A1B1

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[–] A1B1 1 points 1 year ago

Hey, thanks :)

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[–] A1B1 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

About 900 years ago in China humans developed overbites, previous skulls showed biting edges that aligned, more like apes. The same happened in Europe about 250 years ago. The change was too abrupt to be evolutionary, and the times lined up with the adoption of chopsticks (and the precutting of food to suit) in China and the adoption of knife and fork in Europe. The muscles in our jaws need exercise to develop, like any other muscle. Weakness in these muscles, (experiments support) lead to human development of overbites, which is the norm now. https://www.businessinsider.com/using-cutlery-has-changed-the-human-face-2015-3?r=US&IR=T That may mean if we raised our young on a tougher diet without cutlery or precutting most of that overtbite would not develop and our facial structure would look quite different. And an even less chewy diet would exaggerate the overbite further, over timescales much shorter than evolution takes effect, i,e. It would be a developmental structural change capable of being reversed, not a genetic hereditory change.

[–] A1B1 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for taking the time to think about it.

[–] A1B1 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks! The glow is a combination of glazing pyrrol red and vat orange over a very pale primary yellow and putting it next to darker, flatter and greyer colours. Sneaking in some quinacridone magenta always seems to work some kind of magic, over red it make it a really punchy red srifting to purple with more layers. Then i made sure i spread the colour into the objects, and up past the edges of the horizon. Vat orange punches above its weight in glow.

[–] A1B1 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks! I wanted to capture the glow you get when the sun is low behind things :)

[–] A1B1 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks I wanted to make this one glow!

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[–] A1B1 1 points 1 year ago

I'd feel more at home if you asked for it as an N*T

 

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