Assorted Miasmal TF Thumbnails & Sketches (Patreon)

I am a BIG fan of thumbnail sketching. <3

Wanted to show my process here a little bit with some of the sketches I have sitting around for Miasmal—Really the point at this stage in the process is just getting out the composition, pose, emotion, and basics of the expression in a scene. I like to use really messy lines and just kinda scribble in multiple colours to get it done, and then refine it with every editing tool available in Procreate until it’s cohesive.

This is a great way to plan out your drawings and also for sitting on ideas, just toss it out and ponder it over time, make changes until it feels right and you’re ready to work on it and then refine to sketch and go from there~!

#1-3: - last day -

The thumbnail for this (#3) is something I scribbled out while flying high and I don’t entirely remember doing. Based on the rough notes I left myself, seems the setting is someone’s last day of high school where they’re suddenly thrust into a life they weren’t ready for when reality shifts them backwards ~75,500,000 years to become Latenivenatrix, a likely very intelligent troodon species, and one which arranged very careful nests. A nest that reality has gifted them! First two images are this drawing after a fair bit of refining, and the composition guide is something I use a lot and sincerely recommend to other artists while sketching. <3

Might change the setting of this to a college hallway, to imply they’re a paleontology student. Not sure. Though I know when I was 18 and finishing high school, I wouldn’t have minded suddenly becoming a dinosaur LOL

#4: Longipteryx:

What a fucking weird bird this is, one of the Enantiornithine birds which are a now extinct variety of true bird from the Cretaceous and which are notable for looking mostly like modern birds save for clawed wings and their TEETH. Omg and teeth some of them had, this particular one is my favourite. Showing this as an early stage in the process, what I’ll toss onto paper when I just want to get a scene out so I don’t forget it. Very rough, but I was picturing sitting on a bench near a curb, where your feet on the curb are changing to leave you perched high on a branch, and wanted to give it a startling difference on scale and height between the two halves. Will be fun to refine this.

#5 Unlucky day

Reality shifts don’t always take your safety into account! And here, the subject has become a yet TBD lil dinosaur that happened to be right next to an Azhdarchid pterosaur (think like Quetzalcoatlus) and… yoink! Whoops, food chain is a bitch. But maybe you’ll wiggle free and run off!

This is another rough one that’ll focus on disorienting angle. Needs a lot of work lmao.

#6 Anzu wyliei (or Hagryphus)

Hell Creek really fascinates me, particularly at the Tanis site; I sincerely recommend reading about it. An entire ecosystem captured in time right there at the end—Though we’re not gonna talk about THAT guy lmao IYKYK. Anyway, I showed this off directly in the discord in february, but not here, so, this is a couple mid-deed in the bedroom while the bedroom reality shifts into an entire Anzu nesting ground including a very curious Anzu couple in the BG looking into the commotion. New friends? New friends!

Might swap with Hagryphus, which would be a different locality than Hell Creek.

#7 Sigillaria Shower

This one was also shown off in the discord but not here tho it has refined a little since then; It’ll be a pretty different one, a reality shift where this guy’s hot steamy shower has thrown him back into the Carboniferous period and… whoops, not the body of a paleo animal the body of a paleo plant!

Sigillaria, an early tree-like… thing. And visited by a massive but harmless to a plant Meganeura griffinfly, bird sized dragonfly and would be starting to have land on you in your shower when you’re turning into a plant, no??? Going to be a grey foggy coal swamp sort of scene.