Wing Anatomy Tutorial.
Intended for use as reference for wildlife, fantasy, and science fiction illustrators, this provides diagrams and information about the wings of birds, bats, pterosaurs, insects, and gliding animals.

Digital art tips.
To begin with: save frequently, or the "revert to last save" button may make you cry.

Costume tips.
Nine rules you should always consider when designing or wearing a costume so as to avoid getting stuck in a doorway or falling down the stairs.

How to remove ruled lines from a scanned drawing.
Oh, no! You made a nice sketch on ruled notebook paper... the only way to salvage it is to tediously white out all the ruled lines, right? Actually, there's a quick and easy fix you can do in Photoshop, or in nearly any other digital imaging program.

Other:

The Directory of Geek Codes.
The Geek Code, the Dragon Code, and a zillion others... these Codes were created for use in forum signatures. They're ways of conveying personal information in a brief, condensed manner.

Research into mythology:

Camphus: the sea unicorn.
A sixteenth-century French explorer claimed these obscure mythological creatures lived in the Strait of Malacca.

Ammonite mythology: dragon stones.
Before people understood that fossils were the remains of ancient animals, they explained the spiral-shaped stone shells by a wide variety of myths.

Tannim: "dragons" of the Old Testament.
Tannim is an untranslatable ancient Hebrew word, rendered into English variously as "serpent," "jackal," "whale," or "dragon," depending on context. (Page currently down for maintenance.)

Persian dragons.
Although little-mentioned in most books about dragons, Persian dragons are distinct from European and Asian dragons.

Otherkin and Therianthropes:

The Catalog of Non-human Communities.
What do furries and therianthropes have in common, and what sets them apart from each other? Can otherkin find kindred spirits in the starseed community? There are groups of people out there who have similar ideas to you, but you can go a long time without ever running into them.

The Otherkin and Therianthrope Book-List.
When searching for self and like-minded people, don't limit your explorations to the Internet. Although shy, we've been around longer than that: not only are there books already in print about us, but some of them are award-winning classics.

The Glamourbomb Book-List.
Glamourbombs are generally harmless, although they may blow someone's mind. When seeking inspiration to create your own faery pranks, study some literature and films from this collection.

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