A Styracosaurus peeing and a Pachyrhinosaurus eating. I decided to update the Styracosaurus drawing because I drew the original very quickly and knew if I gave it a little more attention I could fix the wonky areas.

After this weekend I felt the sign I put out when I go to the bathroom needed a flip side for when I go find food. (Though it's real tempting to make it pooping)

I waited 4 years for this punk bird of paradise to bloom and it naturally happened while I was out of town. But Emma that’s how you get Scarrans! You mean the evil bondage lizard aliens from Farscape… … … Why would I ever want Scarrans 😬 Yes, I made a Farscape joke in 2026. FARSCAPE FOREVER!!

Emma, how tired were you when you finally got back home from the convention after a delayed flight? I was so excited to use my own moisturizer that I sang the word moisturizer to the Dinosausers theme music.

I’ve worked for companies, but never in a capacity where using my art to make a product. My creative spark is so fragile that using it in a capacity beyond my own endeavors would snuff it out. So when my art gets stolen it’s demoralizing beyond measure. It’s why I rarely do commissions as well.

Just to reiterate this: I have never licensed out my work, or worked for any companies. So if you see my artwork beyond my website or my Threadless store being sold, then it was stolen. I always appreciate the eagle eyed folks that tell me about them.

I discovered once again that geocuriosity is selling rip off AI versions of my art on shirts again. I’m real sick of this shit.

Be safe out there today. No kings!

Hi, I’m Emma, an illustrator, comic artist, and sculptor with a propensity for drawing dinosaurs, monsters, aliens, and spaceships, but especially dinosaurs. I'm working on a sci-fi story with all of the above. Except dinosaurs, oddly no dinosaurs.

Each time I poke at this it gets more bisexual.

Bird ownership is just like having toddlers that egg each other on to do crime. Except the toddlers are small, can fly, and have can openers on their heads.

My humble beginnings doing conventions with my first ECCC booth in December of 2021 and my booth at the most recent ECCC in 2026. I've come a long way in a little over 4 years. Here's to the beginning of my 5th year of conventions!

I sold out of my newest print at ECCC despite my best efforts of printing more every night. But they are available on my website.

I did it!!!! I finished this illustration just in time for ECCC. If you can't make it to the show and want to snag a copy for yourself it's in my store: www.emmalerae.com/store.html Sadly because I injured my arm due to being middle aged, I didn't finish the stargazer piece. :( But soon...

I did it!!!! I finished this illustration just in time for ECCC. If you can't make it to the show and want to snag a copy for yourself it's in my store: www.emmalerae.com/store.html Sadly because I injured my arm due to being middle aged, I didn't finish the stargazer piece. :( But soon...

Taps the sign yet again.

I swear I haven't abandoned this piece. Did I start working on it again to avoid working on the plants and landscape in the Triceratops panorama piece? Who can say...

Crush Your Oppressors More angry art and then back to my serene piece. You can now order prints, stickers, and apparel at the usual haunts. Prints and Stickers: www.emmalerae.com/store.html Apparel: emmalerae.threadless.com

Working on updating my displays for the Dinosaurs Survived! stickers and I could only think of one thing when setting this up.

A doodle apropos of nothing in particular.