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    Melodic Does The Draw UPDATED 1/18/2017

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    Thanks for the input!

    [spoiler=Am I an artist]i got markers for my birthday

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    I tried my hand at splicing again for the first time in like... idk 6 months? Whenever the last time I posted sprite-y shit in here
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    I was going to add glasses but then Cero decided it needed more muscles
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    Sailor Shark's final form lol

    Melodic Does The Draw UPDATED 1/18/2017

    in Creative

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    Happy holidays to you, too :> Really loving that dragon road pic, btw! I love the perspective effect.

    The project was 3 point perspective, making the curves and twists of the dragon something of a challenge to pull off, but I think that the added buildings of the city made the worm's-eye angle of it far more prominent for the viewer. If I had had more time/patience/larger rulers and more space on the table in the art room I feel as though I could have populated the dragon's back with more urban elements, but I'm not totally sure if that would have distracted from the fact that there was a city on what accidentally became the equivalent of Rayquaza.

    What are your thoughts on all that? Like, if I were to decide to re-do this piece digitally(or just draw over the current one digitally because I'm sort of lazy), do you see the possibility of adding more buildings on as disrupting the balance of the composition or do you think doing so would allow more cohesiveness in terms of visuals?

    QOTD IV!! 884: Who should be next QOTD master and why, or should it die?

    in Far from the Forest...

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    I like answering questions time to answer this one

    Why a biological context over other contexts? Is it just, like, more relatable? I can totally get just being randomly curious in things for no reason, though. That's basically half of my distractions from my amazingly well followed work schedule right ther-wait, I never knew those pores actually did things. Like, how can they detect electrical currents? I can get why detecting them in their prey would help, but why Earth's electromagnetic field?

    I'm one of those people who gets really excited about the capabilities of living creatures. I don't have much of a real reason, but if I absolutely had to choose one to satisfy the requirement for a question, I'd say that the things we can learn about the living things around us will bring us all closer to better understanding why a particular phenomena or disease takes place and then utilize that to make this world a better place. I believe that one day through the strength of science that I will live in a world where nerve cells (which divide so rarely that a single nerve cell is likely to outlive its organism) could be repaired in such a way that would reverse paralysis or Parkinsons or MS or the damages left behind after a stroke or a world where I would be able to completely understand the biological mechanisms that cause me to feel emotions or that cause my dreams or that cause my thought processes. That's why I'm especially interested in learning new things that i can then loop back to a biological context, because it makes me excited as all fucking hell to be alive.

    Yes! The ampullae of Lorenzini do in fact do things! As for how, they do that, there's a special, hella conductive jelly solution and highly sensitive nerves inside each pore. The electromagnetic sensitivity has navigational uses as well as prey seeking. It's pretty cool. Hammerhead sharks are especially good at using the electrosensitivity they have to navigate the oceans of the earth, from what I have read.

    QOTD IV!! 884: Who should be next QOTD master and why, or should it die?

    in Far from the Forest...

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    I think that I am most passionate about learning new things, especially in a biological context. Okay, yes that sounds super duper topical, but let me explain further. Today I learned that the reason why wetting your hair and then drying it again fixes your hilariously anime-esque bedhead because the hydrogen bonds between the keratin proteins of your hair are broken through hydrolysis. This is so goddamn cool, okay? I love finding out new things. One time, I spent an hour and a half researching ampullae of lorenzini in sharks just because I was so interested in the more specific uses that sharks have for these tiny pores in their cute sharky faces that they use to detect electrical currents, such as those in their prey, or even the Earth's electromagnetic field. Every day that I learn something new I remember how much I love this world because of how absolutely mag-fucking-nificent of a place i am in to be observing and learning of new discoveries about it. On a college tour two weekends ago, the father of the only boy in our tour group and he told me that he recently was told of a geneticist who essentially synthesized DNA in the lab and injected it into bacterial cells that were nearly dead or something, but the cells began to reproduce and I swear to god I nearly cried because this man had told me something so amazing and so wonderful. I love learning new things and I love listening to people who want to share things with me because it is just so incredible.

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