Almost done updating my First Gundam production history! I've overhauled the chunk covering eps 22-36, in which Director Tomino takes charge of the plot and begins ghost-designing all the mecha. I've also added lots more design sketches and production art. www.gundamunofficial.com/production/f...

I have to say, Ben Miller is really good at writing alt text! Definitely worth reading the captions in this unfolding thread, plus the discussion of exhibit design is always fascinating.

New at Tetrapod Zoology .... Mesozoic Art II, Palaeoart Portfolio for the 2020s tetzoo.com/blog/2025/9/...

I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

Whew! It took me ages to clean up and reletter my live sketches of this 90-minute play, but here's the SF Shakespeare Festival's free production of "Two Gentlemen of Verona." Final performances are this coming weekend! (1/4)

Peccaries

It's great fun live-sketching a Shakespeare play, but the part where I get to scan it, clean it up, and retype the scrawled dialogue for legibility is really one of those "me sowing/me reaping" meme moments. :-)

That's right, @zeonicscans.bsky.social and I will be popping back up on Giant Robot FM soon to talk about the "Char's Counterattack" novels. I should get back to researching the movie production history...!

Happened upon a really big hawk’s nest

I don't do a lot of reposting here, but I think Des is right, and I'll try to share a bit more neat stuff that I think the rest of you might enjoy.

I finally completed my notes from Mark A. Norell's "World of Dinosaurs," just as I heard of Dr. Norell's passing. I included a little appreciation and memorial at the end.

Inching towards completion of my notes on Mark A. Norell's "World of Dinosaurs." Just need to do a couple more pages on hadrosaurs, and then my dino research can move on to the next phase! (1/2)

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...

Only a few more days to enjoy the animatronic dinosaurs at @calacademy.bsky.social. This time, I figured I'd try drawing a bunch of them in scale, though @veppart.bsky.social and I got a bit distracted by cool lobsters. (1/2)

Getting back to my dinosaur study! I'm just now getting to the good bit of Mark A. Norell's "World of Dinosaurs" - the ornithischians, the category which includes all my favorite dinos.

Introducing a crazy new look for Spicomellus, based on new osteoderms unlike anything we've ever seen before. I was brought in to produce a life reconstruction based on the new material, published today in Nature by Maidment et al:

Rock star Cartoon Art Museum intern Ashton asked us if he could put together a zine for local artists and he put together a fun San Francisco-centric anthology for us. Available online and free as a digital download. Enjoy! www.cartoonart.org/store/fog-ci...

Okay, a question! Let's say I have an upcoming birthday that I may be able to leverage to go on a trip somewhere with lots of animatronic/life-size dinosaurs. Sadly, the Dino Safari exhibit in Las Vegas appears to be defunct, but where else is good?

Ten more days until they take down the animatronic dinosaurs at @calacademy.bsky.social . I've got to take advantage of this sketching material while I can! First, a couple of T. rex views... (1/2)

Useful and practical advice for dealing with picnic wasps! I didn't know "wasp offering" was an official term; I just love feeding them because they're so cute.

I love Psittacosaurus.

Finally compiled a PDF of my 36-page journal from the Sierra Nevada nature journaling retreat! I don't think it's worth posting the entire thing here, but please enjoy these selfie illustrations I used for the opening and ending pages.

Aha ha ha! I'd completely forgotten I made that.

Quick thought before I dash out to teach some more. I go back and forth on managing my Bluesky feed - sometimes I feel like I should trim it down to something lean, mean, and Important. Other times I want to go on an adding spree and roll in lots of interesting people...

I'm very happy this is the lesson you're drawing from this project! :-)

I don't think I've ever posted this here on Bluesky, so have some bug-drawing tutorials... (1/3)

Meanwhile, I can't forget to congratulate the fabulous Feez on completing this epic investigation into the production of Turn A Gundam! Truly a gold standard for this kind of research project, and an inspiration to all of us.

It's been a really busy few weeks! More updates soon, but in the meantime, I added some more updated material to my First Gundam production history: www.gundamunofficial.com/production/f...

A rare and laudable example of butterfly art where the wings are realistically positioned! Kudos to the Baltimore muralists for normalizing lifelike bug visuals.

The excellent Marisa Kabas requests suggestions for fun stuff to do in my city, and gets some excellent replies! The whole thread is solid gold A+ recommendation content.

I had to pause my dino-study because I got busy, but this is really top-notch paleo-content.

A little bonus handout about drawing simple backgrounds that I whipped up for this week's Cartoon Camp students at @cartoonart.bsky.social.

I took a day to visit @oaklandzoo.bsky.social to refresh my memory of what actual live animals look like. But I couldn't resist sneaking a fossil in there while I was at it. (1/4)

In case you think I was kidding about the Zaku being a Triceratops analogue: I still remember these awesome SD Gundam/Marvel superhero mashups by the Japanese artist Tonbi Aburaya, which proved the robots are vastly improved by giving them superhero color schemes. www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/...

Dino Notes interlude: Taking stock of what I've learned so far! In which I compare the Psittacosaurus to the many interpretations of the Zaku (though obviously it's actually a Triceratops analogue)... (1/2)

And that completes the selection of sauropods (and "lizard-hipped" dinos in general) from Norell's "World of Dinosaurs." Now I'm going to take a little break from this and pursue some other lines of dino-investigation...

The "World of Dinosaurs" study continues, with two entire sketchbook spreads devoted to the sauropods of the Morrison Formation. I can't help it, they're just so long (and fun to draw). (1/2)

From the Field Museum's new reptile exhibit: A gorgeous Komodo dragon skull! Ooh!

A bit of sketching from casts at @calacademy.bsky.social to round out the theropod chapter of my dinosaur study. Norell's comparisons of the Velociraptor to a fox or coyote are weirdly endearing.

Dino Notes: The remainder of the theropods (the birdy ones) from "World of Dinosaurs," plus a mesozoic timeline for my reference. Now to go draw some 3D versions!

It's a crazy world, but I think listening to nice people talk intelligently about cool stuff (restoring kelp forests, raising baby sea stars, etc) is my version of ASMR. This was a lovely roundtable discussion! (1/2)

And finally! On the opposite side of town from Ocean Beach, there was an outing of the "Karl the Fog" nature journaling gang at Heron's Head. I drew a big log full of pretty wasps.

Next up! From Sunday morning, the monthly SF Ocean Beach classic and custom car meetup. (This weekend's sketching expedition doubled as a birthday tribute to the much-missed Doug Gorney.) I was waylaid briefly by cool ravens.

It's been a hectic week of teaching, marching, sketching, etc etc. Today is resting-my-feet and scanning-sketchbook-pages day. First, let's catch up on dinosaur notes (still working my way through the AMNH's "World of Dinosaurs" book).

Happy No Kings Day! Here are my march-and-sketch drawings from today's San Francisco gathering. Fellow Americans, I hope your local celebration was equally lively. First, the assembly at Dolores Park... (1/3)

I can't believe they actually made a G-Saviour fanzine. Heroes!

I dedicate these reaction screencaps to @zeonicscans.bsky.social and the @giantrobotfm.bsky.social crew, but they're applicable to the entire Internet today.

It seems like the flood of news earlier today has wound down at this point. DON'T GO TO BED FIGHT MORE

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon