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H. McGill

@hannahcomb.bsky.social

Indie Gamedev Artist Webcomics: Amphiox, RAWR! Dinosaur Friends They/she hello@hmcgill.art http://hmcgill.art Do NOT use my art to train AI

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H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thread for collecting my Animal Chunk artworks! Most of these will be real animals but I'm allowing for some flights of fantasy here and there #art #digitalart

H. McGill@hannahcomb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Capture them gently #junicorn #art #animal #unicorn #fantasy #digitalart #nature #medieval

Digital cel-shaded art of a white unicorn fleeing an unseen hunter in the woods. The unicorn leaps across an isometric chunk of land vegetated with plants drawn in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript -- stylized grass and unknown plants, twisting painterly tree trunks, and broad paisley leaves. An arrow with red fletching stabs a tree behind the unicorn, just missing its mark. Below the unicorn, a small hedgehog mom has just rolled in some fresh grapes and is bringing them on her spines to her children in a burrow underground. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last wk.

Eating shrimp makes me feel like a raccoon I chomp a da fat grubs dat I'm holding in my leetle hands arm narm nrm

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hello new followers from Smaugust, etc.: My spouse and I have been working on a small, free, fast-play multiplayer game about animals on a volcano for the past year. It launches soon! Stick around for details. #gamedev #art #digitalart #indie #dinosaur #animal #gaming #game #nature #paleoart

Purposefully-cropped marketing graphic of part of a tyrannosaurus's skull with jaw hanging open, complete with lava flesh and teeth like red-hot pokers. 'Coming Soon' is white text in the corner.

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am pretty sure that this 'we'll sponsor you to be an influencer!' email I just got is a scam but like Imagine a world where any product seeking representation aligns with sporadic drawings of dinosaurs, lol

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 3w ago

For my final Smaugust entry, have a dragon-headed caterpillar! I had more drawings planned, but...new projects are shiny, what can I say. Thank you everyone for looking at my 'dragons' #smaugust #dragon #art #digitalart #bug #insect #caterpillar #green #nature #sciart #science #entomology

Painterly, cel-shaded art of a dragon-headed caterpillar on an isometric chunk of lime-green marble. The caterpillar is chunky, green with offwhite chevrons going down its back, and a white belly. Its head has four long spiky horn-like appendages, and its face is weirdly aerodynamic with a wee orange mouth at the end to gently nibble a leaf. The caterpillar's nest is big waxy leaves to keep its little toes from getting cold on the marble mount. Bits of chewed leaf drift off to the side. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Titanoboa with Lithornis for scale (?), except I didn't have time to double-check how big these are in comparison to each other whoops #smaugust #dragon #snake #sciart #paleoart #nature #art #digitalart #paleocene #reptile #AvianAugust #bird #biology

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a Titanoboa, which is this absolutely massive snake from the Paleocene. Think boa constrictor, but more and more and more until the whole world is basically just...snake. The Titanoboa can barely fit on its isometric chunk of grass-covered earth, try as it might to hunker down and look all nestled in and cute like snakes can always do. It has light-orange, python-like markings and a sandy white belly, with a yellow eye peering at the brown Lithornis that decided to pose on its coil nearby. The Lithornis has a red throat and a white speckled belly and it has zero motivation to be in this piece, it just is. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 3w ago

All this time I've been drawing dragons and I've never really done much leathery wing studies! So here is a flying fox to remedy that #smaugust #dragon #august #bat #nature #sciart #animal #art #digitalart #orange #green #illustration #flyingfox #forest

Painterly, cel-shaded art of a Giant Flying Fox, a winged mammal so huge it may as well be a little dragon. It has a purplish-gray body and leathery flaps between its fingers, forming a typical flying dragon silhouette. It has a luxurious orange collar of extra fluff, and it is flapping right out of an isometric chunk of forest leaves. The leaves trail behind the bat as it bursts into the sky. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey! Who chopped up my hidey-hole? #smaugust #dragon #art #digitalart #august #orange #animal #dragonmoray #moray #eel #nature #sciart #aquarium #fish #seaurchin #marine #ocean

Painterly, digital art of a dragon moray eel coming out of its rocky little hidey-hole in order to shame humanity. We totally deserve it. Anyway, the eel is extremely orange with crisscrossing red and greenish-orange stripes marking its whole body, bold white splotches on top. It has weird little noodly bits on its eyebrows and nostrils, and its mouth is open in outrage. Maybe it's actually angry at the big purple sea urchin encroaching on its marbled rock home. The rest of the eel's tail threads through the hole on the side of the isometric 'chunk' of rock. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Say 'Aaaaa' #smaugust #dragon #art #digitalart #frilledlizard #herpetology #sciart #biology #lizard #reptile #animal #cute #orange #aaaaa

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a frilled lizard on an isometric chunk of pebbly desert earth. The lizard is aggressively posed at the front of the chunk, opening its yellow mouth and displaying lemony-yellow frills from the sides of its cheeks. It has a dark brown neck, a peachy chest, and dark brown limbs, with a stripey tail caught mid-whip behind it. Beware of aaaa! Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Legs for days. Wiggles for weeks. Magentas...for months. Consider the Pink Dragon Millipede for your fashion show today #smaugust #dragon #art #digitalart #animal #arthropod #bug #pink #sciart #entomology #invertebrate #diplopoda #illustration #insect #millipede

Painterly, digital art of an isometric chunk of pebbly earth being dug through by a pink dragon millipede. This shockingly magenta millipede winds around a bit of rotting wood to peer upwards into the rest of its unseen habitat. It has spikes running up and down its back. Anyone who touches this thing will be poisoned, so don't reach out and touch something just because it's pink. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you see this, post your marine-themed art! 🦈

Digital cel-shaded artwork of a plesiosaur at the end of a failed lunge to catch one of ten fish. The plesiosaurus is giant, whale-like, with its vertical tail poised upwards in the seawater, and its head brushing the sandy seafloor. Clouds of disturbed sand float around the plesiosaur’s head, long neck, and fin. This plesiosaur was drawn from the more modern idea that giant sea animals have a lot of blubber. This means its neck starts out as thick as its belly and then tapers, evenly, to the width of its narrow head. The fish being hunted are yellow, with red heads and purple rainbow fins. The whole scene takes place on an isometric chunk of seafloor, during a sunset that stains the sand and rocks violet-pink. Red corals perch on a corner of sea rock nearby. A sad little fish skeleton can be seen buried in the sand. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

Andy P@a-n-d-y.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you see this, post your marine-themed art! 🦈

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Some of my entries for this challenge do not have 'dragon' in their name and were chosen because they would be a cool dragon aesthetic, such as this Great Eared Nightjar #smaugust #dragon #bird #sciart #biology #ornithology #art #digitalart

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of an exuberant-looking Great Eared Nightjar perched on a leafy, isometric chunk of dark forest earth. The Great Eared Nightjar looks like a big fat barn swallow crossed with a great horned owl's mottled coloration. It has excessively large, bulging eyes but unlike a potoo, the eyes make it look cute and not constantly horrified. This bird has its mouth open like it's waiting for a mosquito to fly right into it. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Water" you up to, Chinese Water Dragon? #smaugust #art #digitalart #reptile #lizard #nature #animal #green #purple #terrarium #herpetology #sciart #science #biology

Painterly, digital art of a Chinese Water Dragon. It's a small, iguana-like lizard that is mostly green, with a spiky cheek, a frill down its back, and a long stripy tail. It sits on a rock that is half-submerged into an isometric chunk of water, its tail passing through the top of the water and out the side. A big leafy frond decorates the rock. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hello new followers! If you're bored and like free webcomics, here's mine! It's a complete short story about a ruined world full of alternative energy...and magic doom eels. (Includes detailed transcripts on every page) amphiox.hmcgill.art/comic/amphio... #webcomics #amphiox #comics #indie

Image depicted is the cover to the webcomic, Amphiox. It's a black cover with criss-crossing blue serpent coils taking up most of the background. The coils writhe around each other with faint glimmers of scales highlighted, before vanishing into darkness. This is a teaser for the beast that will be encountered and explained within the webcomic.

Layered over the writing coils of the Amphiox is its tail, oddly centered and still compared to the rest of its body. An amphiox's tail ends in a fin with rounded tips. The fin's color is a bright, bioluminescent gradient composed of yellow fading into bright skyblue, before tapering into a darker cerulean. The tail has vibrating red highlights. It casts a rainbow of highlights onto its own scales. Attached to this tail are two more, lesser pectoral and dorsal fins, in cerulean blue. The pectoral fin pokes out near the tail, and the dorsal fin is further up, and larger.

White text overlaid on top: AMPHIOX H. McGIll http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Guys what should we call the science fiction equivalent of 'Romantasy' Sci-Mantasy?!

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Send nudibranchs #smaugust #dragon #seaslug #marine #art #digitalart #blue #bluedragonseaslug #invertebrate #sciart #biology #sealife #ocean

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a Blue Dragon Seaslug, a very tiny and very flambuoyant marine organism. It is a white slug with four big frilly fins, and stark blue stripes patterning its body, flecked with blue dots. It is capable of undulating through water like it's flying, although in this artwork it is posed on top of an isometric chunk of pebbly seafloor. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

What if, whenever you did a belly flop, you spread out your own ribcage and flew off into the sky instead #smaugust #dracovolans #flyingdragon #dragon #lizard #art #digitalart #nature #reptile #sciart #biology

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a Flying Dragon (draco volans) alighting on a sunlit isometric chunk of mossy earth. This is a small lizard known for expanding flaps of skin along its own ribs in order to glide out of trees. Its back faces the sun, which means its flight membranes are illuminated from its core out to the fringes of its ribs. It is a plain-looking lizard for the most part, but its wings have distinctive thick stripes running at odd angles to its ribs. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · 4w ago

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

If anyone was worried about the origins of Dracorex hogwartsia's species name, don't worry, it has (afaik) been re-absorbed into Pachycephalosaurus as a juvenile of the species This stuff keeps people up at night, I know #smaugust #art #digitalart #dinosaur #paleoart #dragon #pachycephalosaurus

Painterly, cel-shaded art of a pachycephalosaurus whose color scheme may have been inspired by a chameleon hiding on a trans rights flag. It's pink striped with thick brown stripes, with a blue head and pastel splotches across its shoulder and down its side. Its armored domed head is white with brown spikes poking out of it. The dinosaur runs with its surprisingly yellow mouth agape. It splashes various muddy puddles on an isometric rock plane as it goes on its morning scream-and-yell jog. Doesn't everyone have a scream-and-yell jog every morning? Just me? Okay well it needs to be a thing. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

My Smaugust may end mid-month because I had originally envisioned having them all done prior TO August, since this month is dreadful to draw in and the smoke makes it so I can't air condition my office I just didn't finish all of the dragons in time, have them all WIP though We'll see, though!

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

Yeah! Eat all those mosquitos, Emperor dragonfly! I love you #smaugust #dragon #nature #animal #insect #entomology #art #digitalart #dragonfly

Painterly, cel-shaded art of a blue emperor dragonfly delicately landing, one foot first, on an isometric chunk of water with sticks and other vegetation in it. The dragon's wings and the surface of the water flicker from an unseen sun. I didn't draw any mosquitos with the dragonfly but that's because it already ate them all. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

Tittivillus Teaches Typning update: Stuck indoors? Come ogle a new level select screen, play two brand-new levels, and endure an enhanced roguelike Endless mode! Free, no ads, browser-based, no download rq chromokun.itch.io/typning #gamedev #typing #keyboard #game #writing #seattle #pnw

Cover graphic for the tiny but fierce indie typing game, Tittivillus Teaches Typning. It has a lockup in medieval-looking letters on a gold label, hovering over a plush green background. The titular Tittivillus demon pokes up from somewhere offscreen, just his blue batlike horned face visible from the nose up (and a little bit of his friendly smile). His wings spread out behind him and are mostly cropped by the graphic's constraints. Regrettably, as of typing, this game does not have any purposeful built-in accessibility functions for low-vision or blind users. The general consensus on the play experience is that it's a really nice typing game but the demon (and the accompanying main gameplay conceit of typos coming back to haunt you) can go jump in a lake.

One of the many new illustrations added to Tittivillus Teaches Typning: Digital, cel-shaded art of Tittivillus leaning back in a coy pose, showing off his chest of blue fur, pointy ears, spade tail, red-feathered wings, and fancy red kilt with a gold belt. Titivillus is measuring angles between stars with a medieval brass quadrant. Stars sparkle all around him.

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

human Heart perfec t size for put dragon in to n\ap! #smaugust #dragon #beardie #reptile #art #nature #flower #sciart #biology #digitalart #yellow #beardeddragon #lizard #pets

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a bearded dragon lizard scuffling around under some wildflowers, caught at the most photogenic moment possible. It lifts its head and stares at the viewer from on top of its isometric chunk of dirt. The yellow daisy flowers cloak much of the dragon's body with their leaves, turning their faces askance in equally photogenic ways. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

Okay, so... Who was going to tell me that Dragon Fruit comes from a species of South American cactus? #smaugust #dragon #food #sciart #plant #art #digitalart #science #botany

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a dragonfruit, or pitaya, tree planted into an isometric 'chunk' of earth. The tree is made of long, thick, waxy cactus pads with no spines, its trunk also cloaked with pads growing out of the earth. The dragonfruits are hot pink with leafy green bits at their top end. This tree simply cannot keep up with how many fruits it's producing so some are already falling off onto the ground and off the chunk of earth. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

Basilisks: The embodiment of 'WAUGH, outta here' #smaugust #dragon #lizard #reptile #nature #sciart #digitalart #art #animal #science #biology

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a basilisk, or 'Jesus lizard', skedaddling across an isometric chunk of clear, clean lake water. A basilisk is green with blue polka dots, two large ear fins on the head, two sail fins on the back and tail, with a yellow belly, gangly limbs, and brown stripes down the tip of its tail. True to its name, it can straight up run across the surface of open water using its giant muppety feet. I wish I could do that. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

Of course I be-LEAF in dragons*! *leafy seadragons #smaugust #art #digitalart #seahorse #ocean #nature #marinebiology #dragon #seadragon #sea

Painterly, cel-shaded art of a long, lithe leafy seadragon. This fish has a seahorse's orange body with white stripes along its sides. It has a very long, extended tail and all of its fins are thin like branches with large, multicolored frongs trailing behind it in the current. The seadragon is nestled within some of its favorite camouflage, seaweed, which is rooted into an isometric 'chunk' of brightly cerulean shore water. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

Had a fun time interpreting the limited color scheme on this photo, and re-posing the komodo dragon so you could see the feets! Original reference: www.animal-photo-references.com/komodo-drago... @animalphotorefs.bsky.social #smaugust #art #komodo #dragon #nature #animal #digitalart #reptile

Painterly, cel-shaded digital art of a komodo dragon sprawled across an isometric chunk of dirt and molded tree trunk prop from a zoo enclosure. The whole piece is done in understated beige tones with teal shadows, hiding the big lizard with its own basking light. Maybe this isn't such a great situation, being unable to see the giant carnivorous beast as well as you'd like, but sometimes art calls us to do dangerous things. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

May your heart be defended! #smaugust #art #dragon #digitalart #fantasy #medieval

Painterly, cel-shaded digital artwork of a medieval-style dragon protecting an isometric chunk of battleground. The dragon is two-legged with a long neck, golden wings, and a variety of swords collected in its teeth, blade-first. Its head is red like flames with a doglike snout. The dragon's tail playfully ends upwards in a golden, leafy fleur in the style of illuminated flowers. A shield rests across one of its wings towards an unseen foe, stopping a thrown axe in its tracks. Littering the battlefield are the dragon's past victories: Daggers, swords, blood splatters, and a sad little skull under one leg, including vertebrae dissolving into the dirt. Watermark: http://hmcgill.art

H. McGill @hannahcomb.bsky.social · last mo.

May your heart be defended! #smaugust #art #dragon #digitalart #fantasy #medieval