#draftsmen

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View from a Window, Genoa John Singer Sargent (American; 1856–1925) Watercolor and oil over graphite ca. 1911 The British Museum, London. © The Trustees of the British Museum

[hipstersoulgushers]

Adding a few I feel deserve to be on here: Art Prof: Art school teachers teaching Fine Art skills for free! Sycra: Old but a classic and highly informative art channel. Free! Kienan Lafferty: has a series called Concept Art Bootcamp that's extremely informative and good! Free! Ethan Becker: On the edgier side but gives great professional tips for concept art and animation. Free! Whyt Manga: Lots of comic making advice. Free! Jake Parker: More comic advice and just art advice in general. Free! 30X40: Arcitecture videos that I find helpful for thinking about backgrounds and environments. Free! Also just look up tutorials for anything you can think of, if you look through 2 or 3 you'll probably start seeing lots of useful stuff in the same vein!

Can't afford art school?

After seeing post like this 👇

And this gem 👇

As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.

Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.

📺Here is my list:

Proko (Free)

Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)

Aaron Rutten (free)

BoroCG (free)

Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)

Jesus Conde (free)

Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)

Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)

SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)

Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)

The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)

Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)

Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.

📚Here is my list:

The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.

"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.

"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.

"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.

"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.

"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.

"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.

"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.

"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.

Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.

As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.

For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.

💻As for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.

Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)

Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)

Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)

PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)

Krita (Free)

mypaint (free)

FireAlpaca (free)

Libresprite (free, for pixel art)

Those are the ones I can recall.

So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.

I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.

Hope this was helpful and have a great day.

[eye-may]

Never-before-published model sheets for canned Amblin Cats movie 🐈‍⬛✏️👁️

Hi all. As promised, I am sharing a comprehensive .PDF of model sheets that were created for the Amblimation Cats movie that never saw the light of day. Most of these model sheets have not been published or posted anywhere on the internet as far as I'm aware. I'm going to get ahead of some questions for the good of the order:

Are these real? I certainly didn't sit and create all 117 pages myself for the sake of an elaborate hoax!

How did you get these? I work in the animation industry. A senior coworker caught wind of my cats obsession and said he had the Xeroxes and asked if I wanted him to bring them in. Internally, I flipped my shit. And then I digitized his hard copies.

How did your coworker get these? They were found in the library of the university he used to go to. (Not super unusual at an arts school in southern California.) He made photo copies back then and has been holding onto them. The thing is he knows nothing about CATS; isn't a CATS fan, never seen it, etc. I guess he just felt it was something worth holding on to!

Can you upload better quality? Unfortunately what you're seeing as good as the quality gets. These are scans of photocopies from the 90s. There is nothing to be done for the crunchiness.

What about (missing characters)? I'm showing you everything I was personally given!

Which character is (nondescript drawing of a cat)? If the image isn't labeled, your guess is as good as mine! I put all the misc./unlabeled cats in the back of the PDF. The only exceptions are ones that I felt were abundantly obviously supposed to be a specific character.

Who are the artists? Unfortunately, there's no way I can tell for sure. None of the sheets are signed. I wouldn't even go about guessing because many concept artists can perfectly emulate more "well known" illustrators whose styles were sought after. My coworker said he might be able to figure out who the draftsmen were; until then it's a mystery! If I find out, I will come back to this post and update it with that information.

Are these all the model sheets ever? No! In fact, there are model sheets that have been posted online that are not in the bundle I was given. I have no idea of the sum total of model sheets in existence.

Where's the link?! Here it is! Have fun kitties!

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[egypt-museum]

Stele of Dedia with Osiris Isis and Horus

In the panel below the gods Dedia, chief of draftsmen of Amun, and his wife bring them offerings. the inscription reads ".....so that they may grant them all kinds of good and pure things, wine, milk, the gentle breath of the north wind, to be blessed in heaven, rich on earth, acquitted in the world of the dead, to follow the procession of Sokaris with boots of onions on the dawn of the neck...". It continues "he said: o you all the priests and scribes of the temple of Osiris who will read this stele in honor of;eternity, recite the funeral prayers offering and pouring water on the ground, for the chief of draftsmen of Amun, Dedia, and for his wife."

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Seti I, ca. 1290-1279 BC. From Abydos. Now in the Louvre. No. 204; C 50

[livingforstars]

7,000 Stars And The Milky Way - May 17th, 1997.

"This panoramic view of the sky is really a drawing. It was made in the 1940s, under the supervision of astronomer Knut Lundmark at the Lund Observatory in Sweden. To create the picture, draftsmen used a mathematical distortion to map the entire sky onto an oval shaped image, with the plane of our Milky Way galaxy along the center and the north galactic pole at the top. 7,000 individual stars are shown as white dots, size indicating brightness. The "Milky Way" clouds, actually the combined light of dim, unresolved stars in the densely populated galactic plane, are accurately painted on, interrupted by dramatic dark dust lanes. The overall effect is photographic in quality and represents the visible sky. Can you identify any familiar landmarks or constellations? For starters, Orion is at the right edge of the picture, just below the galactic plane and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are visible as fuzzy patches in the lower right quadrant."

[pmamtraveller]

JAN DE BAEN - THE CORPSES OF THE DE WITT BROTHERS, 1675

In 1672, the major European powers united and launched an attack on the Dutch Republic, posing a danger of overwhelming the nation. This cost the De Witt brothers, Johan and Cornelis, their lives. De Baen's artwork illustrates their lifeless bodies suspended at the Groene Zoodje on the Vijverberg in The Hague. Johan de Witt served as the Pensionary (the actual leader) of Holland, the most influential province. He was killed by a carefully planned lynch "mob" following his visit to his brother Cornelis de Witt in jail. He was lured into this trap by a forged letter.

The aftermath of this interaction, captured in this artwork, is disturbing, to say the least. Stripped of their garments, the siblings were suspended upside down from a wooden beam. They were castrated and disemboweled. Protesters severed fingers, toes, tongues, and noses to trade as keepsakes. A man is thought to have twisted the neck of a stray cat, the carcass of which he inserted into the open cavity where Cornelis’ penis used to be. Every bruise, cut, and amputation was integrated into the artwork.

Witness accounts assert that Johan's body was displayed higher than that of his brother. The rioters did so because he held the most powerful office in the country, and this aspect was noted by de Baen as he envisioned his artwork. As the De Witts lost numerous distinguishing features, it becomes challenging to identify which of the two figures in "Corpses" is supposed to represent which brother. Thankfully, an inscription on the back of the canvas dispels much of the ambiguity:

These are the corpses of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, made by a prominent painter from life as they hung from the post at eleven o’clock in the evening. Cornelis is the one without a wig. Johan de Witt still has his own hair

The painter was, after all, not present at the lynching. Other draftsmen were, and their sketches appeared in newspapers that de Baen then cross referenced to construct his own version of the events. Despite his remoteness from the incident, his interpretation continues to be treated as a kind of hand-painted photograph: an honest, accurate, and reliable depiction of a historical event.

[antiquatedsimmer]

Chores, church, work, and play—life at the Doyle household carried on as usual. Nothing much had changed, though talk of the move came up often. It was still months away while their Aunt spoke with draftsmen and builders, but Rosemary couldn’t stop imagining what their new home might be like.

She was the most excited, eager for her own room and drawn—like her mother—to the idea of a grand, beautiful house. Daisy, however, was nervous. What if she didn’t like it? What if it didn’t feel like home?

Aster, had his own complaint. “The walk to school is gonna be twice as far,” he grumbled. “We’ll have to wake up earlier.”

This was how most days went, even down to the occasional dinnertime disputes. That evening, Daisy and Aster were once again caught picking around their food, this time claiming the texture of the fish made them sick.

Lucile, unimpressed, launched into another parental speech about gratitude, reminding them—yet again—how lucky they were to have such meals in front of them.

Aunt Lucile wasn’t wrong… but Rosemary didn’t care. Like that would ever happen. Still, a tinge of annoyance settled in as she silently ate her meal, listening to Lucile and Josephine gently try to persuade Daisy and Aster to change their ways.

After fifteen minutes of back-and-forth about food waste and gratitude, Rosemary had had enough. The conversation was going nowhere, and her patience wore thin. In an attempt to break the tension, she decided to crack a joke about her moms’ and aunt’s parenting style. She had seen adults tease each other in this way before—surely, it would lighten the mood.

But her attempt at lighthearted humor backfired spectacularly. Instead of breaking the tension, it landed her squarely in the hot seat.

Lucile’s head snapped toward her, eyes sharp with disapproval. “Excuse me?” The conversation immediately shifted, and before Rosemary knew it, the lecture about gratitude had turned into a lecture about her attitude.

Watching her siblings get off without another word while she was now the one being scolded only made the irritation bubble over into full-blown frustration.

“Why are you making this about me?!” Rosemary shot back, pushing her plate away. “I wasn’t even the one in trouble! It was just a joke!”

Josephine, already worn down by the heat and the long day, let out a weary sigh. “Rosemary—” she started, but was quickly cut off.

“I was being good!” Rosemary snapped, pushing back in her chair. “You didn’t yell at Daisy or Aster when they refused to eat!”

Lucile’s voice sliced through the argument like a whip. “Little girl!” The room fell silent. “Watch your mouth! I have half a mind to send you outside to pick a switch!”

Rosemary froze, but Lucile wasn’t finished. “It became about you the second you opened that mouth and stuck yourself where you did not belong. We warned you, didn’t we? That smart mouth of yours was gonna get you in trouble.”

Where most children would fizzle out after a scolding, Rosemary’s anger only burned hotter. She shot back, “It’s not fair! Why don’t you yell at Daisy or Aster like you do me?!”

Josephine let out a loud, exasperated sigh, rubbing her temples before abruptly pushing back from the table. “I can’t do this right now. Goodnight.”

The bedroom door slammed behind her.

Watching her mother walk away only made the anger swell in Rosemary’s chest, feeding the storm inside her. She kicked her feet, frustration twisting into something hotter, messier. Tears blurred her vision, but she barely noticed them as she launched into a full-blown tantrum.

“I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG!” she wailed between hiccups and dramatic sobs.

Lucile sat frozen for a moment, momentarily at a loss.

[alena-draws]

Little rambling under the cut- nothing negative, just written down thoughts about doing art to help formulate them for myself. (It's as confusing as it sounds)

The thing is, I can never really decide what I really (like, really) want to pursue in art. (Though, I have just come to the conclusion that me being online writing about art instead of doing it is probably one of the reasons! I'm too much online, gotta change that) But! What I want to say is...there's just so much I'm interested in? Every time I learn more about a think, I'm like "Fuck I want to learn how to do that, too". I bought myself the AMB animation online class (which I haven't fnished) when I was in my 4th semester of bachelor- animation is super cool, I loved how it helped me immensely with my anatomy and overall character drawing. It's also given me my first job opportunity at the end of college so that's good, too! Lately, I've bought and watched the Storyboarding class by Petra Popescu on Domestika- if you are interested in Storyboarding, it's a direct recommend!! I have always done comics and made a short trailer film as my final project, but I never really learned Storyboarding as well as it is described in this short course, and it is so fascinating (yes, I ALSO still need to finish those exercises though). But you see where this is getting...I'm not finished though haha. After I watched some videos from the Draftsmen and read through the book "Color and Light" by James Gurney I was so fascinated by oil paintings and color, that I tried out oil colors for myself (admittedly, I haven't done a lot). I love creating scenes, too, and I love the amazing backgrounds from Avatar The Last Airbender, and I'm thinking about doing some more background work (especially since I did have a job interview for a background art position- didn't get it, but they did seem to like my examples enough to ask me, so I'm happy about that). Oh and I'm also doing character designs for another project...Look, (I say mostly to myself and the poor souls still reading this) I don't want to brag with the amount of stuff here, because while I might be decent with some, I'm not a real expert on any of those. But I'm not sure if doing everything a bit and nothing really stone-focused is really the best way? On the other hand, I try to keep in mind on what to work best regarding what could get me jobs, even if that's not my main interest-now? Only that my focus keeps constantly shifting from one thing to another because everything sounds so enticing and then everything is only half-finished...hmm. One thing is for sure, less online time and more actually doing away from the computer to work that out. But, to end this overly confusing text of more or less incoherent thoughts as they come to me: I do like that I find so many aspects fascinating, because art is so cool and imagine you can drew pretty pictures and characters and even do a story! I feel like a very dumb bumblebee flying from one pretty flower to the next without ever really landing. Hm, that kinda works as a metaphor. But Yeah, this is also the reason why I created a friggin new portfolio for each new application. I wonder where this will eventually land me. I'm slowly starting as a childrens' book illustator now, which is sweet, too, but I know that that's not all I would like to do. Howevery, I'm still in a lucky and pretty privileged position to do any of this so I'm not complaining! Just wondering. Bumblebee out.

[mareislandfoundation]

A Fish Story

When the Navy launches a new vessel, many people have had a hand in the event: designers, engineers, shipfitters, draftsmen, stenographers, welders, bookkeepers, and accountants. Literally thousands of civilians and naval personnel have made their contributions to each new ship of the Navy. And at some point along the line, somebody has to give her a name. This is the traditional, official responsibility of the chief of naval personnel. For more than two years during World War II, this was my job – dreaming up new names for naval vessels so that the chief could recommend them to the secretary of the navy for assignment to an endless stream of new construction.

Now, compared with destroyer or advance base duty, naming ships in Washington can be regarded as on the plush side. There’s nothing to it, I thought. So, the Navy has another ship, so all I have to do is to think of a word, and that’s that. Hah! Little did I know. Although I was a sedentary sailor, not to be confused with the forces afloat, I came to live amid peril of a most peculiar sort. I almost gave a general-stores issue ship the name of a star which had been named by the astronomer who discovered it after his mistress’s pet poodle. I did name a submarine after a sea slug with a most unmentionable seagoing nickname. What it cost the Navy to occasionally burnish the names off all the equipment on some ship where I had goofed and had to rename her hurriedly, I’ll never know (and would rather not.) Before the Navy entrusted me with one of its reserve commissions as lieutenant (j.g.), it made certain I was a college graduate. Then, by assigning me to the ship naming detail, it gave me the opportunity to acquire another liberal education.

Like everyone else in the Navy, I knew that each category of naval vessel is assigned a general category from which the names of all ships of that type are drawn: states for battleships, cities for cruisers, and so on. But this is only an easy beginning. There are many classes of ships, I learned. I soon found out that the Navy had more ships than I had names. Submarines are named for fish or “denizens of the deep.” At the peak of the shipbuilding program, the Navy had around five hundred submarines afloat, abuilding, or a-planning. And that’s a lot of fish, I can testify. There are nowhere nearly as many fish as you may think there are. More particularly, since ichthyologists seem to prefer Latin names for fish, there are even fewer fish names that the average citizen-sailor can (a) pronounce, (b) spell, or (c) even recognize as belonging to a fish. The reasonable names like Trout, Bass, Salmon and Shark were used up long before I appeared. I was reduced to scrabbling around for names like Spinax, Irax, Mero and Sirago. You never met any of these on a shoreside menu.

It takes some long stretching to hook other than the most common fish names to submarines and have everyone know you are naming them after fish. Even the so-called common names can be rough. Here are four: tenpounder, red squirrelfish, shiner, big-eyed scad. Nobody could possibly name a U.S. naval vessel the USS Big-Eyed Scad. Nor can you use their real names – the ones on their birth certificates, so to speak – which go something like this: Elopsmachnata (Forsskal) or Holocentrus diameda (Lacepede). We fudged a little and came around twice. There is a USS Shark; there is also a USS Tiburon, which is shark in Spanish. There was the gallant USS Wahoo and the USS Omo – same fish. There were the Jack, Amberjack , the Ulua – same fish. There were the Pampano and the Pampanito, the Devilfish and the Diablo, the Chub and the Hardhead (both minnows, but we couldn’t name a fighting ship the USS Minnow), the Tuna, Tunny and the Bonita (all kissing cousins if not the same), and the Eel, Moray and Conger (which look remarkably alike). We never figured that we could put Sardine on the Navy list, but we named the USS Sarda – same fish.

Naming a sub for a sea slug was a somewhat unsuccessful action. The name Trepang sounded pretty good to me. Maybe not as good as Salmon, but the choice then wasn’t extensive. The book said it was “any of the holoturians, mostly species of Stichopus and Holothuria, esp. H. edulus.” I didn’t know what all that meant, but what the heck. It lived in water, so it was a denizen of the deep. Somebody should have told me it was a sea slug (with an even ruder nickname) – and he did, but not until after she was afloat. Once a ship was afloat, it was even harder to rename, so, as far as I know, somewhere at sea or in mothballs, there is a USS Trepang, probably affectionately known to the underseas Navy as the USS Sea Slug, if not something worse.

One of my fondest memories of Washington is when I went over to the National Museum to bid goodbye to Dr. Alexander Wetmore, the director. He and his corps of scientists had contributed to the war effort above and beyond the call of duty. As we parted, Dr. Wetmore said, “Calkins, you have been an amusing fellow to work with. You know, in the early part of the war, you were naming your submarines after our fish, but I learn lately that we have been naming our fish after your submarines.” And that is exactly what happened. When the going got really tough, I tried a new tack. I would read the dictionary until I came across a name that sounded

sort of fishy. Then I would ask one of Dr. Wetmore’s ichthyologists if he had a fish by that name, knowing darned well he didn’t. When he had checked his card file without finding the name, I would ask him if he could find me a blank card. The taxonomists are constantly finding new subspecies, differentiating them by minor features from their near relatives. The scientific name is fairly automatic – genus, species, and subspecies, which may be the name of the discoverer. But often no one gets around to giving them popular names.

So the ichthyologist and I would thumb through the cards until we found a likely blank one, add the name I had devised, and there was the Navy’s newest sub, named after a perfectly bona fide fish, with its name properly listed with the U.S. National Museum. Supply and demand, that’s all it was.

It wasn’t long before the sub skippers started asking for pictures of the fish for which their new boats were named. I do not recall which fish started it, but by then we were at the bottom of the ocean, grabbing anything. When the National Museum fellow showed me the picture, a horrible nightmare haunted me. It was a sub skipper about six feet tall, a former tackle at the Naval Academy. He had red hair and he wore the Navy Cross and a flock of battle stars. He came stomping into Arlington Annex and draped that, picture, frame and all, around my neck – from the top. In short, this particular fish from the bottom of the depths didn’t look impressive or gallant or remotely like a submarine. It was mostly all head and had stupid looking popeyes and a skimpy tail. Furthermore, it didn’t look as if it would be attractive to the female of the same species. You couldn’t even have used it for bait.

What would happen to the very happy ship spirit of the USS What-Ever-It-Was when that monstrosity arrived aboard? Quickly I reached a command decision: In the highest tradition of the naval service, I sent him a picture of a trout. Thereafter I kept a handy file of pictures of trout salmon, barracuda and similar fish for such inquiries. The picture on the wardroom bulkheads may have occasionally confused visitors who really knew fish, but I couldn’t help it. The war had to go on.

Capt. William F. Calkins USNR (Ret.)

A brief note from the Newsletter staff:

This newsletter does not have a policy of copying articles from other sources, but a number of staff read this in a book given to us and written by Paul Stillwell entitled Submarine Stories: Recollections from the Diesel Boats. We thought it was so amusing it needed to be shared, especially since Mare Island had built many of those diesel submarines. Stillwell gave us permission to reprint it as did The U.S. Naval Institute where it was originally printed – Reprinted from “Proceedings” with permission; Copyright 1958 U.S. Naval Institute/www.usni.org. Of the boats mentioned Mare Island Naval Shipyard built the Pompano, Tuna, Tunny, Bonita, Wahoo, Bass and the much-maligned Trepang. The Trepang was sunk as a target in 1969, so the author does not need to worry that there is a USS Sea Slug lurking in waters somewhere. Sometimes fact is funnier than fiction!

The above article was written by former Mare Island Museum Librarian Barbara Davis and it first appeared in the museum’s newsletter in 2013

[chunkysoup22]

HAIII just wanted to say I've been thinking abt the animal and art u made a lot... I just thought it was really cute and it reminded me a lot of the classic Disney robin hood movie but ya AWESOME WORK MAN!!!!

thank youuu yeah ive been really digging that style for drawing furries. the technical skill of those old draftsmen and animators is unmatched !!! aristocats, bambi, oliver & compant etc are some other films i look to for that inspiration.

[lmstephenslit]

TDAC: Way of Life

The way of life for characters in The Dark Asgard Chronicles: Mangling the Fowls, a Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor movie fanfiction by L M Stephens.

Caste System

High Caste: Sovereign (King, Queen, Prince[s], Princess[es]) Nobility (Grand Earls, High Earls, Earls) Warriors (including Valkyries, Scouts, Spies, and Guards) Officials (Advisors, Scribes, etc.) Legislators (Litigators, Magistrates, Judges, etc.)

Middle Caste: Healers (Surgeons, Apothecaries, Medical Researchers, Health Practitioners, etc.) Scholars (Mapmakers, Explorers, Teachers – University Level, Philosophers, Scientists, Historians, Researchers, Wizards - Disciplined, etc.) Builders (Architects, Draftsmen, Stonemasons, Engineers, Carpenters, etc.) Traders (Merchants, Moneylenders, Bankers, etc.) Artisans (Artists, Musicians, Writers, Potters, Cloth Workers, Weavers, Clothiers, Leather Workers, Metal Workers, Woodworkers, etc.)

Low Caste: Clerks (Receptionists, Secretaries, Librarians, Record Keepers, etc.) Peasants (Bakers, Winemakers, Hunters, Fishermen, Farmers, Ranchers, Teachers - Grade School Level, etc.) Slavers (including Overseers) Punishers (Torturers and Executioners) Slaves

Outcastes (Outlaws and Wizards – Undisciplined)

Gender Roles

King can only be male.

Nobility can only be males; however, females are born into the caste, but they cannot hold a position of power.

Warriors, except Valkyries, can only be males; Valkyries are only females of Nobility.

Officials can only be males.

Legislators can only be males.

Healers can only be females.

Scholars are males except for Historians, Researchers, and Wizards - Disciplined, who can be any gender.

Builders can only be males.

Traders can only be males.

Artisans can be any gender, except Potters, Cloth Workers, Weavers, and Clothiers are only females, and Leather Workers, Metal Workers, and Woodworkers are only males.

Clerks can be any gender, except that Receptionists, Secretaries, and Librarians are only female.

Peasants can be any gender, except that only males can be Hunters, Fishermen, Farmers, or Ranchers, and only females can be Teachers – Grade School Level

Slavers can only be males.

Punishers can only be males.

Slaves can be of any gender, but females are more valuable because they can produce more slaves.

Outcastes can be any gender.

Women who are of the Healers caste, or a Scribe, Historian, Researcher, Witch – Disciplined, or Teacher – Grade School Level, must relinquish their position if they become married and/or pregnant.

Coming soon.

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[penig]

Here’s a blast from the past, 1984 to be precise. I worked for the engineering department at the utility company in the eighties and used this thing constantly. When we got a work order we’d look up the address in the index, find it in the maps, cross reference with the huge maps all over the department walls, pull the indicated microfilm card, and send it down to the print department. We’d receive large rolls of paper with the whole grid square printed on it, locate the portion that would help the surveyor find it (usually a few blocks radius, sometimes vast empty tracts of county before we finally found a public road), cut out what we needed, glue it to a form, attach the map form to the rest of the paperwork, and pass it on to the surveyors.

Ferguson made great map books, updated yearly, easy to use. I brought this one home when the new edition came out and we kept it in the car for years, then I used it as a reference for writing books set locally. Then it got buried among old writing and gaming notes and I turned it up working on the game room today.

The note at the top says “TWIMC: Please do not draw in this book anymore. Thank you. “ Surveyors kept borrowing them and not bringing them back so one of the draftsmen labeled it for us.

[livingforstars]

7,000 Stars and the Milky Way - February 13th, 1996.

"This panorama view of the sky is really a drawing. It was made in the 1940s under the supervision of astronomer Knut Lundmark at the Lund Observatory in Sweden. To create the picture, draftsmen used a mathematical distortion to map the entire sky onto an oval shaped image, with the plane of our Milky Way galaxy along the center and the north galactic pole at the top. 7,000 individual stars are shown as white dots, size indicating brightness. The "Milky Way" clouds, actually the combined light of dim, unresolved stars in the densely populated galactic plane, are accurately painted on, interrupted by dramatic dark dust lanes. The overall effect is photographic in quality and represents the visible sky. Orion is at the right edge of the picture, just below the galactic plane, and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are visible as fuzzy patches in the lower right quadrant."

[morilucidstories]

Patreon Tier Update

In March I added a bunch of new Tiers so I figured it was time to explain what is currently happening over there :3

Tier1 - $1 - First Served

You get to see the latest pages of my comics and illustrations as soon as I finish them. You won't have to wait for posting day. (This includes the art for the written chapters, and sometimes excerpts of the written part being drawn.)

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Tier2 - $2 - Draftsmen

You get to see the same as tier1, some of the sketch drafts, practice and concept art for my stories I do through out the month -most won't be posted anywhere else. (character outfit sketches, test scenes, etc)

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Tier4 - $5 - Resources

Same as all lower Tiers + The brushes and other resources I make -including test versions. I also make a lot of poses for CSP models but since I can't export them, members in this tier will be able to request 1 pose a month (this will be limited to the first 4 requests I get every month). The final versions of all of the resources will be made available on the CSP store. Most of the brushes and things I make are decorations and effect brushes to make drawing faster. (This will also have demos for using different types of models and other resources)

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NSFW Tiers with censored examples under the cut. Members of those tiers get the uncensored versions

Tier3 - $4 - NSFW Art

Same as lower art Tiers (does not include Resources) + NSFW art -these are nude anatomy studies, as well as spicy character and shipping art. I am into bondage so that will appear periodically.

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Tier5 - &6.90 - NSFW + Resources

Same as all lower Tiers + 3D poses and other assets that are intended for 18+ use