Maija Karalaさんのイラストまとめ

For the first time in a while, I listened to @JoschuaKnuppe ’s Paleostream last night. It was a horse stream, so I doodled some hipparionine - three-toed - horses.

The Triassic sure was full of weird critters.

Hyperodapedon looked like a huge herbivorous tuatara, but was in fact more closely related to dinosaurs and crocs. I gave it a generous amount of soft tissue including ’lips’ and a gecko-like fat tail.

Since everyone else is doing this - I illustrate animals too! Prehistoric, living and occasionally imagined ones. #AnimalArtistsUnite

So I heard we’re doing carnivorous horses again? Inspired by @MetTiinA ’s creatures from yesterday, a mix of wild horse, creodont and tiger. Wouldn’t want to run into this in the woods.

Here are the rest of yesterday’s #Smaugust dragon doodles. I really should draw creatures more often.

So I heard it’s #smaugust?
I had a seven-hour virtual work meeting today. Besides being rather exhausting, it did offer plenty of time to doodle dragon creatures without overthinking them.

I'm told it's #PortfolioDay

I'm Maija, a biologist by training, working as a freelance science writer and illustrator. Fascinated by evolution and particularly fond of paleoart.

Art gallery: https://t.co/8nxBSbY7ao
Blog (in Finnish): https://t.co/uevtTtuqPo

Back in early spring, I made a bunch of bird nest illustrations. Just drawing them was a lot of work - it's baffling birds build these things with no tools! Here's blackbird, hooded crow, robin and black-headed gull.

Illustrated for Finnish Nature League & Birdlife Finland.

”You know”, Ville told me ”you should relax tonight and draw dinosaurs.” He was right of course. Here’s the dinosaurian sausage animal, Leptoceratops, that considerably improved my mood after a long work day.

I made plankton illustrations for science center Heureka a while back. Here's some zooplankton arranged as a very simple guide. Waters are full of odd creatures from all branches of life!