Brutal Ancient Lizards

Palaeoart, news, and discussion

[drawnstraws]

I'm getting into warhammer 40k and I got a box of tau minis

These are the first two i've actually finished painting

i'm planning on making the mech suit I got into a racing mech and then making the pathfinder team I got into the mechanics and pit crew

[driptosaurus]

Tau train tau train

[countertopmtg]

It’s finally happening!

We’re hosting an online Countertop MTG tournament!

It’s going to be held on April 27th

We will be playing games on the untap website, so no need to buy a deck

there will be a $20 prize for the winner

Resources for building and submitting decks can be found on the Countertop Central website

Countertop Central

The tournament will be hosted on our new Countertop Central Discord server. If you are unfamiliar with the format, this is also where you can learn more about its rules and ask any questions you may have.

Check out the CounterTop Central community on Discord - hang out with 4 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[drawnstraws]

my fucking dorm building is on fire

i wasn’t going to go to sleep for a bit but still

[chantellechapman]

Paleoart is one of those things that I’m super interested in, and would love to do more of. I’m just nervous about getting the details “right”. Here’s a speculative reconstruction of an orthoceras, an extinct cephalopod that lived 300 million years ago. Painted in acrylic on Bristol board, 9x17 inches.

[driptosaurus]

Where

[jackthevulture]

Altirhinus has such a lovely skull :)

[driptosaurus]

I return to the hellsite

[alexriesart]

One of my earliest artworks depicting birrin aircraft.

I borrowed the tall upright radiator from Short Type 184 seaplanes.

[driptosaurus]

Dinosaurs are cool. Here’s an acrocanthosaur being an edgy little basterd.

[driptosaurus]

I’ll stop masiakaposting soon don’t worry babe

[driptosaurus]

Masiakasaurus is the Borzoi of dinosaurs

[iguanodont]

Something I’ve been stewing on for a handful of months now has been wanting to make birgs’ reproductive cycles weirder. My friend @primalmuckygoop suggested the fantastic idea of giving them “external wombs” or “eggs with legs”, and the result was…. These.

Essentially an overgrown tick that contains within itself the actual embryonic birg. Like a tick, it latches on to the host (typically the mother or a relative, but they can be attached to ‘midwife’ animals as well) and feeds on blood until the infant birg is ready to emerge.

This is by no means the only reproductive strategy seen in birgworld fauna; for some animals the process is mostly or entirely internalized, for others the “larva” exists as an independent creature as distinct from its parent as feathervanes from their walking seeds.

The fun begins when you consider the cultural implications of such a life cycle, from folklore about witches and vampires to ingrained concepts of “cuteness”, but I’ll save that for future posts…..

[driptosaurus]

Sketches are always the best when you’re meant to be doing something else

[driptosaurus]

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