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New Commission: Bullet Bill gown! This was a fun one to make, the teeth were so tedious to make but look so cute!! Bridal satin, taffeta, silk dupioni!

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Cape

Late 1890s

The John Bright Collection

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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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Finally got this thing mounted! I’m so happy with how it looks! 🍊🍊🍊

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Rat is in the kiln! I won't find out until Friday how it's worked out and only with photos at that point. Not sure whether to pick up part of my batch or wait until they've all been fired.

Apparently I didn't take a photo of the glazed piece once all the layers were on the cup. Added like...three more glazes after this picture.

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Andy Goldsworthy: Untitled (2015)

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This celestial cicada is Charlotte✨💙✨

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Imogene costume for Renee Fleming in “IL Pirata” | Robert Perdziola

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Workshop of Rubens, Anne d’Autriche, reine de France (detail)

c. 1625

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My Barometz (2023) by Heishiro Ishino

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1780-90 embroidery detail, mens waistcoat

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It also very much depends on what you are making. Things that are thinner are more fragile, and thus more likely to break. Things that are thicker dry more slowly, and are more likely to explode. (The studio I fire at does not allow anything thicker than 1" for this reason.) Things that have a mixture of thicknesses, or are made of different parts at different levels of dryness, can dry unevenly, leading to cracks. And there's a stage during firing where the pottery gets somewhat soft again, so it can droop if it's not supported. Flat things (plates, tiles) like to warp. Everyone seems to have a different theory on why that happens - I'm pretty sure it's just spite, personally.

That doesn't mean don't do those things, obviously. If your artistic vision calls for something risky, I would advise making duplicates. And letting everything dry for an extra-long time, under plastic, so that it's evenly dry when it goes in the kiln.

what percentage of your pottery usually survives kiln firing? If you had to guess

hmmmm 95%? there are explosions or fatal cracks sometimes, but they’re not all that common.

this isn’t counting flaws like crawling or crazing or warping. that percentage would be more like 70-80%. some kilns are better than others 🫤

but occasionally potters lose whole kilns worth of work so… 😬 I’m happy with how things have gone for me so far

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Art Nouveau Architecture in Brussels, Architect: Ernest Delune (Belgian,1859-1947), 6 Rue du Lac, Brussels, Belgium, 1904.