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he is so tall

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currently making a bunch of little portraits of my guys.....

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Overgrowth! @cardinalcopiaspussy

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It's Sonoran Desert Torterra!

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take my lead, i’ll set you free

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the left hand of darkness!

the left hand of darkness

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spending his bounteous inheritance

Original photo credit: Pygmy Falcon chick at the San Antonio Zoo

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self-restraint

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.

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hello again!! gonna work on getting back onto the blog and get something good going! got a bunch of old and new art i'm excited to share!

greetings!!🔮

i'm el! welcome! i sculpt and am getting my footing with drawing at last!

worldbuilding- friend- and fan art, of humanoids, anthros, animals, angels and demons, monsters and creatures...

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old brush practice with a lounging goat 💫

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love the Public Universal Kobold— got through a migraine by giving em some head trauma! 💜

mouldy bubblegum kobold is an open access oc that now legally belongs to everybody. congratulations on gaining custody of this character

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Guard dog and the weight of guilt - to @lichenbyte -

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i'm in an era

the two i was talking about in this post. mostly wanting to draw some decoratively patterned kobolds. both brand types ended up being paler than base skin just because that's how i did the two skintone gradients (kettle's is hot = pale, lucky's is hot = dark). but anyway they have different methods of application which you can probably infer from the names

skin colour shifts slowly up and down the gradient in response to temperature fluctuation in the skin. the shift is slow enough that it takes many applications of a warm or cold brand for it to leave much of a mark. the effect ends up being like if you drew on someone's skin with sun cream before they went sunbathing. short periods of extreme temperature rise or fall wouldn't produce a colour change so the brands are not so hot or cold that they are painful, but they are uncomfortable as they must be left in place for a couple of hours. it takes a few weeks for them to fade again so if you want to keep your cool new markings you need to schedule regular sessions with brand artists. the branding material is metal which is warmed in a fire or kept on ice. For patterns that extend over multiple body parts (like Kettle's flames up her neck), modular blocks are used.

being able to sit around doing nothing for hours while the pattern artist applies the blocks is a class marker so the larger the pattern = the better off you are.

the flame motif is extremely popular and almost mandatory for priestesses or anyone in communion with a dragon, and obviously it has to be a hot brand. but most brands are just like tattoos - they can be meaningful or random or chosen purely on aesthetic value. in this particular colony most kobolds have at least one.

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self-restraint

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silver for monsters