greer stothers

These illustrations were done for the Evolving Planet exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum.

They show a peaceful ‘Before’ scene set in the late Permian and a disastrous ‘After’ in the early Triassic, demonstrating the effects of the End-Permian Extinction (colloquially known as the ‘Great Dying’).

The background, middleground, foreground, animals, and clouds were risograph-printed separately, then digitally assembled for use in a 2.5D animation. 15 species of plant and animal are shown.

The animations were produced by Latoya Flowers, with motion graphics by Warren Rudd and music by Josh Beck.

To see more of this exhibit, please head here.

This print of four Ceratopsids, loosely inspired by moth and butterfly patterning, won the Applied Arts Youngblood Illustration award.

The designs were also made into a line of enamel pins.

2021 winter menu art for the Demetres restaurant chain.

The pigeon feast is the menu cover, while the other animals and gradients make up the fronts and backs of the billcards customers receive.

“Find out in this kaleidoscopic look at the technicolour world of animals. Meet animals of every colour of the rainbow and find out why they are the colours and patterns they are. Discover the reason why some animals are stripy and others are spotty.”

Kaleidoscope of Creatures is a book from Quartro Knows published in 5 languages. Inside are 64 illustrated pages with 300+ animals organized by colour, pattern, camouflage techniques, and so on.

The illustrations on each page were risograph printed using 9 different inks.

These 34 orchid species will appear in Normal Orchid Game, a flower breeding simulator with an eldritch twist set to release in late 2022.

Only the Phalaenopsis species will be breedable, as shown in the gene grid below.

“A richly detailed and vibrantly illustrated natural history book, this fascinating read is bursting with color and will show you dinosaurs like never before. Discover cutting-edge theories on feathered dinosaurs, the colourful secrets of the fossil record, and what million-year-old remains tell us about how extinct animals lived and looked. Paleo-artist and author Greer Stothers reimagines the dinosaurs and their prehistoric peers, using fossils and the examples of living species to bring this often misrepresented world to life.”

Kaleidoscope of Creatures is a book from Quartro Knows. Inside are 64 illustrated pages with 200+ animals organized by colour, pattern, camouflage techniques, and so on.

This was a spot illustration in The Walrus, accompanying the article “What Canada’s Rocks Can Tell Us About Extraterrestrial Life” by Nicole Schmidt.

Out of six concept sketches, the Mars Rover examining stromatolites in the Canadian Shield was chosen.

The Coelurosauria print was commissioned by Crate Monster, a monthly crate subscription that delivers curated artist goods.

The design appeared both on risograph prints, and on printed shirts.

Life’s Library Book Club is a book subscription service, with novels chosen by John Green and Rosianna Halse Rojas.

Along with the books, subscribers receive small goodies! This risograph bookplate was included in the October 2021 batch.

A portrait done for a friend’s Belgian Hare show rabbit.

In 2020, Rusty Quill commissioned a risograph print and set of 15 enamel pins for their popular horror podcast, The Magnus Archives.

Among my responsibilities were product design, site design, organization of manufacturing and distribution, and customer service for the 2000+ orders.

A private commission showing two squabbling Microraptors.

Spinosaurus aegyptiacus was the closest dinosaurs ever got to going full-whale. Its 50 feet body was held up by stumpy dachshund legs, resulting in fierce ongoing debates over whether it could even walk on land.

Vibrant risograph printing is accomplished by passing paper through once for each colour, with the use of stencils. This sometimes results in off-set prints and small smudges - in other words, the prints have all the flaws of hand-made art!

These were done for the Royal Ontario Museum’s paleolab - two fossil illustrations, and a reconstruction of the hadrosaur the bones belonged to. The fossils were first drawn from life, then digitized and made into rice-paper stencils so that a risograph could be printed.

For the reconstruction It was a priority to depict a colouration that, though bold, would have been a possibility. Inspiration came from the Galápagos pink land iguana, a large and poorly known reptile

A piebald Allosaurus in a landscape based off of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland.

Vibrant risograph printing is accomplished by passing paper through once for each colour, with the use of stencils. This sometimes results in off-set prints and small smudges - in other words, the prints have all the flaws of hand-made art!

A private commission of Archaeopteryx lithographic, showing speculative colours.

‘Glowing Bunnies!?: Why We're Making Hybrids, Chimeras, and Clones’ is a book by Jeff Campbell, set to release in May 2022

The risograph cover illustrations are re-used in the books interior as chapter headings, as each animal matches to a chapter.

This was a spot illustration in Canadian Geographic, accompanying the article “Written in stone: What fossils can tell us about the future” by David Geselbracht.

Minmi paravertebra is a basal ankylosaurid from Cretaceous Australia.

This print won the 2019 iJungle Merit Award, as judged by Andrea D’Aquino, Andrea Serio, and Ryan Garcia.

This illustration shows the earliest known species of bat, Icaronycteris from the Green River Formation. Other animals in the scene include Borealosuchus, a species of crocodile, Protorohippus venticolum, a dog-sized early horse, and an unidentified fly that was found pressed into limestone.

This is a personal piece, exploring how a common colour mutation may have looked on Velociraptor mongoliensis.

These were sent out as promotional postcards in 2019

An illustration for an upcoming art book collecting scenes from the K-Pg mass extinction event.

This was an illustration in The Walrus, accompanying the article “Ruffled Feathers: How Feral Peacocks Divided a Small Town” by Lyndsie Bourgon.

This illustration was made for the February 2019 edition of Palaeo Poems.

It accompanies a poem by Glenn Jepsen, in which an argument is had over whether a fossilized braincase belongs to an ancient bat or a miacid:

“A curious beast is the Tillybat
It surely seems odd and quite silly that
With a brain shape so batty,
We’d find glenoids so catty!
You see why we call it a dilly, Pat?
“The midbrain is hilly, —
and further”, says Tilly,
“Look here quick and see
Those colliculi!
It had to squeak, not mew, —
it never walked, it flew!
Jep, don’t be so placid,
It’s not a miacid!”

This is a personal piece, inspired by the flocks of wild turkeys that roam through my parents’ countryside yard.

This bookplate was commissioned to accompany a palaeontology thesis about the competition of creodonts and carnivores. Specifically, it shows Hemipsalodon and Dinictis.

These illustrations were done for ‘UNCANNY: a collaborative zine of mythos and the supernatural’, organized by Julian Miholics.

The idea for my contribution was mythological creatures captured unintentionally on trail cameras.