#How To Learn Techniques

[rottmnt-residuum]

Part 36 of Arc II (Part 62)

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[cosmic-pindrops]

From the MB short story "Home" by Martha Wells.

Here's my gift for @benny-isa-dogdog for the 2025 Murderbot New Year Gift Exchange! @mbd-gift-exchange

They requested MB being terrifying while protecting its friends and MB caring for its humans. I've wanted to make a comic for this scene ever since I read it and I thought it would be perfect!

[kiwiplaetzchen]

Character Sheet / Student ID

With the help of some cute Gremlins, I was able to create a Character Sheet / Student ID with different designs for each house for your Hogwarts (Legacy) OC/MC!

Please feel free to use it and share your character(s)! :3 💚💙💛❤️

[ihateswansmorethananything]

Wild horses from The Rolling Stones blasting on full volume in the distance ‼️💥

A cowboy jack drawing for the soul

[whirlpool-blogs]

“…right here!”

[hakogyi]

grown up ciel is a fascinating concept to me if he even gets to grow up, that is

[thesleepyknitter]

New project alert! I’m doing my best to recreate the blanket in this illustration from Matt Forsythe’s Pokko & the Drum, which has taken up permanent residence in my librarian heart.

[bluejulius]

petition to draw them more in their dragon armour??

(idk why tumblr wants to crunch this so bad but tap for quality!!! ☝️☝️) ((MORE BELOW 👇))

trying out a new technique, hope y’all like <33 bonus;

[3liza]

iit's not her fault but i dont understand how any stylist allowed lindsay lohan to be these colors for a decade. she looks like a 15th century gothic religious statue that's been poorly-restored. you cant do this to natural redheads, they cant take it, its like they start oxidizing as soon as the spray tan touches them. that weird lavender color that white women get when their lips have too much filler and the way it's blocked in by the opaque terracotta bronzer is literally nauseating to me

[mrynxs]

"Hey guys, today we're going to hunt some ghosts, these are hypocritical couple who say they're not romantically together; but secretly are. Be told that can't sleep on the same bed, but they broke their own rules. What a fcking good leaders they are."

or

Craig was pissed that Wendy assigned him with someone instead of Tweek for the entire trip, so he pay back with a special treatment.

I have my own storyline in my head but I can only express it through the drawing (this is the only context I can give sorry)

[reasonsforhope]

Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

[adhd-winterfalcon]

tim may have more skill when it comes to fighting, but steph has way more raw talent. tim was taught by batman and lady shiva, meanwhile steph’s only training was high school gymnastics and softball and she was still taking down grown men. so like. we can see who is the more talented fighter here guys

[jupiterlandings]

Dannymay Days 18 & 28: King/Favorite AU

[galactic-feelins]

This’ll probably be my last submission for @green-with-envy-phandom-event this year. This line art is from @wynterfay (I hope I have the correct @ down)

For once I tried manually placing stars for accuracy! Bet you can guess which two constellations I managed to fit in there, but it may be a bit tricky :3 It may not be 1-to-1 accurate, I did eyeball it after all, but they are in fact next to each other!

Final thoughts under the cut.

This event has been a great learning experience for me and I had so so much fun! I’ve learned a lot about how Procreate works, how to use the tools it provides, and to stop using procreate and go back to Sketchbook. (Took a whole year to figure that out TwT) You might be able to tell I colored this and the Inkling Danny in Autodesk Sketchbook! I’ll probably continue to use Procreate for animation until I find a better software I can use on my iPad, but for now it seems Procreate is not for me after all. The past week of using Autodesk Sketchbook has been freeing and I hope it brings better quality with it!

Also I’ve never done ambient soft lighting like this before as far as I can tell! Any drawings I could find from the past several years have had distinct and direct light sources and an overall direction the light is coming from! I hope I did this one the justice it deserves at least!

[thedarknesseater]

Suguru sits on him with his legs on either side of his torso.

He is heaving underneath Suguru, one arm caught in Suguru's fist curled tight around his wrist. The other one is holding on to Suguru's thigh, not hard enough to leave a mark, but a soft press. Enough for Suguru to feel its weight on him, the warmth seeping through his clothes, down to his skin.

Satoru is running his thumb back and forth in a soft caress even as he looks up at Suguru with incredulity. It feels like he is doing it on autopilot because Suguru knows that he isn't thinking about anything other than what Suguru just told him.

"Open up!" Suguru says as he leans down pressing Satoru's wrist down into the ground.

"It doesn't even make sense, Suguru!"

"It's just cursed energy," Suguru tells him again like it is the answer to everything, "and I want to see what will happen."

"We're gonna have to exorcise it again. That's what will happen," Satoru whines.

Suguru brings his palm up. He holds the black mass of swirling cursed energy wrapped up in a ball within it. Satoru spares it a glance from the corner of his eye, refusing to take them off Suguru right on top of him.

"I hope you don't believe you can talk me out of it," Suguru says in a gleeful whisper.

"No, I don't." Satoru pouts.

"Good boy."

Suguru lets go of Satoru's wrist to curl a fist in his hair. He moans underneath him, pursing his lips and tightening the hand he has on Suguru's thigh. He wants to feel this forever — a whining Satoru below him, listening and going along with his whims, and the high of a job well done. He doesn't think he can ask for anything more.

"Open up."

Satoru looks at him pleadingly for a while before tentatively opening his mouth, not enough to take the ball in.

"I won't be able to absorb it, Suguru." He says it like he's still trying to convince Suguru of something.

"I know. Don't try to talk, you'll hurt yourself."

Suguru puts the ball against Satoru's lips and just as he thought, it's not enough. The ball is stuck with no where to go because Satoru is being difficult.

"I know you can do better, Satoru. I've seen you do better."

That makes his eyes flash with something akin to anger but the blush creeping up on his cheeks is enough for Suguru to keep going instead of worrying about it. And it works — Satoru opens his mouth wide enough to let Suguru push the curse in. For a few seconds, nothing happens. Satoru cannot close his mouth, he is looking at him with accusations in his eyes and his brows drawn together, and then when he starts to run out of breath, he twitches.

"You have to swallow," Suguru tells him, petting his cheek. He tightens the fist in Satoru's hair to stop him from jerking his head and choking on the ball. He tries to talk again, and Suguru shushes him.

"Relax your throat. You'll choke on your spit like this."

Satoru's grip on his thigh is sure to leave a bruise now. He is panicking. Suguru presses a kiss against his temple. He massages the hinge of his jaw, caresses the apples of his cheeks, kisses his nose, and showers him in praise. And then he puts a hand up to cover his mouth.

"The moment you swallow, you'll be able to breathe easier."

It's almost a taunt.

Satoru gags and jerks, and the only reason Suguru is not thrown off him is because he is still trying to be good for Suguru. Suguru pats his head, shushing him. Satoru follows his hand with teary eyes as Suguru goes from brushing his hair to petting his forehead and then even further down. He takes it away for a second enjoying the wide eyed fear that creeps up in Satoru's eyes before plugging his nose, pinching it between his fingers, cutting off his air supply.

Satoru struggles for a moment. He tries to get free of Suguru's hold on him, his nails dig in sharply on Suguru's skin, both of his hands clutching at him, wrapped up in his clothes. He also swallows. Suguru follows the bulging mass pushing against the thin skin of his throat as it goes down.

He realises once it passes, that he wanted to push against it and choke Satoru, leaving bruises on his neck. He takes his hands off Satoru letting him breathe.

"That tasted awful," Satoru says, his voice choked and torn.

"I know," Suguru sighs in resignation. He's not happy about inflicting the taste of curses on Satoru.

[kat1nkulta]

Human loop blast

Very much failed lighting study