Dindostars Illustration

I had a baby in January!

I did what I threatened to do!

I made RedBubble greeting cards out of my dinosaur Christmas/Solstice cards.

Enjoy!

Christmas Dinosaur T-Rex

Christmas Dinosaur Brontosaurus

Christmas Dinosaur Stegosaurus

Sailor Batgirls!

Because Batgirls are awesome, and Sailor Moon is awesome. Ergo...

I'm finally reading my book She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth and so I am once again hopelessly in love with Eleanor of Aquitaine (because she's a badass), and so I decided to doodle my two favorite queens!

My other favorite queen is Marie Antoinette, for reasons I can't quite figure out.

What started as a grumpy Mal going for a slumpy walk quickly evolved into Zip being Zip.

Clearly she had something important to tell him before she knocked him off balance.

I'm working on a comic about Persephone and Hades, and I finished the first page.

Drawing the Underworld throne room is a pain because I decided years ago that everything is black and decorated in gems. (Whose fault is that? Mine.)

Also, Cerberus is having some downtime in the throne room. He is the best dog and his heads are homages to three dog I knew: a fawn English mastiff named Abby, an apricot brindle English mastiff named Pharroah, and a black/brindle Neopolitan mastiff/pitbull mix named Shamira.

Thanks for the follows, guys! I know exactly where most of you came from (Percy Jackson fandom), and I am perfectly flattered that you decided to stick around!

Like anybody listens to you, Zeus.

I made this to show off the fancy Greek border design font I made.

I've been working on this font for a few days! It's been a lot of fun, and I'm really happy with how it's turned out. (Here is my fonts tag from my main blog to see a handful of WIPs.)

There had been an ancient Greek style font that I was using in the past (as seen in this post from several years ago), but a) it wasn't on this computer and b) I spur of the moment decided I wanted to try my hand at my own ancient Greek style font.

In studying some of the alphabets that I found, I noticed that Greek is actually a lot rounder than pop culture would lead us to believe! And I decided I wanted to emulate that. I borrowed very heavily from ancient Greek where possible (...even if the sound the Greek represents is not the sound the modern alphabet makes), and edited my way around to get what I wanted.

I really liked the aesthetic of the smaller, underlined vowels from the original font I had, and so I kept that aspect, but creating separate lowercase letters (borrowing from modern Greek for a, e, and u). I also decided early on that I wanted this font to be very blocky -- to that end, all of the letters are created in the same size square, with capitals underlined.

(The capitals being underlined was actually just how all the letters looked before I changed my mind and removed it for the lowercase.)

The numbers don't follow quite the same width, though they are the same height as the lowercase vowels, and are all the same width as a set.