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old habbits die hard i guess

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This is the way you’re supposed to do pranks!

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I FOUND IT GUYS I SPENT HALF AN HOUR LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO AND ITS HERE

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mwatt

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Macaque being the OG Wukong simp

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I am interested in becoming a Paeloartist! What are the requirements, what are the work hours like? What type of schooling do you need?

Hi @obsidia! Great question!

Paleontology is a funny field. Everybody comes in with a different skill set, cobbled together from different life and educational experiences. There are no set “requirements” to become a paleoartist, other than that to obtain work and support yourself you must be:A) Good at what you do (strong art, strong science)B) Business savvy (understand networking, understand how to decide who to sell to and how to reach them (museums? toy design? book publishers? film?), devise a business model, etc)

Now first, I’m going to assume that when you say “paleoartist” you are referring to becoming a “professional paleoartist,” because if you draw dinosaurs, you already are a paleoartist. It’s not a title you have to wait for anyone else to bestow upon you—which is good, because to my knowledge there is no university that has a dedicated “paleoart” degree. Very few even offer a paleontology degree, and usually that’s only in graduate school after you’ve earned a bachelors in geological or biological sciences of some sort. There are schools that offer degrees in “scientific illustration”—but these tend not to provide as strong a foundation in design, modern technology, and storytelling skills as they do in traditional technical illustration, traditional technical rendering, and diagrammatic textbook illustrations. If that’s the kind of work you want to do, then that’s entirely respectable. However if you’re more interested in energetic reconstructions with solid drawing (drawing with understanding of figure drawing/animation principles) and storytelling, these may not help as much as say, a concept art degree.

That’s not to say that an education would not be extremely helpful on the path, in fact I highly recommend it. However, you will have to take the reigns of the degree you decide to pursue and do everything you can to modify your education to suit your goals. Some paleoartists get degrees in the arts, others in the sciences, and if you are particularly ambitious you could do both. However, the main requirement is that your work is good. I obtained my job at the BYU Museum of Paleontology well before I had a degree. I visited the museum on campus, saw that the artwork was out of date, and showed my portfolio to the curator. There was no magic trick, I just obtained the recommendation of a couple professors and offered to update the museum. Bang, job. It’s not always that easy, in fact usually museums do not employ a staff paleoartist but instead prefer to contract individual exhibits. However, the principle is don’t wait for permission. Get your best work together, and present yourself confidently at multiple places, never giving up. If it’s ready, you will get work. If you don’t get work, ask for advice and make a personal study of what you can do to improve both about your artwork and your model of business.

Working my way through school in part with the job at the BYU museum, I recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts (illustration with an animation emphasis). I personally would recommend taking the art route, as your drawing, painting, sculpting, and design skills will be much stronger, and that’s the part the scientists need you for. It’s important to know your science well enough to be conversant with them, but they’re not looking for a scientist to replace them, they’re looking for an artist who can communicate clearly scientific ideas through imagery. It’s easier to teach yourself a strong foundation in dinosaurs than to teach yourself strong foundation in illustration/sculpting skills. Some of my favorite paleoartists took the art route, and continue to do art for film and animation to make ends meet— e.g. David Krentz, character designer on Disney’s Dinosaur, Walking with Dinosaurs 3d, various discovery documentaries, and creature designer on everything from John Carter of Mars to Guardians of the Galaxy (his work can be found here). There are things you can learn by studying art with master mentors (whether in a school or online) that will add so much appeal and strength of design to your images. There are great paleoartists with no formal art education and/or who took the science route in school, but that’s my recommendation.

As for business smarts, I can’t emphasize this enough. Whether you’re able to support yourself with your artwork is honestly only 40% art skill. The rest is a combination of luck/divine providence and business smarts. Some of the best artists in the world are paid what they’re worth, on the order of the best lawyers and doctors. Others, equally talented and just as hard working, starve because they do not know how to concentrate their efforts in the realm of business. Still others have had mediocre skills (E.g. the late Thomas Kinkade) but understood business very well, and so became phenomenal financial successes.

I feel that this understanding of the business of art is particularly lacking in the paleoart world. I’ve been told by professionals in paleontology again and again that there is no money in dinosaurs. There is much complaining about how companies that create dinosaur products do not employ or consult paleoartists in their designs. You’ll run into angsty conversations about that the deeper you get into the field. However, though I am relatively new in the field and only have work in a few museums and 1 book, I believe that these conversations are misguided. I think the companies that produce dinosaur products, a multi-billion dollar industry, would gladly hire expert dinosaur artists if they knew there was such a thing. I think the problem is less that they are avoiding us and more that we are not networking with them or educating them about what a paleoartist is and why they need us. To say that there is “no money in dinosaurs” is a blind statement; the public is forever ravenous for dinosaurs, just as we are. Jurassic Park was the highest grossing film of all time at its release, and 2 decades later Jurassic World made history by making a billion dollars faster than any film in history (making that much at all is a distinction very few films share). Every American 5-year-old has a dinosaur themed birthday party with dinosaur party hats, paper plates, and party favors. Every kid has at least a couple of dinosaur toys, books, and t-shirts. No money in dinosaurs? People pay untold millions for dinosaurs every year! And the thing is, 90% of it is terrible—and the kids can tell, they really can! The key moving forward is for us to network with and educate the entertainment and manufacturing industries so that they will have the knowledge to hire experts. The field is wide open, we paleoartists just need to practice a little business savvy.

Ok, enough ranting from me. Those are my thoughts on the subject, but you may get different ideas learning from other professionals in the field. To that end, Dave Hone has an excellent series of interviews with prominent paleoartists, and many of them talk about their path to get where they are here:

https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/palaeoart-roundup/

Also, I highly recommend listening to this free podcast series by Seth Godin. It’s an excellent, excellent (and also entertaining) primer on business generally:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seth-godins-startup-school/id566985370?mt=2

Thanks for letting me talk your ear off; I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions or if there’s any way I can help.

Your friend,Josh

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sonadow doodle part. 278768344

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Shadow having gay panic by dramatically passing out like a victorian lady

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Had a realization a few days ago...

I am not being delusional, am I?

You guys see it too, right??? Hahaha

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And the real culprit is...

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And the real culprit is...

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could you draw Shadow having a nightmare and Sonic comfort him? please

Well, It's funny you request that- Because I've been working on a comic based on my AU Shadow having a nightmare!! I have finally finished it, so why not post it here <:]

Here for everyone to enjoy! It's not the best, but I hope people can enjoy it anyway <:']

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And when the day kisses the night you know that, even after the dark, the light will shine on a new sunrise.

AT LONG LAST.

AT LONG.

LAST.

THE BITCHES. FINALLY. KISSED!!!!!!!

SHADOWPEACH IS OFFICIALLY CANON!!1!1!1 (in the au)

Shadowpeach Bio Parent AU (PREV/ FIRST / )

Next part is coming on February 8th, 1PM ET

You can bet your ass they kept making out on the way to heaven.

More rambling and Horizontal and vertical versions of the kiss under the cut!

Well, what can I say. It's been a long journey, but the Shadowpeach Bio Parents AU can finally be officially a "Shadowpeach-canon" AU ahah. Hopefully the slow-burn wasn't too painful. I put my heart on my sleeve when I say that I swore to myself that as soon as the two bitches completely, fully forgive each other, then, and only then, they could have their moment.

Then, something something-having your true form while doing an act/saying something means showing the honesty of what you are saying/doing-something something

I laughed my ass off so many times while drawing panel 7 bc like- Mac is just "omg this idiot is so stupid, he's my idiot, I love him so much"

lastly, finally, FINALLY, I don't have to hold back anymore! Prepare yourself, Im gonna go full blast with these bitches. If you thought whatever they were doing before was gay, BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU. this story might as well turn intp a FWP (plot? what plot? fluff without plot)

hehe mac in panel 17 is like "oh NO U DON'T! PUT YOUR MOUTH WHERE IT BELONGS

Maybe this is not as epic or as a boom as the spicynoodle kiss. But that's kind of the point. They are the doomned toxic yaoi who healed in the past 6 months. They have always been together kind of. A kiss is just one of the hundreds other actions and words they shared during all the other parts of the story. They loved each other well before this chapter. So a kiss is just a natural course of them re-discovering each other and their intimacy. They sleep together (literally sleeping together, not sex yet) they comfort each other at their lowest, they saw each other inner selfs, they call each other nicknames, they call each other beautiful. I mean this was less of a "Slow Burn" and more a "put it in the microwave cause it got cold so that it slowly get warm again, but the food was already cooked"

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DEAR GODDDDDDDD AHHHHHHWJSBAKABAKANSKAIAKAJAJ IM SO NORMAL ABOUT THEM ARGGHAHAHAHAJAJS

anyways I hope you all enjoyed the meal 😋

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I wish I could relax like this, instead of sitting in computer science. 🥲

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Part two !