A real privilege to have been asked to illustrate a juvenile and adult Dysalotosaurus for @palaeostephan.bsky.social ’s poster at #SVP2025 #SciArt

#2025SVP Smoke machines and poster sessions: not a great mix

Here be tariff-free dragons. dragonsofwales.etsy.com

For a small country, Wales has a surprising number of very, very cool dinosaurs. Pendraig milnerae (Pendraig = “chief dragon” in Welsh) was discovered in 1952, not far from where I live, but only named in 2021 after being re-discovered in storage by Angela Milner and Susannah Maidment. #SciArt

Attending #2025SVP #SVP2025? Interested in Palaeozoic fish and temnospondyls, dinosaurs old and new, sabre-tooth cats, biomechanics, biogeography, museum ethics, etc? Don't look any further, the Lautenschlager Lab got you covered - thanks to a lot of hard work by students, post-docs and colleagues!

Enjoyed my one full day at #2025SVP yesterday and this cool diorama that lots of my friends were involved in making! Well done all #SVP2025

If you are attending #SVP2025 #2025SVP make sure to visit the stall of the @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social for some exclusive merchandise featuring some jawless fish designs!

If anyone needs me, I’ll be over here, dismissing positive feedback from the people who matter and obsessing over that one negative comment from a total stranger. I may be some time.

Ths is my fav dragon artist. The books are beautifully printed on a shiny thicker paper, and postcards are printed on nice thick cardboard. They are all beautiful!

It's beautiful stuff AND reasonably priced!

didn’t know this!

Here be tariff-free dragons. dragonsofwales.etsy.com

Nanotyrannus? No, this one’s just a baby rex. #SciArt

I’m Dragons of Wales and I endorse this message. 😉

US customers: contrary to what you might have heard, art and books from the UK are still TARIFF-FREE! Plus, all import duties are pre-paid by me, so you WON’T have to pay any extra! It’s proving hard to get this message out there, so if you could please repost this. 🙏 (Shop link in pinned post).

Feeding Without Jaws opens this Wednesday! Our temporary #exhibition tells the immersive story of our ancestors, jawless fish. Find out about why these ancient fish have fascinated palaeontologists, & what new discoveries have been made about them. www.birmingham.ac.uk...#exhibition #LapworthRocks

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse Meta AI has now started critiquing my work on Facebook. And its critique is… well, it’s something… Stop the world, I want to get off.

A walk in the woods. Cretaceous style. #SciArt

Sorry to drop the C-bomb, but are you looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the dinosaur fan who has everything? How about a commission gift certificate? Stock of these is VERY limited, so if you want one, you know what to do! 🙂 dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/4393...

Looking for a fantastic, unique Christmas present ⬇️

An odd bony fish from the Kem Kem, Concavotectum. I'm still very out of my element with illustrating fish, but this fella had some very fun shapes to work with. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Sorry to drop the C-bomb, but are you looking for the perfect Christmas gift for the dinosaur fan who has everything? How about a commission gift certificate? Stock of these is VERY limited, so if you want one, you know what to do! 🙂 dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/4393...

Pteranodon Ptwins. A new portrait of perhaps the most iconic pterosaur. #SciArt

The 6-ish metre long Kem Kem crocodylomorph Laganosuchus represents a bizarre lineage known primarily from their elongated, flattened, U-shaped heads. Size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Something fishy! I had the privilege of creating a number of illustrations for this new exhibition under the expert guidance of @nitroshutter.bsky.social and his colleagues at Birmingham University. It runs from November 12th to February 28th. I’ll be visiting, and hope you will too!

Buy dinosaur books and regret nothing! 👇 dragonsofwales.etsy.com/listing/1689...

To any young artists wondering if people will ever stop asking you to work for free in return for exposure: I’m 52, it’s 7:54am here, and it’s already happened twice today.

Tyrannosaur trouble.

In which a palaeoartist talks about how he really isn’t a palaeoartist after all… www.instagram.com/reel/DQrLjDc...

In the latest instalment of the hellscape that is my life, random clown doesn’t believe that I don’t use AI, so asks Grok AI… but when Grok AI tells them the same thing, they believe it. What a time to be alive.

Reposting this mostly to remind myself to keep going, despite *gestures at everything*.

Give me strength. Or a big f-off hammer. Either would be fine at this point.

Deinonychus at Dusk. #SciArt

If you’re a fan of #dinosaurs & #palaeoart #paleoart, check out this fascinating & insightful interview ŵ Andy Frazer (aka Dragons of Wales) …

If you’d like to listen to some palaeoart ramblings on a Sunday morning… 👇 #SciArt

If you’d like to hear me talk about what I do, now you can, thanks to Elliot and his fantastic People are Fish YouTube channel (well worth subscribing to if you don’t already): m.youtube.com/watch?v=vntr...

So, not saying I’m excited or anything… but I’ve just booked my hotel room. 😂 See you all there. 🦖

Seems like every palaeoartist in the world is drawing Nanotyrannus (and rightly so). Sadly I’m too busy with ongoing projects, so here’s a very not-nano-tyrannosaur from the archives… with a vaguely halloweeny colour scheme. #SciArt

The difference between palaeontologists and the online dinosaur fandom encapsulated in a single post. “I was wrong”. Be like Steve. 👇

Just a weird little guy. A new illustration of Protoceratops andewsi. #SciArt

Now Nanotyrannus is real, we must go smaller. Microtyrannus next. Get to work palaeontologists

Thanatotheristes is a late Cretaceous tyrannosaur whose name means 'Reaper of death.' I couldn't help this image of it in Grim Reaper guise popping into my head. Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 125 × 190 mm, 2020. #Halloween #Samhain

A recent piece I did for work - Archaeopteryx! Don't get too excited though, this isn't a concept for a VFX animal, moreso just a one-off illustration. It was a really fun exercise in learning how to render out bigger swathes of feathers! Some fun WIP stuff below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart

Big grabby chicken. Therizinosaurus cheloniformis. #SciArt

nonsense creature doodle

Blue peafowl. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 85 × 133 mm. Not so happy with this as I'd hoped to be. A combination of tiredness and my not managing the ink consistency well enough, resulting in quite a few areas of unsightly patchiness.

Autumnal dog walks also provide an excellent opportunity for taking random reference pics… that last pic makes me think of @dragonsofwales.bsky.social dragons

Eotyrannus lengi: a very cool tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the south of the UK. Also a messy eater. Probably. #SciArt #Dinosaur

Had the pleasure of working on the press release image for this groundbreaking research!

AI* Dinosaur. *Andy-Illustrated #SciArt