2016 #Sciart Tweetstorm Day 4: Fossil (Reconstruction) Friday

Tonight's serving of #sciart - three reconstructions of some of my favorite fossil critters. First up, Helicoprion with her modern relative, the Galapagos ratfish. Second, an outdated reconstruction of Thallattosaurus from the side and top, after the original Merriam fossil sketch. Last, we have a troodon with corvid-esque feather patterns from a much larger piece I've been working on for the past couple of years.

Helicoprion and her modern relation, the ratfish.

Thallattosaurus, after Merriam. This reconstruction is inaccurate - the rostrum has been found to curve downwards instead of being straight.

A corvid-esque Troodon from a larger work in progress.

2016 #Sciart Tweetstorm Day 3: Raven's Pterosaur Pthrowback Pthursday

Day three (or should that be "pthree"?) of the #Sciart #Tweetstorm - a little late. This day's sketchdump includes two character design roughs for an animation project on the back burner tentatively titled "Flapling" which chronicles the first tentative flight of a newly hatched rhamphorhynchus.

Side view and headshot of a rhamphorhyncus flapling, with a quick wing sketch in the corner.

Two different variations of the same character, with the beginnings of a bottom "plan" view showing wing membrane attachment points.

The original ink drawing for "Cretacous Critter Coffee Co."

2016 #Sciart Tweetstorm Day 3: skulls in gouache.

Ugrunaaluk and Gryposaurus skulls, doing what that do best: rest peacefully either on display or in a collection drawer somewhere.

2016 #Sciart Tweetstorm Day 2: Some sketchy things.

Recently, paleoart was mashed up with lasers ("8 o'clock, day one!"). This has been done before. And again. And it will likely happen again and again.

2016 #Sciart Tweetstorm Day 2: Wednesday Works in Progress

More entries for the #Sciart #Tweetstorm - three works in progress for Wednesday.

First up is a lone Nanuqsaurus that will be used in a few ideas and projects I have on the back burner. Secondly, a layout for a piece depicting the paleoenvironment of Alaska's North Slope during the Late Cretaceous period, with a pint-sized tyrant realizing he blundered into the wrong part of the Colville River delta. Last, a pair of azhdarchid pterosaurs pause for a drink in Denali, leaving their footprints along the side of a stream.

"You came to the wrong neighborhood..." Two Ugrunaaluk chase a pint-sized tyrant away from their watering hole.

Alaskan azhdarchid pterosaurs stop for a drink by a riverside in Cretaceous Denali.

2016 #Sciart Tweetstorm Day 1: What's In Scott's Sketchamaphotoshopobook?

Deinocheirus! As might be inferred from the title of this post, this is what's in my image-editing application at the moment (among other things, but for sciart, am I going to share those? Obviously not).

This is an intermediate state wherein I block out the areas to be converted to vector. The colors are to keep me from being confused when I zoom in; I don't want gaps in some areas, nor much overlap in others. Proper colors will be applied after it's vectorized in Illustrator.

2016 #Sciart Tweetstorm Day 1: What's In Raven's Sketchbook?

Last year, the authors of the Symbiartic blog on ScientificAmerican.com -- Glendon Mellow, Kalliopi Monoyios, and Katie McKissick -- summoned an epic storm of amazing and informative scientific artwork on Twitter with the

cubelight gfx

sketches