Rochnan Draws Things

It's a lot of fun! A he/him born in the Netherlands just after Chernobyl happened. I think glowy things are cool. Those last two things might or might not be related. Available for commissions in line with what's on here, and will draw silly little ideas for free.

[rochnan]

Paleoart Resources

Because I thought it would be handy to have a list easily available. Only online resources, as the point of this list (for now) is to be able to look something up on the spot.

News Phys.org Sci.news Nature.com (subject: evolution)

Papers ResearchGate Academia Semantic Scholar

Visual references Dr. Scott Hartman's Skeletal Drawing.com Matt Dempsey (ArtStation) James Gurney - blog - YouTube Robert Nicholls Your Dinosaurs are Wrong (Youtube) Fastman27's Dino Wing PSA (Tumblr)

Miscellaneous Dinosaur Mailing List Archives Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

If you have any additions/corrections/other, let me know! Let's see if we can make this a useful resource for those who also like to draw prehistoric critters.

[rochnan]

Happy Birthday sir Attenborough 🥳

"Butterflies lift the heart."

I grew up watching nature documentaries, which means the narration of sir David Attenborough has formed a big part of my knowledge of the natural world. I used to collect them on physical media when I was a student, and I think the first Planet Earth was my first ever blu-ray set.

Anyway, happy 100th birthday sir Attenborough! I drew you with the birdwing butterfly, if I'm correct it's your favourite butterfly 🦋

[rochnan]

Mononykus olecranus

For @a-dinosaur-a-day 's Draw Dinos Daily daily dinosaur prompt (I like saying that sentence out loud.) It's a Mononykus and chicks very, very loosely inspired by the colours of the Blue Laced Red Wyandotte fowl. It's a very pretty chicken.

[berensreverie]

Guardian of the Unicorns

[rochnan]

Style test

I'm trying a looser approach. I like it!

[berensreverie]

Silent Afternoon

[sailor-moon-simp]

When asked what to say to the next generation of astronauts, Jeremy Hansen said this:

[s0urs0rr0w]

can't believe i never posted this joyous apple sketch here . now see her basking

[rochnan]

Drawing some more rocky while catching up to the Artemis II launch. It's a surreal but awesome experience.

[rochnan]

I've started this drawing, but I think I'm overdoing the linework and it's starting to get a wee bit...much 😅

I love this movie 👎

[rochnan]

Item: A Crumpled Manual Rarity: ⏶ Common

Do you skip tutorials as fast as you can?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

The educator in me enjoys a well thought-out tutorial. Both playing through it as well as designing them. And even the bad ones can provide insight. So no, I take my time with tutorials.

[daily-mspaint-paleoart]

01/04/2026 Coelacanth

[zombiethethinker]

new teaser for you guys, im still working on this, gonna do the utahraptor segments last cause it takes a LONG time to animate them

[zombiethethinker]

@rochnan

[infectiouspiss]

so here's a quick visual explanation of how the new update can be used to harass people in isolated ways, the harassment can be hidden from op with one single reblog from a burner account, anything after that is invisible to the op and therefore gives some of the worst people on here free reign to attack without facing any consequences.

this update needs to be rolled back and never reinstated in any form.

[coffinkissrr]

[ID: a graphic depiction of how the new update works.

its a chain of reblogs, with annotations indicating whether or not op will see.

OP's post (by @/tumblruser) reads, " i like bunnies [smiley face]". an arrow pointing to it reads: "has no clue their nice post is being used to harass someone"

Next reblog (by @/blogthatlooksinnocent) reads: "yay me too!". its in green box, thats labeled "op can see this in their notification"

next two posts are by @/badperson and @/bad person2, and are both in red box thats labeled "op cannot see this in their notifications. they read, "i hate @/randomblogger they should die" and " hey @/randomblogger you should kys i hate you everyone hates you we all want you dead and wont stop until you're six feet under"

everyones profile pictures are single-coloured scribbled circle. end ID]

[rochnan]

Happy Purple Hippo

It's been a while since I drew fanart. This is from Magic: the Gathering's Pheldagriff, mostly known for a play style called 'Group Hug'. Sounds nice doesn't it? It's a plan where you give gifts to opponents in exchange for a little bonus on your end -it involves a lot of bargaining and having your opponents rather attack each other as you're helpful to them. Discworld's Vetinari would enjoy this.

Here's the art as it would look like on a modern card:

And here's the original I based this on:

[zombiethethinker]

CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS RENDER GUYS, i just want to make a teaser for my animation and it currently takes like 10 mins with my like 5090 or something GPU and it is ALL BECAUSE OF THE 3 RAPTORS i have tried to accelerate the render time, at this rate it would take MANY DAYS with the feathers on the raptors, AND I HAVE TRIED TO FIX IT but it has barely helped they are using the Nuja feathers thing for blender if that helps.

[herpsandbirds]

New 'scimitar-crested' Spinosaurus species discovered in the central Sahara

by University of Chicago Medical Center

A paper published in Science describes the discovery of Spinosaurus mirabilis, a new spinosaurid species found in Niger. A 20-person team led by Paul Sereno, Ph.D., Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, unearthed the find at a remote locale in the central Sahara, adding important new fossil finds to the closing chapter of spinosaurid evolution...

Read more: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-scimitar-crested-spinosaurus-species-central.html

illustrations by Dani Navarro

[kaijutegu]

it's got a fenestra in its jaw that fits a tegu head with ease

that's a 42 inch lizard to give you an idea of just how big this thing is