2021 art summary

A very raptor-full year. I don't think I even drew any non-raptor dinosaurs, though a few humans and other non-dinosaurs did still manage to sneak in.

I took on a couple of a bit bigger projects, after finishing the a bit bigger comic project continued from last year. Meeting is a shorter comic than Collision, but it's the second-longest dino comic I've made so far, and in full colour. The figure repaints were not as plentiful in numbers, but they did take enough work that I pretty much spent the entirety of August on them with little time for other art things, and I'm really happy with how they turned out, especially considering they include my first tries at articulated joints. I also made another dino figure from scratch; a very small one, but miniature things are a challenge of its own kind. I'm pleased with the amount of feathered raptors I got to draw this year, too, and I think I've gotten better at those. I also finally finished a text-only story again.

Blank template for the graphic is by yorunaka at deviantart

Two messy babies

Dad M15 feeding 2-day-old E19 (front/lower on screen) and day-old E20 at Southwest Florida Bald eagle nest.

Second hatch!

This season's younger chick, E20, has now also hatched at SWFL Bald eagle nest.

Older sibling E19, and the growing pip on the shell of egg #2.

Colds

Supper for the little one

More baby pictures of newborn E19 from yesterday evening at SWFL eagles. Warning for a view of prey (a bird).

Hatch!

Hello, E19!

 Edit: A bit drier and fluffier E19:

Looks like there's a pip on Egg #2 as well now!

Harriet and E19. M was at the nest at the time of hatching.

Pip!

Hatching has started for Egg #1 of the 2021-2022 season clutch at Southwest Florida Bald eagle nest.

Lot showing-off

I call this house "Weather, nosy neighbours, and burglars that know how to climb over a fence don't exist". Probably physics don't exist, either; some of the upstairs doesn't look very soundly supported, if such things were acknowledged by this game.

(I don't have the Seasons EP installed, so weather - other than not-too-hot, clear-skies summer - indeed does not exist.)

Just add sauna

Managed to make a functional swimmable lake! Will probably still dress it up a bit with more plants and such should I have residents on this lot other than my brave tester sim, but it works.

• tutorial by patul
• clear floor tiles by RGiles
  
• diving board & pool ladder recolor by tkdjunkie
  

Nib frabanage

New gaming computer for my state of the art games.

December sunset

A pretty sunset in the winter for a change.

Duck and parrots at eagle nest

The duck continues to incubate her five eggs at the Sydney White-bellied Sea-eagle nest, and is visited by a flock of rainbow lorikeets.

Masu and other things in morning light

 

She's been all mine for two years today.

Sunrise reflecting from windows of one apartment building onto the wall of another.

Birb.

New egg at the White-bellied Sea-eagle nest, too, with a twist

It's a duck egg!

It's outside nesting season for the eagles at the Sydney White-bellied Sea-eagle nest, and a duck has chosen the empty nest as a good spot to lay and incubate her eggs. A duck nested there during the off season last year, too, perhaps the same one. The nesting wasn't successful then, but perhaps this year she will have better luck. In any case, seems the eagle cam is a duck cam now.

Meanwhile the latest news I've heard of the eagles is that a juvenile sea-eagle found in the area had a three-week stay at wildlife hospital to recover from an injury, and has been successfully released back into the wild healthy and banded. It's believed to likely be one of the chicks from this nest, and looking at this news video about it, that does look very much like SE27.

Good luck to all of you modern dinosaurs out there, eagle and duck alike.