Keller Pyle

Here is a reworking of my neanderthal illustration. I was unhappy with some of the textures and hand of the original and decided to fix it.

A young female archaeopteryx named Tippett has lost her way while traversing the forest floor.

An elderly ankylosaurus is suddenly startled by a large crocodilian moving through the water.

An elderly neanderthal male is tracking prey along a well worn game trail.

Here are some of my favorite pages from a children's book I illustrated that was never published. It's been several years since I made these and they are still some of my favorite artwork I've done for a book.

the sketch verses final of the abyssal flabbergast.

An abyssal flabbergast scooping up ocean detritus in its spoon like mouthparts.

you can skip this wall of text its just about the scam this illustration was involved in.

This fairly ordinary illustration of two hands holding was involved in a very weird and convoluted scam. Last month I was commission to illustrate this image for invitations meant to go out for a supposed wedding anniversary coming up in March. The whole commission seemed odd to me I mainly draw dinosaurs and aliens. Not many people know I also draw people but the buyer who called himself Petterson Reid was offering to pay 300 up front and 200 after the work was finished. A nice offer for what was a very simple illustration. I took the job and sent him a very rough sketch of the hands to show him what the final image might look like. He liked the sketch and told me to finish the image after he sent the first payment I went ahead and finished the image that night. I held onto the picture to see if he would really send the 300 dollars first. The buyer wanted to send a check by mail which is weird but I thought he might have been a boomer who didn't understand how to use PayPal. His emails and text seemed like something my grandmother would write very proper and overly polite. I was fairly suspicious of him and waited to see if a check would actually be delivered. To my surprise a check did arrive a week later from Petterson Reid except it was for 2,790 dollars. knowing this was far too much money I asked him if it was a mistake. He said the extra money was for a PayPal invoice to the printers involved in the invitations. He wanted me to use the extra money on the check to pay the printers on his behalf. Again very weird but I chalked it up to an old person who didn't know how to pay online. I cashed the check the next day, since it was from an out of state bank they were putting it on hold for 3 days to see if the funds would clear. I told the buyer about the three day waiting period and asked for the invoice I was suppose to be paying and he went absolutely ape shit. He claimed I was trying to steal his money and was threatening to pursue legal action I was completely shocked by the change in attitude. I had to mute my phone because he kept sending wave after wave of threatening texts. At this point I was 90% sure this was some sort of scam but when I called the bank they said there was nothing to do until the hold expired. I was confident it wouldn't then to my surprise the check cleared and the money was in my account. At this point I had the finished artwork and the money so I wanted to get this crazy asshole on his way so I wouldn't have to deal with him anymore. I told him to send the invoice for the printer and I would pay it with the money on the check then I would send the picture and our business would be done. This prick sends some half assed looking invoice with a payable link on PayPal. When I try to pay, it says payment will be held till Feb 7th. Apparently this date is too late for the printers so now that processing payment has been canceled by the printer in favor of a new payment process through Zelle. I was trying to figure out what was going on, if its a scam what is the take the entirety of the check was still in my account it didn't even say it was pending. I go to pay on Zelle and discover the 2,790 dollars has been rescinded by the bank. I call and learn this ass hair had sent a forged check to the bank in an effort to have me pay these fake invoices with my own money. He guessed the bank would deposit the check without fully vetting it for the standard 10 days since I'm a long time member. He knew he had until about five a clock that day before the bank would catch the discrepancy. He was posing as the printer in order to scam 4,740 dollars from me through both attempted payment methods. luckily for me I'm broke as hell right now and didn't have the money in my own account to cover either payment with out the check. everything has been taken care of now I just thought I better share this story since I've never seen a scam like this before. It took an entire month for him to essentially get nothing I really don't know what to think of any of this its such a weird scheme.

My female carnotaurus character Calliope heading down to the beach for a swim. My old computer finally gave up the ghost after 10 years of okay service so this is the first painting of my new computer.

Here is another collection of exotic alien wildlife.

Here are some progress pics for baby Blue.

The first dino sketches of 2024!!!

Here is a Christmas gift I made for my aunt. She wanted baby blue from jurassic world but since I couldn't afford to buy one I made her one instead. It's even life size for a young baby.

Here is a new collaboration with Codylake, this time its a quirky female retro raptor with soon to be prey.

Now that I've turned 30 I have become a real dinosaur.

Here is the process for my pantylus pic. It took a while to perfect the newt like skin texture but I like how it came out in the end.

A male pantylus basks on the edge of his mating pool hoping to attract a female.