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Mike Driver
oozey mess
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Xuebing Du
Jules of Nature
Today's Document
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Janaina Medeiros
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Sampler-Platter of common chains I offer, on display in one of the shops carrying my pieces. I’m charging by the inch, so people can easily order earrings, bracelets, or necklaces and work out for themselves how much it will cost.
Level 1 Dragonborn: Now with chainmail.
Character description prompt here.
I have a little tradition- whenever I'm snowed it, I take it as a sign that it's time to take a mess of earring pictures!
Finally got this one written up as a tutorial over at my blog. The tutorial is all about the painting process, but I also made a lot of little character detail choices that I want to talk about:
-The artificial arm and eye, on the same side. Given that this woman is a mechanic, it's reasonable to assume that at some point something blew up in her face and she barely survived.
- She has good trigger discipline, but doesn't keep the barrel pointed away from people. She doesn't want to shoot you, but also doesn't give a shit about your rules.
- She is looking up, over and behind the viewer. She is assessing whatever mechanical problem she was brought in to fix, not engaging with you.
- The cat is wearing a bell. Because it's freaking hard to find a cat in a boiler room if it doesn't want to be found.
My NaNoWriMo wordcount isn't exactly keeping up with my goals, but the just going through the process of making a snowflake has gone an amazingly long way toward solidifying my story.
For example, until I'd finished my snowflake the concept for my villains was suffering from some pretty serious anemia. They wanted bad things to happen because they were...bad. Yeah.
Another symptom of that anemia was that I had no good idea of what they looked like. So I was pretty happy earlier this week when I was struck by a sudden urge to draw them.
These are my villains. Aren't they a lovely young couple?
More about them, their setting and the story at large on my blog.
I would love the excuse to make something this intricate. Anybody want to pay me for the roughly 3000 hours it would take to finish?
For many of us that make things, it can be hard to share. Because we're makers of physical objects, not photographers. And the internet requires images.
At least for small objects, a lightbox is a shortcut to knowing anything much about photography. This is my (photography noob) lightbox build.
Scalemail has a great drape, a flexible structure, and comes in to-die-for colors. Perfect for purses.
Entropolly.
Dogs, Jackals, Wolves and Foxes, and an Adopt a Book program update
St. George Jackson Mivart was a well-known nineteenth-century English biologist. He served as Vice-President of the Zoological Society twice (1869 and 1882) and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work On the Appendicular skeleton of the Primates. This work on animals in the canine family is filled with woodcuts and 45 hand-colored plates drawn from nature by J.G. Keulemans. Mivart examines the anatomy of canids from the Mexican lap dog to the common wolf, and just about every variety in between.
This book recently received conservation treatment through the Adopt a Book Program. Before conservation, the book and plates were so fragile that they could not be scanned without risking further deterioration. Thanks to conservator Jim Downey and donor Robin Wenneker, the book is now available to all in our reading room. I’ll be updating the Adopt a Book record to reflect the conservation work in a day or two, but in the meantime, I couldn’t wait to share this sampling of the book’s beautiful plates.
Mivart, St. George Jackson, 1827-1900. Dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes : a monograph of the Canidæ by St. George Mivart ; with woodcuts, and 45 coloured plates drawn from nature by J.G. Keulemans and hand-coloured. London : R.H. Porter : Dulau, 1890. MERLIN catalog record
- Kelli Hansen
I have never seen this book, and I love this book. So glad it was Adopted!
I've been thinking about making scale clothing pieces lately, but I'm just not quite ready to commit. So this larger chest-piece/necklace hybrid is a babystep in that direction.
More photos!
A quick character request for a redditor. Because while I like chainmail, plate is pretty okay too.
A Retraction
An emergency has come up, and I in fact won't be doing Art on the Rocks this year- apologies to my Michigan fans! I'll be back next year.
It's Art on the Rocks time again! Been doing this show the last five years running– shipping my inventory cross-country is getting a little easier with practice... and it's totally worth it to have a solid fair right on beautiful Lake Superior.
Quotation of the day: 'I think, therefore I want snacks.'
So unreasonably happy with the result! Sometimes I buy beads and I just hope I can do them justice... and then sometimes I do!
Since people often ask how I get my ideas, I described my design process before I put the thing up for sale on my etsy page.
