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And the dog ACEO sketches!

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A little hard to see in places, but this is the sketch of the watercolor piece I'm currently working on. Dachshund Jake! This is part 3 of 4 watercolors total, Hank the Dachshund and Chalupa the Chi are already finished. :)

Since watercolors have lots of drying downtime in between I've also started a bunch of dog ACEOs that I can work on in the meantime. The more the merrier! XD

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Pros of hyperfixiation:

Happy!

Art ideas

Life is good

Cons of hyperfixiation:

I am going to blow up

All my art is of the same guy

If I don't think about this 24/7 I get violent

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I will forever respect Animorphs for tricking kids who are just really into animals to read a book series by going “Hey you, you daydream about what it’s like to be a dolphin or a bird or a wolf? Have I got a book for you!” and then slowly radicalizing them with 50+ books of “There are no winners in war. Whatever ‘victory’ you perceive comes at the cost of sacrificing your own morals and killing the part of you that is human. In the end you will resort to murder, torture and war crimes and the knowledge of what you have done will haunt you for as long as you live.”

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Second ACEO, this time Aro. I started this in August when it was still hot and thought I'd like to see him suffer for a little bit xD

I was stumped regarding the colors for a while, but digital mockups are my best friend and savior ✌️ Pretty satisfied with the outcome!

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Spadel by elektroyu

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From Putrino Lab @PutrinoLab today:

A reminder that if you live within 50 miles of NYC and you have a PRE-2020 ME/CFS diagnosis, then @VirusesImmunity

and I NEED your help! If you have difficulty traveling we will come to you. Please help us to hit our recruitment goals if you can! ---

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki is involved in this research. She just quoted this on Twitter/X saying: Please help spread the word about our #MECFS study with @PutrinoLab 👇🏼 thank you 🙏🏼

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Post-Viral Trials News @postviraltrials quote tweeted it saying: David is underselling the benefits of participating – they give you microclot and platelet imaging and impressions! Here are mine:

https://x.com/postviraltrials/status/1774908103307198667?s=20

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genuinely mystified by the kind of person that would produce this image and not realize "oh, I'm being fucking ridiculous"

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I have one Kofi commission slot open 🌿 - style: side profile sketch - turnaround: flexible, 2-5 weeks - fantasy characters only (both OCs and Fanart are OK!) - personal use only - rate: 200€

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There’s no such thing as work-life balance for neurodivergent & chronically ill people.

This is because everything in my life requires work:

maintaining friendships

keeping up with my hygiene

managing bills

making money

remembering my basic needs

sleeping regularly

outputting creatively

All requires some aspect of work for me.

And when everything in your life requires work, your balance goes out the window.

If you're neurodivergent and overwhelmed — I see you.

If you're chronically ill and overwhelmed — I see you.

You're not dysfunctional.

You're not incapable.

You're doing your best.

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i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

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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 look an art related thing!

I recently figured out that I CAN hang artwork IF they're small and/ or lightweight. Turns out small and medium sized canvases tend to be light enough to put them on small nails, which are the only things that can penetrate those walls (many thanks to my neighbor for telling me this!), so that's what I'm gonna do :D

These are technically not finished yet. I can't decide if I want to varnish the two fluid paintings or not, because I'm really scared to mess them up 🙈 And they do have a very nice texture even unvarnished. Maybe it doesn't matter if I keep them unvarnished, since I'm probably keeping them for myself anyway (originally I wanted to sell them because they did turn out better than most of my other fluid paintings, but I think I like them too much together on my own wall haha). The title of the middle one is "Sea Dragon Monochrome" and the one on the right is "Cosmic Mamba".

The painting part of the freesia piece is definitely unfinished. This one is part of a triptych that I painted with my sisters a few years back for our mother's bday; each of us painted a freesia flower on a canvas like this and all of them have the same background color. I think we took ref pictures of the flowers and then painted them from the pics. They look really great together! So, our mother used to display all 3 on a dresser in her bedroom where she used to stay most often, but since she passed away last year and my siblings sorted out her stuff I got reminded that I never actually finished this painting (I think it was due to time constraints at the time and then... life happened). I now took it home in hopes I can finish it some time, and until I can get to it it's hanging out with the others in my entry. :) Maybe we can get prints of all of them once mine is done, so each of us can display the complete set, that would be cool!

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If you have leftovers from making gyoza as well as from making 2 different barbecue salads... throw them together and get a perfectly yummy meal out of it 🌚✌️

Still have most of the cabbage left though so I'm going to make sauerkraut 🤤 none of the store bought brands beats home made sauerkraut. It'll take some time, but it's well worth it. I've even used it as gifts before and people are always happy to get some XD