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Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

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collect my blankies

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“tumblr staff member” 2/3 of those words euphemism for cock

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"With a master of magic at your side, you'll have nothing to fear."

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The sky is so big and blue

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if I was in ponyville I would be called stupid fucking cunt the horse lol

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couldnt stop thinking about this (X)

#cotl

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...hmm

#cotl

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my friends are so cringe. with their “feelings” and such.

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sonic adventure will always have my favorite sonic model. partially because i just really like how he looks but partially because i see him in a similar way people see mario in mario 64. i like to imagine he's a little guy who wanders around city blocks and jumps on cars. he's like a cat that occasionally spits out cheesy compressed ryan drummond sound clips

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every year around christmas me and my grandma play this fun family game called “maybe you want to put jesus in your room instead, sweetie? :)”. now, it’s important to note that the jesus referred to in our game is not actually the real jesus christ, but instead a wooden figure i made in 2011 that has an uncanny resemblance to the lord and savior himself

so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i don’t want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead

now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here

the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because he’s so ugly it’s an embarrassment to the family

eventually i grew tired of her lies, so now we only move jesus around in silence. one second he’s in the living room, the next he’s back in my room. in a way i think this adds an extra element of excitement to the holiday season, because you never know for sure when jesus is going to be moved again

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just finished this ink drawing of Dolora, my Dunmer girl from ESO; wish i was better at photographing art on paper. the parts that look white on her outfit are metallic silver ink 😅

i was really faithful to the screenshots for the background/interior she's in, but i redesigned the dress almost completely. idk why but so many of the costumes in ESO that are meant to be just clothes still look like armor??? this was supposed to be the "Necrom Evening Attire" gown, but....

here is a screenshot of Dolora wearing it in-game, and...it feels like it's just overly complex just for the sake of being overly complex, the design doesn't flow, WHY DOES EVERY SINGLE ESO OUTFIT HAVE TO HAVE A LOINCLOTH-LIKE ELEMENT HANGING DOWN IN FRONT, i can't explain why but the gloves are giving cleaning/utility gloves not evening gloves...it's just a super hot mess as "evening/formalwear." maybe it could work as mage armor but it wasn't supposed to BE mage armor and everybody in Tamriel does not wear exclusively armor all the time 😒 plus it bugs me extra bc i sew and i know how clothes go together, so garment designs where i am looking at them and can clearly see that there'd be no actual way to construct it as shown are just...🙄

so i kept the red/blue combination and the mixed patterns and some of the basic elements and tried to draw something that felt more like an elegant formal gown. my design was probably also influenced by the fact that i modeled the pose and composition of the whole drawing after "Madame X" by John Singer Sargent:

anyway, it was fun and good drawing practice 😊

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#of my 2 bg3 characters i only actually care about one of them (virthan) & idk if she rly counts for this since she was originally a rogue #& simply multiclassed into bard but shes like. not even good at it . she picked up a drum one day in The Travels #& she started smacking it for fun . she rly sucked at it. she eventually got ok at it but overall all of her skills are more stealth suited #since she . again . isnt rly a bard . (multiclassed her in for fun & so she could learn a couple spells) shes just doing it for fun #ahh idk if i shouldve voted since now that i thonk about it i dont think she rly counts 🗿 swagever

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Animal reference photo compilation concept test!

I've been saving this project for a new website I'm planning, but that's been delayed by the grindstone of capitalism, so I'm going to set up this part early. This is the concept test for a repository of reference photos of a whole bunch of different species of exotic animals.

For every 50 or so photos I take of an animal, there's generally only a couple that I like and are also in focus and also framed correctly. But that led me to realize... all those slightly blurry or off-center photos are probably a great set of references for people interested in general shape/form/movement for their art! So I'm setting up of the idea before fully committing the time into making it happen.

I've been going through my photo backlog and pulling out the shots I think will be useful for art references. Lots of them show posture, facial movement, close-ups of feet or eyes, and walk cycles, but also other behaviors like jumping or drinking. They're not perfect - there's often stuff out of focus or reflections on the glass - but I think they'll still be useful for art?

The link below is to the Dropbox where I'll host these photos until I eventually get that new website/project up and running. Right now I've got folders of four species uploaded for this test: California Condor (CW for carcass feed photos), Jaguar, Komodo Dragon, and Moose. Please go check them out and tell me what you think!

~~WADTT Animal Reference Photos Dropbox Link~~

What I'm looking to learn from y'all is:

Is this type of reference photo repository useful / worth doing?

Do these photos work or are they too blurry/wonky/there's too many?

What things would make a project like this better? (Caveat, it has to stay on Dropbox for now).

If this turns out to be as useful as I'm hoping, and the photos work, I've got a whole bunch more species to upload.

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just asked my professor if he wants to feature on a song LMFAO