Caves Are Weirder And More Varied Than You Think

Picasso Bug aka Zulu Hud Bug (Sphaerocoris annulus), family Scutelleridae, found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa

photograph by Daniel Rosengren Photography

Harlequin beetles in Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Rainbow Scarab (Phanaeus vindex), male, family Scarabaeidae, Pennsylvania, USA

a species of "true dung beetle".

photograph by Michael Reed

Bilateral gynandromorph carpenter bee [x]

Here you go anon!

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Line of Action

Line of Action

Line of Action

And here’s one for animals if you want that too:

Warren Photographic

Warren Photographic

Photographs of Pets, Nature and Animals in Action

Do you have any resources for pose references?

God no, sorry. At most I trace the skeleton of a meme if I'm redrawing it or watch an anime with veguely similar concepts, but my posing is freehand and attrocious for it, and I'm terrible at collecting references. You can probably find someone on deviantart I think I remember seeing references there back in the day.

a very fashionable little friend

Part 2 of cino art tips is some basic tips on shape and silhouette design which are also principles I think about a lot :)

(also i'm so sorry i chose comic sans to write this in idk what i was thinking but i already flattened the layers)

i don't have any other obvious tips off the top of my head rn but feel free to ask anything you are curious about! i love getting asks uwu

it's hilarious how if you do any amount of research into life or death melee combat the prevailing themes that emerge are that

you're gonna get tired very quickly

tired leads to injured, injured leads to tired, tired leads to—

you're not gonna be as composed as you expect

humans are more fragile than you think and also more durable than you think. both are true and neither stop them from dying of an infection later (DO NOT GET BITTEN)

DO NOT GET STABBED (generally good life advice)

DO GET A SPEAR

knights are faster than you think