one weird reptile (and friends) a day

nev, it/he, 24. watch as i try to draw one weird reptile a day (roughly). art is free to use in educational content as long as im credited!

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hi! im Nev and I wanted to draw more paleoart and started this to hopefully accomplish that. you may have seen me do a handful of critters on ADAD a few years ago. I will mostly do things like dinosaurs and pterosaurs, but will occasionally branch out into synapsids and living avian dinosaurs too! it's for fun, but im a huge paleonerd, so I'll still try and get em as accurate as possible while still messing around.

you can use my stuff in things like videos, educational posts, things of the ilk as much as you want, as long as you credit me somewhere (my main is preferable but this blog works just fine!), just no reposting or merch please! if you want to support me, buy these as stickers on my redbubble or send me a kofi :)

suggestions eagerly welcomed! I cant promise I'll do your suggestions, but it helps having some names lying around on slow days.

main = @saint-nevermore ^_^

commission carrd

no TERFS, alt-right, bigots, proship, ace exclus, pro-ana, etc. I block liberally so just dont be weird.

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one of my favourite bird-based echolalias courtesy of the go-away bird :)

day 18 of drawdinosdaily

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illustration of Manipulonyx reshetovi, a new Alvarezsaurid with unique hand osteoderms forming spikes or spurs. plumage based on various waterfowl including ducks and herons!

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Lithornis vulturinus preening, using a partridge as pose reference

day 16 of drawdinosdaily

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honey buzzard study using a documentary screenshot

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a Dromornis drake standing guard while his hen rests and eats peacefully :)

day 12 of drawdinosdaily

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Caudipteryx zoui, colouration based on a green pheasant (mostly for fun, very loosely sticking to melanosome data)

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a sketch of a yellow-breasted satinbird, day 10 of the januaraptor prompt list :)

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a festive Parasaurolophus in reindeer inspired colours and tack :D 🦌🎄

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a little guy, done as a study on feather textures in small birds. i had a really good time with this one. special shoutout to photographer Dubi Shapiro, who's photographs of the species i used as references for this beastie ^_^

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a king/button quail for marchirp day 1! this is a promptlist by @elliottnotyet . i will be doing these at a leisurely pace as long as i enjoy them since they're much more demanding than the Fungyn designs. its a comfy zone though, im looking forward to sharpening my rendering and training myself to draw again lol a button quail was at the request of my partner @beefies , as quail are the first livestock we want to get in the future :) they are sweet little creatures!

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hmm, reply with some critters youd like to see drawn :)

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Adélie Penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae

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`I`iwi, Drepanis coccinea

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American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis

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Bulbasaurus phylloxyron, honorary reptile. i started this blog so i had something to do if i didnt have anything else i wanted to draw that day or as a warmup so im going to try and let myself do whatever each day instead of rendered speedpaints :)

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this illustration can be seen in this video about Bulbasaurus by Paleo Analysis!

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Are there any dinosaurs with frills around their necks??

if you mean like the jurassic park's Dilophosaurus, then no! this is the type of structure we would see correlates to in existing skull fossil material and that would likely fossilise itself as the frilled lizards frill is a result of a very derived hyoid (these make the tongues in reptiles).