MorrowSeer And His Wife Secretkeeper. I Have An AU Idea I'm Working On Where This Couple Both Have The

Oh no, I seem to have spilled all of my soda, oh dear, I'm so sorry, I'll clean this up right away

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

I don't really have strong feelings about Frostscales, however I do think they would be cool.

We can reason a way for dragons to breathe fire. Whether it be flammable gasses or liquids produced by the dragons. But frost breath itself is much harder to rationalize as it would take a pretty strong endothermic reaction to happen. In my eyes it's the closest thing to magic a non Animus can have, so rather than being a genetic abnormality it feels more like magic gone wrong or a curse.

I also think that freezing solid and having your fingers crack off is scarier than just having them burn. It feels more final to have a limb simply be gone rather than be burnt and chared.

Firescales and Frostscales both embody the horror of never being able to touch your loved ones without hurting them, of being helpless to control your own body, of being shunned from your tribe and unable to form the same connections with them as your siblings can.

I find them both interesting, the only downside I can think of is that both Firescales and Frostscales tell the same story. The only difference being that Frostscales is for icewing's and Firescales being for Skywings.

Idk these are my unsorted thoughts, I would love to hear yours.

I don't like frostscales much as a concept. I think it's kinda boring ngl. I do wanna know if other people like it, and why or why not?

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They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

Nice

Day two - teeth

Insight makes a point to show his gums a lot. Tried a new shading technique I’ve seen around

Colored animation I did of a Darkstalker design. Going to give him some jewelry and shadeing.

Looking at it now I probably should have had the head tilt down for the smile, but I'm not changing it now.

She so small

ena dream bbq makes me want to get into animation so here’s an attempt at some animation… not great… but like GIMME A SECOND

Whew!

An animation I've been working on for a while now. Fully colored!

Don't like these wings yet. Need to redesign them for flight.

Oh yeah, this is a Darkstalker design I've been working on. Still needs some details added before it's done but thought I'd share my progress.

The Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository is live!

You can find it at: https://www.animal-photo-references.com!

Here's how this repository works: all photos were taken by me, a human, at zoos, aquariums, sanctuaries, and other facilities with animals in human care. There is no AI involved in the photo editing or creation and there never will be. Right now there's 56 species on the site; my catalog has over 300 and I will be uploading the rest of them as fast as I can.

Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use these references. Yes, even for work you're going to sell.

All other usage/reproduction requires permission, but assume I'm friendly and please do ask! That's educators, researchers, the media, people who need images for a school presentation, etc. This is just to retain copyright/control in case they're scraped/reused unethically - it doesn't meant I don't want folk to have access! So please do reach out via the contact form on the repository website, I don't bite and I'm most likely going to say yes.

Please don't repost the repository photos to your own blogs: I've created @animalphotorefs as a dedicated blog to share photos from the site, and of course I'll reblog a lot of it here! That again just helps with retaining copyright and sourcing of the images. If you really want to repost some for a specific purpose, please just ask me first!

Also, folks, this project has no funding. It's just me and my camera.

There will never be a paywall on the site - I believe resources like this absolutely must be free for everyone to access. So please, please, please support the repository if you use it. Want sneak peeks at photos, cute videos I take, or to help choose what I photograph and what gets posted first? You can do that through Patreon (and there's a free trial on the most interactive tier!) If you'd like to just drop a tip, I've also set up a Ko-Fi.

I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of the repository.

To whet your thirst for cute photos, here's an Indian rhinoceros contemplating a goose.

Almost didn't post this as it's just a WIP, but I'm not sure if I'll actually finish this and I like the body segments.

IceWings have a different body shape compared to NightWings. Hard