Creature Inspiration

booty spots

[ID: digital illustration of a concavenator in an unnatural pose with a vibrant color scheme, floating over a dark blue square on an off-white background. the front of its body and head are facing the bottom right corner. It looks up in profile view, its mouth opened. one arm, covered in fluff snd quilled feathers, is raised out from its side, tge other, mostly blocked by a fluffy upper body, has irs hand visible. One leg is bunched up and back behind it, while for the other, only ila partially outstretched foof is visible. its tail bends up, running parents to the rectangle for a moment before zig zagging back down towards its face. it also has quills along it hump and tip of its tail. In the bottom left corner is a watermark reading: “LEAVES AND INKS”. /end ID]

My recent trip to Polish/Czech mountains reminded me of working on this series of illustrations for the Carved in Stone book 🖤 while our countries are far away, all the beautiful heathers, ferns and mossy rocks reminded me of making the reasearch for these! I'm still so, so happy and thankful I had a chance to work on them.

- kittens can also ignite.

- equivalent of “declawing” is removal of the flame sac, eliminating the ability to self-ignite; Causes heavy mental health problems for the “domesticated” animal.

- self-igniting is defensive, as there are bigger things eager to eat this creature.

- wild animal, part of the illegal pet trade.

- intelligent, but not on a human level; closer to apes.

- can live up to 120 years

- coats are prized. The species being protected by law, coats only acquired via poaching.

Little doodle of mama and grub!

A pair of Brancasaurus take advantage of Egertonodus's tonic immobility to have some good wholesome fun!

Also featuring a solo Coelodus and a small school of Ionoscopus