Kory Bing

@korybing.bsky.social

Illustrator, paleoartist, and creator of long-running webcomic Skin Deep. ALL ART ON HOLD AS I HAVE A VERY BROKEN ARM 🙃

Less than three months now until Tyrant Lizard Queen stomps your way! It’s a toxic yuri dinosaur tale founded in the latest science, depicting a cast of Cretaceous characters not often seen together, illustrated by the amazing @korybing.bsky.social. Something to sink your teeth into.

Tyrant Lizard Queen: The Love, Life, and Terror of Earth’s Greatest Carnivore

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. rex from hatching to adulthoodTyrannosaurus rex is a prehistoric celebrity. Exceeding 40 feet in length ...

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Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

Bob Hoskins with Roger Rabbit

The “best” thing about genAI (the quotes are doing heavy work here) is that it’s really lowered the bar on getting into hand-made art. Literally anything you make is better than ai. There’s never been a better time to throw away your fear and start learning that craft you’ve always wanted to learn.

Because I haven't been able to draw I've been going back and looking at older art I've made. I really like this little Petrie from Land Before Time I did a few years back.

drawing of Petrie from Land Before Time but as a more anatomically accurate pterosaur.

For everyone on this site who blows gas up their ass about how Bsky is so superior to Twitter, I want yall to know I just had to block/report an account that replied to a cute animal post with a link promising “more cute animals” but instead it was a site that hijacks your browser and downloads porn

Lots of people replying/quoting this with jokes about dinosaurs/jurassic park/etc and it’s a good time for a favorite fun fact: all birds are literally a branch of theropod dinosaurs that split off from other theropods in the Jurassic period. They look like dinosaurs because they are dinosaurs.

Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.

photo of two sandhill crane colts that are about 50% leg and 50% neck and head and taking some big steppies.

Just tried to look up the Ordovician jawless fish with the funny face and these are the things I searched for and got nothing because it was spelled SO wrong: -sacombabsis -sacombibabsis -sacobibastis The correct answer was: -sacabambaspis

Illustration of Sacabambaspis, a jawless fish from the Ordovician period.

Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.

photo of two sandhill crane colts that are about 50% leg and 50% neck and head and taking some big steppies.

It makes me so sad to go into a Michaels and see tons of craft project kits where the pattern is obviously some sorta AI slop. You’re supposed to buy that and spend hours making it when the bones of it are hollow? Fuck off with that.

I'm still taking submissions for Broken Arm Guest Art! I'm going to see if my arm is up to drawing reader questions again in a week or two, so if you're still thinking about and willing to draw some cool art for the Skin Deep website, here's the link to do so!!

Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 3w ago

I feel weird being all "submissions are open for you to draw art for meeee" but I thought maybe this would be the easiest way to collect art from anyone who wanted to help me out while my arm heals! I love you thank you heart heart. You can use this fancy little form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Skin Deep Guest Art Submissions!