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I think I want these now…

Mount Roraima, South America: This tabletop mountain is one of the oldest mountains on Earth, dating back two billion years when the land was lifted high above the ground by tectonic activity. The sides of the mountain are sheer vertical cliffs, with several waterfalls, making it nearly impossible to climb.

The Outsider’s Mark (x)

Another one that has been a long time coming! I LOVE the Dishonored games, so it had to be done at some point ;)

Neelam Gill - Glamour UK November 2015

photos Pawel Psyz stylist Alessandra Steinherr hair Lyndell Mansfield makeup Polly Osmond

Guo Pei Haute Couture Spring ‘16

ive never really made a tutorial before but i thought i’d try!

all my portrait paintings are done on a 2000-3000 pixel canvas with 300 dpi using the two brushes shown above with varying opacity

(note: a flat steak brush texture can be found in many basic deviantart paint tool sai brush downloads! don’t worry if it’s not the exact one im using, i have several from different sources and they all generally do the same thing with the right settings)

Edward Arsouni f/w 2016-2017 rtw part 2

Vanadinite - Mibladen Mining District, Midelt, Khénifra Province, Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco

I'm pretty new here, and I don't actually know much about dinosaurs (just followed this blog because it seemed really cool and interesting) so could you explain what shrink-wrapped means?

Of course! See, modern animals have a lot of muscles, fat, fluff, etc, and end up looking very little like their actual skeleton. For example, look at how much fluff owls have:

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However, lots of palaeoartists completely ignore this! They basically stretch skin over the bones and call it a day. One especially bad example that was featured on @palaeofail is this poor pterosaur:

It barely has room for its digestive system. It’s definitely missing the air sac system that allows it to breathe. It’s got virtually no muscles on the arms - how does it fly?? - on the head (no wonder its mouth is open. It has no jaw muscles to close it!), on the torso (it needs to flap), or on the legs (walking) It doesn’t have any fat at all, so it’s definitely starving (maybe because it can’t fly or close its moth?). The skin is much too thin; you can see all of the bones and its wing membranes should be much, much thicker. And it’s missing the hair-like pycnofibres that should be covering its body!

Many palaeoartists have started to strike back at this by drawing modern animals like we might draw them if we found their bones:

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[House cat]

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Agents of Virtue. Each agent is paired with an angel representing a virtue that helps them fulfill a specific role within their squad. Noble in their purpose and swift in their dealing of justice they maintain the balance between worlds. 

1:Kindness, Powerful but frail magic user.

2: Humility. Stealth infiltrator/flanker

3: Charity. Support healer.

4: Chastity. CQC specialist.

5:Temperance. Strategists able to fill multiple roles.

6: Patience. DMR trapper/zone controller.

7: Diligence. Heavy support tank.