Cave Scribblings

An art blog.

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Frederic Wierum, fredward95 on instagram, Fred the Dinosaurman on youtube. May 18th 2023. Zookeeper with Allosaurus.

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I want to hug a big theropod head like this

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I meant what I said

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alright trans ppl we're returning to the fucking sea until shit gets better lets go everyone

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this is awesome

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nobody’s misgendered me once down here

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Trantis Shrimp

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Character sketches from the post-apocalypse.

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Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all!

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Only remembered Inktober was a thing last Friday, so I’m starting from the 13th. Here’s my efforts so far.

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Bitey boy.

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Workin' on stuff.

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When you’re asked to make a thing, then you make a thing, but then you realise that a thing you already made is what they need.

Anyway have this megafaunal sunset.

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Legends tell of heroes fishing monsters from the sea, transforming their carcasses into islands for humans to settle. In the future, history repeats itself...it’s not quite a hero, and it’s not quite an island, but still...

Illustration I did for the Sydney Comics Guild 2017 Anthology, ‘Apocalyptic Fairytale’. Which is a book with art and comics from many other lovely people that you should totally buy HERE:

https://www.artshinegallery.com/artwork-detail/?id=42763

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I sketch in blue and outline in pen, because if you scan light blue in greyscale it doesn’t appear. This one won’t be outlined, but it’s a good example of my drawing process.

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Inspired by the god designs in Smite, I sketched some designs for Camazotz, the Mayan god of bats. The small one in the top right is something I'm planning to turn into a full illustration.

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Quick piece inspired by my thesis research on the moa. I used it to experiment with using coloured lines instead of the black lines that I usually use. It's not perfect (I redrew that leg five zillion times and this is the least terrible one I did) but it was more for practice (and a new twitter background).

(click hi res for a bigger version)

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My entry for the God-zine-la! It's kind of a meta piece about the American adaptations of Godzilla.

I don't usually work entirely in digital but I learnt a lot about working in photoshop from doing this!

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Result of an experiment with lines and lighting effects in photoshop. Not sure what this little guy is meant to be, some kind of spirit? Dunno.

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I did a poster design for a movie night run by the Macquarie University Museum Appreciation Society. The theme was 'Night at the Museum' so I started off with a homage to the poster for that film. It really didn't work for the format they wanted, so I adapted the ideas into what you see above. You can see the full poster displayed on a big screen at the university! It's so cool!

Incidentally, the movie night is on tomorrow night in the university's Ancient Cultures Museum (X5B) at 6pm. There will be sweets.

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Quick Aerodactyl done for the Twitterdex project. Find out more here!