MANGA/MANGA MERCHANDISE GIVEAWAY
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PRIZES:
- MANGA:
Bleach “Official Bootleg” (in Japanese)
Bleach vol. 1 - 5
Death Note vol. 3
D. Gray-man vol. 1 - 5, 13
D. N. Angel vol. 1 - 3
DramaCon vol. 1 - 2
FLCL vol. 1 - 2
Gravitation: Voice of Temptation (light novel)
Gunslinger Girl vol. 4
.hack// Legend of Twilight vol. 2
Hetalia: Axis Powers vol. 1
Kare Kano vol. 3
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories vol. 1
Legal Drug vol. 1 - 3
Magic Knight Rayearth vol. 2
One Pound Gospel vol. 2
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo vol. 1
RG Veda vol. 1 - 10
Sailor Moon vol. 1 - 2, 6 - 8
Samurai Champloo vol. 1 - 2
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei vol. 1 - 4
Star Trek: The Manga vol. 1
Tokyo Babylon vol. 1 - 7
Translucent vol. 1
Trigun vol. 2
Uzumaki vol. 1- MERCHANDISE:
L plush doll
Light Yagami plush doll
Edward Elric plush doll
Croagunk plush doll
Large Pikachu plush doll
Edward Elric Pillow
Soul Eater keychain (features Soul on the strap and his motorcycle on the pendant)
Samurai Champloo wall scroll (31 x 43 in.)
My Neighbor Totoro messenger bag/backpack (features different-sized Totoros)
FLCL messenger bag (features Haruko)
Edward Elric figurine (approx. 3 in.)
Alphonse Elric figurine (approx. 4 in.)
Winry Rockbell figurine (approx. 3 in.)
Maes Hughes figurine (approx. 4 in.)
Roy Mustang figurine (approx. 4 in.)
Riza Hawkeye figurine (approx. 4 in.)THIS GIVEAWAY WILL END FRIDAY, JUNE 1ST
(Source: awastrelmescalined)
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Yesterday, I left our little collection in Montana and flew out here to Washington, D.C., to meet with some of the mammalian collections curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. To say I am overwhelmed is a great understatement; in the few hours of the morning I spent touring the 6th level of this enormous facility I only saw the tiniest fraction of the collections. For example, the squirrels occupy a room the size of a small gymnasium, easily 4-6,000 square feet of cabinet upon cabinet full of our friends Sciuridae, with dozens to a drawer. I got to walk through 3 different rooms full of jarred specimens, and one of them alone could have easily accommodated our 3,500 specimens from the UMZM. Most importantly, I was able to discuss some imperative collections management issues with Charles Potter, the collections manager for the marine mammals, and he gave me some invaluable information that will certainly help us in the betterment of our own museum collections. He had some great insights and potential solutions to some of our storage problems, and it was wonderful that he took the time out of his busy day to sit down with me and offer his advice. I am so grateful!
Afterwards I took a quick run through a few of the exhibits, so here are a fraction of the highlights from the Hall of Mammals, and the Vertebrate Osteology/Skeleton exhibit. More to come!
I am so humbled by the generosity and hospitality of all of the staff at the Smithsonian, and being granted the opportunity to tour a part of the museum that the public rarely sees was certainly a highlight of my life. Most importantly it completely validated and reenforced my incredible desire to pursue a lifetime of museum curatorial work, and to do whatever I can to stay in this magical world of wonders!
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Different types of Swords
1. Sword blade from Mycene
2. Persian
3. Egyptian
4. - 5. Leaf-shaped sword (Broze Age)
6. Hilt of a Bronze Age sword
7. Greek
8. Ancient Irish wooden sword
9. Roman
10. 13th Century sword
11. 14th to 15th Century sword
12. 16th Century sword
13. Sword of James IV
14. Two-handed sword
15. - 17. Basket-hilted rapiers, 17th Century
18. Claymore
19. - 20. Scimitars
21. Hilt of a rapier, 18th Century
22. Jewelled hilt of Indian Sword
23. Hilt of a French sword, 17th Century
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UM SURE I can try!!Honestly, a lot of my cuts/scrapes/scruff/whatever is just cross hatching. When it comes to color, for scrapes and tears and stuff, I normally use neutral colors, or just a darker of the color it’s on — on a blue shirt, it would be a darker shade of blue, and desaturated a little bit sometimes even. I normally go and use a color close to the base color, and then do one or two gradually darker colors
For cuts and bruises, I just go with what I’ve noticed on my own skin sobs SO I don’t know how well you can take this for colors. I’ve noticed for myself, that when you first get a nasty bruise, it’s dark and it’s redish/purple. After a few days, it dulls down to a more blueish/purple. Then slowly it goes down to a green, greenish yellow, yellow, yellowish brown, and then back to your skintone.
With cuts, I normally get a bruise around the cut.
UMM Blood is thick, so it pools up a good deal before dripping off something, in my experience.
You’re more prone to get scrapes and scruff things up and cuts around joints, and appendages. Things that you fall on and catch yourself on, or well…use?? Like you use your hands/fingers to pry something open, you’d ram into something with your shoulder/upper arm/elbow. You fall on your knees, etc.
With big cuts and slashes and stuff, remember that it..takes away skin, and digs into you, so it literally takes a chunk out of you??
AND UHH A good way for it too is use a lot of black deep in there. When blood is together, it gets really REALLY dark, and not bright red you want to color it normally. Like, almost dark brown color black. So using a lot of blacks helps.
UHMMM idk it’s a lot of cross hatching and short, quick lines and swipes.
OH AND ALSO!!! Black eyes. Normally, if you get a black eye, your nose also bruises, and your other eye bruises a little unless you get far on the right or far left
AND UHH with bruises, try to avoid straight up circles. Break it up a bit, or it’ll look really fake.
Just a few [of the] references [from different websites] I’ve compiled for making more unique face/body shapes in my characters.
Of course, creative liberty is (and can be) taken on most of these shapes, but anyone who wishes to design a character should at least know that there are many shapes and sizes for characters to be and that can define them.
I encourage making each character, human or animal, unique and identifiable by their silhouettes and profiles when they’re bald and unclothed.
This is really, really helpful for character design.
Tumblr source: tangmelon
Leather Union Jack coat by Impero Leather after Alexander McQueen design
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