This particular hippo is from www.cool2bkids.com because It had step by step instructions that most closely fit the image in my head. I shall have to look at some actual pictures of them and see what I should do differently next time. I know I need to work on the legs, why are legs so flipping difficult? And after yesterday's attempts at a face, I suppose I should work on faces some as well. I have a nifty book from My mom about faces body, and one from my friend S about figure studies. I shall have to try doing more from both of those at some point. But I also want to find more/better help for animal legs because those seem to be a particular trial for me.
I have not done much book/media wise lately because I hvave been spending way too m much time on Facebook, but I have listened to some more of The Raven about Jim Jones, and he was not a good kind of freak early on. I also wonder about how people can make themself so ecstatic, I don't think I have ever felt the heights of emotion that many people describe during religious or such experiences, even with the help of drugs! And I have been going to sleep with Nalini Singh's stuff lately. OH!!! I lie!! I just remembered that I stayed up way way way too late reading a book that appeared on my kindle in this last week I think, Two Rogues Make a Right by Cat Sebastian. Which I enjoyed even more then I normally enjoy her books. One of my niggling issues with some of her books is that there does not seem to be much acknowledgment that females can have non-mainstream sexual desires, ie that a female might not want to have sex with a guy. I think that is a side effect of many of the characters being isolated from relationships where female desires are actually discussed, which makes sense in the context of the books, but, it managed to bother me nonetheless. However, in this one, which is a M/M regency type story, where the one of the two protagonists is talking with his aunt about getting married, and how it would not be fair to the woman, his aunt rather delicately mentions that there are women out there that perhaps don't want to have relations with a man and yet still need to get married, I almost cheered! Like I said, it really is not important, it just is one of those things that tends to bug me in a fair amount of "lgbt" story. So much of it seems to focus on m/m stories that it bugs me. Now, I think that is because a lot of romance stories are sold to straight women, and the assumption is that they are willing to read about m/m stories, but not w/w or otherwise stories. Which is probably a fair assessment of the reading audience. I hope that changes.
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