Hi everyone. It should be obvious that I'm WEEKS behind on everything, due in part to conference attendance (the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Toronto and the American Society for A...
2022-12-12 14:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostOk, I've decided to share the following -- it's destined for Tet Zoo but I figure I may as well share it here first. This article is a draft and the final version will be slightly different. Please...
2022-10-31 13:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello dear patrons! As might be obvious from recent slow progress here, workload again means that I've been unable to achieve anything in terms of the backburner projects -- not a single bit of wor...
2022-10-31 12:58:46 +0000 UTC View Post
More finished cryptids for the Heuvelmans project. I haven't finished the text on them but here are brief comments...
South American sabretooth. At upper left we have my rend...
2022-09-06 09:31:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The annoyingly slow work on the cryptids project continues, and here are the latest efforts: the pale Chinese bear the bai-xiong (or baixiong, it means 'white bear') and the mid-sized Sout...
2022-08-19 18:18:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I've done more cryptids from the Bernard Heuvelmans list (see previous entries for some explanation), and I've now finished all the cats. As you can see, the remainder are a very a...
2022-08-09 17:07:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I continue to finish and colourise the cryptids I'm illustrating for the Bernard Heuvelmans project. I've been working through the several cats on the list, and here are some initial results -- the...
2022-07-27 12:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The slow work of compiling the giant cryptids montage continues in 'spare' time. Here are some recently completed carnivorans: they won't necessarily be closely positioned in the final thing, since...
2022-07-19 15:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As some of you will know already, my background project on illustrating, discussing and montaging ALL the more-than-100 cryptids accepted as valid by Bernard Heuvelmans continues. I can only comple...
2022-07-15 17:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A momentous event -- I managed to put time aside to get through the Eotyrannus proofs AND I FINISHED THEM, and resubmitted the whole thing. This means that the monograph - essentially the ...
2022-06-24 17:35:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I said in the previous post that I had ONE illustration left to go for Ancient Sea Reptiles. That illustration was/is a life reconstruction of the peculiar Triassic marine reptile Helv...
2022-06-20 23:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
OK, the pictures are - essentially - in place and the captions have mostly been finished. Only final editing and proofing, the cover and end-pages, and some tweaking of the illustrations... and
Hello noble and wonderful patrons. Apologies for my silence: as you might have seen, the last several weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind... the major TV project I've been working on - the Apple T...
2022-06-13 16:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Still at work -- in the background -- on the book Ancient Sea Reptiles, and I've recently made some progress with the mosasaurs needed for the cladograms and such. Turns out that I need si...
2022-04-22 18:34:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Lots going on right now. No progress with the Eotyrannus proofs.... but lots happening with Mesozoic Art, a new book I'm compiling with Steve White.
Meanwhile, work also con...
2022-04-14 09:39:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Having done the plesiosaur images representing the main groups (see previous post), I've now arranged them into simplified cladograms to show our changing thoughts on how the groups might be allied...
2022-03-31 15:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I've managed to do something I haven't done in a long, long time... namely, finish a bunch of drawings! My plan for Ancient Marine Reptiles - my in-prep marine reptile book with the London...
2022-03-29 18:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostHello supporters! My apologies for such a long silence... the workload continues to be absolutely crushing and I'm months behind on everything. The Eotyrannus monograph is still not finish...
2022-03-16 10:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Great news. As indicated by this screengrab (showing the intro sections from all nine chapters), I've just finised the text for the Mesozoic marine reptiles book. That's a big deal. But I'm not at ...
2022-01-17 21:33:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe end is in sight on the Mesozoic marine reptile book -- only two chapters need completion, and most sections of the book are either out for review or have been reviewed. I still have to compile ...
2022-01-15 11:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostHello dear patrons, Happy New Year for 2022 and apologies as usual for my silence. My workload remains CRUSHING and I truly despair on the getting of things done...
As some of you know, I was...
2022-01-08 19:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostHello dear patrons, I hope you’re well and that things have been going as well as can be expected. My apologies as ever for lack of appearance here and for few updates, things continue to be heav...
2021-12-15 08:11:55 +0000 UTC View Post
For no good reason other than that it seemed fun at the time, I opted to montage the bulk of the Dinopedia drawings I did -- and here they are (with contrast tinkered with so that they sta...
2021-10-22 17:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello noble patrons, apologies once again for a delay -- workload is once again meaning that I'm not succeeding in producing content of the sort I aim to share here. As you might have heard, myself...
2021-10-07 13:32:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone. Once again -- so, so, so sorry for silence and lack of action here. The lack of new material doesn't reflect lack of background effort. Outside of the day job, I've been doing a fair b...
2021-08-11 18:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone - I am so, so sorry for the lack of new content here lately. I've just not been able to do anything. Or, at least, not produce anything that's ready for sharing. In 'spare time' I'm cur...
2021-07-05 09:47:08 +0000 UTC View Post
You are, no doubt, wondering how things are going with this HUGE project which I really shouldn't have taken on. The answer: I've edited about 34 of the images so far (there are around 108 in total...
2021-05-20 17:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again, dear patrons. Epically overworked and really struggling at this end... but I wanted to share this advance sneak-peek of a giant project that I'm doing in 'spare' time. As a spinoff of ...
2021-05-04 09:43:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Apologies again for long silence - I'm really struggling! The good news is that my new book with Princeton University Press Dinopedia(segments from which have appeared here in the recent p...
2021-04-15 15:05:27 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone - I must apologise again for silence here, I plan to release new material regularly but things are so difficult, I'm struggling to keep up. A few articles have been published at Tetrapo...
2021-02-19 18:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post