Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕

Rendered out a test shot of this vocalising Cryolophosaurus! It's all a bit janky and I have a lot to learn, but it is so fun working in Blender that I can see myself doing loads more of these little shorts.

#sciart #paleoart

two snail fursonas, both with yellow neon dots on the snail part, glasses and pink punk hair, one is wearing a tank top on the slimey part the other on the shell, the text above says "how would a snurry wear a tank top?"

I'm now way too intrigued by making a snurry work lol

ECCC! Booth 11120 across from the Legging Lass! I got lots of goodies for you!

Photo of my booth at ECCC with print of dinosaurs art and stickers displayed. Also a full size Torvosaurus skull.

I’m all set up for ECCC, stop by booth 10024 and look at some dinosaur art and say hello to me and my booth mate Penelope, the Torvosaurus.

My art, 2020. A female werewolf eating flesh

I’m a real bitch when I’m hungry

Pterocoma pennata, a comatulid ("feather star") from the Jurassic of Germany

Ginkgoites huttoni, a ginkgo from the Jurassic of England.

Cymatophlebia longialata, a dragonfly from the Jurassic of Germany

Pterodactylus antiquus, a pterosaur from the Jurassic of Germany.

Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany

Jeffrey Epstein’s tissue samples ignited a furor in the Harvard lab of George Church - The Boston Globe Internal pushback succeeded in stopping any special treatment for Epstein.

Though funny that NPR doesn’t mention Epstein friend George Church’s deep involvement in Colossal.

I’m glad NPR included skeptical voices - because de-extinction is a dangerous fantasy - but we’ve seen this before. Colossal dangles a story/access, journalists take it and say other researchers have criticisms, and nothing changes save for an update to the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Mammoth! timeline

It’s a joy to watch them. The details on even a common snail’s shell are always beautiful.

I do like the capabilities of their radula, too.

It’s going to be vertebrates again for the next round, but I’m hoping for enough of a smash that I can pick a wish list item. I’ve had some invertebrate considerations.

The fact that you’re the second person who said this makes me think you all are on to something

Oh perfect! I’ll definitely check this out 🐌

Which reminds me of a favorite desk friend.

No cucumbers left to even become pickles

If I ever have to filibuster anything this is going to be what I talk about until I drop.

Hahaha oh my gosh, amazing already, the glasses a great touch because I love the questions they raise

an utterly ridiculous redraw of riley's fursona as a snail with a tall shell, a blue ring slimy foot, glasses, lashes, and a hot pink hairdo

SNEL SPARKLESONA???

I picked a palette so strong I’m not allowed another.

I remember seeing their eggs when I was a kid and they blew my mind

Also a very strong contender

Three drawings of lemurs on black paper. At the top a Fork-marked lemur drawn with white gel pen and pastel pencils; in the middle an Aye-Aye - I used yellow stickers for his eyes and metallic pencils for the line work; lastly an Indri lemur - his luminous green eyes are achieved with tempera stick - everything else pastel pencil.

A class on drawing lemurs over @artistinresidence.co
I've been working through the alphabet each week - two letters at a time. This one - M & N - Madagascar and Night. The series has all been about brainstorming A -> Z to produce drawing ideas. It works! #drawing #artclass #lemur #sciart #arttutor

Indi in her witchy familiar form

Witchy business...

Reason 1278 hanging out with other trans people is best, because we already fuckin' know and can talk about anything other than the literally painfully obvious.

Mammals are great but I need something with a higher base slime level.

I think this might be the year. The time for a

snailsona

I especially hate it when it's not even news, it's some video of some hateful loser dredged up with no context, relevant to nothing, posting like "This is what we're fighting!"

You don't say.

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories.

Men: What a scary time for men this is.

Every time I have a new book coming out I'm convinced that this is the one that'll demonstrate I don't know what I'm doing and I know little.

And yet the response keeps telling me otherwise. Maybe one day I'll internalize it.