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Having ADHD is so fun because sometimes youre looking for something that you use regularly and definitely put away in a smart and reasonable place and you have absolutely 0 hope of remembering where and finding it. And then other times ur like "hmm I need a some kind of small pointed object. I feel like i remember seeing a paperclip under the left couch cushion a month ago, i wonder if its still there" and it is

Oof. Being an indie dev I have a spare stylus just in case mine breaks and I have to wait for a new one to arrive.

OMG it’s the insulid phasmid from Disco Elysium!

the term "phasmid," meaning "stick insect," comes from a latin word meaning "apparition" or "phantom," due to the creatures' ability to hide in plain sight, and then move around and scare people.

the largest phasmids likely remain undiscovered; the longest insect known to science was a phasmid from a species that remains formally unnamed and undescribed, even since being captured for the first time in china in 2014.

a female specimen of the quasi-mythical australian species of gargantuan stick insect was sought by a curator of museum victoria for three years before he encountered one, also in 2014. upon realizing what it was, he says, “I started screaming."

This is a scientist who discovered 10 new elements, appended the periodic table so that there could be space for the actinides, and created unique isotopes for radioactive medicine. He’s one of the most amazing chemists in history, marking up the periodic table with the glee of a schoolboy.

His 3rd son wrote a paper about his life, which is a vibrant read!

De Gruyter

The life and contributions to the periodic table of Glenn T. Seaborg, the first person to have an element named after him while he was still

Glenn Seaborg was born on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in 1912. At age 10, he moved to southern California, where his high school chemistry an

Plutonium: Did you know?

Though it seems like the obvious choice for plutonium’s symbol would be Pl, Seaborg chose Pu as a joke, and it passed into the periodic table unnoticed.

Source.

The black areas represent the remaining natural dark skies in the United States

Tofupixel is providing a 30% off link to Pixquare, pixel art software for iOS that is similar to Aseprite. This is awesome because AFAIK there’s only one other good app for that (pixaki), but the interface does not resemble Aseprite and it still is missing some functionality.

UI maka me crazy

WHAT BEAUTIFUL MADNESS IS THIS?!

Here's Machinarium on my Game Boy Pocket! You can grab the .gb or the .pocket file on my patreon HERE for free! [Patreon] [Twitter] [Instagram] [Kofi]

Holy mother of metal this is incredible!

Animated scrap metal figures by Guillermo Galetti

This is the best tutorial for something I’ve always struggled with in pixel art! It’s really useful conceptually for painting in general.

🌿 How to draw simple grass for a game

Thank you kind asker I will make a tutorial below for grass. I'll do shrubs and trees in another one, because it's a different method and it got pretty long.

🌿 How to draw grass tiles: step-by-step

Each box is 16x16, the same size Stardew Valley uses. Make it tile (how to do it depends on your software) so we can see if our edges match up nicely.

Draw 1 simple blade of grass. Many options for shape but I like this one. Feel free to copy me directly

2. Give it a shadow. Wow !!!

3. Give it a highlight! OMG!

4. Add another grass

5. Do it over and over and over and over and over

Literally just do the same or similar blades of grass, give them all little shadows, highlight a few if you want and there you have it! So easy.

It looks really complicated like this, but its literally just a few steps, repeated over and over.

Many games use this technique and it would be perfectly serviceable for a base grass tile.

Personally, I prefer lower contrast grass. This tile will likely be used for large areas, so ideally you don't want it to be too busy or eye-burning to distract from the character.

🌿 I'll show you how to do a different type of grass now that is a little more complicated.

Midtone grass colour

2. Add some lighter and darker patches touching each other (not too high contrast!)

3. Use this shape (or your preferred, but this is how I did it) on the top edge of your patches. Colour them with the middle colour from each patch.

4. Do it again a lot (this is very tedious)

5. Add some highlights

6. Add some fun extra stuff

We're done! Have fun everyone, show me if you try it!

Pixel Art guide by me: link

Big Boss and Kaz riso, Costa Rica circa 1974☀️

Sanrio style date with kaz 🙂‍↕️

This is too cute! This line work is just so expressive too!

Snake! Not in front of the men! 😳

Reblogging because it’s an amazing guide and I live in rural food desert.

" In Space, no one can bother you Chill "

-Alien theme Lofi- .2024

IG: https://www.instagram.com/pixeljeff_design/

check out Settlemoon it's my game

hi i released an idle game called Settlemoon and you should try it out here

it's got bugs (like the insect kind) and little guys you can fling around with your mouse cursor

you make buildings for adventurers to visit, and post quests for them to beat. It's like a reverse RPG; they're doing the fighting, you're paying them for it and selling them the equipment.

it's deliberately not like the clicker genre in that it tries to avoid keeping you hooked on it. the optimal way to play it is to set things up and do something else for a few hours. like if you're gonna go to bed or go to work or something

it's got an actual story, too! we've gotten multiple folks saying it's an idle game that actually made them cry by the time they beat it.

we worked very hard on it and i think it turned out really well!!!!!! i'm biased though lol

Get it (or wishlist it) on Steam here 🌙

As an indie game dev with a project that is taking years to finish, this part of the game gave me a panic attack.

finally i am playing disco elysium 😤👍

you make me want to draw again

here you go! this is also for my future self.

I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.

Trying to draw buildings

Reblogging to pay respects to Tama!

Source

Video of Tama

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“Repent Harlequin!”, said the Ticktockman - an Illustrated Portfolio based on the short story by Harlan Ellison.

illustrations by Jim Steranko.

I made an art/anatomy tutorial about birds! I hope people will find it helpful!

Your grandpa Bellowphone's cover of Skrillex' "Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites" on his "Squijeeblion", a pump organ with various acoustic honking noises attached. I'm sure Skrillex feels honored

To-cat-ata in B by sympawnies

These are so beautiful! They remind me of reading John Belairs books as a kid.

Childhood can be scary.

A collection of some of my hand-drawn horror looping animations!

Paz laughing at him and Nuke being affectionate are the greatest things in this picture!

Fan art of my favorite Kaz edit

Magnifico

im training

peacewalker cartoon??

These are so cute!

peanuts your BBKaz

Adorable✨