No No, I Think You're Onto Something. Remix Dinosaur Is Definitely The Right Word, If Not An Improvement

Trying, yet again, to make myself a sona that really feels like me. I'm only finished with the lineart portion of the ref sheet, and a couple days into sketching her, haven't even added color yet, and I'm already feeling a bit off about her. Like something isn't quite right, and there's some sort of disconnect.

I really don't know how people come up with characters that represent them, and they're able to keep drawing & connecting with that character for years.

I've tried several times. Karma (ngl I forgot she existed), Mash, Eden, and I'm sure several different test sketches that came even before Karma, yet I lost my connection to all of them before long.

All dinosaurs say trans rights

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So, we know modern domesticated, (and even some wild!) animals enjoy being petted.

The question is. How far back in the history of evolution does this trait go?

What dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals would have loved a good head rub?? Which ones would have flopped over for some under-the-chin scritches??? Would some of them have headbutted you to ask for more affection like a cat??? Did some make happy sounds, like purring???

This is information I need. I need to know. Animals today exhibit these behaviors so it's pretty likely they could have done so in the past too!!

The idea of them being affectionate towards each other as well (as opposed to how they're often portrayed hunting/fighting/being scary) makes me happy too. I desperately wish we could see how they behaved.

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Tutorial on drawing characters/OCs who have some sort of facial paralysis. It doesn't cover all possible variants because I was using mirror as my main reference lawl

Keep in mind that this is an introductory drawing tutorial and has some generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People 👍

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Finally finished this dang piece after starting it over a year ago and giving up when I got to shading.

These are 2 of my OCs who I haven't really talked about before, and for good reason- I only have their lore partially thought out and they don't even have names yet.

Yes they are in love.

ANYWAY. This was super experimental, I was trying out things I've never done before, such as actually shading fur for once, which is why it might look a little wonky. I also worked on shading the cow a few months after I did the dragon, which is why they have 2 different styles of shading.

I'm somewhat proud of my work, but I'm not super happy about how it came out, so I may eventually revisit this to make some alterations since I definitely know theres things I could work on, but for now I'm just so tired of having it as a WIP so here it is.

And here's the sketch.

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I couldn't decide which version I liked better, so have both :)

The thought that dinosaurs and other prehistoric life forms were at one point truly alive and roaming the earth and just behaving no different from any other living thing today just makes me so happy.

I don't even know if happy is the right word, I just couldn't possibly describe the type of amazement I get from thinking about it, I can't put words to it.

Like, these were real living creatures, they aren't from fantasy or mythology.

They breathed and ate and slept and did all sorts of normal animal things, because they were normal! Not some bloodthirsty monsters, they just did what they had to to survive, just like modern day animals.

Looking at the fossils I have in my collection and really thinking about it just amazes me. My little fish, at one point, was swimming around in the water with all the other fish, except this was millions of years ago. It's a little piece of the past, frozen in time, letting people today have even just the smallest glimpse of things that happened so long ago that we'd otherwise have no idea about.

It just, amazes me that at one point, all these creatures that, by comparison to today's life, are so strange or creepy or alien or whatever were once just the norm. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary to see a huge beast of a reptile looming ominously in a forest, or a flying creature far more deadly looking than today's birds of prey soaring through the air, or just, whatever the hell was going on in the Cambrian period, and it was all normal.

I know I'm just repeating myself a lot but wow I just get all sorts of feelings when I think about this stuff

Fuck man the past is so cool

He's watching you.