tkarispe.creator-spring.com All tees in my store are now available in children's sizes! I wish I'd had some scientifically accurate paleo apparel when I was a kid. I couldn't even find any good Land Before Time merch. :( #paleoart #dinosaurs

Character design sketch for a series of #FinalFantasy Tactics A2 fanfics I wrote way back when. Coele is a manic but friendly gria whose two loves are meat and clothes shopping.

#ThrowbackThursday I found this in storage and thought it was amusing. Early on in college, I drew this illustration of some of my Star Wars fan characters, and I remember being pretty proud of it. Unfortunately, that was before I learned to draw the human figure.

tkarispe.creator-spring.com/listing/scut... New tee and sticker design in my store! Let's give tiny dinos more love. #paleoart #dinosaurs

Doodled some of the main characters of my #Neopets fanfiction. Gotta love adventures with a quirky human, an ex-space marine, a timid wizard, and a True Chaotic Neutral.

tkarispe.creator-spring.com/listing/carn... The "Never Skip Arm Day" tee is now available in darker shades (thought it looked better)! I'd love a theropod as my gym buddy. #paleoart #dinosaurs

tkarispe.creator-spring.com I now have an online store where I'm selling my illustrations on t-shirts and stickers! Check it out for some nerdy fun! #paleoart #dinosaurs #cats

www.tkarispe.com/2020/02/twen... Any other #Neopets old-timers remember the first ever Mutant Day where everybody's pets got turned mutant for a day? Here's a short story about how Grundos might actually enjoy that. (This got into the Neopian Times a long time ago!)

When the journey to Mordor has got you feeling down, just close your eyes and imagine yourself back at Bag End. #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings #TheHobbit

We make fun of T. rex for having tiny arms, but abelisaurs, do you even lift? #paleoart #dinosaurs

A delicious representation of a binary black hole merger!

Every time I play a #Pokémon game and see a Masquerain, this is all I can think of.

Doodled a Pachyrhinosaurus for my friend MaggieJo Widdicombe at @museumoftherockies.bsky.social because that's her favorite dinosaur! The first rule of Pachyrhinosaurus is: don't mess with Pachyrhinosaurus. #paleoart #dinosaurs

Definitely a homage to @chrislintott.bsky.social's Gresham lectures and how he keeps trying to start fights with the audience about #Pluto, bless him. #space

To my #paleontology friends: Next time you write a review paper on rangeomorphs, I hope you'll title it "The Chronicles of Charnia".

Some expression studies for a character in a novel I'm working on--a very nice and decidedly non-evil dark wizard who's a bit of a foodie. #fantasyart

For those days when you feel like a level 2 early-route #Pokémon whom people won't stop throwing Poké Balls at.

Shakespeare’s Henry V in a nutshell: Henry goes to Agincourt and delivers the most epic battle speech ever, then goes to Paris and delivers the worst pick-up line ever. Stick to the battlefield, Hal.

Concept doodle for a novel I've been working on. Valdovas is a millennia-old dragon from Eastern Europe who is arrogant, aloof, and disdainful toward humans--but that changes when he is forced to accept help from a family living on the American frontier. #fantasyart #dragons

#ConceptArt for my novel Earthkeepers. This is Core Control, the administrative center of the artificial planet Azhnarroth, and home to the Core Hosts, the sentient supercomputers who oversee the operations that keep the planet stable. #scifiart

Deinocheirus is already so bizarre, I thought it would be fun to make it pink on top of everything else it's got going on. #paleoart #Cretaceous

The Viking missions made it to Mars because the Great Galactic Ghoul was preoccupied. #space #Mars #itsneveraliens

I was sitting around pondering Tiktaalik (as one does), and... this happened. #paleoart #Devonian

More costume design for the novel I've been working on. This is one of the other main characters, the younger sister of yesterday's subject, along with her elemental companion. #characterdesign

Poor Viking 1. It just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. #space #Mars

Concept doodle for a novel I've been working on, for a part in the story where the characters end up in an arctic location that I based off Svalbard. #characterdesign

3-year-old niece: “Can I put my foot in your food?” My sister: “Absolutely not.” Niece: “What about both feet?” #kidlogic

Of course we can't forget the plucky lander who finally showed us the surface of Titan! #space

Tyrannosaur enjoying a grooming session from some multituberculates looking for tasty ticks. Who says dinosaurs and mammals couldn't get along? #paleoart #Cretaceous

Throwback to 1980 when Titan trolled us all. #space

Found this in storage from when I sketched at the Page Museum at Rancho La Brea. I wish ground sloths were still around! #paleoart #Pleistocene

I was listening to back episodes of I Know Dino (a fantastic paleontology podcast if you haven't heard of it), and Garret called Scutellosaurus "scutey" and this popped into my head, so I just had to draw it! Basal thyreophorans make everything better. #paleoart

Still going after all these years! #space

Working on another space mission cartoon and started muttering to myself about a "happy little high-gain antenna". This is why I work alone.

When I say "my cat", I am in no way implying that I own him. I mean it more along the lines of "my boss" or "my feudal lord".

What if ceratopsians used their horns more to lift and throw opponents? Might be more effective than trying to stab right into a mess of claws and teeth. #paleoart #triceratops #tyrannosaurus

Can't forget the original #space mission!

I had a dream that Jurassic Park was real, so I took my cat there. But then I made him go home so he wouldn’t get caught up in the inevitable dinosaur rampage.

I wanted to try drawing #dinosaurs in the style of those historic Chinese bestiaries. Here's Zhenyuanlong from the Yixian Formation! #paleoart

I just realized the startling number of similarities between cats and Gollum: - Big round eyes that shine in the dark - Love of fish - Making gross coughing noises from deep in the throat - Sitting in the dark talking to themselves - A personality that vacillates between endearing and murderous

So happy to see MOR join the Bluesky community! Please go give them some love; they're an awesome museum! (And come hang out with us on Zoom at 9 am MST Fridays for some great #paleontology chatting!) (Also shoutout to the amazing and underappreciated Columbian mammoth!)

Every time I see the Mariner 4 spacecraft, all I can think is that it looks like a ceiling fan. And then I want an actual ceiling fan shaped like Mariner 4. #space #Mars

My vote for freakiest prehistoric creature goes to Panderodus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandero... H.P. Lovecraft called; he wants his conodont back. #paleontology

A while back on Virtual Fossil Friday, we were discussing the boopability of various prehistoric species, and I threatened to write a research paper on the subject. Well, I finally got around to it. I have such a weird sense of humor. #paleontology

Highly scientific graph I made for the, ahem, "paper" I'm working on. #cats

This link for Virtual Fossil Fridays works: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Come hang out with us tomorrow and most Fridays if you love #paleontology!

On this week's edition of Weird Things I Say to My Cat: Me: "You've got a soul full of rainbows and unicorns" Me: "And lawn gnomes and cotton candy" Me: "And Lisa Frank puppies"

I've started drafting a new, definitely completely serious research paper on a fundamental topic of utmost importance in the field of paleontology. Time to shift some paradigms. I'm expecting this to make the front cover of Nature.

The Great Galactic Ghoul's first (accidental) interplanetary visitor! #space

(listening to the classical station, and they’re advertising a local organ festival) Me: “I hope they have spleens this year.”