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Sean Closson🦖🦕

@coffeeblack.bsky.social

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Illustrator/Paleoartist/Prehistoric Art Beast. https://linktr.ee/thecoffeeisblack

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Nov 12

I'm happy to be finally able to share this #Stegosaurus commission for The Gaming Beaver a few years ago.

#paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · 9h

A quick sketch of Troodon, based somewhat on a Secretary Bird.

#dinosaur #sketch #paleoart #sciart #noAI #Pencildrawing #charcoal

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · 14d

If you have some free time, take a walk on the beach with Kentrosaurus... just be sure to walk closer to the front than the back.

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Aug 25

Took a misty morning walk at Fort Popham!

#maine #fortpopham #morningwalk

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Aug 20

All I know is it was one of those dreams that I wish I could fall back into and continue after suddenly waking up, but dreams aren't that simple. I sadly can't rely on the story continuing where I left off.

Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Aug 20

I had a dream last night that I saw a small family of Woolly Mammoths🦣 walking through my back yard and I failed to take a picture in time because I couldn't get my shoes tied fast enough to follow them.

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Aug 13

Watching Alien: Earth, the Xeno is beast.

a skeleton with a helmet on is dancing in a video game .

ALT: a skeleton with a helmet on is dancing in a video game .

media.tenor.com

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Aug 1

It's not on the level of bullshit that Adobe put me through, but it is still some grade A, premium gold standard bullshit.

Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Aug 1

I keep seeing that I have Clippy that is going to get deleted if I don't use it. They give you too much with your membership, most of the useful brushes and other assets that are good are free anyway.

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Jul 21

It definitely could, I love GW2, but there are obviously areas I wish they could spend more time on.

(also aaah your everything! ❤️)

Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Jul 21

I love the stalls and the little details in Kaineng, I still wish they were a little more interactive, but they all look great!

Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Jul 20

Almost as good as David James Armsby's incredible animations are his "making of" videos for each one of the Saurian series.

youtu.be/ED_AzSB0BtU?...

Making of | "Terrible Lizards"

YouTube video by Dead Sound

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Jul 20

Another fantastic addition to David James Armsby's fantasic Dinosauria series.

youtu.be/OH57rtnKCEM?...

"Terrible Lizards" | Dinosauria Series | Animated Short Film (2025)

YouTube video by Dead Sound

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Jul 8

Hey hey, it's #Portfolioday!

My name is Sean and I draw dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.

Check out more of my stuff here:

www.coffeeblackillustration.com

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · Jun 3

I missed #dinosaurday, but here are some #dinosaurs anyway!!!🦖

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 23

I'm thinking of a large theropod just punting a small prey item to death rather than biting them.

You know, for kicks.🤣🤣🤣

a dolphin is jumping out of the water and a bird is flying in the background .

ALT: a dolphin is jumping out of the water and a bird is flying in the background .

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 23

Fantastic!

Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · May 23

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon for #FossilFriday: #sauropod Atlasaurus walks through glowing phytoplankton on a pleasant Jurassic evening. The hi-res painting, WIPs and scientific rationale for the scene can be found here: www.patreon.com/posts/129695... #sciart

A long-necked dinosaur, silhouetted against a night sky bisected by the delicate misty swirls of the Milky Way, walks through a sea of glowing blue dinoflagellates. A crescent moon occurs just above her tail. She wonders why no one else wanted to come on this memorable night walk, and then remembers that she is a reconstruction by an artist living over one hundred million years in the future, and that she exists only as pixels on screens. She has no permanence, no physicality. But, in being composed mainly of light, she feels a oneness with the glowing organisms at her feet, and the twinkling stars above. "Are we not all transient, temporary expressions of physics?", she thinks. "And for what I lack in body, I exist here, in this setting, in this moment, forever surrounded by two of nature's grandest spectacles." She walks on, her lighter-coloured scales catching the glow of the stars and waves. "Things could be worse", she thinks, smiling at how deeply philosophical her small sauropod brain has turned out to be.

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 23

This is a wonderful piece.

Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 17

Very possibly.

Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 16

They are 1:1 scale 3D prints, the skulls are by @rubrennanart.bsky.social, his stuff is amazing and you can buy it at scaledbeast.com

The claws and tooth are cheap replicas that my parents got me from Temu I think. Not sure if any are actual casts, but they look nice.

Scaled Beast

3D models of extinct creatures designed and digitally sculpted by Ruadhrí Brennan

scaledbeast.com

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 16

Coffee Table Squad ☕🦖💀

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 15

Watching #LoveDeathAndRobots season 4... I knew it was the cats that were ultimately responsible for the robot apocalypse.

#thumbs👍

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 9

All great info, thank you!

Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 5

Just came across the 1985 special Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs on Youtube. This was one of the VHS classics that I personally had on repeat in my house. A great piece of paleomedia that has almost been lost to time. 🦖

youtu.be/CaKRqXWTUoM?...

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs (1985)

YouTube video by Nearly Lost Media

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 5

Its NEW SKULL DAY! Just got a 1:1 #Velociraptor skull from @rubrennanart.bsky.social

I also picked up his new update on the classic Invicta British Museum of Natural History #Megalosaurus figure from the 1970s.

Get yours at scaledbeast.com

#dinosaur #paleoart #paleontology #sciart #science

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Sean Closson🦖🦕 @coffeeblack.bsky.social · May 1

It does seem like it would involve a lot of plucking.