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Just learned about garden path sentences.

They’re basically a literary prank– the sentence starts out in such a way that you think you know where it’s going, but the way it ends completely changes the meaning while still being a complete and logical sentence. Usually it deals with double meanings, or with words that can be multiple parts of speech, like nouns and verbs or nouns and adjectives.

So we get gems like

The old man the boat. (The old people are manning the boat)

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. (The apartment complex is home to both married and single soldiers, plus their families)

The prime number few. (People who are excellent are few in number.)

The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississipi. (The cotton that clothing is made of)

The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. (As in he ducks out of his responsibilities)

We painted the wall with cracks. (The cracked wall is the one that was pained.)

A dogfish pack is now available for purchase at the Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery! 🐟

Link to their website in my pinned post.

Local purchase or international shipping available so feel free to get in contact with them if interested!

Catfish Pup - $225cad

Zebra Danio + Yellow Perch - $85 each

Spotted fish + Barred Knifejaw - $55 each

Applying Nightshade makes my art look so ugly :(

Adding Glaze on top of that makes it look worse :((

The final result looks like a wet tissue.

They don't seem to work well with flat, stylized coloring...

Kolyada (an ancient Slavic pagan holiday in honor of the birth of the sun) by Iren Horrors

This artist on Instagram

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

i plead oopsies dasies your honor

Sigh. Just passed up reading a thing about winged characters because one of the first bullet points said they have to be small and light. Fuck you. Fat people exist and should be allowed to see themselves in mystical characters too.

today in "google AI is fucking useless because it hallucinates things that never happened", i bought a couple CVS thermometers that have both been acting up, tried to search if there had been a problem with the whole product line:

there is no record of this product recall. it did not happen. the date "feb 8 2024" is the date someone listed a thermometer for sale on ebay.

I can’t let sketches stay sketches…. And I’m feeling sappy about pride and all the people in the community I know and love. So here’s a little pride wallpaper. Share it, use it, enjoy! I love you all

I put the line sketches below the break too. Cause I’m stupid proud of them.