J.W. Kirby
Hey its Kirby! They/Them Paleo/wildlife artist
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- What are your art ambitions for 2026? Make sure to post them here so we can publicly shame you if you achieve none of them!!
- Earn more money off of art than I did last year (0 dollars)
- 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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- Killer values here
- New painting! Featuring a pod of Stenopterygius
- New painting! Featuring the pterosaur Sordes pilosus of late Jurassic Kazakhstan.
- Odobenocetops doodle I did on break at work last year
- 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.
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- Thank you I really appreciate that!
- Little experiment with brushstroke economy, staring some Ichthyornis and Hesperornis enjoying a Xiphactinus buffet
- 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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- BRENNAN THIS IS SO SICK!!!
- 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
- 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
- Speculative Scorpiovenators I did on paleostream in 2020
- 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.
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- Thanks so much Steve!!! Love your work
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- What kindve white out pen do you use? All the ones I buy dry up and stop working so quickly 😭
- 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
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- Noooo!!! Having a similar problem though. Trying to post new art but everytime I select it bluesky just restarts :/ This place is pretty janky honestly
- 20 minute Nieba drawing I did on Paleostream back in 2021
- Study of my ferret Suni I did back in 2019
- A very spherical Arsinoitherium I did back in 2020
- 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
- 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
- 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
