An Egyptian goose, it’s very good at looking like a duck.
Scientists need your help looking at photos of adorable penguins. Seriously
Guys, this is not a drill. Antarctic scientists need you to study photos of penguins to help them figure out how climate change is affecting these stumpy little flightless birds.
Scientists from the UK have installed a series of 75 cameras near penguin territories in Antarctica and its surrounding islands to figure out what’s happening with local populations. But with each of those cameras taking hourly photos, they simply can’t get through all the adorable images without your help.
“We can’t do this work on our own,” lead researcher Tom Hart from the University of Oxford told the BBC, “and every penguin that people click on and count on the website - that’s all information that tells us what’s happening at each nest, and what’s happening over time.”
Look at penguins and contribute to science! There are also other locations on the website, my personal favorite is Serengeti
Gee thanks tumblr for not allowing me to paste in links and automatically assuming I want a low resolution, skewed image instead.
fizzsup asked:
Would you kindly do a tutorial on how to draw heads? i saw your young de Niro artwork/process and was amazed! Like how you start with the constructions,placement of cheeks,eyes etc ,what measurements you use?thank you! Any help is appreciated :)
Art of Meggy Vodusek Answer:
Oh wow thanks! I actually consider myself a pretty bad portrait artist, so thanks for the confidence boost!
I basically just copied the process of the fantastic Nathan Fowkes, and I would feel bad for making tutorials of things I’m not an expert in. Here is his process:
You might also want to take a look at Erik Gist’s stuff here: http://www.deadoftheday.blogspot.co.at/p/downloads.html
He is an instructor at Watts Atelier, which is based on the Reilly method of construction, so if you can invest a bit, you could learn about it in depth there (they also have an online school).
I tried painting young De Niro with the Reilly method which I find really helpful, especially for men with strong features.
The striped wormnose is the widest spread one of its genus in the sparsely inhabited land of Waiho. It’s generally even tempered due to its lack of predators, making it great as a mount when properly tamed.
Its diet consists of various vegetation and occasional arthropods, which it catches with its “trunks” or in larger quantities, scoops with the mandible and swallows whole. The inner side of the mandible is full of small teeth-like structures which prevent the prey from escaping.
The crest on its head is used to distinguish between sexes, as well as sexual display. The body is covered in short thin fur over the torso, but is bare at the head, feet and tail.
It has an excellent sense of smell and vision. It’s often seen gathering food in dusk when its favorite critters crawl out, which is probably the reason for its great night vision.
Studying ungulate locomotion with the help of Muybridge’s images after realizing that I have no idea how various animals move differently
I did a bunch of trees because I still don’t know how to paint them. Conifers are impossible.
I made this today to better understand horse anatomy myself and it’s from various sources, so it might not be 100% accurate - to anyone who might want to use it as a reference, but it’s probably good enough for artists.
I’ve been doing this sketchbook “challenge” for a few weeks now where I do one page of studies and one page of stuff from imagination every day. Most of it is gross, but it’s getting a little better.