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A dremora horse Lyranth. 

I’m really looking forward to Deadlands.

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I hear it’s spooky season again already. Last year and thereabouts, the lycanthropy got a bit out of hand. (Things mostly from Patreon requests and streams.)

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B/w versions ❤💚

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Nera, Vincent, Tivi and Margaretta. Commission!

Characters by @nera-aljon

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Happy Halloween from the cast of Betrayal Broadway!

Tom Hiddleston, Charlie Cox, Zawe Ashton and Eddie Arnold at the stage door of the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre after their performance in 'Beytrayal' on October 30, 2019.

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genuinely think all my problems would be solved if I was just a trophy husband. where is my breadwinning wife, I want legos

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Smaugust leftovers

Orange pore fungus + splitgill mushroom

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Probably one of my favourite pictures

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seeing teens call 20 somethings "old" as a gotcha is so funny to me like you are priming yourself for one hell of an existential crisis in 5 years

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One of the most talented bakers I know makes edibles that would knock you on your ass so hard & so fast x_x but her stuff is PURE ARTWORK with frosting and I couldn’t bring myself to eat some of it cause its just that damn beautiful.

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I swear if I didn’t know any better, that could pass for your handwriting & seems like something you might do 🤣🤣🤣 @bexlogic

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Subway Sandwich Thighs: A Blight Upon Women's Legs in Comics

Please, No More Subway-Sandwich Thighs!

I want to talk about a comic art convention I see from time to time that really gets up my nose.  Now, when I say convention, I mean an accepted technique or practice in the field rather than a gathering of gloriously enthusiastic nerds in costume.  In this instance, I am talking about a particular drawing shortcut that is accepted as “solid” and “professional” in the industry that I find teeth-grindingly lazy and bizarre.  I call it “Subway Sandwich Thighs”. As illustrated below:

As you can see, the thigh and the calf are sandwiched together, mid-air, without anything pressing against the underside of the calf to make it that way. Legs do not work that way, not even in bendy women. We cannot bend our legs and make them do that in mid-air. For that to happen, we need to put our weight on our bent legs, kneeling on the ground. It is the weight of our bodies that pushes the two parts of the legs together. Usually, the legs splay to the side, so that they aren’t pushed together too hard. We often sit on the side of our butts after about three or four minutes, cause that shit is uncomfortable.

As an experiment, go in front of a mirror, and try to bend your leg as much as you can, pressing your heel to your buttock. Do not use your hands to press the foot and buttock together – just check how close you can get naturally. If you’re a guy, I really want you to try this.

Now, stand there and imagine flying for more than ten minutes in that position. It fucking hurts, doesn’t it? It’s tight, it’s unnatural. It’s the sort of thing a dancer does for two seconds before leaping away into another pose. It is not a natural position to take.

I half-jokingly wonder if artists employ it because it evokes the mental imagery of a woman splaying on top of a man during intercourse, straddling him. It can display the buttocks in a pleasing way, and it also makes much of the crotch. But it’s the most ridiculous bloody drawing convention outside of the Rubber Spine thing, and I’d be more than happy if it died a quiet death.

Here are some gymnasts, naturally flexible people, bending their legs in the middle of routines. Notice their aren’t squishing the two halves of their legs together:

Here are some women kneeling. Just for reference for later corrections:

And now, some corrections:

Okay, enough of me picking on JSC.  Here’s the nitty gritty of the matter, and a hat-tip to stylistic choices:

Thanks to tumblr’s downscaling, the red text is: Leg too long, No pelvis all butt, heel goes where? and Where leg go? as well as “This looks odd but my body is really like this”.

The anatomy I’ve done isn’t perfect, but I think I illustrate my point.

The Anatomy of a Fuck Up:

So what’s happening here? Why are people making this mistake over and over? The reason is twofold.

One: Mistaken anatomy. When these artists draw their stuff to arse-up, face-down, no-time-to-fart deadlines, they don’t have the leisure I do to stop and think about how a woman looks when doing these poses. So when they have to think about a woman flying mid-air, they think about a woman kneeling, rather than an actual woman with her leg in the air. They just transfer the kneeling leg position to the upright position, even though the human muscles, tendons and body mass DO NOT ALLOW for that to happen.  With kneeling positions, they just go ahead and trundle out the shortcuts they learnt earlier in the piece, without thought to how heels and butt-cracks work.

Two: It’s Not Important.

In most situations, accuracy of a woman’s anatomy is not important in a comic book or graphic novel. A female character must be alluring above all, so certain anatomically impossible conventions get the wave and are never fixed. Other people learn these “shortcuts” and that it’s okay to draw like that, and it keeps on happening. FOREVER.

I’m not saying don’t use sweeping lines for style.  I’m just saying let’s not have utterly ridiculous anatomy going on.  These women characters take up so little space already.  Draw them as the leg is supposed to look and suddenly they have legs and tendons and physical signs of strength.  I guess that isn’t sexy enough?

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read 📖 between 📖 the 📖 lines

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We really don’t deserve dogs 

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Welp, they’re NOT wrong 🤣😂😅 One of my best friends is a client whom—while technically not a furry—has bought some of my most expensive/explicit furry pieces & easily pays my month’s rent with just 1, maybe 2 commissions. And get this: I’m not belittling myself when I say this here, but I’m one of the lower-tiered-lesser-known artists among others I’ve seen him commission work from, whom are way bigger, have a massive wait list(s), and their artwork is way more expensive!! 😵‍💫 He’s a sweetheart, great sci-fi/furry-smut writer, and he works as a big manager with an agricultural company store…

So yeah, we’re secretly keeping the world’s economy afloat with our furry-fuckery. Pass it on :p

gotta learn how to draw furries those mfs are suspiciously rich

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Thank you little gay people in my phone