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Emily Stepp
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Freelance illustrator / concept artist / paleoartist. Please email me at [email protected] for business inquiries.
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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · Jul 24
Hey, everyone! I'm here hoping to keep sharing my paleoart and paleo-inspired art with the world.
Digital self portrait of artist Emily Stepp 2022 holding the small dinosaur Jakapil. Digital self portrait of artist Emily Stepp 2021 holding a hatchling Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur with a larger one behind.
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Mara Brown Amargasaurus design. Still some dinosaurs in the backlog to post! @marabrownwd.bsky.social

#Amargasaurus #Dinosaur #Paleoart
Amargasaurus sauropod dinosaur facing left in a walking pose with giraffe coloration.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Evidently my hens Smartypants and One-Eye are closer than I thought.
Three of my hens standing in the run while I was hanging out with them. Smartypants must think it's a little cold and stood underneath One-Eye for warmth. I didn't know these two were this friendly with one another. My brown leghorn hen stands silently judging me for peeping.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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So this morning my partner looked out the window and told me that our duck hen Sweetie Pie was in the yard and must not have went into the coop last night. I was so sure this wasn't true. I had to walk all the way up to this duck to know it wasn't her though. Looked the same, acted different.
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops fan DNA variants ± ceratopsian.

#JurassicWorld #JurassicWorldRebirth #Aquilops #Dinosaur
Digital pencil style sketches on a white paper background of variants of the Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops facing right in a standing pose. The top variant has added ceratopsian DNA and is bipedal with tail filaments and a more accurate Aquilops skull structure, middle variant is the base design from the movie showing its mostly recognizable dinosaur shape, and on bottom is the less ceratopsian variant with the animals that fill in the gaps of the DNA much more prominent.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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So lately I've been messaging my partner right when I wake up so I don't forget my dream. They're pretty standard dream slush where I can pinpoint why I'm dreaming about each thing, but they're very vivid.
Facebook messages on Sunday morning where I say "had a dream during my nap that they were holding a big impromptu haunted house in the old apple house building but it was in November and they were pretending it was a christmas store and they had really elaborate roller coasters and I accidentally wasn't aware you steer the direction they go and we bumped into another one and then later there was a poke place in it and it was a grocery store / hotel" and then he answers me about 20 minutes later saying, "Weird one." Facebook messages today at 9:42 am. I say, "Vivid dream Chris had a huge attic all stone with fire coming out of the air vents and a big fireplace that had too much fire and revealed the animated skeletons of vamptires" He then answers me, "Your having weird dreams" and I reply, "Remembering them, dreams standard"
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Having clients in vastly different time zones means I can work on one piece while I'm waiting on feedback for the other.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Mara Brown @marabrownwd.bsky.social Carnotaurus design. There's still some de-extinct creatures in the backlog to post.

#Dinosaur #Carnotaurus
A brightly colored science fiction Carnotaurus sketch facing right.
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I liked del Toro's Frankenstein okay, but I'm kinda glad I didn't go see it in the theater on Halloween like I almost did. Being able to pause it midway was nice because the pacing was a bit difficult. Didn't keep me as captivated as I was hoping.
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Now that the winners have been decided in Goji Center's Hybrid War, here's my sketches of the top 8 dinosaur hybrids battling it out that I never posted on their own. Congratulations to all of the contestants! #HybridWar #DinosaurHybrids
Grayscale digital pencil style sketches of the various top 8 hybrids in separate battles against the Indom 2.0.
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Not as much aurora tonight, but I got to see some before the clouds rolled in. On the bank of the Spokane River looking north.
View of a tree line along a river with stars, clouds, and faint green glow with pillars of pink aurora. View of a tree line along a river with stars, clouds, and faint green glow with pillars of pink aurora.
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Ebirah Extreme for Batwing89's fan redesign series Godzilla Extreme.
#Godzilla #Ebirah #Kaiju #GodzillaExtreme
Ebirah as a mutated gigantic pistol shrimp. It is a vibrant cadmium red and shown in a standing pose. There are abilities and pairings between it and Godzilla Extreme illustrated around the sides of the concept sheet. Being a pistol shrimp, Ebirah's most powerful ability is his giant oversized claw. Capable of being used on both in the water and land, using the claw in the water is far more dangerous. The power output is estimated to be billions of times more powerful than the average pistol shrimp. The other claw is significantly smaller, but still dangerous. The insides of the claw are lined with numerous spiked teeth used for gripping and stabbing prey.
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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The aurora from earlier tonight outside of Spokane, Washington in my light polluted yard. You could clearly see the magenta with the naked eye.
Overhead photo of the magenta aurora, about how bright it was with my eyes. The sickly yellow and green glow with magenta aurora and stars behind my neighbor's tree line. The back of my house with a green aurora behind. A low angle of our picnic table looking up from the seat with Nibbler the duck making an appearance while he hung out with me.
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Jurassic Park 3 and One Million Years B.C. Ceratosaurus design study for DracoTyrannus.

#Dinosaur #Retrosaur #Ceratosaurus #JurassicPark3 #OneMillionYearsBC
Digital pencil style line study of two movie Ceratosaurus designs. Roughly in scale based on what we see on screen compared to the humans in the scene. The 2001 Jurassic Park 3 Ceratosaurus and the 1966 One Million Years B.C. Ceratosaurus commissioned by DracoTyrannus.
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I know it's a good problem to have, but I keep lying to myself that things will slow down and I'll have time to work on personal work after a big client project. There's usually another as soon as I'm done, but I feel bad for neglecting my Horror Archetypes. I really WILL make time for them soon.
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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Fionna and Cake is so good. Here's some old Adventure Time fan art of mine. 2012 to 2015.

#AdventureTime #FionnaAndCake
Painted easter eggs from 2012 with various main characters from Adventure Time. Gunter, Ice King, Finn, Jake, Cake, and Fionna. Crossover artwork of CatDog and Adventure Time with CakeJake next to a combination CatDog Treehouse I made for my little brother's birthday in 2013. Fan art spoof title card of a fictional episode where Fionna and Cake and Finn and Jake crossover titled "Doppelgangers" from 2014. Made in 2015 to celebrate marriage equality with Marceline and Bubblegum both in white dresses in front of a rainbow heart holding hands.
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Mara Brown Mosasaurus design. More de-extinct creatures in the backlog I need to post still. @marabrownwd.bsky.social #paleoart #Mosasaurus #mosasaur
Mosasaurus with forked tongue sticking out and facing right. It has vertical stripes on its tail and rosettes on its body. Its coloration is mostly a brownish gray.
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Tropeognathus card I illustrated for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster deck "Silent Giant." #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #Tropeognathus #Pterosaur #JPTCG
The Jurassic Park style pterosaur with mouth open flying and looking over its shoulder with red coloration and darker purplish stripes over a lush river with wispy clouds in a blue sky. Card text is Korean.
November 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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No thoughts, head empty.
My muscovy duck hens standing in a row by the fence the other day. Behind them is my car and behind that is my neighbors' various trucks and tires and campers etc.
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Paleoart speedpaint of Jane as the proposed new species Nanotyrannus lethaeus based on Toon-Rex's design. #Dinosaur #Paleoart #Tyrannosaur #Nanotyrannus #Nanotyrannuslethaeus
Jane with proportions based on Scott Hartman's new skeletal diagram but with hands closer in proportion to Bloody Mary the Nanotyrannus lancensis with coloration and integument based directly on Toon-Rex's depiction.
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Compilation of the final week of #Paleoctober2025 process time lapse videos. youtu.be/ZpIYqS65IFQ
Paleoctober Week 4 | Paleoart Speedpaints
YouTube video by Emily Stepp Paleoart
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November 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#Paleoctober2025 day 31 paleoart sketch of the extremely old problematic fossil that might be one of the first eukaryotic organisms Diskagma.

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Diskagma
A zoomed in view of the organisms in soil.
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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#Paleoctober2025 day 30 paleoart sketch with the long-necked stegosaur Miragaia / Dacentrurus

#Paleoctober #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Stegosaurid #Miragaia #Dacentrurus
The stegosaur from the shoulders up reaching for leaves with its tongue extended like an okapi in a forested environment with rim lighting.
November 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Gwangi design study for DracoTyrannus. #Gwangi #Dinosaur #Retrosaur #TheValleyofGwangi
Digital line sketches of Gwangi the retro carnivorous theropod dinosaur facing forward and to the left side.
November 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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#Paleoctober2025 days 28 and 29 with paleoart sketches of the lovebird Agapornis longipes and the marine mollusk Bellerophon sp.

#Agapornislongipes #Bellerophon #Paleoart #Paleoctober
The lovebird standing tall with its long tarsometatarsus among dead grass to show off its green and yellow coloration. Color scheme is speculative based on extant members of the genus. The small mollusk on the seafloor in the sand with some on its foot. It is shown here as a gastropod.
November 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Amphithere sketches for the book "Field Guide to Cryptids" written in-universe by the character Liza Friday by Layne A. Wyman.
"The Amphitheres are a unique group of dragons native to the Americas. They possess wings but have completely lost their hindlimbs. This does not hinder them and when grounded they will move about in a very snake-like manner. They are the most derived form of dragon and believed to be descended from the same ancestor as the Wyverns. The Mexican Amphithere, Draconis quetzalcoatlus is a 10 meter long predator known for its bright colored plumage a feature only known in this subfamily. Despite its large size it is able to hide within the dense rainforest and is believed to have inspired the Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl The American Amphithere, Draconis americanus is much smaller, only reaching about 5 meters in length. This creature is native to the western regions of North America and relies on its speed to ambush prey like deer and pronghorn from above."
November 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM