Will do! Can’t wait to see it!

I’m finally trying to get serious about a coloring book. Already looked into everything needed (Amazon makes it easy!) and been doing a bunch of sketching. It’s all going to be dragon-monsters, looking at about thirty detailed pictures (no backgrounds, looking to focus on the creature designs). I’m probably going to…

Make sure to post again when the store’s up! I have a friend who loves soaps and the like. Would love to grab a few things!

Oh, definitely! Just saying that trying to figure out where you take the longest and practicing that, as well as identifying different methods for more painterly work (ie, some artists I know paint start to finish in chunks—this chunk of hair start to finish, then this half the face, then the neck, then the shoulder,…

I thought it was one step from a penis!

Last finished thing or last “anatomy lolwut” sketch? >__>

Time management and drawing fast are skills that can (and in 99% of artists, have to) be learned! No one I know is just innately good at pumping things out fast (I wish I was >__>). Might be good to try different exercises to get yourself doing a variety of stuff at a variety of speeds. :) Trying stuff from gesture…

Talent can definitely be a part of it, but something to keep in mind is that there is a huge range in what is “professional.”

That is a very odd light source.

My personal favorite is “like an old screen door.”

Even when I read them as a fairy young child (probably that same range, 4th or 5th grade), it always bothered me that every rat, weasel, and ferret, as well as the occasional glimpses of wildcats, polecats, jackdaws, and serpents was just evil, from birth, regardless of circumstance. I still adored them, mind you, but…

Replace “giant” with dinosaur and you’ve described me.

It looks so cheerful, and yet subtly abashed.

I’ve been wading through the AJS abstract, and I think that it looks like it might be limited in terms of date ranges (and I’m not an expert and I’m just trying to figure it out). Ie, going that far back may not be feasible (as is the case with a lot of dating methods; they’re specific).

Little Foot?

A large organ/piano type thing (I'm not a musical buff) made, I believe, in the 1840s. It came across the plains in a covered wagon. Pretty neat, just thinking about the age of something like that.

What about Harry Turtledove? One of the big elements of most of his work is a sort of fantasy alternative history. The Darkness series (first book is Into the Darkness) is effectively World War 2, but with dragons rather than planes, and research mages as opposed to scientists working on atomic weaponry.

Exactly what I came here to say! Out of all of his pieces, that's one of the very few that's stuck with me the longest—one of those things I consider at two in the morning, haha!

That would, I assume, be one of their many coffees (that the company is known for) that contain a ton of sugar. I don't think too many people associate Starbucks with black coffee so much as "caramel pumpkin sprinkle macchiato" style drinks. Might just be my view of them, though!

I've wondered for years why there is no inclusion of a "Percent Daily Value" infoblurb on packaging. I think we all understand that those charts are designed for an average person on a 2000 calorie daily diet, so it's never seemed too difficult to extrapolate something similar for sugar.