#human body study

[amyfloyddesigns]

that’s that me espresso ☕️✨

[aftermyownart]

I thought it was fun....

I love a doublet, I love a tall boot, I love a neck drape and an exposed chemise puff. I love a monochrome, and I love a swoopy scarf, and I love a scratchy bird. Most of all, I love the scrawled oddly positioned hand one is willing to accept when one no longer wants to draw a hand.

Unrelated; going away for a little while. I'll be back.

[inklore]

JORDAN GOING INTO PROTECTIVE MODE AND MOVING CLOSER TO MARIE WHEN CATE CAME INTO THE ROOM!!!! I’M GOING INSANE!!! EVERYONE SHUT UP!!!

[fidgetspringer]

Quick tip to anyone who is going through the horrors of learning to draw human bodies.

Don't look at the thousands of overly complicated anatomy tutorials, at least not to begin with.

Look instead to urban sketchers. Trust me on this. Urban sketchers have to get those shapes and proportions down on paper quickly and correctly.

Build shape memory before you start to look at where that one muscle goes when the arm is in that one specific position. Come back to that later.

Oh and I hate to say it but keep those urban sketcher tricks in the back of your mind and then draw figure studies every single day. It sucks at first but three of those every day for a week or two and you'll be able to draw human bodies. Pinky promise.

[another-goblin]

A redraw of that scene from the trailer (sort of)

[amyfloyddesigns]

body study ✨ I actually love this throw over so much! Such a fun outfit 🌈

[aftermyownart]

You know, just thinkin about things.

Last of the trad art for a while, time to go digital again I think.

[sillyfairygarden]

do you ever see someone draw an ankle, or a nose, or some fragment of the human body that makes you realize they are in love

[reasonsforhope]

This is maybe an odd thing to put on a good news/reasons for hope blog, but I've also had people tell me that they find this info really, genuinely comforting, so I'm putting it up. Also, further understanding could do a ton to advance medicine, esp. re: allergies, autoimmune diseases, and depression. You can read more about this at the link.

"More than half of your body is not human, say scientists.

Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic [co-contributors].

Understanding this hidden half of ourselves - our microbiome - is rapidly transforming understanding of diseases from allergy to Parkinson's.

The field is even asking questions of what it means to be "human" and is leading to new innovative treatments as a result.

"They are essential to your health," says Prof Ruth Ley, the director of the department of microbiome science at the Max Planck Institute, "your body isn't just you."

No matter how well you wash, nearly every nook and cranny of your body is covered in microscopic creatures.

This includes bacteria, viruses, fungi and archaea (organisms originally misclassified as bacteria). The greatest concentration of this microscopic life is in the dark murky depths of our oxygen-deprived bowels.

Prof Rob Knight, from University of California San Diego, told the BBC: "You're more microbe than you are human."

Originally it was thought our cells were outnumbered 10 to one.

"That's been refined much closer to one-to-one, so the current estimate is you're about 43% human if you're counting up all the cells," he says.

But genetically we're even more outgunned.

The human genome - the full set of genetic instructions for a human being - is made up of 20,000 instructions called genes.

But add all the genes in our microbiome together and the figure comes out between two and 20 million microbial genes.

Prof Sarkis Mazmanian, a microbiologist from Caltech, argues: "We don't have just one genome, the genes of our microbiome present essentially a second genome which augment the activity of our own.

"What makes us human is, in my opinion, the combination of our own DNA, plus the DNA of our gut microbes."

It would be naive to think we carry around so much microbial material without it interacting or having any effect on our bodies at all.

Science is rapidly uncovering the role the microbiome plays in digestion, regulating the immune system, protecting against disease and manufacturing vital vitamins.

Prof Knight said: "We're finding ways that these tiny creatures totally transform our health in ways we never imagined until recently."

It is a new way of thinking about the microbial world. To date, our relationship with microbes has largely been one of warfare.

-via BBC News, April 10, 2018

[the---hermit]

why am i a human with to-do lists and responsibilities, when i could have been one of those little bats who get wrapped in smol blankets and are fed berries.

[dotterpox]

body hair ⚘️⚘️

This is Winifred ♧

[oneroomjestershow]

inspired by these memes about next year (im still on 2024 help) i want to show this AU i have been thinking since month ago in the sidelines

[lemonynuggets]

Having a good art class for the first time in my life is such an insane feeling, all the other classes were just my teachers being incredibly mean, not actually teaching anything and making us do nonsensical assignments and now I have a teacher that actually takes note of the kind of art I’m into and gives me assignments based on things I enjoy and can improve? I made an oil painting of my current blorbo because this way I’d be drawing something I like and still trying a new medium and learning things? My first homework was making concept designs for my OC? My next assignment will be making a scrapbook-esque research about Julia Lepetit from drawfee? Is this even real

[amyfloyddesigns]

shadowheart 🖤 daughter of darkness

[aftermyownart]

Even savages can dance

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Went away, did some trad sketching so prepare yourself for lots of that for a short while.

[fine-lines1]

That drip 💦

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