Must be nice to be your own reading light. #Pokémon

When we play Tears of the Kingdom and she discovers you can register even more horses at stables, she's going to freak out. #legendofzelda

Here's some concept art for Wix the faerie warrior from Between the Salt Water and the Sea Strand! I wanted the faeries in this book to have kind of an uncanny-valley feel, as if you'd asked an extraterrestrial to design a human being based on a vague description, and they didn't get it quite right.

I'm having tons of fun with #Pokémon Legends: Z-A! I doodled Mega Gardevoir because that's one of my favorites.

I drew my sister's cat as an #AnimalCrossing character. He would 100% be the Lazy personality.

www.neopets.com/ntimes/index... Here's a #Neopets short story I enjoyed writing that surprisingly has nothing at all to do with my usual cast. I really wanted to explore Xandra's psychology and why she might harbor such animosity toward faeries.

Happy #Thanksgiving! Of course, when I think Thanksgiving, I think "what if dinosaurs had snoods". Um, you're welcome? #paleoart

Slowbro may be dopey, but they have feelings too! #Pokémon

Not sure how terribly interesting these random doodles are, but I was trying out a new ink pen. Points for dynamic posing, I guess.

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1891AN..... I was doing some recreational reading, and I found this brief communication from 1891 where E. E. Barnard describes what sounds an awful lot like a (multiple) impact on Jupiter. The 1880 event he references also sounds like an impact. Fun stuff!

Things I have called my cat recently: - Mommy's Violent Pumpkin - My Overly Aggressive Son - Adorable Force of Mass Destruction - The Cosmological Constant

Every time I see one of those "SHARE THE ROAD" signs, I just really want it to say this instead. #LordOfTheRings #Tolkien

A glimpse into my marvelously exciting and definitely social-media-worthy life: "Ooh, I think I just upped my egg salad game."

Concept art for Lord Kass from my #Neopets fic "Giving Day at Black Keep". It's in issues 808-811 of the Neopian Times if you'd like to give it a read. It's a cute story about dealing with family stress over the holidays and making sure to take time to take care of yourself.

Triangulum is arguably the lamest constellation, so I had to make up a myth for it so it would stop bothering me. #astronomy #constellations

Portrait of Isengrim, the Werelupe King, one of the main characters in much of my Neopian Times work. A misunderstood antivillain, Isengrim is befriended by the core cast and becomes a force for good. Also, I based Meridellian Werelupe culture off Neolithic Europe. #Neopets

Random #characterdesign; I wanted to make a character who looked like something out of an 80's Saturday morning cartoon about space cats that never actually happened. Also Walkmen are the pinnacle of technology.

www.tkarispe.com/2019/03/a-hi... Here's a #Neopets short story that I never submitted to the Neopian Times, about events directly preceding the first Meridell-Darigan war. Mostly I was just trying to make sense of that weird time warp business.

youtu.be/g5l3A4dbvnM Once I thought it would be fun to create an #animatic trailer for one of my novels! It was a lot of work and I wasn't using the most sophisticated video editing software, but I don't think it turned out half bad. #fantasybooks

Okay but what if tyrannosaurs had feather manes like ravens. #paleoart #dinosaurs #highlyspeculative

Hope everybody has a safe and happy #Halloween! I thought I'd share a fairly ridiculous short story I wrote for #Neopets a while back, about a no-nonsense bounty hunter trying to get her job done on the weirdest night of the year. Enjoy! www.neopets.com/ntimes/index...

Here's a Plateosaurus doodle because basal sauropodomorphs need more love! After all, if not for them, we'd never have those titans of the Jurassic who seriously pushed the terrestrial vertebrate biomechanics envelope. #paleoart #dinosaurs

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... If you're looking for your next autumn read, why not check out my #steampunk fantasy novel Thunder Girl? It's an exciting ride through an alternate-history Victorian America teeming with reanimated fossils, crystal-brained robots, and a few supernatural surprises.

With spooky season upon us, here's a #shortstory I wrote about ghosts and graveyards and happy endings. I don't know how to #Halloween properly I guess. www.tkarispe.com/2020/10/the-...

Illustration for my #Neopets fanfic Worth Fighting For. Dr. Sloth was a fun villain to write; I enjoyed fleshing out his personality and going into what happens when you get on his bad side. You can read the whole fic here: www.tkarispe.com/2019/08/wort...

I put together this handy flowchart to help you identify that thing you saw in the night sky! #astronomy #space #itsneveraliens

Happy #NationalFossilDay! Nothing like an entire day dedicated to the awesome fact that our planet's geology allows us to learn about the ecosystems that came before us. If you're looking for some paleo fun this weekend, come to the Idaho Museum of Natural History's Fall Fossil Fest on the 18th!

Concept art for King Radnama from my novel The Voyage of the Kaus Media. I had fun making the Noblirim a way rad species of saurian dragon people. #fantasyart #dragons

Astronomy lesson from my 7-year-old niece: "You can't breathe in space because of the unicorns."

I'm glad so many people liked that previous illustration! Here's another piece of concept art for The Shadow of Takeryuu. Min is a bold, if slightly naïve farmgirl with a strong sense of justice who borrowed her ancestor's enchanted armor and pudao on a quest to save her village. #Neopets

If you're a nostalgic #Pokémon fan, come check out this wonderful new forum! It's a friendly and chill place and I've really been enjoying my time there!

Concept art for my Neopian Times series The Shadow of Takeryuu, about a group of adventurers in ancient Shenkuu who journey to confront a corrupt emperor. This is Eunji, a soft-spoken yet strong-willed geomancer monk with a knack for bringing people together. #Neopets

It's October, so here is a skull. Marker sketch of a Stegoceras skull from the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Loving that rugosity. #paleoart #dinosaurs

I love when they give away Legendary/Mythical #Pokémon because it's so fun to pal around with demigodly creatures and feed them treats.

Popplio was my first partner in #Pokémon Sun. I was pleasantly surprised with its final evolution!

At the most recent Virtual Fossil Friday, we somehow got to talking about #LisaFrank, and next thing I know, I'm doodling this, and I'm not even sorry about it. #paleoart

My Zafara Blynn as the Scrivener, a mysterious and dashing rogue who leaves book reviews pinned to walls with daggers, because she does odd things when she's bored. She wrote a couple of literary review articles for the Neopian Times back in the day. #Neopets

She doesn't really read the names of things closely; therefore, everything in Hyrule has been renamed. #zelda #breathofthewild

One last character design sketch for the novel I've been brainstorming for. Goblin warriors are even more effective when a population of robots gives them high-tech gear. #scifiart #sciencefantasy

A while back, I decided to do a bit of #paleoart for underrepresented species on Wikipedia, and I thought this one turned out pretty nicely. Xiushanosteus is a lovely little placoderm described in 2022 that's notable for being one of the first known jawed vertebrates.

I had so much fun with that character design yesterday that I decided to sketch out another design for the novel I'm planning. Powered armor with antigravity generators comes in handy when navigating an artificial labyrinth beneath the planet's surface. #scifiart

www.isu.edu/imnh/imnh-ev... Just two weeks until eastern Idaho's annual paleo geek-fest! Come spend six solid hours hanging out with researchers and learn what's new in #paleontology! I'll be there asking loads of questions, so come join the fun! #dinosaurs

More playing with markers! I've been tossing around ideas for a third book in the Azhnarroth series and thought it would be fun to give the Earthkeepers some nifty powered armor. #scifiart

Here's a WIP sequence for that painting. #fantasyart #painting

More playing with markers and pencil. This is a character from a novel I've been working on, a fastidious castle chamberlain with a Cockney dialect. #fantasyart

I made this sign to put on my office door when I'm concentrating. Pretty sure this should effectively keep people away.

Decided to have some fun with my #Prismacolor markers and colored pencils. This is the leader of the thieves' guild from my cyber fantasy novel Pixeldust, a loveable rogue who sides with the heroes when most of the other NPCs turn against humanity. #fantasyart #markerart

Illustration from my #Neopets fanfic "Worth Fighting For", a heartwarming tale of space marines, werewolves, and plenty of swords. www.tkarispe.com/2019/08/wort...

Concept art for a novel I've been working on. This species of desert-dwelling creatures love numbers and mathematics, which has made them keen businesspeople. #fantasyart

Couple of WIPs for that Oryctodromeus illustration. #paleoart #dinosaurs