#[references]

[blotomical]

handmade drawing references :)

I took these pictures mainly to analyze my hand structure. Feel free to use them for your art, if you'd like to!

[smiggles]

I learned that art thrift stores exist and went to my local one today

You can learn if there's one around you by searching up

Creative reuse center near me

This one is Tinkertopia in tacoma wa

[fuckyeahgravityfalls]

[whiskeyskin]

Always helpful!

[blumineck]

MORE IMAGE PACKS NOW ON PATREON

Do you want to see how muscle engagement varies when using bows of different weights? Or draw an archer running, seated, crouching or leaping? More image packs from my collaboration with @null-entity are now up on Patreon! P.S. give @null-entity a follow for more excellent image references

[dreadfutures]

UPDATE 11/27/2024:

The full alphabet was found and has been made into a font.

Some notes:

Elvish uses a symbol for spaces between words. They do not use punctuation. K and Q are the same Elvish letter.

The elvish writing in DA4 is a 1:1 mask of English and can be decoded! The pic below is out of date, as the whole alphabet was found. In addition, Tevene, Anderfels, Antivan, and Nevarran alphabets can be linked to each other!

English, Elvhen, Tevene, Anderfels, Antivan, and Nevarran alphabets!!!

[macgyvermedical]

Hospital Lengths of Stay

I think people outside the USA severely overestimate how long hospital stays are here.

Like, appendectomy, right? That's maybe 24-36 hours door-to-door if there's no complications. If the appendix actually burst it might be 3 days, but only because they're giving you IV antibiotics and setting up home care to do that at home would take longer than just keeping you in the hospital.

A scheduled surgery like a hysterectomy, cholecystectomy, mastectomy, or anything else they can do laparoscopically (though small "keyhole" incisions)? You're probably not staying overnight at all.

Planned surgeries that need some kind of after care (like bariatric surgery, knee replacements, hip replacements, total vaginal hysterectomies, bladder lifts, etc...) would be usually 1-3 days.

Minor heart attack? 2-3 days.

Fracture and surgical repair of a large bone (like the femur)? About 2-3 days.

What about the exacerbation of a chronic illness like asthma, COPD, heart failure, or hypertension? IF they admit you (not just stabilize and discharge from the emergency department), it will be generally less than about 3-5 days.

Gunshot wound to the abdomen with surgery to repair things? 3-5 days.

And a stroke, sepsis, gunshot wound to the chest, or major heart attack? That would be somewhere in the 5-7 day range.

Severe trauma with multiple severely broken bones and relatively extensive surgery? This might be somewhat longer, but usually for nursing and pain control reasons rather than the surgery or injuries themselves. 1-3 weeks would be usual.

In the hospital for a mental health reason like decompensated schizophrenia or major depression? A little less than a week is normal, though some people stay several weeks if medications aren't working well.

The people who stay in hospitals for weeks or months typically have whole systems that don't work, or are waiting for a major organ transplant. For example, I had a patient once whose entire abdomen was open and couldn't be closed surgically. She was on TPN (IV nutrition) and IV antibiotics and needed massive amounts of wound care done every hour or so because her intestinal contents were spilling out of her open abdomen. She was there for months and ultimately didn't make it.

Are there people who stay longer than these cases? Of course! These are just averages pulled from medicaid data and personal experiences, based on patients who are coming in relatively healthy. Patients who have other significant health problems usually stay longer than patients who come in with a single problem.

But if you are otherwise healthy except for the reason you came into the hospital, unless you fell off a building or were in a massive car accident you are probably not staying in the hospital very long at all.

[etanow]

Here's the lineup/height chart + close ups! I think I finally got their designs somewhere I'm happy with them.

Fun facts about each!

Pomni used to be an employee of their customer-facing C&A laboratory and thus had no idea what else was in that building until it was WAY too late. She doesn't remember much of anything about her life and is struggling to acclimate to her new after-life.

Gangle is a spirit/ghost bound to a mask. She appears as a shadow person, and is happiest when the mask breaks, allowing her to move around freely at the cost of interacting with the physical world.

Ragatha was made in the labs and has very little ideas of the outside world. She'd still love to explore one day.

Zooble feeds off emotional energy. They technically own Gangle's soul, but refuses to collect. Instead, they has a strange deal worked out with Jax in exchange for his effort to free Gangle's soul debt. She seems to be really angry at him often.

Jax is a mad scientist and is as much of an unredeemable asshole as he is in canon!

Kinger is absolutely ancient. He has horrible memory and doesn't remember who originally enchanted him or why, or how he even ended up in the Labs.

Caine is ... Well, Caine. While he does care for the residents of his testing facility and gives them whatever comforts or trinkets they ask for, he doesn't do much to step in and stop Jax when he gets out of hand. He's more interested in the SCIENCE.

Bubble can and will lead you off a cliff if you follow him. Don't follow him.

[rolanpilled]

Gale's Room in Waterdeep Reference

A few notes:

Is that a statue of Mystra on his desk?

His bench looks pretty old

Quite a lot of statues and paintings around his room

Empty display case in back

His book is called "The Art of the Night"

Let me know if you'd like a closer view of anything in this room.

[crypticscarecrow]

Finally got a lineup done for them- This had been sitting on the back burner for a while now but have at it!!

[stonesparrow]

I did it.

So people seemed to like this presentation I made about the layout of the American Colony. And I’ve been studying the overall designs in this arc a lot for fanfic purposes so…fuck it. If enough people want me to I’ll do a breakdown of the American characters’ outfits. Which by the way, are somehow even more bonkers than the goddam castle. I get that they’re shonen villains, but oh my god Xeno’s taste in fashion makes me want to strangle him.

If people like the fashion presentation, I might even do a redesign of all the outfits. Heck I might just do that now because MY EYES.

Though, I might wait until we get some decent full color images for all of them? The trailer only gives me so much to work with. Idk, what do you guys think?

[sm-baby]

Guys, i hope he keels over and dies

[shadowkira]

[nyxchipz]

I put a few Hobie face references together for myself and now I shall share them with the masses

Side note I've never seen anyone mention the fact that the coloring on his lips change from scene to scene, what's up with that? I mean it totally fits but that's an interesting and specific choice to make.

[rowan-r-ridley]

Taking a little break from commissions 👌