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Hey , all you folks who are interested in animal skulls... I was looking at my skull collection and noticed: Every prey animal I have: deer, antelope, sheep, goat, horse, camel (but not rodents or marsupials) have enclosed eye sockets, including primates. Every carnivore skull I have, that I looked at ( can't find the badger and skunk) has open eye sockets, except the meerkat and the ferret. The only other mongoose I have ( a binterong) and the other "weasels" I have ( related to ferrets) have open eye sockets too.
So I wonder why the difference? What about their lifestyle would require closed eye sockets?
Maybe because meerkats are prey animals as well as predators, they have some of the same characteristics as other prey animals??
"Open eye sockets" means that the place the eyeball sits in the skull is not completely surrounded by bone.
So I wonder why the difference? What about their lifestyle would require closed eye sockets?
Maybe because meerkats are prey animals as well as predators, they have some of the same characteristics as other prey animals??
"Open eye sockets" means that the place the eyeball sits in the skull is not completely surrounded by bone.
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Its April 4, 2023 and I'm still wrangling with page 164 of Rueday. It is giving me a lot of trouble! I have the most trouble with fitting one entire "nugget" of the story onto one page. I really should have made the page format of my Graphic novel larger when I started. Too late now! I also can't draw my own characters.That is kinda weird isn't it?
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Hi ! Just a note here to apologize for not responding to the "requests" section on the "new notes" chat feature. There is too much weird spammy stuff on there! I do read the notes that are under "General".
I work totally backwards
Do you have an atypical way that you go about creating comic pages?
REAL comic artists have the dialogue written out exactly, then form the art around it so it fits!! I work totally backwards. It's so stupid! when I do a comic page I do all the art first, then scramble to figure out the words I am going to use from maybe paragraphs of dialogue. Visuals first, then get the words to fit? This is a REALLY dumb, weird, bassackward way to work, but I can't seem to break the habit!
I keep saying to myself .. OK THIS time I will have everything written out and ... and... oh, I don't feel like writing it out now. Later. Here's a cool picture.
Anyw
Welp, maybe next week for page 53!
I find I am much happier with a troublesome page if I let it "soak" for a while.
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Yeah, as far as I know it comes with needing to move the eyes differently-- birds have an unnattached ... I think it's called an 'occipital ring' that has to do with how they see, and what their eyes need to do. I rarely see my cat move her eyes- if she wants to look, she tilts her head accordingly, whereas I've seen wild birds look me up and down with their little eyeball. We have totally enclosed eyes and we as humans have pretty flexible eyes, so I imagine it's something like that.