#i can't draw backgrounds

[shiiro-arts]

NaLu Week Day 1: Cuddling

Sadly I have organized myself poorly and I won't be able to do every day of the nalu week :,)

[ilildefoxy]

Okay I'm alive.

I'm sorry just- Nexus dying caught me hard. But I got over it and I am finally able to draw Sams again.

So they took this picture when Solar first came to the Daycare. Nexus had it in his pocket ever since and when Solar died he scribbled onto it. Out of anger, despair, pain, grief. He ripped it apart when he started hallucinating, keeping the Solar one only. Well, after Solar got brought back, he got the Nexus part from Jack and when Nex died, he found it in his pocket. How? He snuck back and also downloaded his data, so he could bring him back. He glued together the picture and cries over it now, not sure if he should or should not bring Nexus back.

<— That's completely cannon. Yes. It's very cannon. I saw it happen.

[marzthealien]

Hello, Big Brother!

This is for you, @eclipseartstuff :3

[tlmtwelve]

Prompt: A tooka/loth-cat who stares into one room every night and hisses

@pinahallowsevecloneparty

Alt/cropped version:

[whoops-lost-the-ranger]

[zombiesandbells]

I thought I was helping him, but...

HERO... HERO got angry.

Without shadow

[projectnomoho]

The Spectacle(d Cormorant) - an informative post about an underrated extinct bird

(Artwork by me. Halfly based on the artwork by Joseph Wolf.)

Just something out of the ordinary from before. I am getting tired from posting all those comics and stuff on here, so here's a repost of my depiction of one of my all-time favorite extinct birds - the life, the moment, the spectacle itself - the spectacled (or Pallas's) cormorant, as well as a bunch of facts about it below this because I care about this bird so much and will protect it with all my life if it still existed.

You may ask, why am I so into this nerdy-looking bird? It's not like it's THAT special or anything - we still have at least 40 other cormorant species alive on earth - 3 of them in the same genus as the spectacled cormorant.

The reason is simple - no one ever talks about it or even has an idea on what it is, even though humans were the sole cause of its extinction. (And believe it or not, cormorant culling IS still a thing, but that's a different story for now.)

(Specimen kept at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands.)

Large, stupid, clumsy, ludicrous in looks. That was how others, including Georg Steller, the discoverer of the bird, described the spectacled cormorant. It was, perhaps, the largest of all cormorants known to exist, rivalling the Galápagos flightless cormorant in length, but was way heavier than the latter. Due to its large size, it was probably flightless, but studies of its wings have shown that it was more likely reluctant to do so due to its lack of natural predators (besides Arctic foxes) while residing in its former habitat - the Commander/Komandorski Islands in Kamchatka Krai of Russia. Occasionally, some of these birds would get lost and end up on the Kamchatka Peninsula, which led to its consumption by the locals.

However, it wasn't until the 1820s when their extinction was hastened. The Russian-American Company started to transfer Unangan (Aleut) people to the islands, and, to no surprise, they found this cormorant easy to hunt. As Steller said on his journey in 1741, the spectacled cormorant was also rather delicious, unlike most other cormorants. Along with how it was abundant on the Commander Islands, this was most likely the exact reason why the Unangan people consumed it whenever they could not catch enough fish to sell or feed their families.

That marked the end of the legacy of the spectacled cormorant. It vanished from the islands and the world in the 1850s, and was never heard from anyone ever again.

(Artwork by J. G. Keulemans.)

The reason why it might have been forgotten by man was probably due to there only being six known specimens of this bird collected (all apparently by the same person, Governor Kuprianof), and only one or two of those specimens are currently up for display in the whole world.

The spectacled cormorant died like the dodo, but unlike the dodo, it was quickly forgotten by the people who caused its rapid extinction. By the time we wanted to care about it, it was already gone.

170+ years have passed. People like me still remember this bird, wanting to do anything to bring it back to life, or just imagining it while it was still in its glory - plummeting into the cold seas to catch a mouthful of fish, as it clumsily swims back to the shore to dry its wings. A beautiful bird that met a rather depressing fate.

[meltedbuttertoast]

love them as the "yapper + listener" dynamic

[missingbk-dkhours]

quick uraraka drawing

[starbounddelight]

Bit of a redraw of Squeak Squad, where it all began...

[angeibody]

Biblically Accurate Aziraphale

[ankaeverlasting]

Azula & Mai WIP

Both adults of course. Consensual interaction

[okiala]

Pariging🗣️🗣️

[ant1quarian]

Avian Classic Sans

You'd never expect such a silly goofy lazy guy to be the assassin and frontline-fighter of his flock, huh?

He's a Carrion Crow- built for speed rather than power- and is an agile little shit. It's why his bones are so smooth- no one can get a hit on him.

He belongs to Axe's Flock.

[sourlilylilja]

Rosetail design!

I made my own Rosetail design :3 I tried making it more original than the other designs hehe. This was fun, because I haven't designed anything in a long time, I really like how the lineart turned out!!

[jassuruartblog]

- "ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴀʏ ɪᴛ ɪs ᴛᴏᴅᴀʏ?" - "𝑨𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒍 𝟑𝟎𝒕𝒉?"

It's been years since I have drawn anything Metal Gear related. I wanted to fix this mistake this year and what would be a better day to do so than April 30th?  Meaning that, I got this done on April 30th but didn't have time to post it here on anywhere else (except insta and twitter, oops).

And I've always liked pretty boy Raiden 💕

Speedpaint: X

Programs used: Paint Tool SAI and Clip Studio Paint. Please don't repost, use or colour my art without permission.