Every time I look at a proboscidean skull I feel like I’m taking an anatomy test.

I organized my desktop and sorted all of my projects into clearly-labeled folders. My brain is screaming at the empty space. Do I even write? Where is the heap of nonsense? I'm lost.

Moses Harvey's tub squid will forever live in my memory.

Quick sketch of a White-breasted Nuthatch for Yardwatcher on reddit/ko-fi. 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Headcase Locking sensory deprivation hood

"We can't leave without seeing the giant squid," I told them.

First #FossilFriday of 2026! To celebrate, check out this beauty on my desk today: a neural arch from a juvenile Apatosaurus cervical vertebra. This lovely specimen was collected by Museum crews from the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in 2025.

The moonlight suits you.

M I N E

Whenever I see Protostega plastron bones, I want them to move like clock gears. As if you could wind up the turtle and watch it go.

same tbh

It is only right to visit the likeness of one’s fursona when possible. 🐆

The best part about sketching at the museum was all the people who interrupted me to tell me they liked my tattoos.

I'd like to draw your attention to the accurate cloaca on this bronze Psittacosaurus at the Peabody Museum 🐡🧪

Start the new year off right with a new collar? 😈 shop.cairosteele.com #BSNM #handmade #leather #bondage #bdsm #TransArtist #QueerArtist #furryart #PupPlay #PetPlay

Working on a lovely drooling beauty~

WOOOO! pool party!!! happy new year!!!! here's one last sketch for our "orcs, etc" theme. it doesn't *really* fit, but i wanted to draw a big hot minotaur gal, so Deal With It [Originally posted 2025.08.12. Subscribe today: https://patreon.com/irisjay // https://subscribestar.adult/irisjay ]

ground bird (rerun)

top tier new year's resolution

This bronze-winged pigeon is a little late for birbfest day 1 🪶 I could not miss out on drawing this rainbow-winged friend 💛 #birbfest #birbfest2026 #pigeonsky #sciart #pigeon #art #artyear #animalart

Slug ten drinks, I won't get pickled Oh, I could bury you alive But you might crawl out with a knife And kill me when I'm sleeping, that's why

Doodlin’

Strata doesn’t want me to go out without her scent on me.

My furry nun comic 😇 1/4

new years thoughts

I’ve been doodling every day with a fine tip sharpie, to make myself finish what I start and not get hung up on mistakes. Last night I had a dream I started drawing with a pencil again, loving it, and ok Blackwing I hear you calling from the drawer. I’ll try again.

Yeah.

Goo morning, monsters. Return to the bones. Wait with them a while and listen. They have been many things you are not, but might yet be.

Sleep like a cat. Sleep heavy.

Happy Horse Year #art #DarkArt #horror

It’s 2026 which means I have a book coming out this year!!!!!! It’s for everyone who is curious about the cosmos 🙏🏽 Please preorder (from indies!) because it helps authors a lot — some places are having a sale right now like @loyaltybooks.bsky.social (code CHILL10) as well as your physical B&N 🌈 💙📚

And if you’re getting John’s - do it - you might want to use the same PREORDER25 code to get 25% off Tyrant Lizard Queen, too! Save a few bucks getting scales for later this year.

This sale ends today! Do you need a dragon book in your life this year?

“I like how you are around sharks. I can hear the happiness in your voice,” Splash told me this morning. When I love something, I can’t really be any other way but

Make 2026 the year most of y’all start using alt text.

sleep aid

Happy Birthday Lemon Pig

🎧 “it’s going under, baby, hold your breath we’re running out of time but we ain’t dead yet the lights are comin’ on we’re the last ones left we’re running out of time but we ain’t dead, no we ain’t dead yet”

1229 #birdart #corvid #art #bskyart

I can't believe you haven't bought a single book by a trans author this year. Shameful. You need to fix that.

Here's to a kinder, gentler 2026! HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thanks for the gear recommendations, friends. Can’t wait to plug in with this today and start filling this year with music.

One of Australia's most common and distinctive ants is the colorful Rhytidoponera metallica, seen here with silken cocoons in the brood nest. Diamond Creek, Victoria.

I can finally say Tyrant Lizard Queen comes out this year! If you’ve ever read a dinosaur book and thought “This is cool but I wish this reptile were a disaster bi,” TLQ’s for you. 🦖

Goo morning, monsters. The chrysalis squirms in its great resinous cradle. Transformation takes time, and often a change in position. The insensible sliding of cells will continue for some time, their busy squirming creating a two-part pulse that grows deeper with each iteration. New year. New you.

Here’s to another fuckin’ year.

Started at about 800 and reached over 2,100. I like this. Whether anyone else finds the story hot or not, it feels good to be finally getting it on the page.

Every time I’m about to use a mandolin slicer, I feel like I should tell Splash I love her first. Just in case.

Sketch v Final