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[strawbs-screaming]

HOW THE FUCK DO I DO LINEART ON DIGITAL HELP ME

[malakaiballwhipper99]

numetal drawnz

eye strain beware

small digitally coloured drawings from my sketchbook

and wesley

head and munky are looking at the solar eclipse or whatever that thing was btw. looking directly at it.

fred is asking wesley to be his guitarist again after their 99th musical divorce

chino (though it looks nothing like him, be nice i am sick) is skateboarding cause he can .

just came back from a trip and unfortunately am not feeling too great so these were done as sort of stress relievers

heres an ALT version of the wesley drawing which has been compressed by tumblr

and the ref.

got inspired by all the alien wesley drawings on here that i just love oh so dearly.

[lawlietscaramels]

I get really chatty at this time for some reason. it's like the very end of the day for me and very few people are active

[subsequentibis]

I think you'd really like myhouse.wad. also hiii

i DID like myhouse.wad! also hi!

[theokusgallery]

I hate procreate with a vivid passion

[illdragyoudownwithme]

stuff that make you pay to get access to dark mode

youre all evil

dark mode ain't an aesthetic it's a thing that doesn't make me be in pain

[thedogwhoisachair]

ibis paint u know if u weren't so fucking weird with the way u pay for it id probably have given you money by now

[glacierruler]

Working on another dragon, and I'm almost done. Should be done in a day or two. However, considering it's rb week, I'll be posting it after that's done. Then I'll be rbing my dragon and abstract art commission post, and some more of my art.

[pearlysteph]

I just started learning how to use procreate after using ibis paint x for like 8 years of my life pls be nice lol👽

I had no idea what to put as backgrounds so I just did something silly you don't need to pay much attention to it

[nart-is-a-monster]

I remembered why I usually didn't use the ibis paint

and it's bc sometimes I get a little excited about rendering brushes and textures xd

But hey at least I still know how to use the brushes!

And the scenes are a few of the scenes that live rent free in my brain

AND ALSO the speed paint KSHDJAK I decided to do it in the only way I can pay attention (I have a very good attention span thank you for asking U__U)

GO READ THE JUICE BOX CHRONICLES 🗣️ 💥

And send lots of love to @eggmuffinwaffles @glitter-lisp \⁠(⁠ϋ⁠)⁠/⁠♩

[maniculum]

Bestiaryposting Results: Haesorog

Welcome to this week's bestiaryposting results! This is an unusual one in that the entry is short, but we have plenty of physical details. We're also following up two obvious ones with a description I genuinely think nobody can identify unless they're familiar with the bestiary tradition itself, or the sources thereof.

If any of that was confusing to you, please consult past posts on this matter at https://maniculum.tumblr.com/bestiaryposting. You can also keep up with the current beast of the week -- and participate -- by checking out the tag "maniculum bestiaryposting". The entry that our artists are working from this week can be found here:

Anyway, art below the cut in roughly chronological order:

@silverhart-makes-art (link to post here) took this in a rhinoceros kind of direction, drawing something that reminds me of paleoart depicting prehistoric rhino relatives that I have seen & enjoyed. I was going to say something like "I'm not sure if that was the vibe they were going for", but the linked post cites Brontotherium as an inspiration for the horn, so that's probably what I'm picking up on. The depiction of it defending its young makes this a really interesting image, I think; I like it a lot. Also, the design decisions explained in the linked post are genuinely pretty interesting, so I encourage you to check that out.

@moonygryffin (link to post here) ran with the "ibis feet, deer head" thing to produce something kind of like a flightless peryton, which I think is pretty cool. What's really clever here, I think, is how the body effectively blends elements of both animals so that it looks like a natural transition between the two. It's kind of bird-shaped, but you can see some deer-shaped elements at the top, and it's got this furry kiwi kind of vibe that's plausibly both "deer" and "bird".

Moonygryffin also suggests that the thing with the feet is the result of our favorite game, Manuscript Telephone, and it was originally the footprint of an ibex, which I think is probably correct. From some quick searching, it looks like Pliny just described this beast as having "cloven hooves". I think it's plausible that a later author changed it for purposes of parallelism -- "size of an ox, fur of a bear, head of a deer, feet of an ibex" -- and then someone else misread it and gave it bird feet. (Do ibexes/ibices* have cloven hooves? I'm going to assume they do, they're goats, right?)

*I checked the OED; both plural forms are attested, though the first is the more common. Which is probably why Tumblr is giving the second one the red underline.

@cheapsweets (link to post here) went for a similar concept as the above, but in a different medium and interpretation. Genuinely impressed by the realistic detail on the legs and head here -- CheapSweets has mentioned seeking out some reference material and art books recently, so I'm inclined to assume those are really paying off. Look at that thing. There's a lot of interesting material in the linked post, speaking to influences, research, and design decisions, which I think is definitely worth checking out. One thing I want to point out specifically because I missed it the first time I saw this drawing: take a look at the people & dog in the background at the top left. Now look at the trees next to them. One of them is a Haesorog cleverly disguising itself. Excellent.

(Also thank you for providing alt text.)

@pomrania (link to post here) has collaborated with @theforceisstronginthegirl on this one, which is a delight! Pleased to see you back, Theforceisstronginthegirl. Anyway, they've also clocked the error with the ibis thing: while they don't suggest it's an error for ibex, they do suggest that it refers to cloven hooves, which as previously mentioned is indeed what Pliny says about it. And then they also decided to give it bird feet anyway because that's more fun, which is very much in the spirit of the thing, excellent call. Anyway, the focus of this design is on the camouflage aspect. They've interpreted it as simply having stellar natural camouflage, which is why it's shown next to a tree here -- we can see that the pattern of its fur lets it blend in with the coloration of the trees around it, and that leaves tangled in its antlers along with its ability to stand on two legs enhances the effect.

@sweetlyfez (link to post here) went with a similar quadrupedal design, shaggy deer-like thing with bird legs, but went the opposite direction with the camouflage. Her post indicates it's shown here "shedding some leaves from the last time it turned into a bush," which means this version of the Haesorog is suggested to have actively supernatural camouflage that allows it to shapeshift. (Which is definitely suggested by the text.) There's something very evocative about the eyes here, which I like. (Also, thank you for including alt text.)

@coolest-capybara (link to post here) continues to deliver beautifully stylized art. I'm really delighted by the the pose the second Haesorog is taking in order to blend in with the very pretty Stylized Plants around it -- I think this is maybe not the environment where color-shifting is hugely useful, as I have no doubt the first Haesorog is fully aware of its presence. Something that makes this particular design interesting is that between the default coloration displayed on the left and the shape of the feet, you get a kind of "this thing is a step too human for a quadruped" feeling that makes it a little more unique-looking than it might be otherwise. (Also, thanks for including alt text.)

Over all of these entries, I'm noting that one effect of the clear physical description is that it does provide a more restricted space in which artists can play -- it's much more obvious than in other weeks that all of these are the same animal. Whether that's an upside or a downside is, I think, wholly subjective. Now let's look at the Aberdeen Bestiary.

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Okay, we can't do that actually. The page with the illustration is missing from the Aberdeen Bestiary. So we're looking over to its sister manuscript, the Bodley Bestiary. (MS. Bodl. 764, also digitized online.)

So this beast is of course the Parander.

Yep, bet everyone feels foolish for not recognizing such a common and well-known animal as the parander.

Also, of course, known as the Tarand or Tarander, of course. Or parandrus / tarandrus in Latin.

Right, so the reason that I was so confident nobody without a thorough background in the bestiary tradition (or Pliny the Elder) would recognize this one is because it's not a real animal. And it's not even one of the mythical ones that managed to get a foothold in the modern consciousness.

I might be overstating the "not a real animal" line, actually; odds are good it's based on one. Let's talk about that.

There have been some guesses as to the parander's identity in scholarship. The Bostock translation of Pliny has a footnote that cites two competing theories: "reindeer" and "elk [aka 'moose']". The reindeer one gets an explanation -- differently-colored summer and winter coats -- but the elk one is just kind of tossed out there as a proposed alternative. My guess (based on it already being past 10:30pm here and not wanting to put in the time to track down a source that's cited only by a last name with no other identifying information) is that that one's about the parander's size being emphasized.

You may say, "excuse me Maniculum, neither of those animals lives anywhere near Ethiopia. What are you playing at? Are you going to try and convince me that the pre-modern definition of 'Ethiopia' was so broad it encompassed the Arctic Circle?" The solution is that the parander wasn't originally described as being from Ethiopia -- Pliny says it's from Scythia. Which... also seems a bit too far south. But it's entirely reasonable that the Scythians were reporting on something seen on a trip north or something they heard about from northern neighbors, which would put "reindeer" and "elk/moose" both back in as options. Scythia is close enough to the range of both of those animals that it's plausible they would be familiar with them.

Someone you may have heard of took a stance on this issue, interestingly. An 18th-century biologist named...

... Linnaeus. Yep, it's codified right into the scientific name for "reindeer" now, and has been for as long as binomial nomenclature has been a thing. Anyone who wants to make the "elk/moose" argument is going to have a bit of an uphill battle.

All that out of the way, now take a moment and scroll back up to that medieval illustration. Mentally compare it to the description and the art shared in this post. There's something different, right?

You may notice that the artist has given it cloven hooves rather than bird's feet, having not been confused at all by the "footprints of an ibis" thing. Now, often this is the result of the art not actually being directly based on the text, but copied from art in a previous manuscript, so a scribe can write down the wrong word and it won't affect the art at all because the artist may or may not even be reading the text as they work.

Often, but not always. In this case, I would like to float an alternate explanation.

On the left is the translation of the Bodley Bestiary I have on my shelf, to which I referred when filling in material from missing pages in the Aberdeen Bestiary. On the right is the Bodley Bestiary digitized manuscript.

Now. I am not trained in Latin paleography, so it's possible that I'm misinterpreting an abbreviation. But that word on the right... the penultimate letter certainly looks like a C, doesn't it? Not, e.g., an S? (It would be a long s here, but that doesn't actually help.)

Which means that the manuscript says ibex. The ibex -> ibis confusion is a case of Manuscript Telephone, but it was telephoned in the 1990s.

Again, like I said, I'm not an expert. I've never translated a single page of a Latin manuscript, much less had a book-length translation published in a handsome slipcover edition. So it's very possible I'm missing something. But right now I'm pretty sure that everyone's been drawing bird feet not because of an error made by a medieval scribe, but by the modern translator.

Anyway, that was exciting, right? I hope that makes up for me posting this a few hours later than usual.

[bm96-tf2]

Edited SFM posters of my TF2 OCs... Also, I kinda try different ways to edit or at least how it looks? Mhm...

(Turns out you don't have to pay for premium features in ibis paint x if you download the modded app, oh my god...)

Oh, also... The third one is SFM poster of new TF2 OCs of mine... Yeah...

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Oh, and here... Have this unedited Medic poster(?)... Was testing the second opinion, and yeah...

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(Unedited versions of the three posters under the keep reading)

[preydatory]

Here's that tutorial a lot of you were asking for ^ ^ I do everything on Ibispaintx as of right now, which means everything you'll need is free! I've provided all of the effects and knickknacks I use on there (Tutorial below cut)

Before anything else, here's this website. It'll remove (simple) backgrounds from just about any image for you, no pay required

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This part is pretty self explanatory I think. Get on Ibis and test out some of the filters shown here to get comfortable with how they work! Layering the outer stroke effect is my savior

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The following section is for how I do my coloring. I start off with a color, darken & lighten layer and add from there!

Layer types such as overlay can create a huge difference in how your coloring turns out in the end. Here is a few examples of that, with the 1st image just being the base layers shown above

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And honestly that's about it. Websites like Pinterest can be super helpful for resources, search keywords like rentry or carrd along with whatever you're looking for so better results show :3 @c0ldhues Ok bye

[unknowntalesbymiles]

Can you draw her? Or nightmare, or both. Either option is fine! Super excited to see your art! ><

I chose to draw Ivy because I really love her design, might've been a strategic mistake because ohgod I struggled xD I just think she's so pretty and I was scared I wouldn't do her justice-- please don't pay attention to the messy details

Sorry for the grayscale as well, colouring on Krita can be a pain for pretty gradients like that (i had to use ibis for her fancy necklaces ✨)

Didn't include Nightmare but the black apple implies him. Hope you like the drawing ! Again, Ivy is literally so beautiful- AJWADSDQ

[trashisstillhere]

Hey there. I just kinda tried out the new animation feature on ibis paint using Randy. It’s just a simple eye blinking one and it sucks that you have to pay to get the other canvases but I still wanted to try anyway

Hopefully it will show it well

(I honestly prefer FlipaClip for animation a little more.)

[obsidiangx]

So I finally went searching and found all the archive entries in Armored Core VI, and celebrated by combing through some text logs for fun little stories in the classic Armored Core medium. Naturally, there'll be extensive spoilers here, so enter with that mind. I'm gonna talk about Iguazu.

I hope it isn't controversial to say that Prof. Nagai's logs not only tell history of the Fires of Ibis, but of Walter and Carla. Walter's father became obsessed with Coral and invented human augmentation, estranging himself from those around him. Nagai, someone who the boy hated, tried to do right by enlisting Carla to look after him. If you parallel Walter's knowledge and Carla's philosophies with how they're mentioned in these logs, I don't think it's really up for debate who these people are.

In the video log of the Fires of Ibis, Nagai says he's going to send the boy to Jupiter. This is a fun and mostly unique little piece of worldbuilding. Jupiter doesn't really come up at all in the story, so it just feels like flavor. But actually, there's one more mention of Jupiter I can find. It isn't directly connected, and you could easily just dismiss it as convergent lore. But if we don't read it as coincidence, everything gets really funny and really sad really fast.

In G5 Iguazu's arena entry, it says

Iguazu's recalcitrant nature was such that one day he even picked a fight with the Hero of Jupiter, who retaliated with such a fury that Iguazu never quite looked the same afterward.

Hero of Jupiter? We have NO strong indication who that is. Unless, of course, it's subtle foreshadowing to the soft reveal that Walter is a skilled and terrifying AC pilot. He has selflessly dedicated his whole life to a cause he believes will keep humanity safe, so it wouldn't be surprising if some people called him a hero. But, then, that means,

Iguazu, a man who became a 4th generation augmented human to pay off his debt just the same as you, met Walter before he was a handler. Walter didn't just beat him. Walter traumatized him forever. He never quite looked the same afterward.

How ironic. How tragic. How sad and funny then that Walter's hound humiliates him over and over again. Twists the knife, reminds him again after all this time that he just isn't good enough. Not compared to you, the gen-4 who had it all.

he just wanted walter headpat