The Many Meals of MicroraptorConsidering how amazing it is that we have such a wealth of variety in Microraptor gut contents now, I thought it pertinent for a blog entry about my thoughts on the matter, and what information we can infer from it.Click for blog entry: http://willoughbyart.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-many-meals-of-microraptor.html
Tutorial - How To Be SuccessfulI am a winner.What makes a winner a winner, Allen?We do it!Do what, Allen?We just do it.We do it, and do it, and do it, and do it until the job gets done.We are excited, enthusiastic and passionate. And we stay that way for however long it takes us to win...:: I'm a leader ::..When I was a mid-teenager, I was captaining a private research vessel through three oceans to study wild dolphins up close. I was still young, and it was a vessel I did not own nor steer. But I plotted its course, I did the main research, and my word to stop or go was the word to be listened to. However, it needed 12 years of training with (wild) animals,
Quick Tips: On Referencing AnatomyReference from real life whenever possible.When you reference or copy from another artist's studies/sketches/art, you may be copying their mistakes as well. Furthermore, an artist's studies are their notes and --just like with history or chemistry notes-- copying someone else's notes will not help you fully understand the material. To completely understand anatomy, you must take your own notes and build your own understanding through observation.This is probably a no-brainer for many artists but... ~scruffynerfherder and I were talking about this last night, and with the increase of "anatomy studies" showing up on dA's front page, it's been on my mind. DA's resource category has some great material, but I also feel like there is a lot of misleading information taught by amateurs who really probably shouldn't be teaching things like shading or anatomy, because they have a less-than-stellar grasp on it themselves. I'm not trying to knock anyone here, but it's a bit tr