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Killer Klowns From Outer Space✨💫
Cicada of the Flames Large Ceramic Wall Sculpture
Available in my shop & at local Tucson events. I'll be at Queerdos Market at the Coalition Space on 6/13.
Vietnamese Mossy Frog (Theloderma corticale), family Rhacophoridae, Vietnam
photograph by Diep Dai Tung
A New Door Opens.
But you have to find your own way inside.
There is a new secret.
Traverse the House.
Find it.
Yeah sorry wasp haters but y’all don’t know shit. Have you ever even seen the cuteness of Bembicini?
What's little buddy doing?
It’s probably a female digging a burrow for her eggs :)
happy birthday to ib!!
thank god its flyday
Venus (named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love identified with Aphrodite). The Greeks themselves called the planet "Aster Aphrodites" (Star of Aphrodite) Temple of Venus Talon Abraxas
"the scene is shown with the man in red robes looking up"
Illustration of an arrow-poison beetle (Diamphidia femoralis) 🐞
deeply amusing to me how the term "minicomputer" was coined very prematurely
^ this is a minicomputer fyi
And these are microcomputers. Yeah we really weren't expecting just how small we'd be able to shrink things down.
We should keep the trend going, laptops should be nanocomputers and smart phones should be femtocomputers
I think I'm mutuals with a femtocomputers
There are so many reasons to be a biologist, and one of them is there are at least 150 different species of deep-sea carnivorous sponges that use microscopic hooks to capture their prey and then GROW A NEW STOMACH that MIGRATES to where the prey is hooked in order to digest it, which they do over the course of days until the animal’s (usually a crustacean) soft tissue is entirely broken down for nutrients and all that is left is the shell.
May I say one more time that they GROW AND MIGRATE A NEW STOMACH
Studying biology is an acid trip of WAIT IS THAT REAL and OMG IT IS REAL THAT IS SO FUCKING COOL
They're also absolutely gorgeous
(photos from MBARI: https://www.mbari.org/news/scientists-discover-extraordinary-new-carnivorous-sponge/)
Sometimes you procrastinate so hard finishing making a video game that instead of you make an entire diorama from one of the scenes from it. Almost done, just have to you know...add all the blood and butterflies.
do you have any advice on character design?
watch The Sopranos
i actually wanted to elaborate on this and say that i think it’s a really bad habit of a lot of artists, influenced by current media casting practices, to unconsciously or consciously make every single character they create super pretty, like everyone is just hot in that very boring, homogenous way, and this also comes as a result of people using actors and celebrities as character references or faceclaims and AI facial generation programs like Artbreeder being trained on people who are generally very pretty-looking. it results in alienating, uncanny worlds and drawings completely devoid of people who just look like regular people. it results worlds populated by mannequins fresh off the CW. I feel like whether a character is attractive or not should actually matter, be part of their character, because that kind of thing absolutely affects the way you move through the world and the way the world treats you.
so i wanted to throw in some suggestions that, whenever I’m trying to find a character reference or otherwise draw very interesting-looking yet regular-looking people, which i usually have to do for bit characters in @ikroah or something, I tend to look for references in the following places. these are far from the only reliable way to get inspiration, this is just a non-exhaustive list of places i’ve looked before for visual inspiration when needing to create a character, whether starring characters or background ones:
pre-2000s television (The Sopranos and Twin Peaks especially having incredible character design)
extras in comedy sketch shows
esports players
real photos (not staged stock photos) of line cooks
70s baseball players
athletes from more obscure olympic sports like the javelin toss or greco-roman wrestling, especially if you’re looking for a specific body type
ska, jazz, and blues musicians
firefighters
improv troupes
for teenagers, searching “high school english class project” on youtube and sorting by Upload Date
state senators, small-town mayors, and generally obscure local government positions like comptroller or treasurer (yes i know politicians can be bad sometimes but smaller elections especially don’t really depend on looks)
people who walk by your window (if you live in a city like I do)
and again these are just, in my opinion, deep and easy wells to dive in if you want to get a good idea of what regular people look like. these suggestions aren’t the limits on where you can possibly find inspiration for character design
Fellini’s movies have remarkably interesting and unique looking actors
Yes!!! There’s an entire book called Fellini’s Faces that’s nothing but portraits of his actors that’s phenomenal for this kind of thing, though it’s fairly rare to get a hold of today.
(Since I know a lot of writers/artists follow me for costume/character design ideas!)
Achrioptera manga is a species of phasmid or stick insect of the genus Achrioptera, found only in a forest in northern Madagascar.
Stick insects usually blend into their background, but the male A. manga is blue, standing out against the surrounding foliage
I wanted to make a little thingy about drawing fat characters to use for Artfight this year! Obviously not comprehensive, but it covers a few things for my characters specifically!
Isabella's Toyhouse!