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Two tiny shrimps battle each other on the back of a sea cucumber, filmed at a depth of 15m. Seacrop Diving School | Japan
titanic beasts clash on the hills of an alien planet shaking the ground 30,000 lightyears from earth filmed at a height of 17000 feet
More xenomorph morphs. Bubble and chrome aesthetic this time.
Hot damn, Burgess Shale merfolk are fun. Going to have to do more once I’m done with my exchange stuff.
Hallucinogenia: The first one I’d drawn of the set, which is rather apparent with how sketchy it is. Probably explains why they’re so pissed off too. Remind me to whip up a better one sometime, Ultharkitty.
Opabinia: Figuring out how to incorporate it’s iconic mouth into a mer without making that mer into some sort of Lovecraftian beastie took a little longer than I would have liked. Still, I love her to bits.
Pikaia: Couldn’t leave out what is very likely to be the earliest animal to have had a backbone, and a backbone so new that it wasn’t much more than a thicker chord of tissue running through the animal.
And Charnia: Which actually doesn’t belong to the Burgess Shale but is an Ediacaran animal Ultharkitty introduced me to during a discussion of merfolk and had mused whether or not it could be done. Well, there we go.
So far, they’re all nameless. And I need to do some serious research so that they’re at least somewhat accurate to their animal influences.
Can anyone recommend some good Cambrian era life forms for me to go look at pictures of? I know the oceans were full of funky little dudes but I don't know much of anything about them.
(yes I am doing some googling also, but there are so so many, and perhaps some of you have some favourite Cambrian critters and want to talk about them?)
I've started sketching some shapes for the project I'm working on, but I've gotten a bit distracted because I was so charmed by Orthoceras and her little vintage hat that I had to draw it with more trimmings.
As soon as I've added some watercolour to this I'll get back to drawing the rest of the delightful suggested critters!
I suppose I may as well say they're going to be for a repeating pattern (and none of them will have hats) so it'll be a while before I post it because I'll want to wait for Spoonflower samples to arrive, but will post it as soon as they do! I've also got another fossil related pattern I finished recently which I'm very excited to get some samples of.
Less than a page of search results for "cambrian" on Spoonflower! Terrible! I should probably do two different repeating patterns to help make up for this deficit.
Anyways, here's the lady all coloured in.
ALRIGHTY!! I have made my first bunch of Cambrian patterns and my samples are here and they're up on Spoonflower, Redbubble, and MyFabricDesigns!
This one is called Cambrian Bowling Alley Carpet, and there's a smaller coordinating Cambrian Creature Confetti print. (I posted about this on my sewing and other drawings sideblog and will reblog it here later, but figured I'd add it to this post as well.)
The final lineup of large and medium sized motifs is: omnidens, anomalocaris, opabinia, norwoodia, marrella, facivermis, diania, pikaia, and hallucigenia. And the little confetti creatures are: orthoceras, burgessia, wiwaxia, isoxys, kiisortoqia, tuzoia, vetulicolia, dinomischus, urokodia, plectronoceras, nectocaris, eokinorhynchus, and various trilobites. Thank you to everyone who left suggestions!!
Of course they're not remotely to scale, but I did make Omnidens the biggest.
And I liked the Omnidens so much they got to be their own pattern, with some added texture. I did a blue and a brown version.
I will definitely do more Cambrian patterns, it's been delightful reading about these weird little aquatic friends and there's such a great variety of shapes! (I started sketching out another pattern, but it'll be a while before that happens. I didn't do much sewing in January because of all the drawing and editing, and I must have some drawing/sewing balance!)
The other patterns from this bunch of fill-a-yard samples are this crinoid fossil one copied from a 1760's teapot.
(More on that here and here.)
And these monster ones (more on them here).
"(Drawn for the 2019 Lanzendorf contest by Christian M) “Wonderful Life” Deep in the early Cambrian ocean, below the shadow of the Cathedral Escarpment (A giant rock shelf formation), life goes on as normal. Bioluminescent Amiskwia swim in groups, trying to escape the carnivorous Opabinia. It can walk on the sea floor with legs, or swim through the water with undulating fins. Among the algae, strange sponge relatives called Choia exist, holding themselves just above the rock surface. Hallucigenia sparsa feed on the marine snow that falls, catching it on hairy tentacles and shoving it in their mouths. Aysheaia feed on sponges called Vauxia, which grow on the rocky substrate. Preying on hard shelled animals like trilobites, using its armoured antennae to break open armour, Anomalocaris dwarfs everything. It is followed closely by a shoal of Pikaia, which survive by feeding the scraps left behind when Anomalcaris finishes messily ingesting it’s prey with a horrifying circular mouth part. It can see Opabinia with the best eyes that would ever evolve for millions of years, only rivalled by dragonflies and possibly griffinflies. The Opabinia, though it has 5 compound eyes, still has a more limited resolution, and doesn’t notice the Anomalocaris swimming towards it through the gloom of the depths."
By PaleoEquii - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.
Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)
Making exercises more accessible to the disabled? Fuck yeah!
genuinely considering making a new blog where I can just OC post and fixation post and whatever. It feels in appropriate here and the numbers game still gets to me so I kinda dont want to touch this blog with a 10 foot pole
oh ok
supporter rewards for march
Drew some Perfectly Normal And Friendly Unicorns!
They pick odd things for people to call them.
anaphylaxis?
Unicorns are assholes.
It's a completely necessary adaptation to deal with both dangerously pedantic fairies and the douchebag end of humanity. They have to defend against both those that abuse The Laws and those that disregard it entirely.
The horn and hooves and teeth mostly deal with the latter- once one forgoes the sanctity of The Laws in favor of profane behavior in front of a Holy Beast, you are nothing more than troublesome meat.
Those that play games with The Laws require more inventive solutions though.
It's actually very nearly impossible for most beings to keep their True Names a secret. Part of Name Law is that any nickname, title, or Nom De Plume contain at least some element of the True Name. Being that True Names can be used to inflict some particularly foul forms of bondage on them, and unicorns being particularly desirable servants, they've gotten very inventive with discouraging anything from finding or using their True Names. Several strategies are at play in the examples above.
One of the first lines of defense a unicorn lays down is choosing a True Name that is wildly impractical to evoke. Names that are a long string of random numbers was a popular choice for a while until devices that abbreviated the name as an equation while retaining its vaildity became available. Others chose things that aren't easily expressed verbally, like extremely specific colors, or pieces of music. Incarnadine chose an extremely specific shade of red, but now that hex codes are a thing, she's taking steps to obscure and possibly shift the meaning of her true name away from something that can be expressed in six characters and a hashtag.
Others chose pieces of music, where you'd have to write out the sheet music or play the whole damn song every time someone wanted to use the name, which can then be obscured by nicknaming yourself after the band that made the specific recording you are using as a name. Santana has done this, and cleverly chosen a song that everyone forgot the band ever recorded. She's been slowly deleting all records of it off the Internet and acquiring the physical copies of the recording. It's very likely that in the next ten years, it will be literally impossible to find her name in the wild.
Old Nick has put several layers of obfuscation on top of his already wildly-inconvenient-to-invoke name, by choosing a sound that sometimes exists under very specific conditions, nicknaming himself after one of those conditions, and then after a cultural phenomenon that is associated with that condition, and now using a nickname associated with that phenomenon. Anyone who wants to invoke him is has their work cut out for them.
Wolfgang and Pip have done similar levels of obfuscation around their names, with Pip picking a name that has a very specific thing and then going by a synonym for the name of said thing that has like, fifty possible meanings, and Wolfgang running her name through 69 languages on Google translate to get something that is, VERY TECHNICALLY, a translation of her True Name.
Diane picked his name on the basis that anyone trying to invoke the true name of a unicorn will be familiar with how unicorns discourage the practice, and never guess that one is using an actual name. Furthermore, there's an awful lot of Dianes in the world, and fewer still will guess they even need his last name too until they summon a random Diane instead and now have to deal with HER.
Anaphylaxis is going on the offensive by picking a name that, if you even slightly screw up the grammar of the invocation, will summon the lethal medical phenomenon instead :)
The unemployment continues, and so too does the art!
I'm offering commissions! My specialty is with furry, anthro, and monster characters. Any questions? Send a DM, I'd love to chat!
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Patamon Has Become Catholic ✞
drew microscopic life again. the earth is healing
are you guys hearing about this dude working to developing a vaccine for cats that he's hoping would like. theoretically double their lifespans?
turns out i wasn't making that up, his name is Dr. Toru Miyazaki! he also wrote a book called "The Day Cats Live To Be Thirty", so cats are kind of his thing.
apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.
As they age, almost all cats develop kidney disease, from which they eventually die. Just as in humans, kidney disease i
Dr. Toru Miyazaki’s AIM injection for cat kidney disease enters trials in 2025, aiming for a 2027 release. Greycoat Research supports the sc
whoa wait i actually read the articles and it's so much cooler than just that!!
dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!
although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!
on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.
furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.
annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D
man just think, not only could our kitties start living longer, healthier lives, but just maybe dialysis will become as rare and obsolete as the iron lung is for people. what a badass Dr. Toru is!
if theres one thing ive learned from the things ive learned its that we need to start naming more characters just whatever the fuck. give your next oc a racehorse coded name
pet fly pros: fuzzy
pet fly cons: wet fly smell
Then they always hit you with those huge sad ommatidia by the thousands to maximize the guilt trip 😭
