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Emily Stepp
@emilyart.bsky.social
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Freelance illustrator / concept artist / paleoartist. Please email me at [email protected] for business inquiries.
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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · Jul 24
Hey, everyone! I'm here hoping to keep sharing my paleoart and paleo-inspired art with the world.
Digital self portrait of artist Emily Stepp 2022 holding the small dinosaur Jakapil. Digital self portrait of artist Emily Stepp 2021 holding a hatchling Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur with a larger one behind.
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Considering going by myself to see the new Avatar on Tuesday (discount day) because the timing doesn't work out for my usual movie buddies. Just gotta also marathon the first two and play more Frontiers of Pandora to get myself excited in the meantime.
December 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Avimimus dinosaur card I illustrated for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster deck Silent Giant.

#JurassicPark #JP #JPTCG #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #Dinosaur #Avimimus
A running gray with blue feathers Avimimus with a forest backdrop card design. Text is in Korean.
December 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Been really busy trying to get some high priority projects finished up so I can get the rest of my backlog all updated. Haven't been able to post any art in the meantime, but soon!
December 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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My partner got us a kitchen shelf as an early Christmas gift, and the cats are very sure it's actually for them.
All three of my kitties on different levels of the new shelf. Ginger is below, Mew is in the middle, and Zuko is on top.
December 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Not the most informative thumbnail test.
Youtube A/B test report for my Carnivores Triceratops speed paint video saying they all performed well. Both of my thumbnails got 50% of the watch time. The top thumbnail has additional words and the original model from the Carnivores game.
December 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Mara Brown Spinosaurus cross-species hybrid (crospie) Voltaic design. @marabrownwd.bsky.social

#Creature #Mutant #Hybrid #DinosaurHybrid #Spinosaurus
A hybrid Spinosaurus mutant with features from the electric Spinosaurus in the franchise with a more humanoid form facing left.
December 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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So Fionna and Cake spoilers: I see a lot of myself in Fionna. I also randomly burned every bridge I had when I was younger. The year I was on the golf team, the only match they won was the one I skipped to go to a Green Day concert. Then I keep spraining my right ankle. Out of context #spoiler kinda
December 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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So I'm about 99% sure this is a wild turkey hen who came to visit my turkey Linda today.
A presumably wild turkey hen in the foreground with a black muscovy duck hen in the midground and bourbon red turkey hen in the background.
December 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter Triceratops fan redesign commissioned by Azores. #Carnivores #CarnivoresDinosaurHunter #Triceratops #Dinosaur #Retrosaur
The Triceratops redrawn for a more HD modern look but keeping the retro alien anatomy of the original Carnivores, maybe even a little more inaccurate and alien than the original design. The main rendered pose is facing left in full color with behavior and detail sketches in grayscale along the sides as well as the flat color pattern without shading.
December 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Mara Brown Deinosuchus design. Possibly the last of the old de-extinct creatures from the backlog I needed to post. Still have mutants and new ones. @marabrownwd.bsky.social

#Deinosuchus
A rusty orangish brown Deinosuchus with its jaws agape and one hand raised facing left.
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I know no one likes when I complain about genAI slop accounts on Facebook, but one of them stole my art and ran it through AI and then they either didn't notice or care that it replicated my signature on the resulting AI slop. I feel sick.
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Design study of Talon and Sauron from Primal Rage for DracoTyrannus. Super fun retro dinosaurs.

#Dinosaurs #Retrosaur #PrimalRage #Talon #Sauron #Raptor #Trex
Digital pencil style line study sketch of Talon the raptor and Sauron the T. rex from Primal Rage facing one another in a flat orthographic standing pose without the limbs on the far side for simplicity and no shading.
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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My eyes focused on drawing too long, now I see triple. The middle is normal, top is rainbow, and bottom is like 50% opacity. This happens sometimes.
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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The Wanderings of Ifrit, who was heavily inspired by Frankenstein's monster, a character created from ambition only to be rejected by his creators and the outside world.

Piece made by @emilyart.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Apatosaurus dinosaur card I illustrated for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster deck Silent Giant.

#JurassicPark #JP #JPTCG #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #Dinosaur #Sauropod #Apatosaurus
A yellow and orange Jurassic Park era Apatosaurus illustration featuring it turning and whipping tail toward the viewer in a tropical field with mountains and clouds behind. Text is in Korean.
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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When snorkeling in the Early Carboniferous goes wrong. Rhizodus having a snack speedpaint.

Mild content warning for painterly blood / human being eaten.

#Rhizodus #Carboniferous #TimeTravel
A large Rhizodus snagging a human time traveler who was snorkeling in its remarkably clear freshwater lake.
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Jam is having such a hard molt right now. Not ready for winter yet at all. I suppose her being broody all fall must have delayed her molt?
A few of my chickens enjoying the sun starting to thaw the yard this afternoon. Jam is in the front showing a lot of pin feathers.
November 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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New dossier for James Conlon's Age of Monsters. This time it's Atomic: Kaiju Parasites.

#AgeofMonsters #Monsters #Creatures #Parasites
Age of Monsters: Atomic: Kaiju parasites dossier. At the top there are jars with various scale louse that live on kaiju hide and/or the deep ocean. They are all isopods of the same genus. Below to the left is the Springer, a jumping amphipod that lives on the kaiju Ziz. To the right is the Blood Worm which is a giant bloated bristle worm annelid that inhabits kaiju digestive tract and sewers with its young below and mouthparts extended.
November 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I'm not sure which was better between last year's and this year's feast. All I know is that I'm tired.
Our dinner table last year on top and this year on bottom showing various Thanksgiving dishes. Last year I cooked myself a salmon as my main and this year I did a tofurky roast. The turkey was bigger and I didn't let the herbs get as burned this year. I tried out premade nut and cookie crusts for the pies this time but I still used roasted black futsu pumpkins to make my own puree.
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Mara Brown Amargasaurus design. Still some dinosaurs in the backlog to post! @marabrownwd.bsky.social

#Amargasaurus #Dinosaur #Paleoart
Amargasaurus sauropod dinosaur facing left in a walking pose with giraffe coloration.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Evidently my hens Smartypants and One-Eye are closer than I thought.
Three of my hens standing in the run while I was hanging out with them. Smartypants must think it's a little cold and stood underneath One-Eye for warmth. I didn't know these two were this friendly with one another. My brown leghorn hen stands silently judging me for peeping.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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So this morning my partner looked out the window and told me that our duck hen Sweetie Pie was in the yard and must not have went into the coop last night. I was so sure this wasn't true. I had to walk all the way up to this duck to know it wasn't her though. Looked the same, acted different.
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops fan DNA variants ± ceratopsian.

#JurassicWorld #JurassicWorldRebirth #Aquilops #Dinosaur
Digital pencil style sketches on a white paper background of variants of the Jurassic World Rebirth Aquilops facing right in a standing pose. The top variant has added ceratopsian DNA and is bipedal with tail filaments and a more accurate Aquilops skull structure, middle variant is the base design from the movie showing its mostly recognizable dinosaur shape, and on bottom is the less ceratopsian variant with the animals that fill in the gaps of the DNA much more prominent.
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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So lately I've been messaging my partner right when I wake up so I don't forget my dream. They're pretty standard dream slush where I can pinpoint why I'm dreaming about each thing, but they're very vivid.
Facebook messages on Sunday morning where I say "had a dream during my nap that they were holding a big impromptu haunted house in the old apple house building but it was in November and they were pretending it was a christmas store and they had really elaborate roller coasters and I accidentally wasn't aware you steer the direction they go and we bumped into another one and then later there was a poke place in it and it was a grocery store / hotel" and then he answers me about 20 minutes later saying, "Weird one." Facebook messages today at 9:42 am. I say, "Vivid dream Chris had a huge attic all stone with fire coming out of the air vents and a big fireplace that had too much fire and revealed the animated skeletons of vamptires" He then answers me, "Your having weird dreams" and I reply, "Remembering them, dreams standard"
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Having clients in vastly different time zones means I can work on one piece while I'm waiting on feedback for the other.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM