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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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Hello Grian Nation, please accept my humble offering

Inspired by leafy sheep sea slugs! Bc they are nudibranchs and also I love them ((o(^∇^)o))

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Urgent request: Need help purchasing insulin for my blood sugar levels. Current cost is $450. Any assistance would be deeply appreciated.

As a diabetic person, it is disheartening to ask for assistance, but I find myself in a challenging situation. After over six months of waiting, my unemployment claim is still pending, and the past couple of years have been the most difficult of my life.

$250 / $450

Thank you so much and be blessed 🙏

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so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone's blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it's just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else's apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch

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Gentle reminder:

When gardening remember to take breaks. Even if it's just to let the birds acsess the food you've uncovered.

Helps you and the environment.

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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Idk if I should but I had a tiny tiny evil thought of how to make the real life smp a little angsty if it was continuing in the traffic light smps watcher lore. Now, do I actually manage to write it? Hmmmmm.

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i encourage you to go to your favourite writer's ao3 page and comment on an older fic, because i can assure you that it will make their day. It can mean so much to see your work doesn't disappear into the void to be never seen again after a day of people interacting with it. Just, if you have the time, go comment on an older work

(pls reblog this to try and get as much writers a bit of appreciation)

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HELLO GRIAN FANDOM!!

do YOU have a Grian design? would you like to tell me about it?

I've made a survey (just for fun) asking the community what their main Grian design is like! i see so many different and unique ones all the time and it's fun to see !

Reblogs are appreciated even if you yourself are not taking the survey! i'd like to get as many people as possible to take it:D

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A doodle of the victor of the real life smp chilling. They're enjoying time with the cats!

Please ignore the fact she doesn't have hands, I'm to tired rn. I'll probably finish it later.

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Added some fishies and more dramatic lighting, this will probably be a wip for a while....

Atlantic cod grian wip! May never finish it but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Might try and give him his red jumper somehow.

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Atlantic cod grian wip! May never finish it but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Might try and give him his red jumper somehow.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

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.

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hey fellow artists I know that we all want to create huge beautiful peices with dynamic poses all the time but sometimes you just gotta draw a guy just kinda standing there. For your mental health I guess.

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Cinnabar moth mumbo doodles for the soul! Bit messy, but oh well. Lost all of my wips as my phone broke so..... We'll see what happens.

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Mustache man!

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A little doodle of grian and mumbo, trying to figure out how to draw them I guess.

I haven't watched any of their season ten stuff yet tho.