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ryssbelle · 7 days

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Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

#my art #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #style mimic #sorry for the @s btw #yall should go follow those artists if you dont already also #this was sort of inspired by a post the three artists on the top row made #i think they all got together and drew with one another #which is really cool #but i was genuinely confused because i mimic styles a lot #and ive seen others do it too so i was just like #wow they really know each others styles really well #until i thought about it and read their posts some more #style mimicking is really freaking fun and i think its really good practice #and a good way to explore other ways of doing things #like you really have to learn new techniques and get out of your comfort zone #also anna scribbles i could not find a recent pic of marinette in her main outfit #so thats the only marinette i drew in different clothes cuz i couldnt find a more recent ref of you drawing it #anna scribble marinette has privileges thats the others dont #but ye #i also threw my own style in there as a frame of reference to what me draw like #ive drawn marinette before just not in a loooong while #sabertooth walrus was the hardest for me to mimic cuz they have a broad range in their style #so its like which sabertooth do i wanna be in this pic #Buggachat has such a distinct style thats very clean and consistent which is amazing so they were easy #being easy or hard arent bad things either it also has to do with like styles meeting up with one another #buggachats and mine arent too too different in some shapes and aspects #so yeah itd be easier plus they drew marinette like 3 sec ago so i have more recent of a ref #as opposed to sabertooth who i have a recent ref of ladybug but not marinette so we got two diff styles in one

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reasonsforhope · 7 months

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Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

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theribbonmarkedroom · 10 months

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My Across the Spider-Verse art book is finally here! I made a post about the first one half a year ago. Here’s some of my fav pages!

#across the spiderverse #atsv #atsv art book #miles morales #gwen stacy #jessica drew #miguel o'hara #pavitr prabhakar #the spot #jonathan ohnn #jeff morales #rio morales #miles 42 #miles g morales #spider man across the spider verse #so happy it’s finally here #I love seeing the different art styles and techniques used by everyone featured in the book #amazing job as always

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violent138 · 1 day

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Real fights are messy and I'm sure biting, scratching, scrambling away on your ass are all on the table and encouraged, but sparring matches in the Batcave between the Bats are probably sick as fuck when they try (aka the siblings are not bent on just beating the shit out of each other), because they're using a meld of techniques from about a hundred different martial arts, tapping into their unique strengths, and a near inhuman reading of each other (both from years of working together and experience) and an insane reflex time.

#Sorry not sorry I will always wax poetic about how fucking cool it would be to see these guys' hard earned combat experience in action #Like even if you just watch two different martial arts like jiu-jitsu and shaolin Kung fu fighters try to figure each other out and adapt #It's amazing (depending on technique and experience level)#Will share more specific and eloquent thoughts if and when I ever have them again #Batman #Batfamily #Dc comics #Batcave #Batcave shenanigans #dcu

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speakofcompersion · 2 months

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Happy anniversary, Circle ♡

#im a bit late but here is a tribute to my fav goddamn song! happy birthday to circle <3 #mygifs #shinee #onew #jinki #lee jinki #onew circle #circle #happy anniversary #1 year!!!#this is such a beautiful mv it is really well directed and STUNNINGLY edited gosh #a bit of small gifset cause i did it last minute ugh i wish i had more timmmeeeeee #i love u onew my man rest well and good luck with new company if ur signing ;)#kpop #speakofgifs #also found an amazing new technique for removing the sm watermark >:) can yall tell? hehehee

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blitzy-blitzwing · 8 months

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Look at da boi. 💖💖

#I used the new coloring technique in the stream #I’m amazed my attention stayed on this the entire time #except for a couple times I checked out other sites #Helluva Boss #Fizzarolli

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study-core-101 · 27 days

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i have a confesion to make

i hate flashcards

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cicide76536 · 4 months

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My gift to @tragediegh for Rote Winterfest Gift-exchange !

My beloved @vilyar was a life saviour for lending me his drawing tablet and computer when mine broke and for helping me sketch some of the harder parts ❤️ Thank you

#cicidedraws #fitzloved #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #beloved the fool #the farseer trilogy #The rules for lovers song ruled hard and was a good inspiration for this #also With you by Cujo Moon damn #HUGE THANK YOU TO MY BELOVED VILYAR #This would have been ruined without you my sun #I've been sick for so long so I was only able to do this so late and then my drawing table broke and i lost my nerve but there he was #my sun my star my Al who gave me his computer and drawing tablet and everything worked well!#So thank you #This will be us this year #Anyways Tragediegh YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN OUR AURORA BOREALIS EXPEDITION #I will send you HD versions of these two #I dont know what to say other than that I hope you like this and get the most amazing year!#Also yall I am trying to learn how to do snow #I ALSO LEARNED NEW SHADOWING TECHNIQUE and I kinda like it!

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non-plutonian-druid · 4 months

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[ID: Three drawings of Five petting Mr. Pennycrumb, a small yellow dog. In one, Five is bending down, looking awed, while Mr Pennycrumb licks his face and wags his tail. Five is wearing a green blazer with elbow patches, brown pants, and a blue dress shirt.

In another, Five is pacing and gesturing angrily while Mr. Pennycrumb trots next to him. Five is wearing a black turtleneck under an oversized pink-and-orange shortsleeved button up.

In the last, Five is lying down on the floor, face scrunched while Mr. Pennycrumb climbs onto him and licks him. Five is wearing a blue button up and jeans, and no shoes. End ID.]

Doggy!!! also, i haven't posted canon five in so long, I can't believe I've abandoned him like this.

The purpose of this endeavor was twofold: dogs, and fashions

#tua #the umbrella academy #slowly chipping away at the backlog of shit i have almost completely finished and just havent posted lmao #five hargreeves #mr pennycrumb #mr pennycrumb is the amazing shapeshifting doggy lmao whoops #i like thinking about what five is going to be wearing in s4. or like when hes just living his life in general but yanno.#in practice thats probably thinking about s4 #i googled butch lesbians and drew five in a bunch of outfits i found lol #i probably could have gotten to the exact same end result by looking up just. the nicer end of casual menswear #but looking up butch lesbian fashions is more fun #my art #i was trying some ~Technique~ stuff here but idk that its noticable at all #including actually drawing hands for once LMAO

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aterfish · 11 months

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The way Spider-verse inspires.

I was thinking about the meaning of mirrors, reflections and being upside down in this movie. I love how the Spot is never reversed in relation to Miles, almost as if they... mirrored each other 👀

hey, look! now its upside down! just like in Spiderve- *gunshot sound*

#spiderverse #across the spiderverse #spiderman #spiderman across the spiderverse #spoilers #miles morales #the spot #ater art #ok i thing thats all #i was literally just sketching few minutes ago #and BAM its 5am and im sitting with finished artwork #i used at least 4 techniques for the first time drawing this. wild #spiderverse is amazing and i cant wait for 3rd part bc its going to break me in all the ways it matters #there are SO MANY THING to think about meanwhile #i wanted to name it whats up. in realtion to whats up danger and this being two way. but it sounds like a way to say hello #i mean it is a way to say hello you know what i mean?#its 5am i should go to sleep #im so proud of this one...

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khaotic-neutrxl · 3 months

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loves these little snippets of frames from this particular fight scene

genuinely one of my favs, love how she fights in this scene 💥💥💥

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sergle · 9 months

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It should be clarified that I know neither shit nor fuck abt dog training, but in the months before I brought Hugo home, riddled with anxiety, I watched like 20 hours worth of McCann Dogs training videos, and now that is in me forever.

#they are amazing I learned SO MUCH #they are responsible for 100% of the techniques I used to train Hugo into a good boy. and I didn't even do that good a job #really like detailed ass videos on how to work on literally any behavior or trick. it's crazy.#sergle.txt

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myrkkymato · 3 months

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Inspired by Sevika comforting the reader after a nightmare by @archangeldyke-all