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Drawing For Nothing is out!

Forgot to announce this here but the first ten chapters for Drawing For Nothing have been released! For those who missed the last post, this is a free, digital art book for animated films that were either canceled or bombed due to complicated issues.

https://www.drawingfornothing.com/

More chapters are to come. A few highlights in the next installation will be My Peoples and Larrikins.

Also, if anyone wants to help research, feel free to send a DM! We're also working on a new cover that will feature custom artwork of various characters from these movies. If you think you got what it takes to draw in the style of another artist, we would appreciate the help!

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I’ve gotten a lot of questions about centaur alien respiratory systems now that I’ve animated Talita doing stuff, so here’s a definitive post about them.

The main airway is unidirectional, except for the occasional sneeze. Air enters through the incurrent nostrils on the face, passes into the first air chamber, then to the main lungs that surround the heart and braincase, and then exits out the excurrent nostrils/vents on the rear of the lower ribcage. The majority of oxygen exchange and moisture reclamation happens in the lower lungs, which have a gill-like, high surface area comb structure that the air passes through. Centaurs cool themselves mostly by panting, where they breathe rapidly and open the lung structure up wider in the chest to allow more air to bypass the comb and leave with water and waste heat. They can produce infrasonic hums, rattles, and groans out the excurrent nostril by clenching the valve.

The centaur vocal apparatus evolved from an olfactory structure that got co-opted for language. There are still are still scent receptors in it, but the thing has become much more elaborate than in their ancestors. To speak, they breathe into two large sinuses on the back of their head, close those off from the main airway, and compress them to push air out through the trunk. Of the aliens in Runaway to the Stars, centaurs are probably the best at vocalizing human languages. The phonic structure is pretty similar to ours, consisting of vocal cords set in the skull at the base of the trunk, resonant loops back to the incurrent nostrils, and muscular ridges inside the trunk towards the lips. Their large toothed mouth is totally unconnected to the respiratory system, it only leads into the esophagus.

PATREON | STORE

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hits u with my dragon beam

tha boys and their dragons from the au i am self-indulgently messing with. green, bronze, and brown. these are scaled to their actual sizes relative to one another & their riders.

reasoning/more info under the cut. when i say 'niche audience' i mean the approximately One Person who knows my characters and has also read a pern book (me. i'm the one person it's me)

Féiix is a green rider obvs. I think it's really generous of dragons to have a colour specifically for bottoms. Her name is Searrath and she ends up committing matricide by stubbornly rising at the same time as queen Lenath, to protest the weyrwoman's abusive treatment of her rider. Searrath is legendarily short-tempered and protective, and although her rider might continually reassure her that his arrangement with the weyrwoman (as her personal spy; he is an ex-harper) is healthy, Searrath has other ideas. She is quite good at precise hops between, which is how she manages to bait Lenath into flying head first into a mountainside.

Islin's bronze Taranth is very big, very gentle, and completely unwilling to do his duty as a bronze in any capacity at all. He has a... complicated relationship with Lenath and endures a good amount of ridicule, but Islin is adamant that he will never make a bid for weyrleader as this involves sleeping with the weyrwoman and queen (he'll settle for being wingleader). A strong disagreement over Félix's spywork and loyalty to Lenath leads Islin and Taranth to walk out from their weyr, and operate out of a different base for years before Lenath ultimately dies from failing to compete with Searrath on a mating flight. He is the only bronze rider who is not originally from a weyr.

Francis's brown Nelath was almost killed by Lenath when he hatched. As the son of the newly-ousted ex-weyrleader, Francis could have easily impressed a bronze and ousted the current weyrleader, so the weyrwoman conspired to prevent it from happening. Lenath broke Nelath's leg during the hatching, and only the invervention of Francis's father's bronze saved both himself and the injured hatchling from what appeared to be the queen's random fit of infanticidal rage. Nelath recovered well and became a very popular brown dragon and an impressively good shot with his flames. He has attempted several times to chase a queen (usually one of the juniors, still a little wary of Lenath), and has even succeeded more than once. Francis and Nelath support one of those junior queens during an attempted ousting of Lenath and the weyrwoman, but never expected that Félix's loyalty to the weyrwoman would separate them for years (until Lenath goes out carcrash style against a mountainside, as previously mentioned)

It's my first time trying to write a full conspiracy over the course of the characters' lifetimes so it's pretty fun!

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i have a few resources i look to consistently but i'm gonna plug anatomy for sculptors as One Of The Most Useful. great if you're a 3D artist, INVALUABLE if you're a 2D artist. gives you turnarounds of specific limbs/fiddly body parts like ears. great especially if you're referencing a photo and start looking at an individual part like 'wait, what the hell is going on in there'

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Oh my god I never posted this here lol have this screenshot redraw

#myart #longtail #sss warrior cats #warrior cats #longtail wc

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Old Artfight attack for Spitfya that I still really enjoy :)

#myart #krita #dragon #dragon art #artfight

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#myart #autodesk sketchbook #me #oc elliot

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Transparent Bloodroot

#myart #scribblez #jjbawc #oc bloodroot

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Yoca Muta, 2022-09-29

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it looks good in the original colours, too | print

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© Rhymezlikedimez

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Falin's retreat was SO PRETTY!

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"i'm not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can't enjoy it anymore" is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media

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[ID Photos of a small painted clay sculpture of a horse with simplified features with short pointed legs, small rounded tail, and in a standing pose with an arched neck. It is painted to look like prehistoric cave art. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID]

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Puddle, 1952, M.C. Escher

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Grabbed this design of mine from... err... 2022 now? Gosh its been a while - I just checked as I was writing this.

But yeah I grabbed this design to prep a proper refsheet for, took some older pieces, fixed them up a lil bit and drafted up some more lil visuals. Its been a bit since I've done a non-dnd refsheet that wasn't adoptable related.

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