The Alchemist Tuesday arrived in no time. The days leading up to it were a blur of work, relaxation outside The Suppression, cooking, and sleeping. The excitement of meeting the alchemist was all Rienna could think about. They rode into town again on the horses, following the road towards the nobles' district. Instead of continuing into the neighborhoods, they turned and began towards a large building in the distance that was the university. As they got closer, they entered a

You do not need to be excellent. The earth does not ask you to be. The trees do not ask  how many dollars you will make of them, and the worms do not ask how fast you travel in your car. The earth just spins, and the worms just crawl. The only thing you need to be is alive. The only thing you need to do  is love how you live. The dogs do not wag their tails at how well you do on a test, and they do not bark  because they do not have time for you. You mustn’t walk through hell

Introduction: Greetings and welcome. The first part of this is called How to Draw Humans part 1 and not a lot of this will make sense without that prelude. I am going to preface this tutorial by assuring you that we will be considering a myriad of phenotypical discrepancies within the human species. Please remember that nature is diverse, and your art should be too. In part 1, we looked at how the body is 1o units long (I’m using centimeters) like this. You might have noticed

People may have a bigger part in the story of biosonar than you may realize. Noise pollution caused by our technologies is putting strain on animals that rely on echolocation. But on a different note, we’re also learning that with practice, humans can also echolocate. So what do these two different revelations mean for the future? Perhaps it would be best to get a better understanding of how echolocation works first. When I think of echolocation, my mind immediately goes to b

Greetings, Earthlings.  The homo sapien is an organism that I’m sure we’re all familiar with. Most famous for being bad at running, swimming, jumping, climbing, burrowing, camouflage and even just making positive contributions to their respective ecosystems; the human animal is usually only redeemed by their remarkable intellectual capability. Now that you can place them, remember all of those times I said, “I will teach you anatomy, but not today”? Well, today actually is th