Illustrations related to my Jurassic Park fanfiction about raptors,
Last Queens of Thieves (see detailed content warnings at the story header at the link).

The illustrations could be considered spoilers for the story if you haven't read it yet and intend to, so please be aware of that.


Cover
September 2019

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon



Meetings at the Visitor Center
September 2020

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon

They purr at each other, but it's not the same
May 2019

posted to: deviantart - cara

New purpose: to thrive
November 2020

Schemer, Swift, and Climber, sitting in a tree.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon - deviantart - cara

Hers now
April 2019

Don't worry, the blood doesn't belong to either of the raptors. Or, I guess now it does, as food. :D

In any case, this was one of my favorite scenes to write.

posted to: deviantart - tumblr

Honeys, I'm home!
May 2019

A silly doodle, but that must have been a pretty unexpected thing to bring along
from a raptor equivalent of a quick trip to the corner store.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon

Thieflings
September 2019

posted to: deviantart

Scarfaces
July 2019

Leader and Squeak.

posted to: deviantart - my sketchblog/Patreon with commentary about naming the characters in the fic

Came back without them
January 2020

They already knew she would, but it's hard to accept.
She still had to go check, to be sure.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon - deviantart

Jp raptor coloring development musings
May 2019

Figuring out a reference for myself for fanart purposes.
Modeling the growth stages here are Elusive and Survivor from the above fic.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon with more commentary

Nothing we can't handle!
July 2019

Survivor, Squeak, Grappleclaws, and Elusive, about to get their asses kicked.

posted to: deviantart

Maybe not yet dating, but definitely pretty married
January 2022

Squeak and Survivor.

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Where all the cool kids hang out
May 2019

Left to right: Triptail (closest to the viewer), Finder (climbing the stairs), Squeak (grooming her gf), Survivor (the gf),
Shredder (at the top of the stairs! wow so high up!), Grappleclaws (showing off a wire phone handset treasure),
Dare (on the roof), Dash-and-slash/Dash (on the roof and about to do a jumpscare), Elusive (about to get jumpscared),
Whirlwind (on the foreground, harassing a passing dragonfly with her sister, or maybe harassing her sister by actually catching the dragonfly she wouldn't otherwise care about).

I wanted to draw them at their adult colouring (not that those are very clear in the lighting I chose) so I think they're at very early adulthood here.
Spending time at East Dock.

posted to: deviantart - cara

Scout Team
August 2020

Dare and Finder.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon - deviantart

Lovable Jocks
August 2020

Siblings Grappleclaws and Shredder.
Hunting team tanks, skilled at killing, actual rays of sunshine to their packmates.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon - deviantart

Girls Just Want To Have Fun
December 2020

Whirlwind, Dash, and Triptail, up to - good? No good?
They'll let you know once they see how it turns out.

posted to: deviantart

Dance
August 2019

Bird courtship.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon - deviantart

Queen and Consort
February 2019

Survivor and Squeak, just being gay as in happy and gay as in gay.

posted to: deviantart - tumblr

Babies!
September 2020

Class of 1996.
Welcoming the newest generation of the family are: (left to right, back to front)
Treeclimber, Swiftdive, Grappleclaws, Whirlwind, Shredder, proud moms Survivor and Squeak, Finder, and Dash.

The missing pack members (Leader, Triptail, Dare, and Elusive) have probably visited sometime during the hatching as well, but the new
grandparents have a clutch of babies of their own back at the original nest that aren't much older, so someone needs to also watch and care for them.

posted to: deviantart - cara

Oh right, and that happened
December 2019

Dare and Dash-and-slash are such background characters in-universe, that no one else noticed
that a few years into adulthood they had become a couple and that Dare was suddenly male, until Dash laid a clutch of eggs.

By the time this happens the pack is no longer a single-sex environment, but the two of them are the only raptors around with no biological relatives,
while the others have their genes passed on in the form of either their own or their siblings' offspring. So they made some.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon

Tree-stain paws
September 2020

One of Survivor's babies grown up.

Tree-stain paws, or Meripihka as I like to call her out-of-universe, is an inventive young lady with
lots of curiosity about new places to explore, even the world beyond the pack's island home.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon

Hi, dad
January 2023

posted to: deviantart

Lookout
May 2020

Survivor and Leader, heads of the south and north packs, monitoring the return of some old acquaintances.

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon - deviantart

Ruins
January 2021

The last one. Or is she?

posted to: deviantart - cara

What are the chances...
April 2020

Of Velociraptors escaping the island as stowaways on a boat somewhere in the Jurassic Park franchise?

posted to: my sketchblog/Patreon

Holding Her
September 2019

Affectionate old ladies. Much has changed in 25 years, but some things haven't.

posted to: deviantart,
and with commentary on this particular cuddling behavior to: my sketchblog/Patreon

The Park Was Open, so they walked in
August 2020

They even minded the "no dogs allowed" sign - they didn't bring any with them.

So speaking of things that have changed, there are finally chicks in the pack again.
These scaly pigeons are Tumult, Ruckus, and Daydreamer (from biggest to smallest).
Tumult is Tree-stain paws' yearling daughter and Survivor's granddaughter, hatched about a year
after the ending of the fic, here exploring the world with her a few months old cousin and baby sibling.
And they should definitely not be this far from their nest on their own, especially the little one,
but despite some of their names they can be quite sneaky, and a raptor's curiosity knows few bounds.

posted to: deviantart - cara

Mothers and Daughters
September 2020

She's a lot like you at her age.

posted to: deviantart - cara

Life and its ways
February 2021

More lovebirds! These fine gentlemen are Beetlebiter and Singer,
the two doting dads of little Ruckus. More about them at the character profile page.

posted to: deviantart - tumblr - cara

 

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Art © Elina Hopeasaari / Kosmonauttihai. Jurassic Park / Jurassic World and its characters are © someone else.
Please don't repost my art without permission.