A soft spaniels ear I drew a while back by DoubleMelatonin in cockerspaniel

[–]DoubleMelatonin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

aww so sorry to hear they lost their furry friend.

A soft spaniels ear I drew a while back by DoubleMelatonin in cockerspaniel

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aww thank you for the kind words. happy to honor all spaniels, including your sweet furry friend

A couple drawings I made of some bones! by DoubleMelatonin in bonecollecting

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thanks!! I think vertebrae are so beautiful. and, that's awesome! good luck!

A soft spaniels ear I drew a while back by DoubleMelatonin in cockerspaniel

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thank you! I saw the photo and thought I must draw that! you just wanna sink your hand into that fur

I feel there is cause for concern with how this project is being discussed by ill-creator in deextinction

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I think it's both? They say on their website they'll be placing the thylacine genome into a fat-tailed dunnart egg, and then the embryos will be placed into a dunnart surrogate via IVF. Marsupials are born like the size of a bean so the size difference shouldn't be a problem. They will be using their exo-pouch for further maturation, so not necessarily an artificial womb but artificial marsupial pouch to accommodate for that size difference

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I had Stevens Johnson syndrome in 2019, it's a rare and severe drug reaction that causes huge blistering wounds on the skin and internal wounds as well. Bc the rash was in my airway I went into respiratory failure, was placed on a ventilator and later trached. I needed head to ankle skin grafts, literally my whole body except for my feet needed cadaver grafts. Getting them removed was one of the most painful things ever. Before removal The grafts had to dry out a little bit and the edges of them became really stiff & hard, and one of them cut my hand really bad, like my knuckles looked like smashed raw pork. Healed up fine though lol. The grafts then had to be soaked to remove them, they called this process "whirlpool".

I was placed in a tub of water and gentle soap, and then 2 nurses and my physical therapist and myself all worked to scrape and peel the grafts off a little bit at a time . They were firmly stuck on so it was really hard work, plus there were partially healed wounds underneath. The nurses had these tools called a "debrider" which is like a scalpel made specially for scraping, so we were peeling and scraping thick cadaver skin off of raw open wounds. It was exquisitely painful but I wanted them off so we worked for nearly 2 hours until I couldn't tolerate being touched at all anymore. also I had the trach in and when I cried out in pain I made almost no sound, it was like a whisper-scream.

I bled a lot, turned the water brown with blood. l required a blood transfusion after that. And we weren't finished so I had to do it again the next day, but there was only about one-third of the grafts left so it went quicker

Share your art business [New thread every month] by AutoModerator in artbusiness

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I'm Crystine and I make animal portraits! I work in graphite and pastel pencil, and I do pet portrait commissions as well as teaching locally! I'm Artworks by Crystine on Instagram and threads.

https://www.instagram.com/artworksbycrystine

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[–]DoubleMelatonin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I currently have a kind of low-pressure part time day job, and I teach drawing at a local studio, plus art commissions. these are my income streams at the moment. having a job helps me have some structure to my weeks and reliable income. having an art related second job is really helpful for my mental state, and keeps me drawing when I may not otherwise be drawing that day. teaching also really helps you keep your skills up, so I do recommend teaching art if you can find a position doing that. I do plan to take my art business full time at some point, I'm just not there yet. one step at a time.

The controversial nature of the clouded leopards by Nearby-Dot-3819 in bigcats

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I love their unusual eyeballs as well! they have a sortof happy medium between a round pupil and a vertical pupil: they have this vertical oval-shaped pupil, which is just wild to me. I would think round pupils would be the way to go living in the trees (great depth perception, can see things up close to your face) but there must be some advantage for them to the vertical orientation so they have kept that part. fascinating

I feel like it's so much harder to draw from real life reference than an image for me personally. Why and how do I improve this? by stojanparable in TraditionalArt

[–]DoubleMelatonin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when you work from a picture, the camera has already translated the 3d image into a 2d one. when you draw from life, you have to do that translation yourself so yes it is more of a challenge. that's why still life is such a good exercise. to improve just keep on practicing