I forgot to take my pills yesterday morning, and now today I feel adrift in a sea of indecision and fear lol

Memory versus Reference Diplodocus paleoart sketches. #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Sauropod #Diplodocus #MemoryDrawing

I still think it's funny that half a lifetime ago my high school class voted me most likely to never return.

Ornithomimus dinosaur card I illustrated for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster deck "Silent Giant" #Ornithomimus #Dinosaur #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG

Just heard the nearly 120 year old art college where I earned my bachelor's took a big donation from Nvidia last year and then is shutting down next year and selling the campus to non-art university. Honestly that Oakland campus was magical, closing it was probably the beginning of their end anyway.

Leviathan the mighty Mosasaurus dossier for Taliesaurus' fan adaptation of the first Dinoverse book. #Dinoverse #FanArt #Mosasaurus #Mosasaur #Paleoart #Paleoillustration

Not a good feeling to find out the car battery is dead. Times like these I wish there was a car parts store nearby.

Please show me your favorite pop-culture depictions of Diplodocus and/or any horror themes that you think would be fitting for my horror archetype sketches of the dinosaur.

Took my Cyberzoic Dilophosaurus out of the box finally. Very far out of the box and all the way out into the snow. #Dilophosaurus #Dinosaur #DinosaurToy

James Conlon's Age of Monsters: Classical: The Denizens of the Underworld dossier. Content warning: very mild artistic nudity on a female humanoid. #Monsters #Illustration

This is to narrow down which sauropod to add to the actual poll for the next paleo horror archetypes. strawpoll.com/GPgVYMkmEna

Sometimes I'll refer to my cat Ginger as my cat daughter, but then I'll reflect about how she was a grown 5 year old cat woman who was probably a cat grandma when we found her. Maybe she thinks I'm her human daughter.

Snow!

Smilodon Horror Archetypes Finally a fresh batch of paleo horror archetype sketches for a fresh new year! #Smilodon #Horror

Been awhile since my last speedpaint compilation video, but I finally made one! youtu.be/u-GVR-N38RY

Speedpaint modernized redraw of a frame from The Dinosaurs! 1992 requested by Greg Noneman. #dinosaurs #TheDinosaurs1992 #TheDinosaurs #Trex #Tyrannosaurus #Tyrannosaurusrex #Triceratops #Redraw #Speedpaint #Paleoart

Design study of Boga the Varactyl from Star Wars: Episode III commissioned by DracoTyrannus. #Boga #Varactyl #StarWars #StarWarsEpisodeIII

I'm starting to get so worried we won't get any real measurable snow this winter. When I first moved to the area, I had to dig my car out of a mound of snow all the time. The river is gonna run extra dry this summer if it keeps not snowing.

My partner gifted me the shadow box I've been needing so desperately to display my dinosaur minis. I'm so happy seeing them all on the wall like this. Merry Christmas, everyone!

Trying to be festive and have fun and not focus on negatives. Avatar: Fire and Ash was amazing, and I've finally made time to get back into playing Frontiers of Pandora. Feels good to take a break from making art for a little bit to experience others' art.

A very festive cryptid Christmas Eve speedpaint for Toon-Rex of his version of the Partridge Creek Monster facing off against a mother mammoth in the snow. #Cryptid #PartridgeCreekMonster #TheMonsterofPartridgeCreek #Dinosaur #Mammoth

Considering going by myself to see the new Avatar on Tuesday (discount day) because the timing doesn't work out for my usual movie buddies. Just gotta also marathon the first two and play more Frontiers of Pandora to get myself excited in the meantime.

Avimimus dinosaur card I illustrated for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster deck Silent Giant. #JurassicPark #JP #JPTCG #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #Dinosaur #Avimimus

Been really busy trying to get some high priority projects finished up so I can get the rest of my backlog all updated. Haven't been able to post any art in the meantime, but soon!

My partner got us a kitchen shelf as an early Christmas gift, and the cats are very sure it's actually for them.

Not the most informative thumbnail test.

Mara Brown Spinosaurus cross-species hybrid (crospie) Voltaic design. @marabrownwd.bsky.social #Creature #Mutant #Hybrid #DinosaurHybrid #Spinosaurus

So Fionna and Cake spoilers: I see a lot of myself in Fionna. I also randomly burned every bridge I had when I was younger. The year I was on the golf team, the only match they won was the one I skipped to go to a Green Day concert. Then I keep spraining my right ankle. Out of context #spoiler kinda

So I'm about 99% sure this is a wild turkey hen who came to visit my turkey Linda today.

Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Triceratops fan redesign commissioned by Azores. #Carnivores #CarnivoresDinosaurHunter #Triceratops #Dinosaur #Retrosaur

Mara Brown Deinosuchus design. Possibly the last of the old de-extinct creatures from the backlog I needed to post. Still have mutants and new ones. @marabrownwd.bsky.social #Deinosuchus

I know no one likes when I complain about genAI slop accounts on Facebook, but one of them stole my art and ran it through AI and then they either didn't notice or care that it replicated my signature on the resulting AI slop. I feel sick.

Design study of Talon and Sauron from Primal Rage for DracoTyrannus. Super fun retro dinosaurs. #Dinosaurs #Retrosaur #PrimalRage #Talon #Sauron #Raptor #Trex

My eyes focused on drawing too long, now I see triple. The middle is normal, top is rainbow, and bottom is like 50% opacity. This happens sometimes.

The Wanderings of Ifrit, who was heavily inspired by Frankenstein's monster, a character created from ambition only to be rejected by his creators and the outside world. Piece made by @emilyart.bsky.social

Apatosaurus dinosaur card I illustrated for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster deck Silent Giant. #JurassicPark #JP #JPTCG #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #Dinosaur #Sauropod #Apatosaurus

When snorkeling in the Early Carboniferous goes wrong. Rhizodus having a snack speedpaint. Mild content warning for painterly blood / human being eaten. #Rhizodus #Carboniferous #TimeTravel

Jam is having such a hard molt right now. Not ready for winter yet at all. I suppose her being broody all fall must have delayed her molt?

New dossier for James Conlon's Age of Monsters. This time it's Atomic: Kaiju Parasites. #AgeofMonsters #Monsters #Creatures #Parasites

I'm not sure which was better between last year's and this year's feast. All I know is that I'm tired.

Mara Brown Amargasaurus design. Still some dinosaurs in the backlog to post! @marabrownwd.bsky.social #Amargasaurus #Dinosaur #Paleoart

Evidently my hens Smartypants and One-Eye are closer than I thought.

So this morning my partner looked out the window and told me that our duck hen Sweetie Pie was in the yard and must not have went into the coop last night. I was so sure this wasn't true. I had to walk all the way up to this duck to know it wasn't her though. Looked the same, acted different.

Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops fan DNA variants ± ceratopsian. #JurassicWorld #JurassicWorldRebirth #Aquilops #Dinosaur

So lately I've been messaging my partner right when I wake up so I don't forget my dream. They're pretty standard dream slush where I can pinpoint why I'm dreaming about each thing, but they're very vivid.

Having clients in vastly different time zones means I can work on one piece while I'm waiting on feedback for the other.

Mara Brown @marabrownwd.bsky.social Carnotaurus design. There's still some de-extinct creatures in the backlog to post. #Dinosaur #Carnotaurus

I liked del Toro's Frankenstein okay, but I'm kinda glad I didn't go see it in the theater on Halloween like I almost did. Being able to pause it midway was nice because the pacing was a bit difficult. Didn't keep me as captivated as I was hoping.

Now that the winners have been decided in Goji Center's Hybrid War, here's my sketches of the top 8 dinosaur hybrids battling it out that I never posted on their own. Congratulations to all of the contestants! #HybridWar #DinosaurHybrids

Not as much aurora tonight, but I got to see some before the clouds rolled in. On the bank of the Spokane River looking north.