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Emily Stepp

@emilyart.bsky.social

Freelance illustrator / concept artist / paleoartist. Please email me at EmilySteppArt@gmail.com for business inquiries.

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · yesterday

Here's my 2nd favorite from the Jurassic Park TCG booster pack Earth Guardian: the theropod dinosaur Piatnitzkysaurus! Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #Piatnitzykysaurus #Dinosaur #JurassicPark #JurassicParkInstitute #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian

Illustration of the crouching and roaring in a low ceiling cave in low lighting. Final card design with text in Korean is in the lower right. Art directed by Lewis Lee and its depiction is primarily based on its appearance in the Jurassic Parker Institute.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ginger doesn't understand why we won't let her scale the back fence during her walks.

Brown tabby medium hair female cat on a stack of firewood perched atop and crouching like she's about to jump to climb the tall wooden fence separating our yard from the neighbors. She's attached to a black leash that is hooked onto a black harness she's wearing. The leash is not slack to try to prevent her from scaling the fence. She thinks we're wrong and that scaling it would be awesome.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2d ago

Next card art reveal is the theropod dinosaur Betasuchus for the Jurassic Park TCG booster pack Earth Guardian. Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #Betasuchus #Dinosaur #JurassicPark #JurassicParkInstitute #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Paleoart

Illustration of the brown countershaded and vertical striped with red orange crests dinosaur standing in a jungle clearing twisting to focus on an unseen threat with its mouth starting to open to roar. Final card design with text in Korean is in the lower left. Art directed by Lewis Lee and the dinosaur is based primarily on its depiction in the Jurassic Park Institute while making it more obviously an abelisaurid.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3d ago

I wonder if my tax guy would let me write off the dinosaur figures I buy since I technically use them as illustration reference.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Next card art reveal is of the armored dinosaur Edmontonia for the Jurassic Park TCG booster pack Earth Guardian. Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #Edmontonia #Dinosaur #JurassicPark #JurassicParkInstitute #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Paleoart

Illustration of the yellow Edmontonia in a red soil clearing with tropical mountains on either side and puffy clouds in the background, rearing in an offensive display for an unseen threat. Final card design with text in Korean is in the lower right. Art directed by Lewis Lee and the dinosaur is based primarily on its depiction in the Jurassic Park Institute.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jurassic Park and One Million Years B.C. dinosaur movie Triceratops design and rough size comparison study for DracoTyrannus. #JurassicPark #OneMillionYearsBC #Dinosaur #Retrosaur #Paleoart

Digital pencil style line sketches of the Triceratops from the two movies facing one another with the 1993 Jurassic Park Triceratops on the left noticeably smaller than the much larger and more retro 1966 One Million Years B.C. Triceratops.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 6d ago

And now my artwork of the hadrosaur dinosaur Nipponosaurus for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game BS-02 Earth Guardian. Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Nipponosaurus #JurassicPark3ParkBuilder #Paleoart

Card illustration of the red with darker vertical red striping and an orange crest hadrosaur running along a beach at sunset creating a splash with the waves. Its appearance is based on its depiction in Jurassic Park III: Park Builder and art directed by Lewis Lee. Final card with text in Korean is displayed in the lower left.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 7d ago

And next artwork I'm sharing from the Jurassic Park TCG booster pack Earth Guardian is the strange Cambrian arthropod Anomalocaris. Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Anomalocaris #JurassicParkBuilder

Card illustration of the stem-arthropod in a twirling swimming pose coming at the viewer with seagrass and sand in the ocean background. The final card design is in the upper right with text in Korean. It is a vibrant red / orange and yellow with its appearance primarily based on its depiction in Jurassic Park: Builder. Art directed by Lewis Lee.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · last wk.

And next artwork I'm sharing from the Jurassic Park TCG booster pack Earth Guardian is the giant Cretaceous amphibian Koolasuchus. Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Koolasuchus #JurassicParkBuilder

Card illustration of the mottled green Koolasuchus standing in a shallow swamp with floating water plants. The final card design is in the lower left with text in Korean. Art directed by Lewis Lee. Its appearance is primarily based on its depiction in Jurassic Park: Builder.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · last wk.

And next artwork I'm sharing from the Jurassic Park TCG booster pack Earth Guardian is the Cretaceous coelacanth Macropoma. Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Macropoma #Paleoart #JurassicPark3Builder

Card illustration of Macropoma in a thrashing pose against an ocean background that I also illustrated, and then the final card design in the upper right with text in Korean. Its appearance is based primarily on its Jurassic Park 3: Park Builder depiction. Art directed by Lewis Lee.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · last wk.

Emperor Chi Wei, the kaiju Tyrannosaurus rex, in the style of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal concept sheet commissioned by babyjay98 on DeviantArt. #EmperorChiWei #Kaiju #Tyannosaurusrex #Trex #Tyrannosaurusrex #KaijuDinosaur #DinosaurKaiju #Primal #GenndyTartakovskyPrimal #PrimalFanArt

Replicating the style of Primal concept sheet of the extremely huge and bulky Emperor Chi Wei. He is standing in a roaring pose facing left, his bold vertical stripes and crimson red mostly solid with limited shading. His right foot is perched atop the severed head of a kaiju Giganotosaurus. In the grayscale side sketches along the outer parts of the composition it shows his devastating explosive bite and fire breath beam attack against various opponents.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Welcome to your late 30s. You now get to choose your favorite brand of unsweetened sparkling water.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2w ago

And next artwork I'm sharing from the Jurassic Park TCG booster pack Earth Guardian is the theropod dinosaur Marshosaurus. Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social. #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Marshosaurus #Dinosaur #Paleoart

Card illustration of Marshosaurus without a background so a gradient is added behind it and then the final card design in the upper right with text in Korean. Its appearance is based primarily on its Jurassic Park Institute depiction. Art directed by Lewis Lee.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2w ago

I looked at a bunch of animals at the fair today, and most of them looked right back.

A cute brown and white horse staring deep into my soul in its stable.

Ayam Cemani rooster standing tall and proud in his cage in the poultry barn in between crowing.

A camel in the red and white striped petting zoo tent eyeing me.

Goat stretching its head around to look at me while standing up along the front of its enclosure in the goat barn.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Next artwork I'm sharing from the Jurassic Park TCG booster pack Earth Guardian is the tiny pseudosuchian Gracilisuchus. Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Gracilisuchus #Pseudosuchian #Archosaur

Card illustration without a background shown with a gradient behind with the final card design in the lower left corner with text in Korean. Gracilisuchus is a dull grayish greenish color facing left flicking its tail with its mouth open in a warning display, appearance based primarily on its appearance in the comic Jurassic Park: Redemption.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Excited to start sharing my dinosaur artwork for the Jurassic Park Trading Card Game booster pack Earth Guardian. Here's Torosaurus! Art directed by @jurassic-korea.bsky.social #JurassicPark #JurassicParkTradingCardGame #JPTCG #JurassicParkTCG #EarthGuardian #Dinosaur #Torosaurus

My illustration of Torosaurus in an action pose against a gradient since I did not do a background for this type of card. It's primarily based on its appearance in Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis. The final card design from the official website jurassicparkcard.com card list is in the upper right. Card text is in Korean.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rest in peace, Tim Curry. You inspired me often. "Don't Dream It Be It" acrylic on illustration board Frank-N-Furter and Pennywise hybrid piece I painted in 2019 for a cancer relief fund show.

Photo of the painted portrait in a black frame on a white wall mashing up two of his most iconic characters. The title is a play on words from the Rocky Horror song lyric "don't dream it be it," with the meaning being to literally be "It" as in Pennywise.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 2w ago

I fear swim weather is coming to a close soon so I spent all day swimming. You can tell the season is starting to change.

View from the trail of Buttonhook Bay in Farragut State Park with autumn colored foliage in the foreground, the deep green water of Lake Pend Oreille in the foreground with forested mountains in the background.

Me walking into Buttonhook Bay at the very corner where we like to spend the day causing a wake.

View above and below the water's surface while gentle waves almost mirror the shape of the hills.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Saw a bunch of shorebirds at the Saltese Flats Wetland again today.

Long-billed dowitchers wading in the water with their bills mostly under the surface and least sandpipers in the foreground out of focus, I think.

Killdeer flying with the wing reflected onto the water's surface at the bottom.

Long-billed dowitcher swimming with a sandpiper in the foreground that I think might be a Baird's sandpiper but it's rare for them to be here but not unheard of. Easily could be another type of sandpiper.

View across the pond of the mountain and a solitary man fishing across the bank with aquatic plants in the foreground.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Eno from Dinosapien (2007) design study for DracoTyrannus. #Dinosapien #Dinosaur #Dinosauroid

Digital pencil style line drawing of Eno the sapient theropod dinosaur facing left in a neutral pose and a large forward face in the upper right.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3w ago

I keep making coho salmon cast iron skillet meals. Basically every day.

Quick phone photo on my inexplicably wet kitchen table in an old bowl-shaped plate with worn edges showcasing a strip of coho salmon in the middle of yellow potatoes and yellow squash, all coated in fresh garden herbs and blackened from the cast iron skillet.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Imagined a large pterosaur in the Spokane River this time. #PleinAirPaleoart #Paleoart #Pterosaur

Marker and white gel pen sketch on gray toned sketchbook paper held in front of the scene it's based on a little to the right to avoid people fishing from the bank. A dark imaginary azhdarchid pterosaur is wading in the river with an orange beak and red crest and wing membranes.

View above and below the water. Way too cold to swim but I waded out into it and took some photos with my cheap underwater camera before driving upriver to a much warmer spot to swim.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Update to my old Lockwood taxidermy statue study to add color and change some of the wording requested by the client. #JurassicWorld #JurassicWorldFallenKingdom #FallenKingdom #Dinosaurs

Taxidermied Lockwood Species
Prototype InGen clones to be used for sport hunting purposes?!

Dracorex "dragon king" Lockwood Clone. Possibly a juvenile or canonical InGen clone? JWE2 (soft/headcanon) Possibly an adult or canonical Masrani clone?

Mononykus "one claw" Lockwood Clone. Fan speculation over whether Lockwood's species were true taxidermy or statues still lingers.

Dimetrodon "two measures of tooth" Lockwood Clone. Evidence of InGen's first attempt at cloning non-saurian species, including synapsids, while Manticorp pursued Cenozoic life? Later discarded as imperfect before Biosyn perfected and concealed them in the Dolomites amber mines?! Dominion (2022) Biosyn clone.

Concavenator "Cuenca hunter with a hump" Lockwood Clone. JWE2 (soft / headcanon) Sporting a fossil record-friendly build, this in-game specimen likely fit Masrani's park standards, unlike the latter, seemingly altered under Wu's authority.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Peach has the biggest spurs of any hen I've ever raised. #chickens

Quick phone photo of Peach standing under the mountain ash bush in the damp dirt from overfilling the duck pool with her body turned away from me but keeping an eye on me because she's very wild and skittish compared to all my other chickens. Her father was Hei Hei the presumed game cock that we inherited with the house who may or may not have been rejected from fighting due to being too small but then was also too small for them to eat. Peach is a light buff color with a black tail and yellow feet with spurs about 1.5 inches long.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3w ago

The End of Oak Street Allosaurus fan art in my style has some Coelophysis friends now. Made to accompany my spoiler dinosaur movie review. #TheEndofOakStreet #TheEndofOakStreetFanArt #Allosaurus #Coelophysis #Paleoart #Dinosaur #FanArt

The Allosaurus from The End of Oak Street facing right with mouth open and claws at the ready in a stepping forward posture. I've taken off the spikes on top and made them be made out of filaments instead. I also toned down the scutes and made them remniscent of those known in Concavenator as well as basing the extraoral tissue on Brian Engh's recent reconstruction. Still monstrous but maybe more modern than the movie design. Coelophysis and juvenile theropod are behind. Mostly the same as the movie designs with neutral wrists.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ankylosaurus speedpaint for Toon-Rex based on his design of this armored dinosaur. #Ankylosaurus #Dinosaur #Paleoart

Ankylosaurus facing right in a standing pose with a brick red coloration and yellow striped osteoderms and green eyes based directly on Toon-Rex's depiction of the animal.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 4w ago

More plein air dinosaur paleoart along the Spokane River again today. Corbin Park this time. #paleoart #dinosaur #pleinairpaleoart

Collage of two photos above and below the water looking at the hillside and house that overlooks the park.

A colorful marker and white pen sketch on gray paper being held in front of the scene it depicts, with a couple of imaginary dinosaurs added in.

Grayscale white pencil, marker, and pen sketch on a cut out sheet of gray construction paper of a large hadrosaur held in front of the river. It's based on a cliff to the left, but I didn't feel comfortable taking pictures toward the other river enjoyers.

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 4w ago

The End of Oak Street Allosaurus fan art in my style. #TheEndofOakStreet #TheEndofOakStreetFanArt #Allosaurus #Paleoart #Dinosaur #FanArt

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have to force myself to focus on meeting a super important illustration deadline, but after that what if I make a little The End of Oak Street Allosaurus fan art / redesign speedpaint video that doubles as a review with a narration of my initial thoughts about the movie?

Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 4w ago

The End of Oak Street was fun! I'll need to see it again next week to solidify my thoughts. The family next to me would NOT stop talking throughout the whole thing so I had an extremely hard time focusing in the quiet moments. Definitely worth watching!

Cobra Deinonychus sitting in the theater cupholder before the movie with my shoes in the background.