Ice Age Children Frolicked In 'giant Sloth Puddles' 11,000 Years Ago, Footprints Reveal

Some people asked how I paint hair, so I made this very simplified explanation, but I hope it helps someone.

The @ is my twitter btw ^~

Just some quick clothing folds, weight, and shape visuals.

Gabriella Mistral nebula by AstroCapetown

Three types of rainforests: Boreal, Tropical and Temperate.

Supernova Remnants © Chandra

my color tips pdf is now available ! i had a lot of fun with this, i hope you enjoy ^^

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The Clearest Images of Jupiter ever taken

These beautifully real images are some of the closest images of Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. The original image was captured by JunoCam, the camera on NASA's Juno mission in orbit around Jupiter. This image was taken on Juno's 22nd close pass by Jupiter on Sept. 12, 2019 with image processing done by Prateek.

📸: NASA's Juno Space Probe / JunoCam

IC 342: Hidden Galaxy

"IC 342 is a challenging cosmic target. Although it is bright, the galaxy sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s galactic disk, where the sky is thick with glowing cosmic gas, bright stars, and dark, obscuring dust. In order for astronomers to see the intricate spiral structure of IC 342, they must gaze through a large amount of material contained within our own galaxy — no easy feat! As a result IC 342 is relatively difficult to spot and image, giving rise to its intriguing nickname: the “Hidden Galaxy.” Located very close (in astronomical terms) to the Milky Way, this sweeping spiral galaxy would be among the brightest in the sky were it not for its dust-obscured location. The galaxy is very active, as indicated by the range of colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, depicting the very central region of the galaxy. A beautiful mixture of hot, blue star-forming regions, redder, cooler regions of gas, and dark lanes of opaque dust can be seen, all swirling together around a bright core. In 2003, astronomers confirmed this core to be a specific type of central region known as an HII nucleus — a name that indicates the presence of ionized hydrogen — that is likely to be creating many hot new stars."

Image and information from NASA.

HOW DO YOU SHADE THE GOLD PARTSS???? PSLSPSLPSLPSLS

You don't have to take my word as gospel but these are the things I found that work well: ♡

(Please excuse grammatical errors I wrote this with a headache-...)

In my personal experience and process with gold, I find that these few things help me a lot when tackling it:

-whenever you approach gold it's important to asses the medium in which the material presents itself. The two options are the metal itself and any type of golden fabric.

-the shading process for me begins right from the sketch, when mapping out the gold accessory, object or the accent on a piece of clothing I try to get the shape of it to make sense.

It's most important, with golden fabric, to know and imagine how it falls arround and wraps arround a silhouette or body parts, if you want to figure out shading.

-So, when we speak "golden clothing" it revolves arround very sharp shadows, lights and reflections mainly becouse of fabric wrinkles. Golden clothing is pretty easy once you understand the nature of your material-☆

And the rules apply to any other colour!

Original Yellow hue

♡Same rules apply♡

So if you want you can structure your lights and shadows in black, white and grey! It works well to start off if you're not confident with colours as gold can be tricky in that regard...

GREYSCALE- can help you better understand the intensity of lights and shadows in contrast with one another:

You can then focus on colour later after you set up your values.

You'll notice with gold pieces that are much less clothing and much more metal the shadows alter from soft to sharp depending on the physical structure of the object itself.

If you encounter smooth curves it's soft, when it's sudden cuts or edges it's sharp.

Important to keep in mind:

-Gold is a metal = metals are REFLECTIVE.

Metals will reflect light aswell as colours.

They will especially reflect ☆colorful lights.☆

You must always, always, know where the light source is, and how it hits the object/ material.

That's it for now but if you want a more detailed step by step process just ask ^^☆

-Nix🌙

Deltoid animated study, this muscle helps raising the arm!