#environmental study

[bumblebeedog]

outer wilds (kinda sketchy) environmental practice i finished today :)

school and allergies have been beating me up lately so it’s hard to find the time/energy to draw. but i finished one thingy today so that’s cool i think yay! hopefully will have more time after this month to do drawing ::)

[bethdehart]

Unteriors Study

Study of a picture from this blog @unteriors and this post: www.tumblr.com/unteriors/807119053170819072/river-street-hornell-new-york This was fun. Also I made a version with a duck lol.

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[seeminglydark]

What was the aftermath of Johnny seeing the voice behind Mil-liminal? Did he try to find every magazine with Caro on the cover? Immediately buy the giant poster of them?

He uh….might have gotten even more obsessed. Here’s a quick practice study of his room after Creaky. Maddie got him the giant signed pinup up, which embarrassed him a LOT but also allowed him to say fuck it and collect merch. He definitely bought magazines, discreetly slipping them into his grocery basket. I think he used them to make secret fanart, and that would be what spurs him to draw and paint on all the cassette cases of their show that Maddie records for him.

So you can imagine how awkward it was for him when he took Caro back to his place. No way to pretend you aren’t really into someone when you have a giant poster of them above your bed. In his defense, Caro plays their show like it’s fiction, and most people think they are just a voice actor playing a character who shares their name and happens to be really fucking cute. (Luckily, they thought it was cute and hilarious, like he doesn’t even KNOW I’m his high school sweetheart but he’s still so into me! Very affirming.)

[skuroddls]

Another environmental study based on the old cabin from life is strange 2 🍃

[clowninin]

Magmmmas that turned into a mini environmental study for some reason ( + more/credits under cut)

(caligo belongs to @/cipherrepeat ,Knick belongs to @/kalevalaknights, Pieter belongs to @/clementine-trees annnnd pop belongs to @/fish-cakez )

[assassiowl]

Outer wilds oc art - environmental studies - Ember Twin - digital painting

This was the last one of this trip (Brittle Hollow , Giant's deep) ---

Took longer for this one, I've been using the notes from @outerwildsgeology to try and learn how to identify formations, but this boulder is confusing. At first it kept looking like a blend of different rock types, but I'm setting on, it's a sedimentary boulder, it's the angle that was throwing me off.

(Extended thoughts and notes below cut)

I tried looking for anything related (hey, you should learn from real life, not video gamesshush shsufhhhhhhshhhssss). First considering whether or not it could form naturally in this way. I've come across some process called cross-bedding, which doesn't look like the case. Cross bedding is (?) secondary formation due to deposition on an inclination. It's the flowing medium that does it, something like a river or wind, moving down an environment, you'd see it on either side. (I came across some interesting formations, sand waves, hummocks and bars, they all look really strange. And more. Shoals, dunes, delta, LOOK I'll be real, there's so much, and this is just sedimentary rocks? I'm tryna learn all of it, it's not possible to deep dive everything, if you want specifics please go to the experts) Anyway, I mean, there's a possibility of that there is a little bit of that happening on ember twin, with the gust from the sand perhaps? Maybe you would get a bit of deposit as the wind passes over this ridge? What's the alternative, tectonic activity that dislodges it at this weird angle?

I dunno the more I think about it the more it seems like the intent would be wind deposition.

I've also come across a scale geologists seem to use to measure the grain size of sedimentary rocks, known as the Udden-Wentworth scale. I'll be real with you, I'm looking at a lot of numbers here and a calculation that makes me feel like I'm learning Physics.

From biggest down here's the names that I stole from Wikipedia Boulder Cobble Gravel (verse coarse, coarse, medium, fine, very fine) Sand (same as gravel) Silt Clay Colloid ~you want to draw a new proto heathian oc called Colloid I feel it~ Look at the list LOOK AT IT LOOK how much STUFF There is to read about.

Literally every topic I slam into looks like this. Clouds, Light, Anatomy, Color, Material. Every. Single. One. (They keep trying to tank Wikipedia fml.) Here's the thing with drawing, it would be impossible to learn everything, it's also super inefficient to deep dive on every topic, this is how I'm conducting wide sweeps, I'm looking for broad categories, in learning about sedimentary rocks through Outer Wilds, We've now also picked up on the existence of all of these land formations, I have no idea what those words mean, but now when I want to design a landmass I know what I'm looking for. You ever wonder why it always looks like I'm always drawing random stuff, this is what I'm doing lol. Idk if this stuff is accurate, it's how I make sense of it, and then I can tighten up my understanding when it's relevant. Anyway thanks to the @outerwildsgeology team for all their hard work, they're putting in professional tier effort out there, if any of this post was interesting to you I'll funnel you that direction where you can find proper breakdowns of geology.

[witchcatcreations]

Term 4 Environmental Study 2- Caladan Castle

Another environmental study- this one is based off of a 3D fan render of Caladan Castle by Javier C.M., which was inspired by Denis Villeneuve's 2021 Dune

[siphonostars]

Snow study :D