RJ Palmer

RJ Palmer

@rj-palmer.com

Concept Artist | Illustrator | Paleoartist | he/him Discord Server: http://discord.gg/arvalis Contact: arvalis@mac.com Portfolio: https://rj-palmer.com Store: http://rjpalmerstore.com

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Oh right I forgot to post that Claire, Nick, and I are doing a stamp rally at a Lightbox Expo this year for our new art books. Today is the last day to claim this sick bookmark set!

Overly successful Nicholas is out of books on site but I have word straight from his mouth that he will still honor the stamp rally for any purchases of $20 or more for his part of the rally.

I am extremely proud to present my new art book! Available right now online and I will have them available in person at Lightbox Expo this weekend, table 637. More than double the size of my last art books its packed to the brim with extremely cool stuff. rjpalmerstore.com/collections/...

You guys gotta check out what my buddy made. Without a doubt the best lifesize T. rex head sculpt that exists in the world.

Kieran 🦘🇨🇦@hellbendermuseum.bsky.social

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

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Just for fun this is a little King Dodongo sketch I did in my sketchbook early this year that I dont think I ever posted

Its strange how comparatively cartoony the materials are on King Dodongo vs the rest of the art direction. Look at the neck, thats very Skyward Sword in approach. Maybe he is like an amphibian covered in rocks instead of having scales? Would fit the lifecycle better maybe?

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This is the full artwork my Link is a snippet of. You may understand that I am also very interested to see how all the items were redesigned too.

They have always had an amphibian lifecycle growing more limbs as they age. So thats a fun idea to incorporate more but I am left underwhelmed from a creature design perspective. I was hoping for more interesting scale designs and the teeth shapes leave a lot to be desired

Just for fun this is a little King Dodongo sketch I did in my sketchbook early this year that I dont think I ever posted

While I dont hate the new Link design I do think something was lost in the translation of his facial features especially. and just for fun its its interesting to compare design decisions I made for a more realistic materials Link to the official one

This is the full artwork my Link is a snippet of. You may understand that I am also very interested to see how all the items were redesigned too.

You guys want to see something cool? Prototype kit currently on display at my Dragon Con table.

RJ Palmer@rj-palmer.com

⚔️🔥CAPTURE QUEST: CHARIZARD🔥⚔️ I have wanted to paint this for over a decade and spent the last year of my life fighting to bring it to the finish line. Please take a look, there is a lot to see

Were you able to spot every reference and easter egg in there?

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⚔️🔥CAPTURE QUEST: CHARIZARD🔥⚔️ I have wanted to paint this for over a decade and spent the last year of my life fighting to bring it to the finish line. Please take a look, there is a lot to see

I didn’t expect anyone to see this without looking at the full res but I snuck my name into the scales of his lower eyelid

⚔️🔥CAPTURE QUEST: CHARIZARD🔥⚔️ I have wanted to paint this for over a decade and spent the last year of my life fighting to bring it to the finish line. Please take a look, there is a lot to see

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The response to this has already been overwhelming, you guys are really so kind. As a treat here are a few high res detail shots. Also keep an eye out for all the easter eggs and references in there, its probably more than you spotted on first glance 🙂

⚔️🔥CAPTURE QUEST: CHARIZARD🔥⚔️ I have wanted to paint this for over a decade and spent the last year of my life fighting to bring it to the finish line. Please take a look, there is a lot to see

I spent a total of 648 hours in photoshop working on this. That doesnt even include the absurd amount of research and reference gathering I had to do. I put together a pretty dense collection of the process for all this if you're interested too. A LOT of lessons learned

I designed the monsters in this and you guys finally get to see my favorite one 😈🦕

Terrible Lizards Game@terriblelzrds.bsky.social

Terrible Lizards arrives on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on October 29th 2026! 💽 A parkour horror adventure set within and below Dalton’s Dinos: a Route 66 attraction that has unearthed something terrible… will you survive the night? 🌙 Wishlist the game at terriblelizardsgame.com

Been a big week for ol' RJ and design reveals. You guys have no idea how much I've been wanting to talk about the designs I did for these games. bsky.app/profile/rj-p...

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Oh man I can finally share that I designed the main character duo for this game. I'm in awe at how well they translated the designs into the game, its beautiful!!

Oh man I can finally share that I designed the main character duo for this game. I'm in awe at how well they translated the designs into the game, its beautiful!!

Yves Le Yaouanq@ubikh.bsky.social

We just revealed a game with the incredible team at Afterburner ! Elta : Defy All the Gods ! #Elta #FocusEntertainment

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thinking about the popularity of so many "redraw trends" and plagiarism of compositions by all sorts of artists (it comes up often for gposing but 2D artists do it too). i have to sum up my discomfort with it as follows: it's artists treating other artists the same way A/I treats art as data

World governments maybe need to force annual mandatory mental health assessments for CEOs until we find out whats going on

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Cleaning up and organizing some work files.... don't think I ever shared these test renders of the Kryptis Skyscale from GW2 Secrets of the Obscure. Bits and pieces of him ended up getting reused throughout that expansion like demon lego bricks. He kinda makes me think of raw chicken. #art #gw2

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The Sega Saturn video is finally finished! Still waiting on some stuff before I can upload it to YouTube, but if you watch on Nebula, you'll get to see a bonus segment on adult games that I unfortunately had to cut from the YouTube version. nebula.tv/videos/liamt...

nebula.tvLiam Triforce — Sega Saturn Retrospective (Bigger, Longer, and Uncut)In exploring the Saturn's library, I unearthed a lost civlization that aimed to speak through their art, and these fantastic games are in danger of being lost to time. Good thing a YouTuber is here to...

lol twitter continues to steal ideas from bluesky, you can now add different feeds to your timeline. As with most features they steal, its worse than here as you cannot have custom feeds. It is nice to be able to just see art without bullshit though to keep up with artists that dont post elsewhere.

Not to get all reddit atheist but its a concerning parallel to religion the way people get funneled into adhering to nebulous dogma via social media. Its been said before but people like zuck get to effectively be mortal gods reshaping the world in their image. We need a social media iconoclasm.

I always think it's funny how instagram makes people into village soothsayers coming up with and passing around folk wisdom because the platform runs on like a million obscured algorithms and no one knows how it works. Advice feels very 'A rooster crowing at night is a sign of rain coming.'

Tired as hell, anxiety through the roof, need to get this illustration I've been working on for 10 months done by the end of the weekend. Time to lock in!!! Wish me luck fellas!!! 🤠

Mixing arthropod style chitinous armor into dragons was quite a rarity in this era, even more so in the western art sphere. I’ve never seen this piece before but really cool to see how ahead of the game Wrightson was.

Colin Smith@colinsmith.bsky.social

“Knight and Dragon", by Bernie Wrightson, c.1987.

It’s very common these days of course. Both final fantasy and yugioh would be doing this regularly in the 90s and obviously monster hunter would push the idea further in 2004. It was just way less common 40 years ago.

I really need to do more of these kinds of studies from life. Its such a different experience over working from photos. So many colors you can see with your real eyeballs in life that are lost in photography