J.W. Kirby
Hey its Kirby! They/Them Paleo/wildlife artist
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- Reposted by J.W. KirbyIn 2025 I really got back into traditional media, learned a lot more about working in 3D, and painted many, many dinosaurs. Cheers to 2026, and may we all paint more of what we love #paleoart #dinosaurart #tellmeaboutyourfavoritedinosaur
- I don't know who needs to hear this but I am not a fan of the fast food drive in Sonic. . .
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- Reposted by J.W. KirbyAnd here the results from the Solnhofen #paleostream! This image depicts large parts of the terrestrial fauna of the Altmühltal Formation, the best understood part of the litographic limestone formations of Germany. There were several reasons for gong onto land despite...
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- Reposted by J.W. KirbyNew at #Patreon: discussion of this scene of Sinosauropteryx waiting out a feeding Yutyrannus for carcass access. Or - hold on - are they waiting for their parent to feed them? Behold, the compsognathid identity dispute, now #paleoart flavoured! #sciart #dinosaurs www.patreon.com/posts/132334...
- Reposted by J.W. KirbyIs autumn on the way? The best season to draw forests #sciart
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- New painting! Featuring a pod of Stenopterygius
- Reposted by J.W. KirbyKleptoparasitism. Geosternternbergia, Nyctosaurus and Enchodus. Inspired by the book Oceans of Kansas by Micheal J Everhart and the brown pelicans, magnificent frigate birds and delicious mahi-mahi tacos at my trip to Puerto Vallarta. #paleoart #pterosaurs
- New painting! Featuring the pterosaur Sordes pilosus of late Jurassic Kazakhstan.
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- Reposted by J.W. KirbyOk, another Mexidracon thread because I find this critter just fascinating. In our latest stream I tried to illustrate my point further by showing the proposed sediment probing behavior I assume for this animal. #paleoart #sciart #scicomm #mexidracon
- Reposted by J.W. KirbyPhyllochrysa huangi • Liverwort Mimesis in a Cretaceous Lacewing Larva (Liu et al. 2018) Illustration by Dinghua Yang #paleoart #paleoentomology #sciart
- Odobenocetops doodle I did on break at work last year
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- Reposted by J.W. KirbyHappy New Year. 🥲 Troodontid in the Snow Ink, 111 × 149 mm.
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- Little experiment with brushstroke economy, staring some Ichthyornis and Hesperornis enjoying a Xiphactinus buffet
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- A quick Arsinoitherium painting I did a bit ago, part of a series of quickly done paintings ive done to get ideas out that I may go back to and refine later.
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- Reposted by J.W. Kirbyprolly shoulda done this sooner but oh Balls with it hi im zhombah!!! i draw things and now i draw things here!!! the things are usually dinos! sometimes not! who knows!!!!!!!!!!
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- I've been doing little thumbnail illustrations of future paintings I want to do as a way to get my ideas down on paper. Here's a selection of some!
- Got a lot of new followers on here recently, so I think I'm gonna start posting again soon. Collecting together all my old art so I can get to it!
- T.rex doodles I did on break
- Reposted by J.W. Kirbyit's hagfish day so here's an illustration I did in celebration of this creature
- Giant Squid study from a few months ago
- Haven't been active in a while due to family stuff. Here's a Taningia danae I did on my fifteen at work a few months ago with Crayola Markes
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- Speculative Scorpiovenators I did on paleostream in 2020
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- Another one from the California Dinosaurs set (2017) this one Augustynolophus. Biggest mistake with this one was not having the beak curve out and downwards like a Hadrosaur beak should.
- Labocania piece I did in 2017, part of a 4 part California dinosaur series. This species is very fragmentary so the reconstruction was exceedingly speculative.
- Another unfinished piece of a couple of Aeteosaurs having a stand off from 2017. Although it's not technically done, I kindve like the simplicity of it haha.
- Another one from 2016. Nqwebasaurus, again it was suppose to be another life size piece but I made it way too small. I'm not sure where I got my measurements from but its definitely not right haha
- Really old Pterosaur nest parasitism piece I did in early 2016. Maybe not the most well thought out concept, and that bark looks so jank, but I remember having fun with this one.
- Scansoriopterygids I did in 2016. They where suppose to be life size but idk how well that worked out haha Also probably wouldn't've restored their wing membranes this way if I did them today. Like everyone I had some whacky ideas back in the day
- Something from my lost, unfinished paintings collection. This was a concavenator piece inspired by a painting from Claude Monet. I was so close to being done with this one too. . .suppose I could always paint over it . What do yall think?
- Tupandactylus flocking together sketch from a couple years ago.
- A really, really old piece from when I was just starting to get the hang of digital art back in 2016 of some Rhamphorhynchus hatchling emerging from the sand.
- The old juvenile Gorgo piece I did back in 2017
- Another 20 minute stream sketch, this time of a breaching Xiphactinus
- 20 minute Dolichorhynchops speed paint I did on Paleostream back in 2021
- Shiny looking Lystrosarus from 2019
- I can however post this Arizonasaurus thumbnail I did I'm 2018 since it's in my recents, so enjoy this consolation prize.
- Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. The Bluesky mobile app updated and now it will only let me select media from three folders on my phone. Very odd, so I haven't been able to access my art folder :/ Don't really know how to fix that other than posting from desktop.
- Pangupterus painting from 2017
- Study of a Herring Gull I did to ease myself back into doing digital art after a long break
- Quetzalcoatlus from my fifteen yesterday
- Pteranodon I did on my fifteen with Crayola markers yesterday
- 20 minute Nieba drawing I did on Paleostream back in 2021
- Study of my ferret Suni I did back in 2019
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- A very spherical Arsinoitherium I did back in 2020
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- Anchiornis sketch I did on my fifteen yesterday
- Tyrannosaurus and Beipiaosaurus studies I did in 2022
- Mososaurus I did back in 2021 with Copic markers
- Nothronychus I did last year. May make it into a digital painting one of these days
- Reposted by J.W. KirbyHi folks! I work at Florida Museum of Natural History/Uni of Florida. I work on the NSF grant #oVertTCN, where I CT scan lots of museum specimens & make the data available, & a grant called #NoCTURN where I work on improving findability, accessibility, reusability, & interoperability of that data
- 20 minute Ambulocetus sketch I did on a flocking together back in 2021
- Eoraptor family I did back in 2016 #sciart
- Juvenile Allosaurus I sketched on a break at work back in 2022
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- Last piece I did as guest art for the Saurian book, this time Thoracosaurus and Borealosuchus. Was one of my first times painting crocodylimorphs so the scales are a little wonky looking haha
