#bearrow

[bearrow]

i’m standing at my porch watching some cats

they’re young ones, still in their teens really

and i remember the day they first appeared

the mother crawled under a porch to have them

she disappeared for a few days

i thought she had moved on or been killed

there’s a pack of stray dogs that hunt here

i feared for you in some part of my mind

but those were issues i couldn’t stop for

then you appeared one day

and the next, i saw your kittens in their corner

i went about my day, happy you were alive

then your children grew and turned colors

an orange tabby with gloves i’ve named Harry

a dashing young boy in a tux i’ve dubbed Cook

then there’s a grey one that stays far back

he sits in his tiny corner and is content there

that one is Bo

i stand at my porch and watch you play now

two children exploring

as much of they dared anyways

and one child with his books in his cranny

Harry runs around an old cedar tree stump

Cook is trailing behind him, with all his might

and Bo is sleeping peacefully

it is a beautiful day

[reagan-the-saunders]

This has not changed, for the record.

I. Love. My. Fictional. Couples.

[mauesartetc]

What’s your tips or ideas when it comes to mixing animal species? Like an Axolotl and Lion or Bear and Sparrow?

Heh. Axolion. Bearrow. Love it!

I suppose my approach would be to take a feature from each animal and combine them in a way that's totally new. If you come at it from the angle of, say, "head of an axolotl, eyes of a lion, body of a bear, feathers of a sparrow", and so on, you end up with a sort of random hodgepodge. And if that's what you're going for, that's fine! It can give your story a mythic feel, like these animals belong in the same universe as griffins, manticores, and chimeras. But if you're shooting for a more naturalistic look, combining features (axolotl eye plus lion eye, axolotl head plus lion head, for example) might be the way to go.

I'm always yammerin' on about how important visual research is, but it'll be especially crucial here. Gotta use that photo reference to understand how things connect to each other in each animal's anatomy.

This reminded me of this great video, which focuses mainly on the experience of being an artist with aphantasia but has some helpful tips on using reference and combining different animals.

Hope this helps!

[arandomapocalypsedweller]

Meadow Monster: Bearrow

This highly intelligent monster digs labyrinthine tunnels to live in, only surfacing to gather materials and food. The hood-like pouch on its neck is used to carry its spoils back to its nest, but it can also pull it overtop of its head to protect it while it digs.

[violuminescenceandbeans]

Kangaroo/hawk(dread it, run from it)

Bat/dove(too many wings)

Bear/sparrow(or bearrow if you may)

It annoys me unreasonably when you want to ask people "what bird and what mammal would make the worst gryphon" as a fun thought exercise, and people with no joy and no imagination always interpret it as "a gryphon that sucks, is physically impossible, and would hate being alive", and - being predictable and lacking in imagination - always, always answer with "a hummingbird and a blue whale lol".

Like come on. Why do you have to suck the fun out of everything. Why not use a fraction of imagination and delightful whimsy. Imagine the combination of a mouse and a sparrow. That creature would be merciless, burtal, absolutely determined to get into your trash and has the power of both wings and hands to do its will. Or a crow and a cat - that thing is smart enough to fuck with people and not afraid to do it. Imagine the ungodly shriek of the noble fox-seagull, also determined to get into your trash.

A gryphon that is a combination of a kangaroo and a cassowary. The only proof we have of a loving god is the fact that those things do not exist. If hell is real, it's full of them. That thing can't fly, but it will run you down, it will kill you, and you will look stupid the whole entire time you're dying.

Why would the first thing that pops into your mind at the words "the worst gryphon" automatically be "a gryphon that hates being alive". Can you not picture a gryphon that fucking loves being alive, and has both the power and the will to make it everyone else's problem.

[sluggishdragon-blog]

Bearrows. Early concept.

[shochmonster]

At last, I have returned gloriously home to #NYC #newyorkcity and ive brought @duoloopo with me! But I must note the reason we are here is so that Thomas Bearrow and Jimmy Pooh Bear can see the #downtonexhibition themselves!

#downton #downtonabbey #thomasbarrow #jimmykent

[hdawg1995]

DnD Antics: VENRAMOUSA!!!1!! (pt.1)

the 48 hours begin to count down as the party preps for taking down the Dracolich!

so first things first Spine explained to the party that Rose was in danger and we only had 48 hours. He had a plan and gave out orders. “Elizander, check your library for a book on soul wells” elizander goes to the library in the forbidden city when he arrives everyone is dead and many of the books are missing. he tries to get he guards but they take him into custody. a assassin is on the lose and elizander is separated from his sword The Dancing Cannibal. uhhh hes going crazy. 

Alicaria sneaks in and steals it back and everythings good but theres still an assassin on the lose but we get the book and turns out if alicaria have said “yeah hes the lore master” everything would have been fine but TBH that was funny. anyway we find out the dracolich DOES have a soul well because spine went and talked to his farther figure Giovani

Spine: did she horde souls? Giovani: all black dragons horde souls, you should know this. Spine: i can’t remember everything... my dragon knowledge is- Giovani: *stands and looms over Spine. snorts in his face* me: “i’m not mad son, i’m just disappointed” Ryan: THATS WORST!

also Dracolich is totally a dracoB**** cause turns out her phalactory is a LIVING phalactory. its the skull of one of her kids who bad mouthed her.

while everyone is doing there own thing (everything was going on at once i dont remember everything but i remember Vale got a relic of The Hunt which is a talking shapeshifting owl) envoy does her own thing and this gets it’s own paragraph thing cause MY CHARACTER GOT A LITTLE BIT OF CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT SO IMMA BE SELFISH!~  turns out Envoy’s life hasn’t been all sunshine and silver linings. little baby envoy was placed on a stump by her mom (who was only 15????) and then the moose came up to her and licked her and made her the chosen of the moose and turns out Envoy has had antlers this whole time! she learned this after meditating with the helm of The Blue Flying Moose. doing so removed the zealous zealot-ness and also it morphs to fits her head. it lets envoy use paladin spells and abilities and the only thing Envoy takes from this is “I HAD THESE THE WHOLE TIME?” *rubs antlers* while she wears the headband she is a dandie of the blue flying moose and Shiba the yak gets moose antlers and is also blue.

Nazul makes plans for a flying city for the gnomes.

Spine is dragged to a meeting and OH HEY EVERYONE IS HERE! sha, gorthrax, the leader of the paladins from east post, the yuan ti lady (who divorced Spine) and the dwarth king!

Dwath king: sorry im late everyone. Spine: were you drinking? DK: WHAT KIND OF RACEST SHIT IS THAT? i didn’t come here to be insulted! Spine: just a little light humon. DK: yeah uhhh... anyway wheres the alcohol?

spine helps with peace talks and everythings chill. gorthrax and yuan ti get married and everyone laughs about how Spine doesn’t have a penis.

uhhh i think at this point we meet up again and vale and spine have a heart to heart and vale gets the WHOLE story about how devil lady has a bullet (not the monster) aimed at his soul and he could perma die.

24 hours remain

we all prep and do last minute buffs. vale and alicaria take out sentries and spine takes out amalgamation (OMG I SPELT IT RIGHT ON THE FIRST TRY) and cuts it in half. COMBAT START!

envoy uses her turn undead ability to turn the “dead” zombies into dust, vale’s bear boruisc rolls a bolder and takes out some traps, alicaria jumps on spine’s back

alicaria: throw me! Spine: what? alicaria: *inside Spine’s hand* throw me! spine:....OKAY!

alicaria goes in assassins creed style and Spine rages. two dragons come down and kill envoy attack the ground (we did a bunch of math and envoy would have died died if not for Tim’s quick thinking) and Zack takes most of the blunt for envoy. ENVOY USES SMITE EVIL on the dragon who elizander and vale kill.

dm: so what arrows are you using? lindsy: bearrows. dm: oh god no why vale: *kills it but snaping the dragon’s neck. imagine getting sky uppercut from a bear. yeah.*

second dragons is blinded by nazul and goes into a rage. his breath weapon is surprised and he goes for a tail slap. spine tries to catch it and he kinda does. he gets his grip when the tail is near boruisc and they take some damage. thanks to the bear’s double edge armor he deals the damage back to the dragon and its dead.

so spine takes the adult dragon and throws it at the opening of the cave and roars.

“VENRAMOUSA!”

and she awakens....

[mauesartetc]

Hello there, I’m having issues with character designs, specifically Eris

When I asked some people to guess who the main character was, they mostly answered Indigo or Rowan. My guess is probably either because of where I put them or maybe because they have brighter color palettes. As for why both Iris and Eris look so different compared to the others, they are a different species that’s mostly human but with some animalistic traits(example being Iris’ tail and ear) originally Iris colors are gray and white(more prominent in an alt outfit) and Eris uses black + the rainbow(same situation as Iris as well, uses them in an alt outfit) but I’m considering maybe having them be more in line with their colors because of that. Another thing, the circle pendant on Iris is supposed to be basically a symbol of her magic type, Eris and the others are supposed to have them but I just didn’t draw it. And just in case: here’s the animal I used for each + their magic:

Eris: Butterfly + uses all types of magic

Iris: Fox + uses all types of magic

Indigo: Moth/Butterfly + Light and Shadow magic

Rowan: Lion/Axolotl + Water and Fire Magic

Sparrow: Bear/Sparrow + Air and Earth magic

Thank you in advance

Oh yeah, I remember them! I see the Axolion and Bearrow have made an appearance, lol.

Yeah, the position and color saturation are likely factors making people think either Indigo or Rowan could be the MC. But what I also find interesting is that Indigo is so much taller than both Iris and Eris in the lineup, despite the numbers labeling him as shorter. He's a little over two feet tall, Iris and Eris are nearly five and three and a half, respectively, yet his depiction is easily twice their size?? The math ain't mathin'. (If you need a helpful resource to compare character heights, I recommend this.) And I get that sometimes you need to enlarge a small character to show detail, but there's no label clarifying that-?

So to recap, you've placed Indigo at the leftmost side of the image (which is the first place an English-speaking audience's eyes will go when they need to "read" things from left to right), you've given him the brightest colors of anyone here, and you've made him much larger than the actual main character despite the height labels stating otherwise. At this point I have to ask: Are you sure you don't want Indigo to be the main character? Because, intentionally or not, you're making him a visual priority. Just something to think about.

As for Eris, you might consider reverting to her rainbow color scheme to make her stand out more. It'd be helpful to recall why you ditched it in the first place, and what changes you could make so it doesn't cause the same issues. Were the colors too garish? Were the stripes so skinny it was hard to differentiate them from a distance? Was one color so saturated that it hogged the spotlight while the others faded into the background? And so on, and so forth.

Hope that helps!

[shochmonster]

I had no idea Dallas was this rad. There was more door street art than I knew what to do with, great bar scene, some nice music venues and killer chili. I'll def come back for more than for JFK purposes. Also please note that Thomas Bearrow found a wall of all George Clooney haha.

[shochmonster]

Thomas Bearrow and Jimmy Pooh Bear had a crazy #nola night in #thefrenchquarter . It was totally them who slugged all that #abita , not me. Def… not me >_>

Au revoire mon amis!

#thommy #thomasbarrow #jimmykent #neworleans #louisiana #linkmoves