Hiddnfox, I'm a 2D illustrator. I can use ink and paint and so forth, but I do most of my work in photoshop. It is not in any way easier to use than traditional media. It requires a whole new set of skills. I recently acquired painter 11 and for the life of me I just can not get used to it.
That said, I hate most book covers these days. They're all the same uncreative cut/pasted stock photos of women's shoulders and feet, maybe with a flower somewhere. They just look interchangeable.
Persephone, I'm sure the dogs were around the same size as the cougar, and even if they were slightly smaller, cougars are pretty flexible.
It is sad that the animal had to be euthanized, but people come first, and a dangerous animal that isn't afraid of people can't be set free. The real problem is habitat. If people didn't feel the need to sprawl, it wouldn't be so bad. But I'm not going to blame these people for what happened to them.
I'm sorry, but what does "she was probably obese, stupid fatass" have to do with anything? Maybe she is!
How does that change anything? Finding out you're pregnant this close to birth is still unusual. It's not like Neatorama posts these stories because they don't have explanations.
Two of my dad's sisters were told when they were teenagers that they could never have children. Shortly after an adoption fell through, the older of them found out she was pregnant. With her second child, though, she didn't find out until she was six months along. She thought she was just getting fat and was cranky about it.
Doctors aren't always right, but that doesn't mean they're always wrong, either. I mean, no one is right all the time. Does that mean no one should trust you?
I also can't believe how many commenters take it as given that a woman's cycle is this hard and fast thing that happens every month no matter what to every woman. My own sister almost never has hers, but I do consistently.
So, I think I covered all the insanity here. Open and obvious fat hate, complete misunderstanding of women's bodies (probably has a lot to do with the fact that women learn to think of their periods as gross and private, and so never talk about them), and distrust of the medical establishment. Oh, right, socialism, bad. *eyeroll*
I have to say... this design is so unoriginal that I don't see how it can be considered a copy. It looks like any number of organisms I've seen, real and imagined, and I've doodled this a million times myself. It's like saying a square can be copyrighted, or a shade of white.
Of course, I could be wrong. It could be an exact replica.
I don't consider myself a purist, but what bothers me is that many people don't realise just how obvious it is in the books that Alice is dreaming. For instance, there's a scene where she's handed a screaming infant, and she just walks away with it, and as she's walking, it slowly turns into a pig, that she then releases into the forest. The whole story starts with Alice falling asleep on her sister's lap on a grassy river bank.
It's interesting to see how many takes there are on the franchise, but I've gotten pretty tired of "Goth" Alice. Or Alice the psychopathic serial killer. And "sexy" Alice, which always involves turning her powder blue dress and white apron ensemble into something incredibly tacky just so that it can be considered more revealing. I always thought that was a fairly uncreative way of rendering the character sexy.
That said, I hate most book covers these days. They're all the same uncreative cut/pasted stock photos of women's shoulders and feet, maybe with a flower somewhere. They just look interchangeable.
It is sad that the animal had to be euthanized, but people come first, and a dangerous animal that isn't afraid of people can't be set free. The real problem is habitat. If people didn't feel the need to sprawl, it wouldn't be so bad. But I'm not going to blame these people for what happened to them.
How does that change anything? Finding out you're pregnant this close to birth is still unusual. It's not like Neatorama posts these stories because they don't have explanations.
Two of my dad's sisters were told when they were teenagers that they could never have children. Shortly after an adoption fell through, the older of them found out she was pregnant. With her second child, though, she didn't find out until she was six months along. She thought she was just getting fat and was cranky about it.
Doctors aren't always right, but that doesn't mean they're always wrong, either. I mean, no one is right all the time. Does that mean no one should trust you?
I also can't believe how many commenters take it as given that a woman's cycle is this hard and fast thing that happens every month no matter what to every woman. My own sister almost never has hers, but I do consistently.
So, I think I covered all the insanity here. Open and obvious fat hate, complete misunderstanding of women's bodies (probably has a lot to do with the fact that women learn to think of their periods as gross and private, and so never talk about them), and distrust of the medical establishment. Oh, right, socialism, bad. *eyeroll*
Of course, I could be wrong. It could be an exact replica.
Too bad it didn't help.
It's interesting to see how many takes there are on the franchise, but I've gotten pretty tired of "Goth" Alice. Or Alice the psychopathic serial killer. And "sexy" Alice, which always involves turning her powder blue dress and white apron ensemble into something incredibly tacky just so that it can be considered more revealing. I always thought that was a fairly uncreative way of rendering the character sexy.
I say that as an Atheist.