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H. McGill
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Indie Gamedev Artist
Webcomics: Amphiox, RAWR! Dinosaur Friends
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http://hmcgill.art


Do NOT use my art to train AI
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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 10d
Surprise indie game drop!

Tittivillus Teaches Typning is the ultimate educational* typing game, perfect for if you're a 12th century monk trying to get his fancy manuscript in time to please a grumpy abbot!

*not

#gamedev #indie #medieval #art #game #gaming #itch #demon

chromokun.itch.io/typning
Cover graphic for the tiny but fierce indie typing game, Tittivillus Teaches Typning. It has a lockup in medieval-looking letters on a gold label, hovering over a plush green background. The titular Tittivillus demon pokes up from somewhere offscreen, just his blue batlike horned face visible from the nose up (and a little bit of his friendly smile). His wings spread out behind him and are mostly cropped by the graphic's constraints. Regrettably, as of typing, this game does not have any purposeful built-in accessibility functions for low-vision or blind users. The general consensus on the play experience is that it's a really nice typing game but the demon (and the accompanying main gameplay conceit of typos coming back to haunt you) can go jump in a lake. Cropped screenshot of the game, depicting the player character as a hapless monk in front of a vintage Dell computer from the early nineties. The monk is wearing soft blue robes including a snood cap and long flowing sleeves with enough room to stuff his belongings into. The monk is sitting in a chair in front of a desk with a nice green tapestry, with a chunky beige keyboard for his fingers to eventually flail over and press. The monk appears to be inside of a stylized cathedral of some sort with fancy tall gothic windows looking out on quiet darkness. The monk has a speech bubble overhead: "So if I don't make any mistakes, I don't need to worry, right?" is what he says. It has a pointer finger shaped like a medieval marginalia indicating that the player may proceed to the next bit of dialogue at any time.
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I revamped this slightly-exaggerated one-page diary comic with new art

Can't remember if '2022' was when I wrote the comic or when we actually went out to this restaurant, but we probably went out pre-2020 because I didn't draw anyone wearing masks

#comic #memoir #art #food #seattle #bicycle
Digital comic depicting a bicycle outing by H. and their spouse, Devin. The top graphic is an embellished ‘Biscuit Mountain’ in an arc over a man climbing a mountain of American (not British) biscuits. Panel 1 depicts H. and Devin riding their bikes under an overpass on a road lush with trees and roadside buildings. Devin: I’m not going to get the Biscuit Mountain again. Panel 2 depicts H. and Devin taking off their helmets. Devin: It is an unreasonable amount of biscuits. Panel three has H. and Devin in a restaurant. H.: What’ll you get instead? Devin: Eh… Panel 4 shows the menu. The first entry is one biscuit on a plate, labeled ‘A reasonable amount of biscuits.’ The second entry is a pile of biscuits. It’s labeled ‘Biscuit mountain.’ Panel 5 has the waiter attempting to take Devin’s order. Waiter: Hi! Can I take your ord— Devin (interrupting): Biscuit Mountain!
January 5, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Thinking about turning these into vinyl stickers because my shop could use more stock.

Anyone got any must-haves, if I only did 4-5 of these guys? Or would sticker sheets containing multiple guys be good?

(Shop in question: hmcgill.art/shop)

#smallbusiness #art
January 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Reposted by H. McGill
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Surprise indie game drop!

Tittivillus Teaches Typning is the ultimate educational* typing game, perfect for if you're a 12th century monk trying to get his fancy manuscript in time to please a grumpy abbot!

*not

#gamedev #indie #medieval #art #game #gaming #itch #demon

chromokun.itch.io/typning
Cover graphic for the tiny but fierce indie typing game, Tittivillus Teaches Typning. It has a lockup in medieval-looking letters on a gold label, hovering over a plush green background. The titular Tittivillus demon pokes up from somewhere offscreen, just his blue batlike horned face visible from the nose up (and a little bit of his friendly smile). His wings spread out behind him and are mostly cropped by the graphic's constraints. Regrettably, as of typing, this game does not have any purposeful built-in accessibility functions for low-vision or blind users. The general consensus on the play experience is that it's a really nice typing game but the demon (and the accompanying main gameplay conceit of typos coming back to haunt you) can go jump in a lake. Cropped screenshot of the game, depicting the player character as a hapless monk in front of a vintage Dell computer from the early nineties. The monk is wearing soft blue robes including a snood cap and long flowing sleeves with enough room to stuff his belongings into. The monk is sitting in a chair in front of a desk with a nice green tapestry, with a chunky beige keyboard for his fingers to eventually flail over and press. The monk appears to be inside of a stylized cathedral of some sort with fancy tall gothic windows looking out on quiet darkness. The monk has a speech bubble overhead: "So if I don't make any mistakes, I don't need to worry, right?" is what he says. It has a pointer finger shaped like a medieval marginalia indicating that the player may proceed to the next bit of dialogue at any time.
December 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Taking a little break to re-do an old personal comic about biscuits, kind of fond of how it's turning out

#Art #DigitalArt #Comics #Indie #food
Cropped screenshot of a digital art comic, of just the title panel: "Biscuit Mountain". The title is in chunky serif font, aligned on a black circle. Inside of the circle is a pile of gargantuan biscuits, each lovingly embellished with golden, buttery detail. The silhouette of a mighty mountain climber alights the top of Biscuit Mountain, planting a red flag there.
December 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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I will post an extinct animal every day until the 24th!

Day 1: Velociraptor

Chomp chomp! This guy was actually as small as a housecat.

#artadventcalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #dinosaur #velociraptor
Digital cel-shaded art of a little velociraptor with a big nasty attitude. The velociraptor is posed in an attack position with its mouth wide open, tiny needle teeth ready to chomp. It is colored somewhat like a roadrunner with speckled brown feathers and red eyes. The velociraptor is perched on a square isometric chunk of rock meant to look like a bit of Gobi Desert where this dinosaur once dwelled millions of years ago. Tufts of desert grass stick out from the chunk.
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
hannahcomb.bsky.social
Surprise indie game drop!

Tittivillus Teaches Typning is the ultimate educational* typing game, perfect for if you're a 12th century monk trying to get his fancy manuscript in time to please a grumpy abbot!

*not

#gamedev #indie #medieval #art #game #gaming #itch #demon

chromokun.itch.io/typning
Cover graphic for the tiny but fierce indie typing game, Tittivillus Teaches Typning. It has a lockup in medieval-looking letters on a gold label, hovering over a plush green background. The titular Tittivillus demon pokes up from somewhere offscreen, just his blue batlike horned face visible from the nose up (and a little bit of his friendly smile). His wings spread out behind him and are mostly cropped by the graphic's constraints. Regrettably, as of typing, this game does not have any purposeful built-in accessibility functions for low-vision or blind users. The general consensus on the play experience is that it's a really nice typing game but the demon (and the accompanying main gameplay conceit of typos coming back to haunt you) can go jump in a lake. Cropped screenshot of the game, depicting the player character as a hapless monk in front of a vintage Dell computer from the early nineties. The monk is wearing soft blue robes including a snood cap and long flowing sleeves with enough room to stuff his belongings into. The monk is sitting in a chair in front of a desk with a nice green tapestry, with a chunky beige keyboard for his fingers to eventually flail over and press. The monk appears to be inside of a stylized cathedral of some sort with fancy tall gothic windows looking out on quiet darkness. The monk has a speech bubble overhead: "So if I don't make any mistakes, I don't need to worry, right?" is what he says. It has a pointer finger shaped like a medieval marginalia indicating that the player may proceed to the next bit of dialogue at any time.
December 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by H. McGill
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Hello new followers! If you're bored and like free webcomics, here's mine!

It's a complete short story about a ruined world full of alternative energy...and magic doom eels.

(Includes detailed transcripts on every page)

amphiox.hmcgill.art/comic/amphio...

#webcomics #amphiox #comics #indie
Image depicted is the cover to the webcomic, Amphiox. It's a black cover with criss-crossing blue serpent coils taking up most of the background. The coils writhe around each other with faint glimmers of scales highlighted, before vanishing into darkness. This is a teaser for the beast that will be encountered and explained within the webcomic. Layered over the writing coils of the Amphiox is its tail, oddly centered and still compared to the rest of its body. An amphiox's tail ends in a fin with rounded tips. The fin's color is a bright, bioluminescent gradient composed of yellow fading into bright skyblue, before tapering into a darker cerulean. The tail has vibrating red highlights. It casts a rainbow of highlights onto its own scales. Attached to this tail are two more, lesser pectoral and dorsal fins, in cerulean blue. The pectoral fin pokes out near the tail, and the dorsal fin is further up, and larger. White text overlaid on top: AMPHIOX H. McGIll http://hmcgill.art
June 2, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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Day 24: Yutyrannus

Who's tyrannus? "You's" tyrannus!

This is the final gift in my calendar. Thank you so much to everyone for following along!

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #SciArt #Dinosaur #Tyrannosaurus #Winter #Animal
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a big fluffy white yutyrannus, a tyrannosaur known for being covered in feather-like stuff. This one was rendered like a polar bear, with off-white proto-feathers and black skin for absorbing as much of the sun’s heat as possible. The dinosaur is hunkered down with three of its tiny offspring, each sporting their own puffy winter coat, on an isometric chunk of snow. Two of the tyrannosaurus siblings proclaim their dominance on top of the dinosaur, while the third snuggles up under the parent’s teeny two-fingered wing. The yutyrannus perches on its own tail, using the feathers as insulation for its big clawed feet. Sunlight drapes along the dinosaur’s back. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Day 23: Trilobite

Any guesses on what will show up for day 24?

(In the meantime, Try-a-bite!)

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #SciArt #Trilobite #Invertebrate #Bug #Animal #Nature #Purple #Illustration
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a purple trilobite trucking across an isometric chunk of sea mud. Trilobites are generally shaped like giant roly polies, with segmented bodies and heads shaped like crescent moons. Its eyes are multifaceted and protrude from the sides of its face. As a member of the Kolihapeltis species, this trilobite is particularly blessed with spikes in its shell. It has four long spikes coming out of the back of its head, one spite originating from each ‘eyebrow’ bump, and two additional spikes jutting from where the base of the head meets the body. It has spikes generously lining the sides of its body like it’s half sawblade or something. It has numerous armored, segmented legs that end in sharp points…you could say those are spikes, too. Its tail is also… Wait. The tail is not spiky at all. It’s round and fin-like, or maybe it’s a shell, as it was hard to tell from the fossil. Either way, this animal is 90% no-touchy. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Day 22: Longisquama

What would you name this lizard if it was your pet? I’m leaning towards Mr. Flappy

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Reptile #SciArt #Triassic #PaleoArt #Nature #Animal
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a longisquama, a little lizard with big showy skin frills on its back. I have drawn this to the best of my understanding, which is that the frills are vaguely feather-shaped, fanning out like a peacock’s tail except vertically, down the lizard’s spine. The frills are not feathers, though; they are made of colorful skin. The lizard’s body is yellow with brown skink striping, and the frills are a riot of blues, reds, yellows, and browns. Longisquama is posed aggressively inflating its spiky dewlap on an isometric chunk of tree, tail ready to whip anyone who dares deny its majesty. After all, the smaller you are, the meaner you gotta be to survive the Triassic (which it did not survive, at all, that we know of). Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Day 21: Tully Monster

"I Can't Believe It's Not An Invertebrate!" might be the worst margarine brand name ever. What do you think?

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Tullimonstrum #Carboniferous #PaleoArt #SciArt #Paleontology #Fish #Animal #Weird
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a Tully Monster, which is a hagfish-adjacent pink wiggly worm fish from the Carboniferous. It has a long, ribbed body with soft pink flesh, encased by protective slime that imbues it with a purple hue. It has a tear-shaped fleshy tail, primitive ‘pore’-shaped openings lining its sides for gills, zero limbs, and a head that is probably going to take a hot minute to describe well so hang on a second because I might as well write my will and testament at the same time. Okay. Here we go. Its eyes are shaped like a preschooler’s craft project, with each orbit glued onto either end of a narrow stick, and the stick has been awkwardly glued onto the creature’s head, right on top, no care for aesthetics. It has a long, stiff trunk. There is a raised hole in the trunk’s base on the front of the head that could be a misinterpretation of other reconstructions on my part, because I have no idea why there would be a hole there. The trunk itself looks very unbending cartilaginous to me on most reconstructions, with a stiff ‘elbow’ in the middle to bend it. For this composition I chose to make the trunk even bendier. The trunk has a fun surprise in the shape of a beaky mouth full of too many lamprey teeth. So what is this tully monster even doing here? It is suspended inside of a pond over an isometric chunk of pondscum-covered dirt and rocks. Tiny pinecones have fallen into this pond, as well as some twigs and stray pine needles. The tully monster hoists a spare pine tree branch over its head, with no idea what to do with it, because during the Carboniferous trees were literally just stacking up with nothing to break them down and return them to whatever cosmic hole the Tully Monster slithered out of. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Day 20: Archaeopteryx

Is the ‘P’ silent on this one, or not?

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Archaeopteryx #Dinosaur #Bird #Nature #Beach #Animal #SciArt #PaleoArt
Digital cel-shaded artwork of an archaeopteryx in a moment of exasperation, as it swooped onto the beach only to find out that a yummy thing flashing in the waves was merely an empty scalloped shell. The archaeopteryx is a dark bird with flashes of magenta iridescence across the wings, teal shine to its tail, blue shimmering from its pinions and head, and a little gold gleam in a scruffy feather collar around its neck. The scene takes place on an isometric chunk of beach sand with the thinnest, shallowest reach of an incoming wave stroking its surface. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Day 19: Plesiosaurus

Sea reptile chases fish in kindly style


This monster is real amiable
sort of freak, just
keeping pace.

Has very wide smile.

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #SciArt #Purple #Ocean #Nature #illustration #Reptile #Animal
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a plesiosaur at the end of a failed lunge to catch one of ten fish. The plesiosaurus is giant, whale-like, with its vertical tail poised upwards in the seawater, and its head brushing the sandy seafloor. Clouds of disturbed sand float around the plesiosaur’s head, long neck, and fin. This plesiosaur was drawn from the more modern idea that giant sea animals have a lot of blubber. This means its neck starts out as thick as its belly and then tapers, evenly, to the width of its narrow head. The fish being hunted are yellow, with red heads and purple rainbow fins. The whole scene takes place on an isometric chunk of seafloor, during a sunset that stains the sand and rocks violet-pink. Red corals perch on a corner of sea rock nearby. A sad little fish skeleton can be seen buried in the sand. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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My favorite thing is when someone changes their display name to something that isn't exactly a name and then follows me

Results in this iconic, flawless notification: "You have been followed by Ten Thousand Ratfolk"

While ill-advised, thank you for believing I can manage the rat kingdom
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Day 18: Triceratops

Wellness check-in. Have you had your mud bath and snack today?

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Dinosaur #Triceratops #SciArt #Paleontology #PaleoArt #Orange #Nature #Animal
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a chunky, creamsicle-colored triceratops plonked into an isometric square chunk of marshy grassland. The dinosaur is sitting, winsome expression directed at the viewer, with its reptilian tail poking out the back. The horizontal lower half of the triceratops is covered with bluish-black mud, some still wet and sliding down its body. A chunk of wet grass in the triceratops’s beak drips into the muddy water surrounding its feet and butt. More grass remains to be eaten around the triceratops’s hedonistic resting spot. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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17 Yi qi

When the fossil reveals even the slightest hints of iridescent feathers, you bet I’m here to make the whole dinosaur shimmer

#ArtAdventCalendar #Dinosaur #Yiqi #Art #DigitalArt #SciArt #PaleoArt #Blue #Bird #Cartoon #Animal
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a yi qi caught mid-bath, inside an isometric square chunk of a rain puddle with small round pebbles at the bottom. The yi qi is super iridescent with a purple face, blue head, eggshell-blue back and wing feathers, and a fan of reflective purple tail feathers. All feathers are floofed as the dinosaur runs beads of water over its body. The interesting thing about yi qi is that it has membranous wing structures under its feathers, like bat wings, but supported with an elongated wrist bone instead of fingers. These wings of skin are matte purple instead of shiny. The dinosaur looks back at the viewer with a yellow eye, like, are you for real right now? Seriously? Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Day 16: Corythosaurus

The story started out like, “Maybe dinosaurs swatted bugs away with their tails like cows do,” and turned into “Attack of the Cockroach’s Ancestor” halfway through

#ArtAdventCalendar #Dinosaur #PaleoArt #SciArt #Cretaceous #Insect #Art #DigitalArt #Nature #Illustration
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a startled corythosaurus, a duckbilled hadrosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous. The corythosaurus is beige fading to dark brown at the back, with striking horizontal stripes lining the sides of its form. It has orange cheeks, amber eyes, and yellow spots for eyebrows. It’s leaning far back with its tail about to strike. The object of the corythosaurus’s surprise is an enormous orange cockroach-looking bug, which seems to have zoomed out from underneath the nearby isometric chunk of fern-covered forest soil. The roach may make it to safety as long as it avoids a powerful swat from the dinosaur’s tail. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Day 15: Giant Ground Sloth

'Wild avocados depended on ground sloths eating them to survive' may be an oversimplified science meme...but it's cute, so I will draw it

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #GroundSloth #Pleistocene #SciArt #Avocado #Green #PaleoArt #Megafauna #Sloth #Animal #Nature
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a giant ground sloth chowing down on avocados, straight from the avocado tree. This sloth is twelve feet tall with gorgeous locks of algae-yellow hair all over its body. Its face bears the typical sloth ‘mask’ of dark spots around the eyes and a white muzzle with a wet snuffly nose at the end. The sloth’s mouth is open, bearing two absurdly long upper fangs and equally sharp-looking lower fangs, while an entire avocado gets crushed between its molars. The tree is small compared to the sloth, and planted into an isometric square chunk of prehistoric South American earth. The ground sloth grasps the tree in both of its arms and bends its trunk over one hairy shoulder in order to nab one tricky avocado in its mouth. More plump avocados await the beast’s appetite as they dangle in the tree’s branches. Knowing how fast a sloth goes it’s probably set for a few hours, if not days, of feasting. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Day 14: Dunkleosteus

Aww, it's a sea puppy! Sea puppies explore their surroundings with their mouth

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Blue #Fish #Thalassophobia #Ocean #PaleoArt #SciArt #Devonian #Paleontology
Digital cel-shaded artwork of an ancient Devonian apex predator fish, Dunkleosteus. It’s just a very very large fish with a very large mouth and big, scale-like bony teeth on a bony face. This one is countershaded with dark shades on top and a white belly, with freckle-dappled midtones between them. Usually this fish is portrayed as being very long and slim, but this dunkleosteus has been rendered more like a, well, for lack of a better term, short king. Very short body. Still fierce and also adorable. The fish is suspended over an isometeric square chunk of sandy seafloor. Water reflections dance over the fish’s skin, hard rocks poking out of the sand, and a discarded nautilus shell. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Day 13: Amargasaurus

I’m really excited about the water refraction effect I managed to paint here...May need to use it further

#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #Art #DigitalArt #Dinosaur #Sauropod #Orange #Nature #PaleoArt #Paleontology
Digital cel-shaded artwork of an enormous orange sauropod, Amargasaurus, traipsing through a flooded isometric square chunk of swamp. The animal casually towers over nearby cypress trees. It looks over one shoulder but for its size, few things would alarm it. Pterosaurs flap away from it, diminuitive in comparison to the dinosaur. The Amargasaurus has giraffe-like hexagonal markings all over its body, mingling with spots and concentric rings along its back. Its trademark head and neck fins have been rendered as fully enclosed by flesh, rather than spiky like many reconstructions depict. The swamp water is green with algae and other yummy stuff for a big browsing herbivore to enjoy. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Day 12: Oviraptor

It's not technically stealing if it's your own egg, right?

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #SciArt #Dinosaur #Raptor #Bird #Blue #Nature #Cute
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a blue oviraptor sitting on a dirt nest of giant, speckled blue eggs. It holds one of the eggs in its big chunky beak playfully. It’s probably a cannibal! Its head resembles a cassowary head with a bony crest on top and a short, powerful beak in front, with dark eyes and orange freckles around the orbit. This oviraptor was colored with inspiration from a Stellar’s Jay, so its front half is darker, less-saturated blue, while it brightens towards the tail. It has black stripes on its wing pinions and tail feathers, and flashes of iridescence crest its chest and wing. The drawing is part of a series of prehistoric animals sitting on isometric square ‘chunks’ of land, so this chunk shows a cross-section of the dirt nest. A pair of eggs have attempted to escape the chunk, one on each side. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Day 11: Smilodon

This picture is brought to you by me trying to figure out how someone would pick up a kitten if their only option to do so was a big cat mouth with saber canines

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #PaleoArt #SciArt #Paleontology #Pleistocene #Sabertooth #Animal #Cat #IceAge #DigitalArt
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a saber-toothed tiger (smilodon) parent picking up its kitten by the nape of the neck with its mouth, as cats do. The kitten appears to be a little unsure of itself, as anyone would be with a giant curved canine right near their throat. The parent has no intent to harm its baby, it's just trying to move the child from one place to another. Sabertooth tigers tend to be stockier than most modern big cats, with a bigger head. These two big cats in particular have been rendered with countershading: Light tan underbellies, and an orange coat that fades into sunset-like reds and purples. Leopard-like spots mark the cat’s shoulders but fade towards the short stubby tail and belly. The scene is posed on top of an isometric chunk of grassland at sunset, when everything takes on golden shadows. A small, windblown sagebrush bush rests at the front paw of the smilodon. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Day 10: Hallucigenia

Is it the little Cambrian worm who is right-side up, or the world that is upside-down?

#ArtAdventCalendar #Art #DigitalArt #Hallucigenia #Cambrian #Paleoart #SciArt #geology #invertebrate #purple #worm
Digital cel-shaded artwork of a purple Hallucigenia worm perched on an isometric chunk of rocky blue seafloor. Yellow spots line its sides. It has a long, tubelike body that narrows at the neck, resulting in a beady-eyed face constantly in a state of surprise with its mouth open like a small letter ‘o’. It has many legs al down its long body. The first six legs are little more than tentacles that wobble around freely in the currents. The Hallucigenia has fourteen additional legs that end in feet with two tiny claws per foot. On its back are two sets of eight defensive spikes, each tipped in white. Overall the creature is gelatinous and slightly see-through, a delicate specimen. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Day 9: Ichthyosaur

Apparently the closest living relative to an ichthyosaur is a turtle? Can anyone out there correct me on this?

#ArtAdventCalendar #art #DigitalArt #PaleoArt #Ichthyosaur #SciArt #Reptile #Nature #Animal #ocean #blue
Digital cel-shaded art of an ichthyosaur leaping, dolphin-like, out of an isometric square chunk of open, frothing ocean water. The ichthyosaur has been colored like a mashup between a sea turtle and a common dolphin, with a long white stripe along its sleek body, white countershading on the belly and under each fin, and a pop of yellow around each eye. Its eye takes heavier inspiration from sea turtles with sideways, wrinkly eyelids and broad but hydrodynamic scale patterns all over the face. In most respects this animal looks like a dolphin except for its nostrils being closer to its eyes, tail being vertically-oriented instead of the mammalian horizontal orientation, and a big toothy grin full of reptilian teeth in its beak. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Day 8: Inostrancevia

It's such a shame that it will be 251 million years before this gorgonopsid can try to fit through a narrow doorway and not realize the bone can't go with them (bonk)

#ArtAdventCalendar #paleoart #art #digitalart #SciArt #gorgonopsid #permian #animal #science #dogs
Digital cel-shaded art of a gorgonopsid, inostrancevia, one of the Late Permian reptilian mammals (or perhaps mammalian reptile). This animal most closely resembles a pit bull’s musculature crossed with a monitor lizard’s splayed legs. It is colored with big brown patches on yellow, orange, and green lizard-like scales, inspired slightly by komodo dragons but more bright and saturated. It’s very freckled and speckled all over with its patches of color migrating into each other. It sits in a pose reminiscent of how dogs sit when they don’t care about being noble: Leaning to one side, legs akimbo, tongue dangling out. It parked its silly butt on an isometric chunk of sea-green limestone. The gorgonopsid has a giant head compared to dogs, proportionally, and in its mouth is the thick femur bone of a dicynodont. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art
December 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM