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Khaosdog's Bolt fan artwork.

Khaosdog is a German artist I admire. Khaosdog is great at expressing shiny lighting effects, paints fantastic fur and is canine-obsessed, which, let's face it, is always a plus.

I found a really nifty artist's site: Tim O'Brien.

Tetrapods! I LOVE tetrapods.

Anyone like Beatles? Sopranos? Horses? TRAINS?

Finally, a great one this: prepare to be distoibed.

In today's "won't you walk into my parlour" news…

Cat Party to recruit mice, Nazi party to admit Jews, Roma, disabled people, and: BNP to consider non-white members.

Vatican to host Galileo exhibit. Sounds fabtastic. I'd like to see it.

Nice try, kid, but no cigar. Of course, he will have learned much from this preliminary attempt.

Israel taking a leaf out of the Bush administration's books. I'll be interested to see if Obama takes action on this kind of thing. America's about the only country to whom they're remotely likely to listen, and at least the "We Take the Book of Revelation Literally, Roll On Battle of Megiddo" loon squad are no longer in power.

Seal pups: look cute, but don't approach or you could cause them to starve.

Beautiful microscopy photos of blood cells and nerves.

Adults with autism 'cast adrift' in England

This, er, wow. So what are Auschwitz's five favourite singers and which Heroes character would Auschwitz be? Now we can find out. Er.

RIVAL CHILD OVERACHIEVER! It is so cute pathetic that at age 27 I still feel threatened by this kind of brat… oh man… issues. ;D

These poor kids, on the other hand, are lucky if they can learn at all.

Finally, I have to post this for you lot for the name alone. North Korea's Hotel of DOOM.

(Not to be confused with Latveria's Doctor of Doom or Disneyland's Tower of Terror, of course.)

Here, have an "accessibility fail" image macro. Perfect for sending to your DDA-flouting website friends, or any other (real life) instances of accessibility fail.

Today I did a painting, and very tiring it was too.

Giant tiny kitty!!!

I tweeted it as I went, so you can skip back through the stages.

This is fairly obviously an in-joke of some kind. There's a whole anecdote about a toy tiger and a pot plant.

What's Weft saying? Suggestions for caption, please.

*readers should not infer from the word "competition" that there will be any 'prizes' beyond the awesome honour of seeing this heartbreakingly awesome work of ART

(First more-than-quarter-assed attempt at a Shade dragon in a SMALL variant of its polar, pedestrian form. Despite being huge, armoured monsters, they're about the only thing alive that can sneak up on a Weft. This is because they are epic.)

The Inspiration

Awesomeness here via Almostwitty: Fiddling contrast gives you sex!

I guess it sort of makes sense – darker lips look quite female?

The Plan

1. set up shop offering Sex Change While-U-Wait
2. fiddle contrast on before and after photos
3. ???????
4. profit

Hey! Ha ha!

Look what voodoo-vibe posted! (Apologies to AW who'll see this twice…)

HA HA HA HA HA.

First sketch of Sankmarray ninja and pirate (crewpir, not king)

I'm not happy with the pirate — pe needs to be a bit more doggy as well as chimpy — and I still have no idea about head hair growth on either of 'em. Luckily you can't see the ninja's hair anyway, thanks to ner headscarf.

Petpet Park load test = slashdotted. There's a surprise…

Look out, unsuspecting fuzzy omnivorous hulking thing!

A crappy thing I sketched just now without references or owt. The brown animal is unnamed, the others are called fuzzboks.

Drawn for a mate, who wanted evil clowns. For her own reasons. Into which we shall not probe too deeply.

I told her she had to look at the picture while listening to this… which had her, and shortly thereafter me, in fits of giggles.

Send in the clowns! (~200K PNG)

Another artwork post. This stuff is by someone called Jesse McGibney, whom I found through some random Google or other. Here are some nice ones.

Dog tags

Gryphon for Anke and another gryphon too

Lionfish!

Fisher Dragon (never let it be said that I'm a pushover when it comes to blues and greys… oh, all right then)

Some kind of Roman or Spartan cat or something for Vespers

For Ree SHE KNOWS WHY

Hatchling for everyone. Everyone must love.

Butterfly for Anke

Coffee for Snog

Succubus NSFW (nudity, not sexualised, or I wouldn't be linking it at all!)

Some fighty dude in a swamp, I dunno

Funny gunner

Chell and Cube for Slen

I recommend you browse Jesse McGibney's gallery for yourself: he has more, including sketches.

Andrea for Kendime. Two hours, tablet/Photoshop.

Another for the Jack forum art exchange. I skipped it for several weeks; there was a giant panda (one of many things I can't draw), then I forgot for a while.

I thought this girl was a wolf while drawing her, because her owner didn't say and the reference pic was inconclusive, but I suppose given the tail-tip she's more likely to be a fox. Then again, who knows with furries?

lolbackground. Two hours, though.

Just call me Wolffinder General.

Some excellent rounds last night. At one point I finally got to be the Seer, had both the werewolves pegged even before checking… and was promptly torn to pieces after I orchestrated the first getting lynched but before I could get the second. It was great fun just watching the rest of the game, though, as the werewolf deadpanned her way through to the last round before being narrowly defeated by the two remaining villagers. The wolf hadn't even known I was the Seer, she admitted afterwards.

Another time we played "the first person to die becomes the moderator" version. I was the werewolf, but the person taking turn as moderator — my fellow werewolf, killed by lynching because "he was the werewolf the last two times" — accidentally unmasked me. I think I would've got quite far if he hadn't.

I think Slen and Kat are addicted too. We might even bring our mother next time because she sounded interested. (There's precedent. The first time, someone else brought his mum. She was initially bemused, but pretty good. Shame she wasn't there last night.) Mother is a potential threat, though. Slen and I will have to agree a strategy in case we should both be werewolves. Mothers can tell…

After last night, villagers and werewolves are tied for victories. Werewolf is awesome. I'm learning a lot from the experienced players, and I even dared to be moderator once so the game-organiser could play. I didn't screw up, either!

And now a photo I liked: Beauty in sadness
and oooohmydogsocute

Race for 'God particle' heats up. Please nobody shout Foe Yay or post LHC/Fermilab Rule 34 in the comments. This is a classy blog.

As fans of The Daily Mail know, everything in existence either causes cancer or cures cancer (example: Facebook). An extremely scientific study has begun to document these for the good of humankind. I give you The Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project.

Also, grandmother playing Guitar Hero. I recognise the Easy difficulty of Pat Benatar's Hit Me With Your Best Shot, so you can tell I'm about on her level.

edit: some artwork and photography from dA's daily selection. Dog + snow = ♥

For Anke: Hello guys, kitties and something indescribable. And this, even though the corn is wrong and makes me very sick to look at *whimpers*.

Red pandas with an inescapable Now We Are Six vibe, cuddling, cartoony pandas (interesting take on the mask), a portly and catlike take that truly earns their nickname of 'catbear', a slightly more raccoonish-mousy-feline look, unhappy plushie toys, superdeformed legless versions (good face on the left one, though), some clearly drawn by an animator, a gorgeous painting if you excuse the love heart, NINJA PANDA and hilarity ensuing (I may have posted this one before).

Amazingly enough, there's also a new pangolin since last I looked. And have a cloud pard to round off the furfest.

He is not a kitty. (PNG, 600×400, 58KB)

And yes, his skull's weird. Skull reference for artists and Zuni doll lovers

I think I've got Weft's face (in profile) pretty much cracked now, thanks to help from my parent. I'll plaster it up later tonight and invite feedback.

It's ridiculous how much easier it is to represent people visually if one a visual thinker and able to look at the things. Neither of those describes me, which is basically why I am not an artist.

Whereas if I write "his head is oddly shaped, rising shallowly backwards from a sloped forehead, while his face, wide in bone structure but very lean, tapers forwards at the front; his eyes are disconcertingly huge, he looks perpetually worried and he is by no means beautiful" you have to take my word for it, if you showed me a picture of someone like that, I wouldn't know where to begin describing him.

I live in words and concepts. A picture means nothing to me until it's decoded. I or someone else (and others are better at it than I am) must describe to me what's in it, or it remains a very vague swoosh of colour that slips out of my head.

Let's see… for example, have you seen the Armada Portrait? Think of it. Do you get a mental image of what it looks like? I have a very vague wisp of colour, consisting of a creamy wodge and red hair and a white ball, and a mental description that's more easily put into text than any other format: "squareish painting of a woman [Elizabeth I of England] in a large puffy dress covered with bows, a lace collar standing out around her neck, with red, styled hair. Her right hand is resting on a globe [representing conquering the world], and in two windows either side of her in the background are ships [representing the Armada her dragon smashed]. The colour is bad, as though the painting aged badly." Evidently I've forgotten the mermaid figurehead and the fan in her hand.

On reflection, this could be why I spend so much effort writing image alt text. I use it!

Incidentally, the Armada Portrait is best enjoyed while listening to Ayreon's Dragon on the Sea.