Art of RJ Palmer

Concept Artist | Past: Ubisoft, Detective Pikachu | Paleoartist | Server http://discord.gg/arvalis | [email protected] | he/him | Store: http://rjpalmerstore.com | Portfolio: http://rj-palmer.com

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Link Loadout

I've wanted to paint a Zelda piece for years but I had to wait until I had an idea truly worth doing.

Prints and playmats available here

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Gem dragon design updates I did for D&D The Book of Dragons last year. Prints of them available here

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Come touch my mousepads and ogle my metal prints at Fanime table 605 😎

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Illustrations done for this month's Texas Highways Magazine. 100% handpainted, really excited about a huge breakthrough with how I paint textural detail.

- Alamosaurus - Dimetrodon - Postosuchus - Columbian Mammoth -

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My OCs, the Gymrat Dragons. Boy name of Meatdog, girl name of Cayenne.

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I have just the thing to explain this!

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your art is so exceptional, everything feels SO grounded and real in whatever space you draw them in. I had to triple take some of your work because i genuinely could not tell if they were 3d models or paintings. you inspire me so much to create, so thank you!!

Hey thanks so much for saying so! I do not actually know how to use any 3D software. However I do have an extensive collection of figures in my office that I use to get good lighting reference for my works.

(dont mind the dust, I live in the middle of the woods and its jus not a fight you can win here)

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My OCs, the Gymrat Dragons. Boy name of Meatdog, girl name of Cayenne.

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I accidentally spent 80 hours painting my own take on a Mimic. Please take a look.

Can see higher res here

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The final battle in Pokemon Scarlet is weirdly very good. I had to paint it. Boy howdy Koraidon is a real complex design but I wanted to do it right. I learned a whole ton on this one, took around 67 hours of paint time. That does not include despair time.

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It’s my birthday and I’m celebrating it by being sick in bed! I did get my playmats up on my site though! ⬇️

Playmats

Playmats

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One of my shitpost photoshops that got really popular but only when others repost it lol

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lmao what the shit, my shiny sinistea is the really rare one. Between that and a shiny female salandit my luck is insane in Pokémon Scarlet. I’ve literally never been this lucky before.

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Imagining a world where Pokemon and Digimon had swapped monsters.

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Dude I think your art is so cool!!!!!! I think that you are like my favorite artist who drawn Godzilla. The way you draw him makes him feel so alive (hell all your drawings look like you went outside and witnessed a dinosaur battle)

Hey thanks so much. I think Godzilla is a lot of fun to draw because you can almost do anything with him and so long as you keep the basic silhouette intact it works.

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I'm RJ and I'm a creature designer concept artist. You may have seen my work in Detective Pikachu or somewhere online. I also really like dinosaurs.

With Twitter seemingly on death's door, might be worth reviving my presence here. I have changed my username to Arvalis to fit my other places(formerly grimchild)

For posterity here is what my Twitter looked like before the (potential) end.

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All set and ready to go for Lightbox Expo, table 510 🦖 @lightboxexpo #lightboxexpo #convention #artistalley https://www.instagram.com/p/CjtID-qPCKI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Details for Meatdog, my new character. You can see the full on my page. #pinup #muscles #beefboy #dragonborn https://www.instagram.com/p/CjG0lsUvBYY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=