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Types of intelligence for your OCs

What kind of intelligence does your character posses? Based on theory of multiple intelligences, these are some ideas what kind of smarts your characters might posses that aren’t the typical academic or street smarts. 

1. Visual-spatial (space smart)

These people are good at visualizing things, seeing in 3D, being able to imagine how things look even out of sight from the information they have about it. They are good with directions, maps, charts and pictures. Eye for drawing, patterns and puzzles. 

Especially useful for: architects, engineers, artists, pilots

2. Linguistic-verbal (word smart)

The ability to use words well, when writing and speaking. Typical strenghts are telling stories, memorizing information, love for reading, skill with words, debating and persuasive skills, adept at explaining complicated subjects. Also tend to be great at languages. 

Especially useful for: writers, journalists, lawyers, teachers, public speakers

3. Logical (reasoning smart)

Not necessarily but possibly mathematical, these people are great at reasoning, pattern recognition and logical analysis. Enjoyment for abstract thinking and ideas, excellent problem-solving skills and logical argumentation are other common traits. Pattersn, categories, relationships. 

Especially useful for: mathematicians, accountants, scientists, and detectives.

4. Bodily-kinesthetic (body smart)

Great hand-eye cordination, physical movement, often skilled at sports, dancing and creating things with their hands. Learn and remember rather by doing than listening or reading. Sense of timing and mind-body union excellent. 

Especially useful for: dancers, sculptors, actors, athletes, surgeons, crafts people, soldiers, police officers

5. Musical (sound smart)

Sensitive listeners. Thinking in patterns, recognizing rhythms, notes and melodies, good at remembering tunes, these people often enjoy singing or playing instruments. Often show great understanding of musical structure and know quickly when they hear someone going off-key. 

Especially useful for: musical teachers, composers, musicians, 

6. Interpersonal (people smart)

These people are very good at understanding and interacting with others. From verbal to non-verbal communication, they are proficient at assessing motivations, moods and desires of others and seeing things from multiple perspectives. Great communicators, create positive relationships with others easily and solve group dynamics and group conflicts well. Also enjoy discussions, debates and teamwork. 

Especially useful for: psychologists, counselors, salespeople, politicians, philosophers, teachers, managers, team leaders

7. Intrapersonal (self smart)

The opposite of interpersonal smarts is the intrapersonal intelligence, where people are very in tune with themselves and their feelings. They are honest with themselves, enjoy self-reflection, analysing theories and ideals, love daydreaming, and show great self-awareness and assessment of their own strenghts and weaknesses. 

Especially useful for: writers, philosophers, theorits, scientists

Bonus types: 

8. Creative (ideas smart) 

People that show exceptional curiousity, get inspired by little things around them and connect ideas and concepts in an unsual way. It’s a more feeling-based, spontaneous type of intelligence that gets less recognition, but brings immense benefits in all fields. 

Especially useful for: artists, marketers, scientists, concept artists, 

10. Abstract (concept smart)

Drawn to abstract ideas, these people enjoy deep discussions, don’t like to settle on one truth and ask questions that have no easy or no answer at all. Connecting, conceptualizing, analysing, listening and putting things together, they are great at seeing things from a distance, seeing the whole and not just the pieces. 

Especially useful for: scientists, philosophers, researchers, theorists, designers, analysts

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More little guys have appeared! The bus finally got through all the traffic and shroomish came in with donuts for everyone. Hopefully a sweet treat will make smoliv a little less nervous.

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San-ei Digimon Tamers Plush Lopmon

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jellymon for my upcoming digimon dawn and dusk 0.2 remakes. we're looking for programmers and spriters, dm me if you're interested :D

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Scooby Doo idea: Daphne Blake as the weird rich kid whose parents signed her up for a shit-ton of rich-kid extracurriculars like polo, fencing, and all of this other shit so they wouldn’t have to deal with her/bolster her college resume. She puts a lot of effort into actually being good at all these extra-curriculars bc she’s competing with all of her ~super successful and talented~ sisters for attention and ends up athletic as hell and socially stunted and like…really aggressive and competitive and never quite satisfied with anything she’s doing. The only other ‘High Society’ kid who can put up with her is Norville “Shaggy” Rogers —an anxious stoner with freaky strict parents whose only friend prior to Daphne was his equally anxious rescue dog—Daphne’s been beating up Shaggy’s bullies for years. Then there’s student council dweeb Fred Jones who’s always been groomed to be this ‘leader’ by his parents and is always pressured to go to these youth leadership things and stuff and yeah he’s pretty good at directing group projects, but really Fred’s kind of shy and more interested in engineering, forensics and maybe criminal justice and he’s been friends with this chick Velma Dinkley in engineering club who’s brilliant but she’s also tactless, awkward and very bitterly sarcastic to cover up for the fact that her book smarts far outweigh her social skills.

 So then there’s this mystery downtown and all five of them show up and there’s a mutual, “Oh hey it’s you: The weird kid from my school. What are you doing here?” and everyone goes around. Fred’s like, “Oh I knew the owners of this place and they said they might have to close down because of this ghost and I told Velma about it and Velma thinks we can get to the bottom of this.” And Shaggy’s like, “Scoob and I didn’t want to be home right now and we honestly didn’t know about the ghost but hey Daphne’s here so we feel safe enough to hang out and maybe Scoob can sniff out some clues or something.” And then everyone turns and looks at Daphne and Daphne’s just like, “I want to fight a fucking ghost.” 

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CHILD OF THE STARS 🌌

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This year’s issue of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine is mythology themed, so I wanted the cover critter to be a weird take on an extremely recognizable legendary beast.

The marsupial griffin is my shot at that, a large flying carnivore with a rear-facing pouch like a thylacine. Its unusual front incisors are continuously growing like rodent teeth, but exposed like a beak— nursing young have a gap in between them, but as they wean into sub-adults the gap closes and the teeth grow to a sharp hook for tearing into meat and carrion. Their thumbed hind feet somewhat resemble a primate’s, but with a set of sharp talons for capturing and gripping prey.

Our cover for this volume was illustrated by @ibenkrutt, who really knocked this design out of the park. If you’d like to support our contributing artists and acquire the zine, you can check out the campaign over here!

https://zoop.gg/c/almostrealvol5

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You don't have to be following me to enter, but I do share lots of pretty dice pics!

This community has been so wonderful and has said so many kind things about my work! I want to give one of you a chance to get a set for free!

The prize is a custom commission at the standard tier or lower or a custom d20 of any style!

I will reblog this post and tag the winner as well as send a message where we will discuss what you'd like!!

Please limit reblogs to 3 throughout the entire entry period! Anything over 3 won't get you extra entries.

As always, you can see more of my stuff at dicekat.com

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Can I ask what kind of watercolour paper texture you prefer? I've basically always used fine grain/cold press paper, but I recently tried some hot press paper and the smooth texture made it a really different experience. I found it a lot harder to control the paint. But I can also see that there's potential to do some things with it that wouldn't work with a more textured paper, so I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on it.

Absolutely! I love talking about my traditional art media. I use both types of watercolour paper but for different purposes. I prefer cold pressed watercolour with fine texture (such as Canson Arches cold press, the green pad) because it's the one I have used most frequently and gotten most used to.

I like to use a lot of water and do many layers so it's perfect for that. I feel like I can get really smooth gradients because of how well this paper handles water. Things like masking fluid also work well on it. I think this paper is especially great for my space pieces because I can just let the water and paint do their job without trying to control it too much.

I do occasionally use the very smooth hot press paper (the pink pad, although my go-to hot press paper is by Saunders Waterford, it's expensive but I have managed to find it on sale a few times). I like how detailed I can get on smooth paper and it also creates really cool edges that are less prominent on textured paper. I'm a bit of a control freak so I feel like I haven't really gotten the most out of this paper. I think on this paper your strokes are more visible than on cold press paper which is a bit more forgiving. On hot press paper it's much easier to get blooming effects and accidentally lift the paint when you don't mean to.

I have also tried really rough textured watercolour paper (also by Saunders Waterford) and I find it the best for wet on wet techniques. I have mostly only done studies on it (I THINK this snake was done on the rough paper but I'm not sure and I sold the original, could also be cold press fine grain Arches). These studies were done in just watercolour, no pencil sketch or anything. Wet on wet or building up wash by wash.

I think if I really wanted to exercise looseness and letting go of the control freak for a second this paper would be really great for just doing some stream of consciousness painting or sth.

And generally about the papers: I usually like to use watercolour blocks because all four sides are glued so I don't need to do the whole wet the paper tape it to the drawing board etc. shebang. I sometimes buy bigger sheets or cut bigger blocks into smaller pieces in which case I tape them onto something to prevent warping during painting.

I mostly prefer 300 g/sqm paper, sometimes lighter but most of my "proper" pieces are done on 300 g/sqm paper.

Sometimes cheaper watercolour papers and blocks seem to have a weird surface that doesn't absorb the water or the paint very well which makes both the painting process and the result kinda eh.

People say that the media doesn't matter but when it comes to watercolours what matters the most IS the paper.

I hope this gives you some insight!

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FURSUIT FOR SALE

im selling my fursuit due to improper head sizing and fursona design changes!

more details under the cut, but you can also check it out on the dealer's den here (there are more images within the listing as well!)

Includes:

Fully lined head, feet, and paws

Feet have left and right tags

3D printed earrings

Gauge is removable and painted to look like an Eye of Ender

3-finger hand hooves

Minky nose, inner ears, and hooves

Lower teeth and two plush tusks

Arm sleeves (unlined) with pullcords to tighten

Tail with two belt loops

Sizing:

Made for a 22 in. head, but has lots of room due to the fact I wear glasses and it was made slightly too large

Feet are a loose US women's size 5

Arm sleeves are 20 inches from shoulder to wrist

Other notes:

Only visible wear signs are a small stain on the left foot and a repaired belt loop

Kept in a nonsmoking household with cats, dogs, and domestic rodents

Must be 18+ to buy

You get full character rights, I just ask that you do not use the name Ambrose or Narcissus (my name and my fursona's name, respectively)

If interested but have more questions, please contact me here on tumblr, or through discord AmbroseTV#3945

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Drew my dnd characters patron that i made up. The archfey siollán aka the lord of roots. Just a smeagol ass freak

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Comic about trans men in the health care system I made for magazine Ottar last autumn! Please note that it presents a Swedish perspective unless stated otherwise, as it is mostly based on Swedish studies. I would however argue that it has implications on the state of healthcare for trans people in other places as well. Thank you so much Hedvig for translating this!

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i think he’s just nice