Some cool early christmas presents are here finally. Spinosaur tales by @davehone.bsky.social and @markwitton.bsky.social , Mesozoic art II by @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social

Pen&ink spot illustrations for forthcoming shark book (due next year). - Cretalamna & Dasornis - Cretoxyrhina & elasmosaurs - Helicoprion & ctenacanthid Originals available. DM if you're interested.

We had a fun, extremely busy signing for BATTLE ACTION at @forbidden-planet.bsky.social London on Saturday with Garth Ennis, @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social @gronbekk.bsky.social Keith Burns & @johnmccrea.bsky.social youtu.be/SlF21wsFVLY?...

Spinosaurus rough-housing with the lamnid shark, Cretalamna, Bahariya Formation. Pen and inks for shark book out next year. Been a quiet year in terms of social media as the shark book has dominated my time so not had much to post but looking forward to flexing my creative muscles next year.

THIS WEEKEND! Forbidden Planet's Big Xmas Gathering celebrates Battle Action, as Garth Ennis, Keith Burns, @robwilliams71.bsky.social, @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social & @gronbekk.bsky.social will all be signing at the London Megastore from 2pm-3pm! https://bit.ly/4iFJbXY

I'm doing my part:

Spotted all the way over in Hong Kong!

Picked this up from @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social at Thought Bubble and it’s excellent. Digging (biting?) into the dark reality of what happened to Quint’s USS Indianapolis. Very recommended. Churchill apparently declared that the British Government was ‘entirely opposed to sharks.’

I missed Godzilla's birthday! Best wishes, bud!

Had a great time doing this!

Bug Hunt A3 private commission

What is #PALAEOART / #PALEOART looking like in 2025? Buy the spectacular #MesozoicArtII - published by @chiffchat.bsky.social, edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and I - now. Info and links... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

Got around to framing up this awesome @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social Transformers piece that I commissioned a while back, Steve’s been involved in two of my childhood passions via Transformers and Dinosaurs, so it’s a real honour to have original art by a legend in the industry. Such a talent!

Mesozoic Art II was delivered today. What an amazing book @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social ! tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/... #paleoart #art #dinosaurs

Very excited to find the advent calender with my NHM artwork already in our local Marks 'n' Sparks! Had to buy one even if it was just for the cool cutouts on the back! Now I'll be able to act out the classic T.rex v Trike confrontation!

Just discovered that the retro dinosaur artwork I did for the Natural History Museum recently is going to be featured on a 2026 calendar! Is also on a M&S advent calendar!

I see what you did there...

The Treasury of British Comics Annual is out on the 12th November, featuring IMAGINE IF GUMS WAS PUBLISHED IN ACTION... 📝 Script: @nedhartley.com ✏️ Pencils: @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social 🗨️ Letters: Jonathan Stevenson Available to pre-order now: bit.ly/44E9Eib

Happy birthday to Mesozoic Art v.2 - on sale today from Bloomsbury Wildlife! As fine a collection of modern palaeoart as could be - 25 artists across 250 pages. Darren Naish and I could not be more proud. Available from Bloomsbury and all other fine booksellers! Volume one is still available!

Our new book, THE SECRET LIVES OF DINOSAURS, is out today! Written by Dr Dean Lomax & 49 full-colour illustrations from me – you can buy it on Amazon or from the publisher (link in bio). The fossils in this book will blow your mind! #SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #WildlifeArt #JurassicWorld

Mesozoic Art II - edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and myself and featuring the incredible work of 25 cutting-edge palaeoartists - is out in just a few days. The ultimate must-have book on modern #palaeoart / #paleoart. Buy yours now ... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #books #dinosaurs

La "#Dinosaur Collection" del Natural History Museum (@nhm-london.bsky.social) ilustrada por Steve White (@sharkbitesteve.bsky.social): ▶️ koprolitos.blogspot.com/2025/09/la-d... #dinosaurs #tshirts #illustration

A new piece of an old piece. Of the dozen or so Magic: The Gathering cards I did, the pygmy hippo is apparently the rarest, and the original art is long gone. I was, however, commissioned to do a new version. This meant gridding up a card to reconstruct the new version as accurately as possible.

Spinosaur v Sarcosuchus A4 private commission intended (apparently) to be turned into a tattoo. The client requested gore and a nod to the JP3 Spinosaurus.

Emperor Hawk Moth 60th birthday present for my moth-loving sister (it's her favourite type). A3 mixed media on tan paper. Bit of a first for me and nice to be able to post some non-shark art.

A different form of dinosaur learning today: Study sketches from 2022's "Mesozoic Art," edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and @tetzoo.bsky.social. After looking at all these animatronics and museum mounts, I felt the need to stock my visual memory with some cutting-edge modern visualizations...

Panel discussion with @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social coming soon — discussing the book 'Mesozoic Art 2', the current state and future of palaeoart! 🦖🖼️ Joining them are some of today’s leading palaeoartists, like @zoctheartist, @clanaghan.bsky.social, and @gaelleseguillon. 1/2

Belantsea. A very weird cartilaginous fish from the Bear Gulch Formation. The candy-striped fish in the foreground are Aesopichthys, the others are Discoserra. The squid-like cephalopods are Syllipsimopodi. Another piece for the shark book. Thanks to the kittens for their help.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology... Zooms into Territory of the #Megalosaurus, from my section of Mesozoic Art II, edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social & @tetzoo.bsky.social, published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mesozoic-... #SciArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Jurassic

Enormous thank you to @tetzoo.bsky.social and @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social for inviting me, to stand among best of the best in the industry. What a diverse portfolio of people, talents and styles. 💜

Coming on 25th Sept... It really is beautiful. So proud.

Another shark piece. In heavy seas, a huge Cosmopolitodus bungles an attack on a family pod of the little baleen whale Piscobalena. Pisco Formation, Miocene Epoch. I've often wondered, on a piece like this, how many lines I do. I photographed the first makes made. 08.50 1st August.

T. rex v Trike This time, it's personal. A3 private commission Done this scene multiple times and it's a staple of palaeoart so it's hard to find something different. But kinda like it.

An article on the Natural History Museum's new range of retro dinosaur-themed items, featuring designs by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social, and with mention of Mesozoic Art II (out September)... downthetubes.net/natural-hist...

The Natural History Museum has launched “The Dinosaur Collection” in its web shop and at the Museum – and includes t-shirts comic creator Steve White created the retro dinosaurs for.

A little something I wrote recently in collaberation with Withnail Books and Amazing 15. This is very much a limited edition and can be ordered only from www.withnailbooks.com. Check out the link for details! If you're a #Jaws fan, you might enjoy it!

If Jaws is your thing there is no more shark-knowlegeable fan than @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and he's written a book about Quint and the USS Indianapolis. Go order at www.withnailbooks.com

Hadn't intended to post this but was pretty happy with the colours. A young Galeorhinus cuvieri picks an escort of the batfish, Eoplatax. Beneath are two moonfish, Mene, and the early marine snake Archaeophis. Bottom left is the weird tailless stingray Lessiniabatis. Eocene Bolca Formation, Italy

A little something arrived in the post today. Actually, it's a pretty sizeable something and hard to do a flip-through with one hand - but you'll hopefully get the gist. I think @Darren Naish and I can feel pretty pleased with how it looks and can't wait for it to be released into the wild!

Commission for the forthcoming Enniskillen Comic Fest this weekend - Satanus vs the Killdozer!

Thylacines. A3 private commission. A pair of Tasmanian wolves chase a pademelon (a sort of Tasmanian wallaby) My first time doing a thylacine. Definitely my first time going a pademelon.

Juvenile school shark Galeorhinus cuvieri and the weird ray-finned fish, Dibango hiding in a sea grass meadow. Early Eocene Bolca site, Italy. Another piece for the forthcoming shark book, this was inspired by a John Dory I saw during a dive I did years ago off the Dorset coast in south England.

Artbook sketch for buyer in New Zealand so inevitably had to do Death From Above - a Haast's eagle bowling over a moa. Books still available!

The success of #MesozoicArt made it inevitable that we'd do a follow-up. Mesozoic Art II - edited by @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social and myself, and bigger, better, with more art, more artists than the first - will appear in September 2025. Events to be announced :) #palaeoart #paleoart

Commissioned drawing for the forthcoming Enniskillen comicon - an Action Force Eel! I have fond memories of the Eels, especially what might have been Simon Furman's greatest line of dialogue - ever! Anyone else interested, DM me for details.

A young Ptychodus and trio of Pachyrhizodus enjoy a seasonal glut of Protostega hatchlings. My logic is that adult Ptychodus may have been too large to feed on little turtles but they would have been a useful periodic dietary supplement to juveniles.

The Fourth will be with you... I loved the final clash between Obi-Wan and Darth Maul. Always thought he would have given Maul a respectful send-off. I wanted to 'imagine' that scene, Kenobi on his dewback, looking back thoughtfully at the funeral pyre. This is colour pencils on A4 red paper.