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an entomologist rates ant emojis
Beautiful big almond eye, realistic and full of expression as she gazes gently at you. Elbowed antennae and delicately segmented legs and body. Gorgeous pearlescent sheen like she is glowing. This ant moisturizes. This ant is round and huggable. This ant is a star. 11/10.
Beautifully detailed, lifelike pose but with an unexpected neck and odd antennae, perhaps scared straight. Her eyes suggest she has seen things. Her expression confirms she has seen too much. She is haunted and I want to know more. 7/10.
Floppy antenna, pointy muppet face, oddly posed legs. What is she? She has no waist. May be she is some kind of bee in disguise? I find her unsettling. 3/10.
This ant has an unexplained, double-jointed thorax, and no evidence of a waist. Her four-footed pose suggests that she a centaur rather than an ant. Centaur ants would be cool. I’m not sure what was intended here. 2/10.
Good first impression, kind of bland in the details. This ant has no particular waist to speak of, floppy rather than elbowed antennae, and an inexpressive face. Her color scheme is soft and hazy. I like the sharp angles of her stylishly sophisticated legs. This ant may not know quite were she is going, but she knows how she is getting there. 6/10.
Were you even trying. 0/10
Gasp! This ant is elegant. This ant has a beautiful tapered thorax, a segmented abdomen, alert, elbowed antennae, and a light-footed pose. This ant’s face suggests curiosity and a desire to explore the world. This ant inspires me. I want to be like her. 10/10
3-legged, waistless centaur-ant with strange, limp antennae and a beak. I don’t know what this is? It kind of reminds me of a Hork-Bajir. 1/10, not an ant.
This ant… makes me sad. All of her legs are broken. The MS Paint art style and gradient abuse convey distress. She has a duck beak. Despite this, her expression suggests perseverance and determined cheerfulness. I want this ant to have a better life. I am rooting for her. 3/10
This ant is a bold and challenging mixture of photorealism and caricature. She is broad and low-built and seems very sturdy. She looks like she would help you move. This ant is a dependable friend. 9/10
A picture of an ant from a children’s book. She is wearing little boots. This ant is wrong in every way, and yet I can’t stay mad at her. 7/10
An interesting, top-down view of an ant; her legs are positioned with slightly jarring symmetry. Nevertheless, her overall impression is that of a graceful, stylized design, like a pictograph. She is suitable for adorning fine garments and jewelry or perhaps gracing the walls of a tiny ant church. I like this minimalist ant. 8/10.
This is a termite. -10/10
why are these all marked as “she”? don’t female ants have wings??? why bother adding the pronoun???
Alates (male and female reproductives) have wings. The queens shed their wings after they mate. The males die. The daughter workers do not have wings. If you see an ant without wings, it’s a she.
And honestly—why bother panicking about things being called “she”? It’s not like I need a reason to gender a bug. I do it all the time. It’s fun. It’s humanizing. They don’t care.
I’m calling this spider she right now. 🕷️ her name is delanie. she’s a lesbian.
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Shoulda realized I had adhd that time I misplaced a two-ton vehicle and didn’t realize for 48 hours
How to activate executive dysfunction in twenty easy steps:
-be in college
-drive to cafe to do homework, stay for a while
-i can’t park at the university b/c parking passes are like 300 dollars, so i leave my car where it is and walk to a building on campus for a meeting. this is important. normally I walk to and from campus
-heyimoncampus.jpeg
-it’s been 2 hours so by now the car has ceased to exist until I need it again
-walk home
-life as usual for a few days, I don’t need my car during the week so i don’t notice it’s not where it’s supposed to be
-Saturday. I pack up to drive to see my folks. Got all my stuff in a backpack and i’m ready to go
-go to parking spot
- Dude Where’s My Car (2000)
-holyfucksomebodystoleitwhostolemycar– waitasecond
-long term memory… loading. loading.
-oh shit it’s 2 miles away I left it at the cafe on Thursday
- “who stole my car” me. i did. i stole my own car. from myself
-basically jog back across campus to get there as fast as possible because it’s not like i left it in a rando parking lot for two days already and the 5 minutes i save by exhausting myself will totally make a difference
-holy shit i hope it’s still there
-it is. the god of forgetful assholes was smiling down on me because i don’t even have a parking ticket even though i’m right under a “no overnight parking” sign
- this car had a 50/50 shot of actually turning over on any given day because it guzzled through batteries like some people guzzle la croix so by now i’m freaking out b/c i have no idea what to do if it doesn’t start
-god of faulty car batteries is smiling too
-i am halfway to driving to my parents when i realize i forgot my backpack at home
-somehow it takes five years before anyone suspects i have adhd
-the end
What’s your method on drawing heads and coloring? Your artwork is beautiful and really inspiring!
I often have a reference! Sometimes I stick very closely to my reference, other times it’s a guide for basic facial structure or even just the lighting alone. I’m sticking close on this one because I did it mainly for an example.
Since in this case I’ve been asked what my process is I just drew as I tend to draw which means I’ve eschewed a lot of the detailed guidelines like what you’ll find in the Reilly Method because I’m relatively accustomed to facial proportions. If you’re a beginner I do recommend studying up on proportions and maybe trying the Reilly Method!
So for myself I’ve just started with a circle and the vertical centerline. You’ll notice I’ve drawn the circle and centerline over my reference first, as well as a kind of diamond shape. Having those lines on my ref image makes it easier for me to parse what I’m looking at and copy the same general spatial relationships between features in my drawing.
I’ve added a similar diamond shape on my drawing and marked out the bottom of the nose and seam of the mouth. This diamond shape is something I picked up from another artist on Tumblr, @vetyr (who is Art Goals) did a post about it a while back iirc
Since I skipped marking out guidelines in my own process just some basic notes of what I keep in mind: the bottom of the nose coincides with the bottom of the circle marking the cranium. The brow line is generally closer to the center of the circle than the eyeline.
Roughly marking out the locations/sizes of some features. I’m not very mechanically precise so my process is pretty messy and involves several layers of increasingly tight sketches. At this stage I’m scratching it out quick and just trying to get everything roughly in place
Added the outline of the head.
I lower the opacity and make a new layer for my second pass. Now that I’ve got the general idea of spatial relationships down I’m looking at getting more accurate shapes, but I’m still going rough at this stage because I’m zoomed out making sure not only is everything generally the right shape, but still proportionate and relatively symmetrical. It helps me to go kind of loose and zoomed out for a few passes not worrying about perfection, so that I’m still considering how the whole thing works together as a whole and not skewing parts of it out of proportion by honing in too close and focusing on pieces in isolation.
I flip it horizontally, lower opacity again, and make another pass on a new layer straightening out any bits that were skewed out of symmetry. As I go in making smaller, neater shapes. My former sketches have some rough guidelines marked in as I went to track details and facial plains; I’ll keep those sketches up on a low opacity to help guide my shading later.
I flip it back, lower opacity one more time and make a final “neat” line art focusing only on the smallest, most detailed areas. My priority here is mainly “if I decide not to fully render this and I need to leave my line art on in the final product, I only want as few lines as necessary to keep the face legible. Each of my previous sketches are on increasing opacity from 10-20% so that the neatest sketches are more apparent but not getting muddled in with my final lines.
I made sure I had a solid, unbroken silhouette outline, and then used the magic wand tool to select the area outside my character, then inverted my selection so the entire bust is selected neatly with minimal effort. Then I filled it using my base skin tone.
To the left you can see the palette I made for myself. Starting from the base tone, I create 4-5 gradually darkening swatches. The difference in shade from one to the next is VERY slight because there’s not a lot of heavy value difference in the overall planes of the face. From there, there’s a pretty hard jump to my darkest shades I’ll be using. These will be in very small (eye/nose/mouth details) or heavily shadowed (neck, areas where hair falls over skin) areas only! Same with my highlights.
My lightest shadow goes over a pretty broad space. I’m working on a masked later clipped to my base layer. I’ll be using a hard brush (actually plain old G Pen) to block in my shades, though in this case because this shade is the starting point of all my shadows I just paint bucket filled it in and then blocked the base tone back into the areas that will be better lit. Like chipping away at a block instead of adding onto it. It saves me time.
I hop on down the line to my next darkest shade and block it in areas like the cheekbones, temples, sides of the nose, eye sockets, etc – as I add each of these shades, I’ll be doing so in smaller and smaller areas, following my reference.
To be continued in a reblog! It’ll be a longpost orz
The next couple are sort of more of the same and I don’t have much to say about them. I just continue the process of blocking in increasingly darker shades from my palette into smaller and smaller areas!
Here I’ve jumped to one of my really dark shades and you can see it goes into veeery small areas. This is getting into the realm of a technique some artists use called occlusion, fitting very fine, dark shading precisely, into the areas where ambient light does not easily bounce – areas between skin and hair or into narrower folds of skin around the eyes and nose. Detail shadows.
I decided to go back and add one more jump from my midtones to my darkest shades to soften the edges.
Blocked in some highlights. I don’t think I ended up using the brighter highlight because there weren’t a lot of shiny spots..
Here I started blending with a painterly brush set to a medium-low color stretch and paint density. The particular tool I used was a painterly chalk tool from Frenden.
I added her eyebrows using a hard brush and softened the edges with a soft brush using the skin tones around it. Then took a small hard brush and sketched the skin tones into the eyebrows along the edges to chip away from the solid dark shape and give the illusion of individual hairs.
Went in for the smaller details like her irises, eye shine, teeth.
Yet more details! I added the freckles using a tone scraping brush that came with CSP (found under the airbrush tool) and played with varying hardness, particle size and particle density until I got the look I wanted. The freckles are on an additional multiply layer, and I toyed with the opacity to get it where I wanted.
I seldom work really hard on hair and usually just fill in a dark color, then block in big shapes of light and small cuts of darker shadow to create chunks of hair. I’ll go in and add some highlights but I don’t bother with carefully rendering individual hairs – the “suggestion of detail” is usually enough.
Aaaand color! I created another clipped layer set to the Color blending mode so that I can brush on some hues to give her more life without altering the shades and values I worked so hard on. A muddy desaturated red brushed around her nose, a brighter, more vivid red for her lips, some orange around her eyelids, etc.
And that’s about it! Other than that it’s just cleaning up the edges of the color layer and adding some effects!
Here’s the final product!
Sorry to make this long tutorial even longer but I realized maybe I should clarify the final step – the Color layer – with visuals for anyone who needs it, and also explain the after-effects I used to alter the overall colors and add blur and noise. So here’s the TOP SECRET ARTIST TRICKERY under a cut
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lmao on the edinburgh zoo site it says “there is a daily penguin parade at 14:15 but it may be cancelled last minute as it is a voulntary parade, we do not coax the penguins with food, and they may not want to go out” lmao anarchopenguinism
this is the cutest goddamn thing i’ve ever heard
I saw the penguin parade. It was a very slow parade, because the pingüinos take their sweet time and aren’t very fast walkers to begin with.
can I volunteer to be a penguin
I feel like the world needs to know the context of the edinburgh zoo penguin parade, becausr I’ve been going there my entire life and I only found out about this the other year.
So a while back (I can’t remember exactly when but I think it was some time around the 40s/50s), a bunch of penguins escaped. A keeper left the gate open so a bunch of penguins just… followed them. And the people loved it. Look at these adorable birds outside their cage just following that guy around! So they get all the penguins back inside and realise that none of them really ran off, they just followed the keeper and went back inside and crowd thought it was amazing, so why not make it a regular thing? Get enough people there that if one of them goes to make a run for it (which at least one has in the past), they can’t get past the people, and let the ones who want outside have a little wander. So every day, they get a crowd, they open the gate, and whatever penguins want to get out can go, waddle about, squawk at people, and then hop back inside.
Also, one of those penguins is Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III, Colonel-in-cheif of the Norwegian King’s Guard. This isn’t really related to the parade at all, I just love the fact that there’s a penguin in the Norwegian army
Reblogging with Brigadier Sir Nils Olaf III inspecting his troops.
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If I fail to reblog this it is because I am dead.
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So I made a book.... I may have went overboard
Can someone make this a funny meme that lwiay will like. I know there’s something funny with it I just lack a funny bone... haha
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