Little Shishamo Thief (2023) By Porcelainbiscuit

I have made a new animated creature video!! I hope you like it!

How to make a tiramisu, step 1: dip your lady finger finch in coffee

It's a bird soaking in coffee camouflaging as latte art (◡̀_◡́)

i like that they're called java finches cuz the brown ones look like coffee

"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

Claude Monet's Nympheas, a study

A study of colour and texture. Also done to try out CSP'S brushes :) and get familiar with a digital colour wheel

8 September, 2023

I finally downloaded CSP and made these two cat angels based off a reference image I found on the internet. I played around with CSP's brushes (you can see the default feather brush haha) and overall had a fun experience.

I think the sketch turned out alright, but the coloured version looks rather bland. I tend to have a problem with colouring and I think it's because I always choose washed out colours? And perhaps I need to use more contrasting colours and textures? I suppose the composition can be improved as well -- this is something I struggle with the most (>.<)

I'd like to see how other people would colour and compose this! Here's the lineart if anyone would like to try :) (please tag me so I can see!)

These were the 6 different frames for Biski's blinking animation that I made in Clip Studio Paint. I realized later that 6 wasn't really necessary haha but I got to make a relatively smooth slow blink :D

Another Pangur piece :3 @pangur-and-grim

I made an instagram account >:o

This was my first time animating! Kind of tedious but I learned a lot :D Small changes really do make a big difference in animation

ALSO! I think you have to click on the embedded post here on Tumblr to start the video/animation -- it'll just look like a static picture otherwise

pic i took years ago while driving home from work past the scary snail playground. i stopped in the night and pointed my headlights at it

left hand journal entry #4: wide stance cat oho