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Neelam Gill - Glamour UK November 2015

photos Pawel Psyz stylist Alessandra Steinherr hair Lyndell Mansfield makeup Polly Osmond

Moon pillars are a type of light pillar. Moon pillars occur when the Moon is low enough in the sky to be close to the horizon.  The ice crystals involved are generally flat or columnated, allowing a vertical beam of light to reflect above and below the Moon in a straight line. (Source) 

Chalcopyrite,  Sphalerite

Cu1+Fe3+S2, ZnS

Locality:

Büschhof Quarry (Schretzmair Quarry), Wirtenbach, Waldbröl, Bergisches Land, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 

Image width approx. 3.5 mm

Photo by  Michael Pfeil

A couple people asked me how I vary my leaves and trees and honestly, it’s super easy! I’ve never made a tutorial/guide before so I kept this mega simple but I hope someone out there might find it useful at least!

Also, anyone can download the brushes I use for all my art on my tumblr page (: I only use around 5 so go nuts haha

Derelict Gothic Abbey ~ Jorge Carlos Gonzalez

Just in case you forget this exists.

It exists.

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I’m all for eldritch angels. Hope mine doesn’t disappoint.

I'm pretty new here, and I don't actually know much about dinosaurs (just followed this blog because it seemed really cool and interesting) so could you explain what shrink-wrapped means?

Of course! See, modern animals have a lot of muscles, fat, fluff, etc, and end up looking very little like their actual skeleton. For example, look at how much fluff owls have:

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However, lots of palaeoartists completely ignore this! They basically stretch skin over the bones and call it a day. One especially bad example that was featured on @palaeofail is this poor pterosaur:

It barely has room for its digestive system. It’s definitely missing the air sac system that allows it to breathe. It’s got virtually no muscles on the arms - how does it fly?? - on the head (no wonder its mouth is open. It has no jaw muscles to close it!), on the torso (it needs to flap), or on the legs (walking) It doesn’t have any fat at all, so it’s definitely starving (maybe because it can’t fly or close its moth?). The skin is much too thin; you can see all of the bones and its wing membranes should be much, much thicker. And it’s missing the hair-like pycnofibres that should be covering its body!

Many palaeoartists have started to strike back at this by drawing modern animals like we might draw them if we found their bones:

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[House cat]

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Silver Dagger

Dated: 20th century

Culture: probably Russian

Medium: silver, enamel, gilding

The dagger’s blade features a blue enamel and gilt and Cyrillic “KF” marks with Russian silver stamps.

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