All the Things

Welcome! This is a personal art blog for all the ridiculous things I noodle around with.

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An important update to our Paleo Pines Community🦖💙😞

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Paleo Pines Needs Your Help

A lot of you have been asking what’s next for Paleo Pines and we wanted to provide our community with an update on the challenges we are facing. The sad truth is, the future is uncertain. 

For the better part of this year we’ve been working behind the scenes to create a plan for the next iteration of Paleo Pines, filled with stunning new regions, quirky new NPCs, plenty more adorable dinosaurs, plus eggs, babies and - yes - multiplayer. The job after launch seemed simple - listen to our community, provide a roadmap full of updates and DLC to ensure that our players can continue to enjoy the existing world… and double-down on that enjoyment with the plan for bigger, better, shinier Paleo Pines for you to enjoy with friends and family.

We've been searching high and low for a production partner, one that felt your love and passion to help us bring the next Paleo Pines to life. On several occasions in our journey, we were within a few small steps of the finish line, only to have circumstances beyond our control cause the future to fall through.

This isn't happening just to us. It seems the whole indie game scene is facing a sudden drying up of publishing and investment opportunities. Thanks to the unwavering dedication of our small team and the massive love from all of you, we've been able to support the first year of Paleo Pines on a shoestring budget. 

We’ve managed to keep the lights on… until now. Unless we can find a partner who is keen to see the Paleo Pines universe grow, we won’t be able to keep our team together for much longer. 

So, we’re making our situation public. Here's how you can help:

Do you know a publisher/investor who would be a great partner for Paleo Pines 2? If you're a serious publisher or investor and are interested in seeing a production plan, financial model, game design document and more, please reach out to [email protected]. (By the way, Paleo Pines isn’t the only property we’re working on... Our talented team has a diverse collection of small, medium and large scale projects, for PC, console and mobile. If you’re looking for something fun and a little bit different, get in here.)

Can you help in smaller ways? Every little bit helps! Here are a few ways you can directly support the devs:

Have you got our DLC yet? We've just released our very first Halloween DLCs – a great way to support us while getting more gameplay for yourself.

Still playing the demo? Are we on your Wishlist? Please consider buying the full game today, or in the next sale. We promise it'll bring you hours of dino-tastic joy! 

Befriend a Paleo Pines plushie. These adorable creatures aren't just cute, our portion of the sales goes towards development. Our latest, Boo, the albino Styracosaurus, is available now. Our previous plushies helped fund our new Halloween DLCs and free update.

Order Paleo Pines merchandise. We’ve got dozens of fun items celebrating your favourite dinos available in time for gifting this year.

Even if you can't offer financial support, you can still be a hero! Share this post with anyone who might be interested in helping. Wishlist us, buy the game, talk about how it makes you feel, and share share share. The power of community is real, and every share brings us closer to making more Paleo Pines!

The team here can't express enough gratitude to the incredible Paleo Pines community. You've been with us through every step of this amazing journey, from the demo launch to the release last September, and through our adorable plushie collaborations with Makeship. You've become more than players and we couldn't have imagined building this world with a kinder, more supportive group.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us on this roller coaster of a year since launch, and your patience and understanding with our current situation. Hopefully with your help, this won’t be the end of the Paleo Pines adventure.

Lots of love, The Paleo Pines Team

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Please consider helping out the Paleo Pines team. It’s such a sweet little game, it and the indie game team deserves the time and space to grow

[ez3kiell]

Hey @support @staff. Can you please explain to me why my side blog @ezekiellsplayground has just completely disasppeared?

I use EzekiellsPlayground as my main art blog, with 2-3 weekly posts for over a decade now. It's my main blog of WIPs and process. I have soo many scheduled posts and now it's just gone without any kind of warning whatsoever.

@support I have sent you a support contact but I really do expect that you restore my side blog immediately. This is unacceptable.

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I’ve been updating K’rahmyteh’s reference sheet. Haven’t painted for so long that I thought I couldn’t until I remembered I needed a colour palette...

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On the weekend I purchased a cintiq, something I have been coveting for years, and it arrived yesterday. OMG, this is so much better than sketching using my intuos4! Yes, it's only the cintiq16 so I don't have touch controls, 4k, or AdobeRGB, and they ditched the express key buttons on the unit, but I don't care 'cause I can finally draw comfortably straight into CS6!!

The hare was my first play straight out of the box yesterday. Cassowary sketches I did tonight after customising my on-screen hotkey menus. I am in love

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉🌟 We’ve updated a lot of stuff on our website, and there’s still more coming! We have SO MUCH info available- check out our price guide here: cfstudiosonline.com/fursuit-price

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6 days ago I made a post on Instagram in support of freedom for Hong Kong. This is a 7 year old art that I’ve posted many times before without issue. The only difference is this time I made the post in support of Hong Kong fighting for freedom against the oppressive Chinese government.

The next day, my post was removed for “hate speech”. This isn’t Instagram’s fault. The Chinese government paid attackers to mass report me, thus triggering the algorithm to automatically remove my post. I appealed the removal and my art was restored. 

However, ever since that day, I’ve been shadowbanned as well and I’m still shadowbanned. No doubt due to the same abuse of report button by the paid attackers. The Chinese government have figure out a way to censor and control free speech even outside of their country. 

Now people who aren’t already a follower on Instagram will not see my art. All of my free Hong Kong hashtags don’t show up anymore in search. This is how the Chinese government silence those who support freedom. 

This is why the people of Hong Kong are fighting so hard to keep their freedom. No one in the free world should have to live under this level of abuse and censorship.

You can help me fight this injustice. Repost my art on Instagram with the hashtags #FreeHongKong #StandWithHongKong #HongKongProtest and share the story. Even if they censor me, the Chinese government can’t censor us all.

[ez3kiell]

This is an artist I follow. She is very dedicated to her art and has suffered abuse at the hands of a government outside her country because of her using her right to free speech.

Share and repost! I don’t have Insta so reposting here is the best I can do. Free speech is an innate human right regardless of culture or creed.

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Creepy statue in abandoned mausoleum in Poland

Long story short, a few years ago there was a movie shot here (a horror one, surprisingly), and this frightening sculpture was a part of its scenery. It’s already been some time as filming is over and everyone can see its outcomes on the screen, however the demon liked the decaying mausoleum so much that didn’t move anywhere. The building is open, so everyone can visit this impressive creature.

Source

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Some bird studies and the finalised version of K’rahmyteh’s head feathering and colours.

Now I can get on with doing up the fursuit head of him...

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SPECIAL POST

Booyah! My tongue finally arrived from Poland, now I have all the parts to really get to work on K’rahmyteh! So excited 😆

The tongue looks whiteish because I immediately smothered it in talc to stop fluff sticking to the silicone.

I’m still undecided on this set of eyes as they have a slight surface imperfection. If I can polish it off the surface then they should be good to go.

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So, after accidentally creating a ‘poo’ background on the first cassowary, I decided to learn how to do bokeh backgrounds properly.

After some background practice, I re-drew and plunked some ink down. Pity the coldpress paper kept some grain that I couldn’t blend out satisfactorily, although I could somehow fix that when I’m working on the burb.

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Finished up the cassowary sketch to play around with my derwent inktense pencils that arrived this week.

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Putting my new derwent artist pencils to good use drawing up one of the local galahs spotted this week foraging near the driveway.

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Sketchbook studies from this week. Trying to pin down K’rahmyteh’s profile - it’s a combo of dromeosaur, enantiornithes, raven, and secretary bird.

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Afternoon glass pen doodle time! It’s a ... smoking bird?

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Some more work on images for a ref sheet. References are a lifesaver!

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After a ink blot disaster on the original, I finally finished inking up K’rahmyteh burb!

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Snippet from my garbage bag test, also currently known as the mer-leech! 

Longer, more detailed video is on my Patreon! 

[ez3kiell]

Wow! This looks like a costume prop that is going to be fantastic once completed. I definately wouldnt like to perform in it though, so much unnatural human movement (but I guess that’s kinda the point, hey)