The Crown of Fingers. I wouldn’t really want to look in there directly. I mean, sure, it’ll make you mighty, but I’m not sure might is all that worth it.
Category: art
The Face of Ashu
The face of Ashu, worn by Umet, high priestess of the People of the River Ashug in the central temple of the City of Ku.
Or does that mask act like you?
Want to know what she looks like at her best? You should definitely read Adabi and the Crown of Fingers!
You should also check out The Fifth World, an optimistic, Solarpunk, post-civilization shared world setting with an RPG, fiction, and art!
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Every Spacer Poops: an Interview with Concept Artist Jeff Zugale
Jeff Zugale is a concept artist best known for his work on video games like BioShock: The Collection and Evolve. He draws spaceships for a living, and I thought maybe we could talk about that. I figured you probably think that’s as cool as I do.
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Ashu, the Ibis of Dawn, Healer of the Sun
Ashu, the Ibis of Dawn, lives in the marshes beside the river Shugal. Each morning, her wings embrace the sunrise that she might guide it across the sky, for the strong right eye of the river Shugal is blind, and may only open with her aid; if she is absent, the strong right eye will close and cast the city and its farms into darkness. Continue reading “Ashu, the Ibis of Dawn, Healer of the Sun”
Iridescence: Evolution’s Love Letter to Color
Iridescence has evolved on Earth several times, as in the nacre of mollusc shells, the feathers of birds, and the shells of insects like beetles.
They all share a common structure: nanoscale molecules that refract different wavelengths of light depending on the angle that the light reflects.
It is very hard to draw.
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Girraffatitanic Butt
Work continues on my Girraffatitan project! I’m getting close to having to make one of these as a sculpture.
The Springheel
Many species of Springheel exist across Trappist 1.3’s continents. Each specializes attracting particular species of Testiflora females and catches them in flight as their primary, and sometimes sole, food source.
The Giraffatitan, often called Brachiosaurus
It turns out that the creature we’ve been calling “Brachiosaurus” — the one with the super-weird nostrils on top of its concave head — is not the same clade as every other one we’ve called Brachiosaurus for the last century. No, the one with the weird nostrils (not, as I was taught, for snorkeling as a submarine gargant, as it would have been unable to breathe with all that water pressure) is now called a Giraffatitan. Which is a pretty wonderful name.
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Finding the Boundary Between Plant and Animal
We have a really exciting opportunity to speculate the crap out of things right now! NASA just announced that not only did it find a solar system, Trappist 1, with seven terrestrial planets, but three of them are in the “habitable zone” where liquid water can exist!
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