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the little guy ever perhaps

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Two artworks I made in the Linked Universe Server for a sprint! (Wolfie's friendly, he promises.)

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For the art prompts: LU Warriors and HW Impa hanging out?

Oh my gosh yes absolutely!

I feel like Warrior’s learned his signature scuffing technique from HW Impa

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I posted this on one of my other pages, but here it is…. My obsession problem and his name is Fierce Deity (Dametrius).

Trying to get back into writing LOZ/LU by creating a new fic that is a continuation of ‘A Diety’s Son’: ‘Reincarnation’.

Concept Art/ Character Design

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MUGSHOTS

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they are drinking buddies now

Bonus:

Sometimes when Warriors drinks too much he gets paranoid...

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Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

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Maybe that's what the headband is for?

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Googly eye Wild

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I almost forgot—this is absolutely a classic among all of Legend’s outfits. I love him so much.

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FUCK AMERICA HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY CEASAR SALAD 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽❗❗❗

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So, I saw this image on Facebook, and it was supposedly showing what Queen Nefertiti would have looked like in real life:

Now, I thought this AI generated garbage was just truly terrible on a number of levels; first off, she looks wayyyyyy too modern - her makeup is very “Hollywood glamour”, she looks airbrushed and de-aged, and as far as I’m aware, Ancient Egyptians didn’t have mascara, glitter-based eyeshadows and lip gloss. Secondly, her features are exceptionally whitewashed in every sense - this is pretty standard for AI as racial bias is prevalent in feeding AI algorithms, but I genuinely thought a depiction of such a known individual would not exhibit such euro-centric features. Thirdly, the outfit was massively desaturated and didn’t take pigment loss into consideration, and while I *do* like the look of the neck attire, it's not at all accurate (plus, again, AI confusion on the detailing is evident).

So, this inspired me to alter the image on the left to be more accurate based off the sculpture’s features. I looked into Ancient Egyptian makeup and looked at references for kohl eyeliner and clay-based facial pigment (rouge was used on cheeks, charcoal-based powder/paste was used to darken and elongate eyebrows), and I looked at pre-existing images of Nefertiti, both her mummy and other reconstructions. While doing this, I found photos of a 3D scanned sculpture made by scientists at the University of Bristol and chose to collage the neck jewellery over the painting (and edited the lighting and shadows as best as I could).

Something I see a lot of in facial recreations of mummies is maintaining the elongated and skinny facial features as seen on preserved bodies - however, fat, muscle and cartilage shrink/disappear post mortem, regardless of preservation quality; Queen Nefertiti had art created of her in life, and these pieces are invaluable to developing an accurate portrayal of her, whether stylistic or realistic in nature.

And hey, while I don't think my adjustments are perfect (especially the neck area), I *do* believe it is a huge improvement to the original image I chose to work on top of.

I really liked working on this project for the last few days, and I think I may continue to work on it further to perfect it. But, until then, I hope you enjoy!

Remember, likes don't help artists but reblogs do!

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NEVER GIVE UP

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As the source of my Silmarillion infection I come to inflict upon you not only are all elf marriages probably some degree of inbreeding because of 144 Unbegotten elves thing but also because they're long lived af and don't as far as I know have a menopause equivalent they have POSSIBILITIES for inbreeding we don't that make charting family trees some type of genealogical Who's on First Abbot & Costello routine. For example Celeborn's niece is Elrond's maternal grandmother and Celebrían is related to Elrond as a cousin in like 4 different ways In one of those ways Arwen his 3rd cousin. Tolkien elves your age mate's parents could be your 3x times great aunts and your spouse babysat them as kids maybe The comedy potential of some human court genealogist getting Queen Arwen's family tree deets sends me

Oh yeah the elf fuck math. I've done it myself. Tolkien did it himself too. The 144 Unbegotten thing is WILD.

Every elf is related to every other elf that's just how it is now!