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Hello, friends!

I reworked the ol' "Schweizer Guide to Spotting Tangents" lecture from my comics-teaching days, figured I'd share it here. If you want a free, printable PDF for yourself or to share (especially if you're an educator), you can find it at the bottom of this same lesson on my website.

-Chris

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Linework by @dibleopard

Colouring by meeeee

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ringo delivered this image to me and now global warming's back on the table so yeah i'd say my chemistry teacher is pretty cool

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drew some mutual’s & friends’ ocs over on bluesky! isolated/zoomed in under cut

characters belong to the following bsky users (in order as posted L->R)

@/ smolpigeon

@/ leifleaks

@/ inqueersitor

@/ lroxby

@/ syiieblossoms

@/ tapiocawizard

@/ coyoteswirl

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Wanderhome, Blake Ambersai, hungry shadow

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bweird OCtober day 11: Symbolism Theodore Malgrave

He marched in the war with Hell. Fire was involved.

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Best of Artfight 2022

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AN ON A CIRCUIT BOARD / THIS PLACE IS NOT FOR YOU

EDWARD: @jodiexists-art

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corvus corvus @chidgrat

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Daily Grind Anthony | imnotgreen_art 5/7/2024

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MAGLEV! Victor | evegwood (@evegwood) 7/7/2024

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WIP

i’m drawing mutuals ocs over on bsky & also having a raffle, so yknow if you’re over there..

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Gonna comic-ify my masters project BIG WATERMARK

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The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.