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The grass ain't greener on the other side; it's just a different species Anthony / M / Horror, my art, botany, science!

[skull-blog]

Abnormal Roe Deer Skull.

[botanyshitposts]

okay maybe this is just because im a millenial/gen z but the longer i’m an adult doing adult things the more i’m kind of weirded out by the decisions companies make when breeding produce for (big box) grocery stores. like i swear that i remember a time when i was younger when everything was just…normal sized at those same stores, and they all looked pretty good but weren’t perfect, and now i SWEAR it’s just hit a point in the past couple years where i go to the store and see these things and it triggers the same plant uncanny valley feel i get from looking at fossil plants.

like, i get that the point is that you get more for less, but i….really just don’t want more? like i just want to get my normal sized produce i can use the entire amount of and leave? i almost feel weird about it, too, because i’m sure there was a time when the idea of county-fair-award-winning-sized blemish-free bell peppers available en masse from the local grocery store for $1 would have been absolutely mind blowing utopian shit, and i’ll admit as a plant person it’s an impressive feat of both farming and logistics if you stand back and think about it, but…why? like when i inevitably can’t use all of x thing it just feels wasteful, and then theres the question of if this is just like, normal now? forever? like are future generations that don’t get exposed to farmers’ markets and stuff going to think that these are normal sized fruits and vegetables? these absolute units just inexplicably dominating the produce section? those fruits and vegetables???

like to be completely honest, i saw the most beautiful tomatoes at the store today. absolutely flawless and literally not a spot on them. some of the best tomatoes ive ever seen anywhere and i took pictures of them to send to my dad….but they came in these boxes of two tomatoes each, split with another piece of cardboard in between, with plastic wrapped around it all to effectively restrain each tomato in its own hell prison solitary confinement, and there was this disclaimer at the top of the rack that said that some vegetables they sold were coated in edible vegetable-derived wax?? like i have never seen produce packed into individual little squares like box shelf candy apples before and it just jarred me and now i see a dark future where all produce is packaged like that to make it as perfectly pristine as possible. im dying inside, im withered. the tomatoes look fantastic, like the kind of thing you’d see at the state fair, but at what cost? dear god? at what cost?

so yeah this is an absolutely frenzied rant here but i get that it’s A Thing that people like to buy produce that looks good, right. like that’s an ongoing theme with breeding produce for sale is how to make things last and look better for longer (same with meat); for example, if you have a batch of tomatoes that are beautiful, those are the ones you want to sell at the grocery store, and the ones with blemishes are better used for ketchup and stuff where they’re not on display. but why. pray tell, why are we breeding these absolute units. why are we coating them in wax and putting them in special little boxes like tomato santa. why are we assuming that people just want the most ass blasting huge produce imaginable in any context at any time. im going stupid im going crazy

[botanyshitposts]

ok i slightly misremembered this (they don’t have cardboard separating them and instead are just shoved two per tomato torture chamber coming down together hand in unlovable hand) but look at this. who wants this. who

[crispyfishsticks]

Sneak peak crop of the completed tiger from the Kickstarter's alien cat rewards tier.

[norapotwora]

Pet poster commission for @kyperspaceyeen

[norapotwora]

Pet poster commission for @lyfeillustration, a memorial of her beautiful dog, Kairos

[norapotwora]

Another poster commisston, this time for Sam. She asked for nurse shark inspired by koi fish and Ookami Amaterasu, and here it is!

[zhoncreations]

"The hideously mutated, two-headed Radstag is a pathetic creature that will likely run at the first sign of contact. But if forced to fight, it can prove a deadly opponent." ~ Fallout 4

The two-headed, erratic deer beast is complete!

I had fallen in love with the design of this creature in the Fallout games and knew it was past time for me to make a two-headed deer...however, I didn't want any generic two headed deer on my walls.

I had originally planned on this project making it's debut in January of this year, but timing and delays in materials got the best of me.

Two whitetail capes were used in the creation of this monstrosity as well as a set of young Scottish Red Stag antlers for the inner antlers, and slightly larger American Elk antlers for the outer antlers. The inner eyes of both the heads is blind. The teeth are actually cast in resin from a particular Anatolian Shepherd's mouth due to the wickedly funny tooth formation.

All pieces and parts were acquired ethically and sustainably.

[anxietyproblem]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Any bus can be the magic school bus if you have enough LSD

[marylibra]

PINGAT JET BEADED BUTTERFLY EVENING CAPE

1890’s

Maison Emile Pingat A. Walles & Cie

Cream satin with chiffon shoulder drape beneath two layers of stiffened black net decorated as butterfly wings with silver sequins and faceted jet beads, the high neck having a large beaded wire butterfly at back.

[artnouveaustyle]

So unique!

[sixpenceee]

People gathered around lava, Iceland | source

[burning-void-blog]

People just love being killed.

[talonabraxas]

Psyche bathing in an eyeball under the heavens by Miles Johnston

[lackadaisycats]

Some more of the Kickstarter backer art I’ve been doing and delivering lately. There’s sooo much of it, which has been wonderful….and a bit daunting. Hehe.  More soon! Very many thanks to Pamela T, Asher H, Emmanuel L, C.J. D, Stephanie R, Matthew M, and Sam S. for supporting the Lackadaisy animated film! —————————————- Lackadaisy is on Patreon - there’s extra stuff!

[creepyartetc]

Designed by: Alexander McQueen

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[shoomlah]

Quick little video tutorial! This is a method I use to block in shapes when I’m fighting the urge to polish my lineart at an early stage, especially in rough concept art that doesn’t actually need polished lineart.

I group two layers in photoshop—a rough sketch, and a flat color—and then carve out the negative space by painting into a mask on the group, instead of filling in the positive shapes. From there I can start painting and adding shading into that group, knowing that I’ve already locked down a good initial silhouette for the object/character:

It feels like oil painting, and I end up finding silhouettes/shapes in a way I wouldn’t if I was obsessively cleaning up the linework first. Digital art has a tendency to veer towards cleanliness/polish, so I love finding little opportunities for happy accidents and a bit of mess!

I used it on my unicorn piece last month, for instance, which I think would have lost a lot of its dynamism and charm if I had worried too much about doing a full ink pass:

Hope this is at all helpful!  It’s not a method I use 100% of the time, but it really helps move my process along when I do need it 👍🏼

[mischievousdog]

Ninja shibe ninja shibe

[canisalbus]

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