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Claire Keane
@theartofmadeline
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
NASA
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Cosimo Galluzzi
Janaina Medeiros
oozey mess
will byers stan first human second
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tannertan36
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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@deflare
mousegirl gf who had to hire a Warhammer player to do her wedding makeup because that's the only person who could paint that small
@gravlax34 GREAT idea
*drybrushes your mousegirl* *contrast washes your mousegirl* *applies weathering grime to your mousegirl*
On the one hand, this IS incredibly cute.
On the other hand... Well.
Listen, minis painting is... uh...
It can be hard, all right?
Flying is effortless, landing can be a little bit harder, Cornell Lab / DoC (northern royal albatross) (part 1)
There’s so much about this. The tumble itself is so irredeemably funny. The child stops asking for food and just stares in silence as the adult completely beefs it. The adult, absolutely ashamed, wandering off screen, refusing to make eye contact with the baby.
Perfect 10s all round.
A couple scenes from a little gay vampire story I was kicking around a couple years ago! I sometimes do little pencils-only scenes for things and never post them. But I was looking back at these and was like why not? They're cute!
I have a whole story for these two, but just for funsies, something to do every now and then when I need to let loose.
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
SHE'S DONE!!
Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏
*does a little jig*
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹
aaaand another one bites the duck,
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thanks for the reminder, kid
at long last, we've reached the end...
Bird number 14 out of 14,
The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
i'll see y'all soon :')
Instagram article from Fifty Shades of Gay
I grew up with Desi neighbors and extended family, and found goth when I was a tween and never grew out of it
These two things were separate for me for a long time
This is SO COOL and I need to look into this more
Diagram I made to explain the importance of me having a hyperfixation at all times
Many people seem to have the misunderstanding that if one doesn’t have a hyperfixation, they will have more time to think normal thoughts. This however, is incorrect. The amount of normal thoughts thunk by the average neurodivergent stays relatively the same, it’s the amount of bad thoughts thunk that changes depending on the intensity of ones’ hyperfixation. Yes I am a neuroscientist trust me
here are some more cats 🍓
Tatooine Troopers | Illustration by concept artist, Edouard Groult
this may be my age showing but I am a passionate supporter of wires. earbuds? put a leash on those things. wireless keyboard? no, it needs to hold hands with the computer. the ps5 controller I forgot to charge has the staying power of a wealthy nonagenarian with a much younger wife and 14 life insurance policies, but the controller plugged into my pc? that baby will outlive my bloodline. my ethernet cable is like a son to me.
My 'redrawmajora' project from a few years ago, reimagining some of the characters from Majora's Mask with unique looks from their OoT counterparts. Still quite proud of these.
not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny
governor of the colony: hey I’m gonna go back to england to get more supplies
115 colonists: okay
governor: ends up spending 3 years in england bc of a naval war with spain or some shit
governor: gets back to the colony to find everyone gone
governer: sees the word “croatoan”, the name of a native american tribe, carved into a post
croatoan tribe: has members and children with blonde hair/blue eyes, pale skin
everyone: what could have happened to the colonists of roanoke
hi! op here. I’m fucking hyperventilating
The issue is manifold:
There is a large secondary industry that has emerged around D&D that produces content out of and for D&D. This includes third party rules and adventures as well as transformative content like actual plays as well as gaming video essayists and so on.
The most visible parts of this industry are the actual plays.
There is a clear financial incentive in using D&D for actual plays, because actual plays using other systems do not draw the same crowds as actual plays using D&D. There is no nefarious intent at play here, it's simply financial realities at play.
However, these people may wish to obfuscate those financial incentives and present them having arrived at D&D as coincidental. Since a lot of actual play content eventually wants to branch out from dungeon-killing fantasy monsters, this creates tension with the game mechanics.
What this creates is a lot of talk about how the fact that D&D chafes against this type of play is either a non-issue that can be fixed by the GM or actually inherent to the very medium of TTRPGs as well.
A lot of people are coming into TTRPGs with an a priori understanding of the medium like "it's okay that TTRPGs (D&D) can't handle all types of situations, the real power of TTRPGs (D&D) is that they can be modified by the GM on the fly."
This creates tension between these people and the people who actually think tabletop RPGs are worth engaging with as texts taken at their own word as well as the people who have a vested interest in their tabletop RPGs being treated as things worth engaging with on their own terms and not just as lesser versions of D&D.
Again, there is no nefarious intent at play here on any side, but it's simply in my personal interests to engage with RPGs as texts. Because the aforementioned cycle feeds and repeats itself and it doesn't actually result in a lot of interesting and good and cool new design. it just leads to more D&D with different numbers.
Eva Funderburgh
love her work
she still makes these and they’ve only grown more wonderful over the years. The wood-fired surfaces really give them life.
love these lil guys
many people being introduced to the protomen through Light Up The Night is really funny because while yes it's a banger and it's uplifting out of context, in context it's "hey you should listen to this song about a pair of daring individual heroes and their bold plan to save the world, from my favourite band, Individual Heroism Doesn't Work"
Guillermo Del Toro is the only director who would shoot Gepetto making Pinocchio as if it were Dr. Frankenstein creating the monster.
And then shoot Dr. Frankenstein creating the monster as if it were Gepetto making Pinocchio.
Even more devastating, the scene where pinocchio was made was very violent in looks and almost angry but gepetto grew to love his creation like a son but the scene of making the creature was loving and attentive but victor grew to hate his creation .
