#skeletal anatomy

[hiddenstashart]

the saggital crest is a bony structure on the top and back of the skull of some carnivorous mammals, where the temporalis muscle (one of the main muscles responsible for chewing) attaches to the sides of the skull.

generally the larger the crest is, the larger the mastication muscle of the animal to which it belongs.

the illustration above is the skull of a fisher - a member of the mustelid family, along with weasels, otters, wolverines etc.

photo credit for the second pic is attributed to Douglas H. Domedion via Wikipedia

[aldenfreed]

[dustalive]

Studying skeletal anatomy for biology ✘

Studying skeletal anatomy for fanon hot snas ✓

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Chat am I in the wrong tho🙁

ngl I do hope that I have anatomy as next topic in biology so I can flex😎 Also some useful forarm illustration I found! ↓

Credits to Benjamin Conable🙏 LMAO

[bandoght]

Practice with skeletons!!

[mechanica1-hands]

call me diarthrotic the way i'm so articulate

[rhysintherain]

This is why 90% of media that involves archery gets it wrong.

Pick up a glass or bottle with one hand and hold it out in front of you. Which way does the inside of your elbow face?

For most people without archery training, it'll point up. If you shoot a bow like that, the string will hit your arm and make your shot less accurate. Your shoulder will also drop, making your posture wonky and wrecking your stance.

Now hold the same hand out, palm down. The inside of your elbow should point sideways. That's the arm position you need to shoot a bow, but not the hand position. So to properly shoot a bow, you need to rotate just your hand, not your elbow, to hold it. Actors paid to play archers almost never do that on screen.

In practice, once you've done it a few hundred times, you stop doing the hand-motion setup, to the point where every time I hold up anything with my right hand (shovels, brooms, glasses of water) I usually turn my elbow to the proper archery angle.

Arms are weird.

[occultesotericart]

Inevitable fate /// etching print from a 1541 text

[meltedmush]

With great power comes with great need to make skin creatures

HELL YEAHH

[civetfish]

Nerd-to-nerd communication

Something super pointless and self-indulgent I've had on the backburner for a while. I love trying to make the pieces they gave us fit together!

Al-AN and Robin would absolutely bond over learning about each other's biology. I could talk about this forever but I'll get into all of the headcanons I have for these two in another post eventually

Below the cut is another version with some extra bits and pieces and the transcription

Transcript :

Architect Anatomy A. Architect "Brain" - Doesn't "store" information so much as allow for easy communication with the network B. Brainstem - connects the information received to the central nervous/circulatory system C. "Heart" - Circulatory system pumps the bioluminescent fluid to other organ systems and surface veins. Each node connects to a vast vasculature network D. "Kidneys" - Organs that filter the bioluminescent "blood" and other bodily fluids, absorbing and distributing collected material E. Nerve Center - Receives raw sensory data and filters it. Filtering can be unconscious or intentional

F. "Respiratory" Tract - Intakes gases or liquids and filters out material for use. Disposes of waste on exhale. Provides cooling to internal systems

The respiratory tract functions less like a set of lungs and more akin to a computer's cooling system, with the ability to absorb material from the environment to use in other parts of the body. It also would likely help the architect's body analyze the environment it is currently exposed to on a molecular level. It is also truly unidirectional, with the intake vents near the "collarbone" and the exhaust vents on both sides of the abdomen

The architect organ cache in-game felt like it was definitely not a complete model of the internal organs, so I wanted to come up with something to fill some more space. I also just really liked the idea of Al-An being capable of something similar to breathing, without having a respiratory system in the traditional sense. Feel free to use any of this in your own headcanons if you would like :)

BONUS - a gif of all the layers!

[theforgottencrow]

Day 2 “Where it all began”

Yay..an excuse to not do clean lineart or genuine color…

iiii have no fuckin clue how to draw liquid <333

Ink sans belongs to Comyet

[bluegekk0]

For the past few days I've been working on a new reference sheet for my main dragon OC, Stark. There's still a while to go before it's finished, and today I decided to take a detour and drew his skeletal structure. Definitely not an expert in anatomy, but it was really fun and I'm happy with how it turned out

[aldenfreed]

[bandoght]

Two little skullys

[plaguedpriest]

my contribution to the gabe sucking ass at pottery trend on twitter dot com

[eldstunga]

My chronically malnourished warlock, Temerity - as a dumbass rogue comes through the wrong window.

Gosh I've missed her so.

[jasperslobotomy]

“hold my hands, we’ll dance the 12-step on my grave”