honestly i think something fleshy is Way More plausible but i really like the fluffy idea because it has the potential for this
ALSO hey theres a bunch of asks from the T W O W E EKS because ive been slackin and if you sent me a message in that time and i never answered theres a GOOD CHA N CE its in this huge terrible mass, this bucket of sardines, theres like 80 in there
i also need to. address and apologize for a really old post i made almost four years ago and had completely forgotten about, but was recently confronted with again a few days ago
the post in question was a comic panel from the series tails gets trolled, and if youre familiar with that you might have an idea about where this is going
four years ago was about the time i started up this blog and still unlearning a lot of small-town bubble shittyness, and quite frankly i was a really vile person to be around, in that awful way that people can be when they dont think that their “jokes” are actually hurting anyone
and back then i started reading through tails gets trolled, and posting up different panels from it over here. one of which was this one ( n-slur warning, like parts of it are asterisked out but there it is, blood warning ) and at the time i thought it was fine ( the post i put up itself was deleted immediately once i remembered it existed )
BUT theres no excuse for diminishing the impact and history behind that word, something that people still have hurled at them every day in very serious hate, often accompanied by the threat of or ACTUAL violence - and while i havent been a person who finds that kind of casual use of slurs in a seemingly “harmless context” ok for a VERY long time, it doesnt excuse that at one point i was, and was definitely old enough to have known better
however long ago it happened, it still HAPPENED, and i completely understand if anybody cant. forgive it. its not something that id forgive either, and im so sorry if anybody saw the panel floating around before now and thought they had YET ANOTHER shitty white person to endure. im so sorry
ALL in my experience with wasabi and from talking with other iguana owners, they tend to calm down a LOT once they mature and stop being. under three feet long
theres really only a certain length you can go in training em, and a lot of that has to do with just acclimating them to your presence and Persistent Bothering, but there ARE iguanas that never really become friendly with people, no matter how much time you spend with em ( generally males )
if theyre still trying to whack you with their tail when you approach, it means youre scaring the hell out of them, and you gotta give em space. try not to handle them if you can avoid it, and make sure you approach them when theyre higher than you, if possible - as a tree dwelling species theyre gonna be a lot more comfortable being the highest thing in the room
just keep your movements slow and steady around em, and pay attention to body language - wasabi still gives me Angry Eyes and occasional headbobs when i mess with her, but she hasnt actually been aggressive towards me in years
this is all i got off the top of my head BUT theres a lot more about it on this website right Here, and good luck !
id have to go with the poodle ON a grubs body, because in the insect world not a lot STAYS as a grub, which leaves the potential that maybe eventually the poodlegrub could transform its terrible writhing worm body into something more appealing, like a poodle beedle (peedle)
ive never met one but they seem alright. tell em to come hang out sometime
think of it like making it safe for a giant awful baby with a tail - anything fragile or breakable, keep em on high shelves that cant be reached through climbing, otherwise theyre going right on the ground
your furniture is gonna get clawed !! its inevitable !! wooden surfaces either gotta be covered with something, or make em cheap as hell so it doesnt matter when they get torn to bits
try going around and looking for ANY potential spaces they could wedge themselves into and get stuck - im talking the backs of bookshelves, the undersides of low tables, all of those crannies, and block em off. even ones that seem like theyd be too small. theyre not. theyre not too small
keep the floors clean as hell, because a lot of larger species get around by tasting everything, and it sreally ffucking awful to turn around and see your iguana eating a feather, a ffuckgin feather, nothing happened but i dont wanna see that again
bud ive been drawing for Ever, for my entire gotdang pencil holding career, but the E A R L I E S T drawing i have is. of a spider. at age six. i think. but the thing its in is in storage somewhere, and the earliest image i have On Hand is this one from me at nine or so h hah haha look at this
ive actually got a little chronology post right here that i gotta throw some more examples on sometime because like ALL of em are dragons, almost all of em
i DID NOT but i looked em up !
this is all i need to see im sold
ayy this one ? i get almost all my hats from the Hat Website, which sells other things that… .… … … … … . Arent Hats i guess
i can Only Dream of achieving such high ranking hat privileges
Y E A H ive heard theyre a PRETTY BIG pest problem in florida, goin around and tearing into peoples gardens, dropping at random from trees, all kinds of Lizard Shenanigans, enough so that people have entire websites dedicated to iguana removal
which is probably the reason theyre. banned. from a lot of island type places. like all of australia
JOKES ON YOU BUDDY IVE ALREADY D O N E O N E
i GREW UP with redwinged blackbirds ok i think they sound ? ? kinda nice. who sent this. i bet this was a frog. listen bud i know youre probably not too happy they keep eating you n your family but ff fucck ok. i. i take it back the one in the video im listening to just made some really fucked up noises you were right hh ha hah a
ive been here for a thousand years, unchanged, unmoving, regretting ( but i havent changed my url ONCE except for temporarily twice during like. holidays. i was skeletonmouth and iguanabones for two different halloweens ahahah )
a hh h honestly im probably gonna take a break from plant based dragons after the whole set of fruit ones i did a while back, but this is SUCH a cute idea ill definitely keep it in mind ! !
Finally Someone With Good Common Sense, And Paper Cuts On The Roof Of Their Mouth, Which mean the Same Thing
ohohoh my g od this is such a relief every time i get a binary message its usually something about power rangers vhs tapes and YES you CAN just come on over this weekend, bring green beans
how many can you carry on your body at once without collapsing
HH H EY THANK YOU EVERY BO DY i never know what to say to messages like these but i SEE ALL OF EM even the ones i didnt put in this clump and i appreciate the hell out of em tthank you, again, im repeating myself, thankyou
oh yeah go ahead for both of em, as long as theres proper credit for the second one ! ALSO IF ITS a multi-panel thing you gotta, you GOTTA make sure its in the right order,,, someone threw up my ancient “something about memories” comic on imgur a million years ago but with two panels in the Wrong Order and it actually makes me wince to think about, i even made an account to contact the poster like HEY PLEASE…. PLEASE SWITCH THESE but to No Avail
aa ahaha i cosplayed bonnie a while back ! ! like way back. back before there was a second game even. look at this thing
A H H HONEST L Y ive got some weird arbitrary tumblr rules ive sorta boxed myself in with ONE OF WHICH is that i have to answer most the asks i get in addition to finishing a few drawings otherwise everything just snowballs into this huge unmanageable clump
but the THING IS is that. the more stuff i put out, the more people wanna talk to me, and the longer it takes to actually be back on here without feeling weird and shitty about it and YEAH its pretty stupid and its impossible to talk about it casually because WOW what a ffuckign hardship !!!! people TALKING to you ????? holy SHIT must be ROUGH but at the same time im mostly just. tired
fuf fu ck ok i was. there is ONE photo i always use for asks like this its The One with ffuckign starry night painted on my face from three years ago but this is a new laptop and the image isnt ON HERE so i tried just. google searching the post and i found this image with it stretched out someone submitted to me thanks, THANKS
make your betta take this “whats your fish name” quiz
i ha d to draw a snail for someone else today and this was it im so rry this is, probably not the right snail for this particular job you better just give em the wallet
im not exactly sure ! itd be pretty silly to assume that theyd experience taste the same way as humans, when a lot of other animals dont register sweetness at all (cats included)
the amount of tastebuds an animal has is also dependent on their diet - herbivores tend to have more tastebuds to distinguish between poisonous or harmful plants, while a carnivores diet is pretty much just Meat, and requires less finesse
theres not a whole lot of research thats been put about this topic which is an OUTRAGE but it looks like while the overall amount of tastebuds most lizards have is pretty poor, they tend to be larger in ones with fleshier tongues ( like iguanas and geckos ) and completely absent in monitors, so its not a stretch to say that little gecko WAS picking up something they liked in there
PLEASE RESPECT YOURSELF
hoo boy i dont ac t u a l ly .… . . follow a lot of art-reference type blogs, because my learning style is “fumble incompetently through everything with no help like a big stubborn tool”
BUT i do have a big list of some of my favorite artists on here, which might be useful ?
IM DRAWIN A BLANK HERE but if i DIDNT answer it and you didnt see it in one of these messes i mightve deleted it because it was a drawing request, and if i dont like em or put em in the drafts or put em in HERE they get … erased
if you Really want something answered you gotta come off anon for it tho
aaahaha i DO have a little one right here but honestly just. throw it at me. write your question on a little piece of paper and crumple it up. aim for my head
a h h it depends on the amount of detail involved, and things like that ! im not actually accepting any more commissions at the moment, but HERES my general pricing post, just to keep things in mind !
Dont Worry About It
THE DEED IS DONE i whispered it into her head hole because thats how lizard ears work
spend all your money on arizona tea and build a little house with the empty bottles and then invite me over when youre done ( this will not make you less sad but you WILL have a tiny house )
im not sure what this means but thank you
ayy what the hell thank you !! WELL initially getting started is a matter of just getting the right materials, and then just putting in the time to get comfortable with em - fireapaca and gimp are both free to download, and theres an older version of photoshop thats free to download if you make an adobe account first ( which i can hook you up with if you need it )
as for tablets, wacom is probably the best known brand, but theres a LOT of different varieties under the label. my favorite that ive used from them was the intuos 4, BUT pretty much all of em have the same basic features, and theres other brands that are also just as good ( ive heard some nice things about monoprice especially )
ONCE you got everything set up, its gonna take a lot of experimenting before you actually figure out what youre doing, so be patient with yourself at the beginning and. for a long while afterwards, if were being real - progress is gonna come at a slow rate, and sometimes itll feel like youre not getting anywhere, but you are !
i ac tu ally dont use any special brushes besides the one that came with photoshop im PRETTY BORING when it comes to different tools, its like the same three things over and over again
honestly theres not a lot i can say that doesnt boil down to “DO IT TIL YOU STOP HATING IT” BUT especially early on, get comfortable with using layers and figuring out how they work. theyre the Main Advantage of digital drawing besides being able to undo shit
i especially recommend starting with things youre already comfortable with drawing traditionally, and just seeing the differences between the mediums ( for me it was dragon heads over and over for like the first week )
pen pressure, different tools, different brushes, theres a TON of different things youve to figure out what you prefer when you first start, so just spend a bunch of time messing with different settings and learning what does what ! ive had photoshop for like 8 dang years and im still finding out stuff about it. good luck !
listen friend height isnt everything., what really matters is the size of your heart and mine is massive, and takes up 70% of my body weight, and is bursting out of my body at all times
who glued seaweed to this poor horse
just this one SIKE ITS ANOTHER IGUANA !!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you for your commitment to furthering scientific knowledge
my initial reaction. is. a sympathetic high five where neither of us meets the others eyes. because that never really goes away, ive found, even when things are goin Relatively Good theres still gonna be some part of you like “maybe i should Just Die
™”
man im just some rando on the internet but heres my slice : im glad im sill around most of the time, even a few years ago when things were a lot bleaker and i thought it wouldnt pick up, but it DID, it just took its sweet fucking time about it
so maybe thats how it is for you right now, and you gotta ride through this until things start turning around ( it DOES HELP when you have something to pass the time with though - im not gonna spout some garbage about “finding hobbies” because theres always periods where its impossible to muster up anything positive, or negative, or Anything, but if youre reading this it means youre still here despite all of that, and theres always more potential in life than in death)
W E L L defecation on whatever is bothering you is a pretty common move for a lot of animals (like vultures will just shit and vomit at you until you leave ) - i think its less common in lizards, who usually have the tail drop as their main deterrent, but a LOT of smaller non-venomous snakes will rub their nasty snake leavings all over your hands if you try to grab em
thank you she eats other cats to gain their strength
stop looking at things with dicks thatre big red lizards, and eventually the two will stop associating in your mind
oh MAN heres a story in exchange lets make this a fair trade : when i was growing up i was babysat by someone named JUDY and. all of the kids were regulars so we all knew each other - one week there was a spider in an inopportune spot on the swingset but instead of taking it down we all collectively named it charlie and sangs songs about it ( not good songs ) despite everyone being like 8 and too afraid to actually go near it and then for like two weeks afterwards every spider we saw was “charlies baby”
this sounds like a lot of bullshit and charlies probably dead so they cant back me up here youll have to take my word for it
remove a finger or toe of your choosing at the beginning of every week to stave off the illness curse that plagues you while still taking charge of your own destiny ( note: only lasts up to 20 weeks)
WHO keeps asking me my opinions on monsters theres almost no way its not going to be a positive response. bring on the ghosts. send in the goblins. cover me with poltergeists. let a wraith caress my greasy face
this all sounds good except you forgot to mention i have the smallest hands to body ratio of any living creature on earth
honestly what else kinda response you want other than a resounding Yes i mean even if they werent This little racing stripes cutie
their incredible reproductive system would be fascinating in and of itself - i dont wanna write a WHOLE BIG THING ABOUT IT but the gist of it is that every member of this species is female, and while they CAN crossbreed with closely related whiptails, their main bit is just making. clones of each other through parthenogenesis, no copulation needed ( but all the lizards still enage in it anyway)
theres a little article about the whole thing Here, if anybody wants to read a little more
Well Youre Not Wrong
i did im so proud they ALSO went into space, much more successful than my endless scores of other frog children
my thoughts on this are just “aaaaaaaaa” every second i have to look at this face holy shit
this is so cute i WISH someone in the future does a hoard of spirits that sounds like a lotta fun to draw
well for me, a “natural style” is just whatever way comes easiest to you when you try to draw - whatever way feels the most comfortable. and the thing about THAT is that that means its generally not too difficult to intentionally change your style to reflect some other way, as long as you practice enough to where the unfamiliar becomes something regular and more natural for you !
im actually pretty frustrated with the way i draw almost A L L of the time, because its really difficult for me to do things without heavy lines, but ive been workin through it ! and even though you might be unsatisfied with where youre at stylistically now, eventually you WILL reach a place where youre more satisfied with how things turn out, even if it takes forever to get there
INCREDIBLE
im so jealous honestly ive wanted chickens again for Years but my tiny tiny apartment can barely hold wasabis mass and theres no room for shitbirds, please… … .. . kiss them for me .… . ..
ahh these are all GREA T but the thing is, all of the hoards are commissions, not suggestions ! i CAN let you know that the next one up is gonna be nightmares, which is Very Open to Interpretation
WHERE…………….. DO YOU LIVE
hh hahah YEAH that happens if theyre not properly socialized around other people ( or just particularly aggressive - some green iguanas never really get comfortable around strangers ) there was a BOX TURTLE in my elementary school growing up and one person a week got to feed em a strawberry it was a Big Event but not as exciting as your Threat of Whipping
ayy welcome to this festering disaster of a website heres How To Show Things
SO you can either submit the photo of em to me through the submit box ( i took my submit button down to save space but the box itself should still be open, you just gotta type /submit after my url because i love things taking an extra three seconds longer )
and THEN if you select submit a photo, you can show it to me that way ! OR you could post it and tag me in it, and itll show up in the iguanamouth tag, OR you could post it and @ me ( type @ and then immediately type afterwards to notify someone - HOWEVER this shows up on the dash like a note and once its been pushed through i cant see it anymore ) O R R you could post it and send me a link directly, either through submit again or through the chat system !
this bug
ahahah ayy thank you !! i really regret not animating this years but i was RUNNIN OUT OF TIME glad you werent here like a year ago i used to be Way shittier about the things i made because its impossible for me to be happy
i DO and her name is .…… .. wasabi
shes a little under seven years old now and her favorite activity is knocking things over
ayy yeah go ahead ! I M I G H T not catch it in time to actually SEE the tag, but the ones i do see i definitely appreciate h ell yeah
ahhh this is SO CUTE ahaha and dont worry, your english was fine ! im the last person whos gonna crack down on someone for Incorrect Grammar or something i think we ALL deserve a huge rapidly growing bowl lizard
ayy ive seen these before ! theyre pretty interesting but Not As striking as the leafy sea dragons, i think
oh yeah im fine with it ! provided i get to … see a picture … . . when its all over. you gotta show me a photo. i wanna see it. lemme see what horrors ive wrought
ahh i HAVE ! im sorta super nervous about people actually. watching me draw in Real Time though ill probably start with speedpaints before i do anything like That
what would they even BE though like. Shitty Drawings I Have Done In The Past. this one has a horse with a dog mouth in it. this one is a goblin shark with high heels. this ones pull the trigger piglet. incredible
Please Learn From My Mistakes
OH
OH MAN
AND FROM THE BACK !!!
it is Yours
after pooping i immediately pupate into a large silk cocoon where my body completely liquefies over a period of three months before emerging as a giant silvery moth, after which i am largely nocturnal and survive for three weeks before dying
id save a lot of money on contacts is what would happen. id never trip and hit my head EVER. E N D L E S S C A R T W H E E L S
tthank you for bringing my attention to this giant angry birdman
Your Teacher Was Wise Beyond Their Years