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Here's some notes on some of the upper body muscles so you, artist, don't need to look them up

They are not medically accurate, just enough for artists to know the necessary muscles and how they work together

I 100% recommend doing the last exercise I did to be able to actually place the muscles

Here are my notes on the lower body muscles

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May have accidentally forwarded a post to someone while scrolling. If it's you...

... Surprise ?

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Let’s Draw Wings

I’ve gotten the question/request of how I draw wings lots and lots so I’ve decided to make a dedicated post!

Now…I’m no master, but I have found a way that I like to draw wings that’s efficient for me. There three main points: 

References

Simplification

Texture Management

First of all - References

My favorite wing reference of all time is this post by Jenn on Twitter. I have both the images saved but I use the Wing Shapes one, below, alllllll the time. Like for real all the time!

I also keep pretty extensive collections of wing photo reference. When I’m having trouble, I’ll trace a few or do studies to get back into the swing of things. Here are links to my Pinterest boards:

Broadwing Reference (passive soaring and high-speed)

Longwing Reference (active soaring)

Shortwing Reference (elliptical and hovering)

Secondly - Simplification

When I sketch wings, I simplify Jenn’s diagram even further -

For me, the key to drawing wings is simplifying the wing down - from the structure to the feathers - the goal for me is to be able to draw them quickly and have the proper information conveyed. It needs to look like a wing in the base sketch. If it doesn’t, no amount of rendering and extra feathers will help. I like to break the wing into the three main moving parts. The orange is one part, then the purple contains two main chunks feathers that you can group together and move as their own parts. 

On top of that, I like to think of wings like a sheet of paper. They can bend and fold in on themselves, with the orange meaty bits anchoring everything together. 

Lastly - Texture

I like to call wings “texture monsters”. Feathers are hard to manage and can easily make wings look over-busy and muddy. Just like before, I break the wing into chunks so I can spend less time drawing the wing and it’s feathers:

Then you can put it all together and push things further -

So yeah this is how I throw wings together! The wings I draw aren’t super technical or detailed, but I what matters for me is that they look and feel like believable wings at a glance -

~ Larn

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Caves are weirder and more varied than you think

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I'm so glad this is an anime now and the rest of the world is enjoying literally the only time a media character represented my main interests in any way I relate to, if not possibly the only time I've ever seen a "bio nerd" ever written like we actually are, despite how many fictional settings are jam-packed with biology.

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*following my roommate around* no you don't understand, one minute I was making fun of Avon for being the self-serving sarcastic bitch he is. Like, what a genuinely unlikeable and increasingly unhinged man. Why do they even put up with him. And the next I was wondering who let him sneak into blorbo territory while I wasn't looking because it turns out I did care about him the whole time. I get it now and no one is more surprised and irritated by it than me. I didn't sign up for this but I'm stuck with him now so let me have this ok? Yeah I know he's the worst. Yeah I find his narrative journey compelling anyway. No I can't stop talking about it. I warned you as soon as I could. Sorry.

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hi sex witch, im only interested in masturbating but not at all in sexual relationships with others or even romantic relationship. i guess im asking if this is normal? i worry im doing something wrong by not seeking sexual pleasure with others even though i enjoy how it feels when it's just myself. like i just have a secret hang-up i need to get over

hi anon,

evidently it is normal, as this seems to be the norm for you. and it's an absolutely harmless norm as well, so there's really no reason to be concerned about that. I do sometimes have to marvel at humans' ability to feel bad about absolutely anything, including for not doing things that will have absolutely no repercussions one way or the other.

I mean, when I feel bad about not taking the bus more, at least there's a little bit of something to that; I could be driving less and doing a tiny fraction of a part to reduce emissions and save the planet, right? but not seeking out partnered sex - who suffers from that? not you, it sounds like, if you have no interest in it at all. and while I'm sure you're very charming, there's actually not anyone out there who's going to die unless you, personally, have sex with them. the billions and billions of people who never have sex with you are all going to live full and meaningful lives; you're not meaningfully depriving the world of anything.

possibly what you mean by "normal" is whether or not other people also feel this way, to which the first answer is "yeah, tons" and the second answer is "who cares?" which I think is actually more important. yes, the world is absolutely loaded with people who like to jack off but aren't interested in partnered sex and/or romance. but even if you were somehow the only person out of 8 billion to feel this way (genuinely almost impossible), there still wouldn't be anything wrong or incorrect about what you're feeling. being statistically uncommon has no moral component.

ease up, stress less, jack off more.

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ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

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Can confirm, student didn't show up so I'm just sitting on the balcony listening to the birds. a red kite flew past not twenty metres away. I have awful vending machine coffee and life is good

check out literally just sitting outside if u can. the hobby of the summer

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thought about the Katara v Pakku fight too hard and made myself cry

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if he was still alive I know in my heart that Terry Pratchett would have done a bit about Igors and Igorinas doing gender confirmation surgery by now. going into a lab full of bubbling vials and picking out a penis from a tank the way you pick a lobster. that one, please. you gotta be careful though because they'll really try to upsell you into getting two or three installed. people going to the clinic as pairs and just having parts swapped out for a discounted rate. maybe you actually just trade brains, that's even easier. Igorth have already been doing that thurgery for thenturieth.

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Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

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vintage lego dragon my beloved~

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waking up

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promise me you'll stay on this site for 10 more years okay?

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was this in anyone’s bingo card