"Soon my love we will join the others under the museum lights, but for now, under the starlight, you are glowing"
The last Passenger Pigeon and last Carolina Parakeet on earth both died at the Cincinnati zoo in the early 1900s.
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
Tail'zel traumatizes Shadowheart with Gith biology more at nine
Comic collab with the amazing @dustybones! Dusty did the beautiful lines and I did the layout and colors. Hope you enjoy this product of us putting our tadpoles together :)
Everyone go show Dusty's post some love as well <33
treating every korok I find extra gently to make up for all the war crimes 💔
My personal favorite example: Opal-crowned Manakin :D (photo by Luis Morais on eBird)
The feathers on its head are among the most reflective substances found in nature. Their reflective index is higher than artificial mirrors. It looks white on most photos because cameras can't even capture how brilliantly iridescent they look in person.
birds have truly mastered feathers like what do you Mean they can be shiny. how fucking cool is that
Companions
(can we have them again this time, Supergiant?)
Vultures are holy creatures.
Tending the dead.
Bowing low.
Bared head.
Whispers to cold flesh,
“Your old name is not your king.
I rename you ‘Everything.’”
more shitposts because y’all really like them for some reason
Based on in-game emotes I conclude that Vi is the girlfriend who knows all the sick moves while Cait actually can't dance to save her life.
Bonus:
collab with the amazing @explodingquails!!! she did the base sketch/colours and i did the lines!!
I could not ask you where you came from I could not ask you, neither could you
Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips We could just kiss like real people do
-- “Like Real People Do” by Hozier
An experimental sketch I did a while back of Abigail Arcane and Swamp Thing/Alec Holland from DC Comics. Really niche but definitely one of my favorite comic book couples.