Miscellaneous crafty progress

The raptor skeleton decoration is a souvenir from my birthday field trip. It's a skeleton, so.

Wondering what will be a good way to attach the reflective fabric bone shapes onto the gloves, considering the fabric isn't stretchy, but the gloves are. Maybe I'll get different gloves for this after all.

I'm not going to finish the skeleton gloves today, but that's okay, I'm not making them for halloween (which I don't actually celebrate, as I'm not christian and the trick-or-treat version is not a widespread thing in Finland anyway, I just like the aesthetic). If I get to wear them sometime before spring, I'll be happy.

Forest rust spots

Leafs and a paint stain.

The Wait panels 5 and 6

The comic at my site, and at deviantart.

And two more panels of raptors being cute.

Skye is still a kid, but at the moment her pin feathers do look a bit like Indo's quills, so I guess she was somewhat right (also oh god she used to be tiny).

I hope I didn't make it look like Indo is resting his head on Skye here, it was kind of difficult to convey he's holding his head very close above her back but supporting its weight himself. For reasons including so that Blue can have a drink of rainwater by catching drops that land on his snout.

The next update will include the raptor dinner for which I included a content warning for blood and gore in the first update.

The Wait panel 4

The comic at my site, and at deviantart.

Wings! Which may actually be a bit more functional than I originally assumed, because I'd overlooked that the hand doesn't twist at the wrist but at the elbow, so the remiges (flight feathers) should mostly point in the same direction after all? They're still different from proper raptor wings, though.

Reflective skeleton gloves WIP

Since 'tis the season for all three of

1. gloves
2. wearing something reflective when out after dark to avoid getting run over
3. spoopy scary skeletons

I'm seeing if I can make myself something out of that. All already halloweeny handwear I can find is costume stuff and not actually warm, and idk maybe reflectors aren't as much of a thing where halloween is more of a thing, so I guess it's up to me to do the combining.

The wait begins

I've started posting a new comic to my Jurassic World AU. It's a bit long, and I seem to have a lot to say about each panel (and I want to get to posting it already, though the last panels aren't quite finished yet), so I'm updating it a few panels at a time, rather than uploading it all at once. I'll post commentary on the updates here to avoid cluttering the comic's caption too much.

The comic is here at my site, and here at deviantart, and I'm also posting each update to my Patreon 3 days before making it public. Updates are every 3 days.

Update 1 is panels 1-3, and it's peeling pin feathers time! Someone's about to get her wings and tail fan unwrapped. And a few of the smaller contour feathers that have started appearing on her head and along her spine are ready and peeking out of their wax sheaths, too, since they don't take as long to grow as the big flight feathers do. Good to have someone to help preen open the ones she can't reach - and much safer than having her try to scratch at them herself, risking her accidentally hitting a pin feather that's still in development, as those are still connected to blood vessels and can bleed pretty badly if damaged.

Also, raptor ages. Blue is still quite young no matter how it seems to a yearling. There's not much canon on JP/W raptors' lifespan, but I guess there's also not much the humans know about that in-universe, with how the movies tend to kill off their raptors before they get anywhere near old age. They might be able to live pretty long, though it probably also varies depending on a bunch of things, including which version of JP/W raptor is in question. For what it's worth, there's flightless birds close to their size around today that can live to be as old as sixty (ostriches, that is, and that's in captivity, while in the wild their lifespan is closer to fourty years, but that's still four whole decades).

As for future updates, a content warning in advance: there will be one panel with some blood and gore in the context of carnivorous animals eating another animal they have hunted. Not excessively graphic, but still a bit gross, the kind I've already included elsewhere in my dino gallery. I'll mention it in the update note, and include a warning on the dinoart index page when the panel has been posted.

Indoraptor pigmentation thoughts

Outside of Jurassic World Evolution's AU, how much is there to go on regarding how well the Indoraptor prototype actually represents what would be usual for his species? In terms of colouring, this time.

In a scrapped storyline for Fallen Kingdom, there were going to be two Indoraptors, one of them white. Probably just for visual contrast, but considering the Indominus rex, of which the Indoraptor prototype(s) is a modified clone, is also white, well, maybe Indoraptors and Indominus rexes usually are, and he's just an individual with melanism? Or abundism - a pigmentation variant where an animal's dark markings are very enlargened, resulting in a similar appearance to an animal with melanism, or what looks like partial melanism. The Indominus rex, despite being white with red eyes, is not an albino individual, at least, since she can make herself different colours.

Maybe without the condition the Indoraptor prototype would have had dark horizontal stripes or rows of spots on most of him, and the yellow-gold stripe and the red markings at the corners of his eyes aren't fully covered because there's bigger gaps between dark markings there for brighter display colour markings, while his base colour is something plainer. The JP3 raptors have darker markings in horizontal rows and stripes on a lighter base, on the females at least, while the males have that one brighter stripe along each flank, so that could be where the patterning comes from.

Or that might not be the case, and what we see in the movie is a colouring typical to Indoraptors, but it's fun to wonder about how different Indoraptor individuals might look other than changing the stripe's colour.