Total solar eclipse, January 1925, United States. New physiography for beginners. 1927.
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Starting to work on the bestiaryposting thing for this week, and I had to get this out of the way first.
Like, it's not even that funny; but part of my brain is convinced an this is hilarious.
So as you might gather, I'm interpreting this creature as a cat. There's a larger variety that lives in forests, and a smaller variety that "roams around in houses"; presumably both of them eat snakes and mice. Plus there's a mention of carrying their young around.
I don't know WHY there'd be any confusion about their reproductive behaviour if it includes "the domestic housecat", like people THESE days end up witnessing cats mate or give birth, and we live a lot more distanced from animals now than in medieval times; but I don't have any better ideas plus I want to draw some fluffy cats. Or maybe that bit of the bestiary was meant to be "can you BELIEVE some of these wacky misconceptions"; "some say that" gives you SO MUCH wiggle room.
I'll be using "pictures of Norwegian Forest Cats that I looked at for a few seconds because they're cute, then I closed the tab" as reference, mostly from the mention of "forest"; like I know they don't get THAT large, but shhh let me imagine Lorge Floofy Kitter.
If I'm drawing something that's mostly a cat, I don't need to work out what the anatomy might be, so that means I'm going to be thinking about what kind of pose and composition. I have some ideas, but you never know if something's feasible or not until you actually sketch it out.
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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
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Was looking thru old drawings, and wanted to revisit doing a dragon/unicorn pairing. Also working in some value studies.
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Jupiter, 1878 to 1881. Populare Astronomie. 1922.
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We're both unwanted daughters... The Calling
I am trying a lot of things with my hands recently. Here my second try at watercolors for a fanart I wanna make for TAD. I'll probably try more until I get what I want but I find this one OK in a way. And let say that this the mark of my progression.
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Starting work on the bestiaryposting creature design. I'm… pretty sure I know what it is, as that's a VERY descriptive description and I've come across fantasy creatures looking EXACTLY like that; if I'm wrong, I'll be pleasantly shocked at the variety of stuff. That being said, I don't want to go with what it probably is, which means I need to get Creative.
The thing about the verb "to have", is that there's a couple possible meanings, and I'm going to go with the one which is LESS likely here. "It has [feature]" prolly means "this feature is part of its body", but what if I interpret the verb instead as "to POSSESS", to physically own something, it didn't grow out of you but you went out and got it.
First, the stuff I can't apply that to. "Its feet are very powerful", "it is blood-red in colour".
…So then I took a shower, and continued to think about the design (without writing anything down here because I was in the shower), and then decided to draw one of my ideas, and. Um.
I hate this. I mean I think the CONCEPT has promise, but I don't want to look at this any longer than I have to, so I need to go a different direction with it. Because if I'm putting the image behind a cut so I won't have to constantly see it, then I DEFINITELY don't want to work on making a neatened picture of it.
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