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@bonsha
Welcome!
Name's Bon. Hobby artist. Expect a lot of paleontology, spec zoo, and DnD right now.
This is a mostly SFW blog, though I'll occasionally post artistic nudity.
Art tag - #bon art
Art Archive @bonsha-art - All of my stuff in one place.
Sulfur combusts on contact with air to create stunning blue lava-like rivers of light in the Kawah Ijen crater on the island of Java | Ph: Olivier Grunewald
Rest in peace Sam Neill. Thank you for the awe and wonder you brought to us.
GTA Minthara šø I had A LOT of requests to draw Minthara and I gladly obeyed. I love this woman so much. It was a very fun trend to draw and I hope I'm not too late with the second piece (I'm so slow artist, sorry)
stop trying to make every single drawing a magnum opus. you cannot unleash your art ult until you charge it up with a bunch of shitty little doodles first.
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I just realized I've never posted it here!
Hereās a cover I illustrated for "Ravenloft: The Horrors Within". Art director: AJ Hanneld
Jael, Beauty in Space
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i wonder what they're gossiping about
had to draw them
Some gift art for @reignlycan and SpiriMuse!
Extinction. WIP
The amount of different textures here are making this sort of busy. I hope the color stage helps create more visual distinction between forms.
The colors are started and are more similar than I hoped. Awful lot of oranges and yellows in here. Might do some additional editing. I'm not sold on keeping the cheetah skin tbh.
reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics
@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this
I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that donāt follow the logic and science of them makes me upset
What are the most common sins youāve seen relating to this? I wanna know
Mordor.
Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like itās from a shield. If itās hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.
And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isnāt there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!
So what is a rain shadow?
Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.
Oh yeah nothing is more annoying than fantasy maps that can't get mountains, rivers and rain shadows right.
May I recommend my new favorite tool: Mapgen4. You start with a random seed and then add mountains, valleys, shallow water, or oceans as you like. You can adjust the wind direction to make wind shadows off the mountains fall where you want. You can adjust overall raininess to make the rivers larger or smaller, or have more or fewer tributaries. It works best for small, isolated landmasses (think islands more than continents) but as thereās no scale bar and itās all slightly abstracted anyway you can do whatever you want with it. Iāve only just started playing with it but itās SO FUN.
I do think this could be useful for writers! ...Caveat, if you're going to use this for making a map for anything published (digital or paper, even if it's only in a fanfic archive or whatever), please, please credit the creator and their program as how you made that map! The more ways information like this gets out there, the more useful it'll be to other writers, roleplaying game DMs/GMs, creators, etc.
One of my favourites for mapping plates, biomes, etc is Tectonics.js. If you're familiar with how tectonics shape a planet, you can guess where the features go by toggling plates, crust thickness, etc. Between Mapgen4 and Tectonics.js, we've got some pretty sweet tools at our disposal.
More stuff!:
European Geosciences Union Blog ā Beyond Tectonics: Building fictional worlds to better understand our own
Reshaping Reality's Worldbuilding Tips
Worldbuilding pasta's series, An Apple Pie from Scratch also check their resources page!
R/worldbuilding's Reading List. Also check out their collected resources link. This basic geology guide from 11 years ago is still nice.
Creating an Earth-Like Planet, and The Climate Cookbook (aka Geoff's Climate Cookbook) technically the climate cookbook is a part of Creating an Earth like Planet I think.
Related: Worldbuilding Workshop's "Working Out Climates Using Geoffās Climate Cookbook." Which goes through using the resource in order to map make. Also just the Worldbuilding Workshop in General.
Madeline James Writes's Worldbuilding Guide
Worldbuilding 101 (this links to the Biomes section but there's like...everything.)
Also I would recommend looking into Landscape Archaeology as well! That's because Landscape archeology is basically adding the social/cultural layer on top of all that geology and geography. Environments change when communities live in them, and communities likewise adapt to various environments.
This is a short free introduction to the concept: "Notes on Landscape Archaeology." To summarize, Landscape archaeology sort of like...studies the relation of people to places/spaces (that is, landscapes) in time.
Also this paper [An Archeology of Landscapes] breaks down/introduces the key concepts that I learned which is first that you can form the "construct paradigm" of a landscape from settlement ecology, ritual landscapes, and ethnic landscapes.
And then the highlights of their summary of what constitutes defining a landscape:
Landscapes are not synonymous with natural environments. Landscapes are synthetic (Jackson, 1984, p. 156), with cultural systems structuring and organizing peoplesā interactions with their natural environments ...
Landscapes are worlds of cultural product ... Through their daily activities, beliefs, and values, communities transform physical spaces into meaningful places. ...
Landscapes are the arena for all of a communityās activities. Thus landscapes not only are constructs of human populations but they also are the milieu in which those populations survive and sustain themselves. A landscapeās domain involves patterning in both within-place and between-place contexts ...
Landscapes are dynamic constructions, with each community and each generation imposing its own cognitive map on an anthropogenic world of interconnected morphology, arrangement, and coherent meaning ...
Basically a "landscape" is made by a community living in an environment. Once you have a geological environment that makes sense, landscape archaeology is like... Basically how I feel confident knowing where trade routes would be on a map, where there are areas of continual high conflict, what kinds of agriculture exists where, etc. once the geological stuff is hammered out, it's like...I know how that would influence the local cultures and vice versa. At that point, it's easy to start marking the natural borders, settlements, trade/port cities, and even strategic fortresses. If you have properly put rivers on a map, then marking your port cities is effortless, basically.
Also:
This course syllabus for a Landscape Archaeology class is freely accessible. It includes an online resources page.
Place, Landscape, and Environment: Anthropological Archaeology in 2009
(Landscape Biographies is open access, as is Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach. But I wouldn't try to read every essay.)
If you are like me and find it helpful to have video reference for a process/activity in addition to a written guide, Artifexian is a YouTube channel that does a LOT of world building stuff and specifically he's in the process of creating a world following a lot of Worldbuilding Pasta's methodology!
im taking media away from some of u guys until you can pass a 6th grade literary analysis test
you guys think im fucking joking but im not. i cannot deal with another second of people complaining about stories "glorifying" their subject matter just because no one turned to the camera and said, "hey guys, just so you know, this thing is Bad and Not Good, and this story is about Why it is Bad and Not Good."
i say this with love in my heart. But i genuinely do believe some of you on this horrid webbedsite are so used to only consuming media that explicitly tells you what you are supposed to take away from it (i.e. children's media) that youve lost the ability to examine media beyond a surface level
this is not to say that children's media is bad. or that adults can't enjoy it. i'm an adult, i love cartoons, and i probably always will. but if all you are consuming is tv shows made to teach children about kindness, you are going to rot your brain
If ur annoying on this post you will owe me 300USD
Discussion questions:
1) When OP says "I'm taking media away from some of you guys until you can pass a 6th grade literary analysis test," this is an example of a rhetorical device. Which rhetorical device is an example of? Is it effective? Why or why not?
2) Why might OP only mention the website he is posting on? Does this mean he thinks every other website is without these issues, or is it in order to make it relevant to the viewers?
Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost
TheĀ āgetting it done in an unconventional wayā method.
TheĀ āitās not cheating to do it the easy wayā method.
TheĀ āfuck what youāre supposed to doā method.
TheĀ āget stuff done while you waitā method.
TheĀ āyou donāt have to do everything at onceā method.
TheĀ āit doesnāt have to be permanent to be helpfulā method.
TheĀ ābreak the task into smaller stepsā method.
TheĀ ātreat yourself like a petā method.
TheĀ āit doesnāt have to be all or nothingā method.
TheĀ āput on a personaā method.
TheĀ āact like youāre filming a tutorialā method.
TheĀ āyou donāt have to do it perfectlyā method.
TheĀ āwait for a triggerā method.
TheĀ ādo it for your future selfā method.
TheĀ āmight as wellā method.
TheĀ āwhen self discipline doesnāt cut itā method.
TheĀ ātaking care of yourself to take care of your petā method.
TheĀ āmake it easyā method.
TheĀ ājunebuggingā method.
TheĀ ājust show upā method.
TheĀ āaccept when you need helpā method.
TheĀ āmake it into a gameā method.
TheĀ āeverything worth doing is worth doing poorlyā method.
TheĀ ātrick yourselfā method.
TheĀ ābreak it into even smaller stepsā method.
TheĀ ālet go of shouldā method.
TheĀ āyour body is an animal you have to take care ofā method.
TheĀ āfork theoryā method.
TheĀ āeffectivity over aestheticsā method.
This is the sacred texts, this is the holy grail.
This a GOOD STUFF, people. Read and try, it may work for you š¤
I guess Iām the only one who feels overwhelmed by this enormous list. Cool, cool.
Hey there, me collecting a bunch of resources that has helped a bunch of people but isnāt helpful to you personally (valid), is actually not a personal attack on you and you could easily just have scrolled past it and moved on with your day instead of getting guilt trippy in the tags. Just a tip for future reference!
Avengers #5 (1997) art by Rob Liefeld
How to Paint Light by jonhuangart
People who shelter in place from tornadoes will never be in control of their own lives. You simply have to show the tornado that you are the alpha.
