#marsupial
This week’s watercolor was a short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossusaculeatus) and a numbat (Myrmecobiusfasciatus).
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Griffin Migration, 2022
Wrap-around cover for the Almost Real Zine (Vol. 5 - Mythology). As a long-time fan of the zine, it was a true honour to work on this!
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Today I found out the earliest known rodents are from AFTER the K-T extinction event that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs.
The things you do for unnecessary details on the dinosaur project thingy.
(for the record, was thinking of a drawing with some dinosaur bones with a skull, like the one time when me and a friend found an old, mossy deer skull in the woods as kids, but then thought it should probably have some tooth marks, since rodents have a habit of munching on bones to get calcium, but were there rodents in Campanian? And it turns out no, there probably wasn’t, and wonder if there was anything with teeth strong enough to leave gnaw marks on a bone besides, like, tyrannosaurs, and oh, hey, look, someone’s overthinking things again! Remember when this was supposed to be just made up fantasy setting with some flavor of dinosaur once upon a time? Me neither)
Alright, so these probably aren’t the precise ones you’re after (I think the bone bed is a little early and a little too west) but Filikomys primaevus was a species of burrowing marsupials found in Montana during the Cretaceous. They have rather rodent-like front teeth that are deeply rooted, so plausibly could have gnawed in a similar way!
Also that whole genus (and it’s family) is mostly known from their teeth, but fossilised teeth have been found across all north america and asia from most points in the Cretaceous, so you can plausibly say that something SIMILAR existed in the area of your dinosaur project.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/11/19/fossils-reveal-sociality-in-early-mammals/
A Bilby for your Sunday
Happy Easter for the friendos that do, hugs for the friendos that don’t, and abundant cheap chocolate for all!!!
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And for those friendos not in Australia, this is a Bilby! What a cutie, these native marsupials are a hot contender for the Easter Bunny’s job Or perhaps it’s the other way around? Rabbits are an invasive species here, and compete for food with these little beans (and are generally better at it, too). Buns are lovely, but they’re friends for life not gifts you can leave in the wild when you get bored! May your buns be well loved or chocolate this Easter
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#easterlongweekend #happyeaster #easterbilby #melbourneartist #aussieartist #bilby #australiananimals #marsupial #cuteanimals #painteveryday #lovetopaint #courageouscreative #illustration #kidlitart #onmydesk #melbourneart #easter #watercolourart #watercolourartist
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Matschie’s tree-kangaroo, Toronto Zoo, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Ministry
Via Flickr:
Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) at Woodland Park Zoo (5) by Nick Michalski
Matschie’s Tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus matschiei) by Paul Chudyk
possum love
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Nes stroking/tugging on his ear here on page 77 is a callback to Irwin stroking his ear to calm him down on page 44. :3
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Hurray, my first comic strip since December! It was nice to do another one of these again. I’ve built up about 150 ideas, all written down, but I’ve been too busy to get to them until now. =P For now, enjoy this one - comic idea #140!
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Thank you as always for your continued support! <3 This month’s drawing idea came from Breonnick, with Nes getting stuck in the rain mid-workout!
Also please welcome my newest patrons, Travis W. and Ott Miro! ^^
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I was looking forward to this moment. :3
I’ve made some changes to how I do commissions, so I’m hoping I’ll be back to doing more Little Runt pages (and comics in general) regularly this summer!
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Anthonydemaio requested that his character and his son meet Nes, with the boy getting a picture taken with Nes. I imagined this taking place at some outdoor tournament or even a county fair, with Nes being a “local celebrity” for them to meet. I intentionally did some things to replicate the style of the Little Runt comic, like adding the paper texture. And well, the rest is history! :3
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