u/Imaginary_Choice2492

hi everyone!! first post here, also first ever painting I’ve made using blood [not menstrual, drawn safely though] as a watercolor-ish medium. real proud of this one tbh!!

fighting the desire to go for years now; wishing everyone going through it all the best❤️‍🩹 we will be free of it someday, with others’ help or all by ourselves🌱

done in collab with my good friend NakedWeasel !! [green and yellow ints]

the latter is a reference to a russian show name of which translates as "INTERNS" literally, hence the drawing idea 😭

these little garden lizards’ skin feels like silk!!

I had to squat for an hour for this💔

it detached successfully and ran away into the grass

!! I don’t have any experience with keeping reptiles, nor do I have any knowledge on required conditions for these animals to thrive. I’m looking for opinions of people educated in this subject !!

stumbled upon this local reptile/exotic animal expo in my city, wanted to visit it at first since I always wanted to take a closer look at these beautiful creatures. what I saw on their social media page raised concerns based solely on what I was seeing on this and related reptile subreddits. what upset me most is how they allow people, children specifically, to interact with animals for paying a small amount of money on daily basis, letting people handling reptiles for photos and even hosting birthday parties at the expo. the enclosures also seem pretty inappropriate (pic. 3 — crocodile monitor enclosure, pic. 9 — crested gecko), especially that for a snapping turtle (pic. 4).

this is one of the few, maybe the biggest, reptile expos in the city. I’m very suspicious about this organisation’s ethics :(

got this huge assignments in college last year and wanted to share it with some fellow weevilists lol. the theme was animal stylization study, so I chose an animal most pleasant to draw: weevil. took me some months to finish. here we have the lightbulb weevil, the clay weevil, poorly sewn plush weevil.. and much more.

let me know if you want to see any of them in particular in higher quality!

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I trust NoA with my life. their words are so wise, their voice is so soothing, and this beautiful artificial mind is encapsulated in this cute little ball. I look forward to see how they play in later plot updates.

sketch by me :3

очень хочется романтических / сексуальных отношений с мальчиком, но по итогу хотят меня только девочки, а отношения с противоположным полом всегда идут по пути дружбы, а не интима: меня еще ни разу не воспринимали как потенциального партнера :(

во внешности ли дело, или стоит наоборот обращать на нее меньше внимания и работать над своим поведением и общим образом?

+ что вам в моих чертах лица нравится, что нет? что можно сказать на первый взгляд? крашусь очень редко и очень просто, не умею в макияж в принципе, но учусь. какой стиль одежды и цвета в ней могли бы мне подойти?

спасибо всем заранее! <3

stumbled upon a profile of a girl selling her drawings for very cheap (the price is not fixed and starts at around 2$ per drawing, which is pretty ridiculous for a detailed photorealistic piece).

in her profile description she states she is currently 14 and has been drawing since she was 9 years old. I, personally, have never seen such a huge art skill development in someone so young. the artstyle borders photorealism, flawless at that, on some of these, and I have my doubts on all of these being drawn by hand and having no progress behind them posted. she never posts neither sketches nor timelapses of her commissions, and the one timelapse she did post was a drawing never seen on her profile as a finished piece.

I fail to point at obvious telling flaws. the one thing that comes off as AI is the way some of the hatchings makes little to no sense, having no obvious intention and yet creating a believable shading (which happens in human made art too). also the pencilwork on some of these doesn’t match the paper texture. on picture 1, the paper seems to have very fine grain, yet the shading has those distinct “gaps” that are typical for bigger grain. picture 5 has the opposite: the drawing has very defined and detailed hatching, and the paper looks almost watercolor in how textured it is.

among all the details of the object themselves, I can see only the right back wheel on the drawing 2 looking weird and the guy’s tattoo on drawing 5, which has some weirdly disappearing lines on it.

my favorite character among all of them in the saga. made this referencing a screenshot from the game :3 really enjoyed drawing him back then.

did some slug collecting a few years ago. released in groups afterwards; but now that i think about it i shouldn’t have collected them like that in the first place😭

my favorite one is the one cat looking slug reaching up on the first image

i was suicidal for years now, in and out (mostly in obviously) and nothing seems to hold me in this life from committing aside from fear of pain and surviving

i’ve been visiting a therapist in a community hospital, the first therapist who is easy for me to get along with and share my feelings, yet he can’t really help me since i’m like, way too deep in my urge to die?😭 i feel ashamed and responsible for relying on this person and not being able to get better with or without his help