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How to Improve your Cat and Dog Drawings With One Tip

Kirbi Fagan

Mastering the subtle differences in cat's and dog's head structure is a small shift that makes a big impacts on your drawings and paintings. With this tip in mind, you'll start to see your animal drawings gain more accuracy and personality

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Eranos and the Archetype Database

Lauren Panepinto

July 10, 2025 - Last month I did a long post about how to not rely on Google images to do your image research — for a lot of reasons, including originality, accuracy, and avoiding AI sludge filling up search engines. The short version of the post is to start using better/vetted databases. And one I forgot to add is worth a whole post in itself, for the kind of things we do in fantastic art. Let me introduce you to the Eranos Archive. The Eranos Foundation was an archive started by a student/follower of Carl Jung, who I've talked about many times here. His body of work was the human subconscious and unconscious, and the archetypes that recur in human art, religion, dreams, and stories over and over again. I've talked about both him and Joseph Campbell, who…

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