
So I've been doing a lot of drawings of Sable and Aster recently, but I realize not all of my followers may know where they're from, so I thought I'd go back to some old work and re-introduce them to the world a little. :)
Sable and Aster are the main characters in a tweenage graphic novel project of mine. Back in 2016 I made the first 13 pages and posted them to http://sableandaster.com/
They got their start a bit earlier than that, though; they were the subject of arguably the first proper comic project I ever made, for my first illustration class in college, in 2013. You can see that here: https://rheallart.tumblr.com/post/55128670022/naming-aster-a-sable-aster-story-finished
After finishing that first comic the characters wouldn't leave my head. So now I have an outline somewhere and tens of thousands of words written for their story which may or may not ever happen. XD Ah, the creative process…!
Their story is currently on hiatus due to my on-going chronic health issues making it difficult to create, but that doesn't mean the project's dead; just delayed a while.
I have a few old drawings of them lying about, here, have a few.
Another little sketch of Sable I did last night.
Not feeling 100% happy with this one, either; something about the face isn't right. (And the waist is too high up/legs are too long, haha.) But other than that, it's not bad! :)
Still getting the hang of drawing on the new tablet. There's always a learning curve! (That and I'm out of practice with drawing anyway, oof )
A little doodle of Sable today. I feel like I never really got Sable's style down, not like Aster. There's always more practising to do!
More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along
#Santa #Barbara’s coastline
served to galvanize the modern environmental movement
and also helped to usher in one of the state’s strongest conservation laws:
the California Coastal Act.
Now, as the Trump administration seeks to encourage oil and gas production within federal lands and waters,
that watershed conservation law is being tested along the same stretch of coastline
— and in a way it never has before.
For months, a Texas-based oil company has rebuffed the authority of the California Coastal Commission
— the body tasked with enforcing the act
— and has instead pushed forward with controversial plans to revive oil production off the #Gaviota #Coast.
Ten years after another spill brought oil production here to a halt,
#Sable #Offshore #Corp. has begun repairing and upgrading the network of oil pipelines responsible for that 2015 spill, without Coastal Commission approval and ignoring the commission’s repeated demands to stop its work, officials say.
“This is the first time in the agency’s history that we’ve had a party blatantly ignore a cease and desist order like this and refuse to submit a permit application,”
Cassidy Teufel, deputy director of the California Coastal Commission, told a packed town hall recently.
A Texas oil firm is pushing revive drilling off Santa Barbara https://www.byteseu.com/897172/ #CaliforniaCoastalCommission #coastline #company #environment #office #oil #OilPlatform #OilProduction #operation #pipeline #sable #SantaBarbara #SantaYnezUnit #state #Work #year
27 août 2024
Coucher de soleil sur sable gros grain
L'océan est un peu plus loin
[Retour sur #Terre ...] Entre terre et mer il y a la plage, le #sable et ses grains de #quartz que le déferlement des #vagues dissout contînûment, alimentant le #phytoplancton en silicium dissous.
Cette nouvelle source de silicium dissous vient d'être découverte par plusieurs chercheurs de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, dont Sébastien Fabre de l'IRAP. Elle s'ajoute à celles que constituent les fleuves, les décharges d’eaux souterraines et les sources hydrothermales.
En quoi la #PompeBiologique, mécanisme grâce auquel l’océan capture et séquestre le #CO2 atmosphérique, s'en trouve-t-elle affectée ? La réponse ici : https://www.irap.omp.eu/2025/03/la-contribution-des-plages-de-sable-au-cycle-oceanique-de-la-silice/
Les algues s'assoupissent
https://k-farnaom.fr/2023/03/29/les-algues-sassoupissent/
#Plage, #Poésie, #Sable, #photographie #photography #photo
D'importantes quantités de poussière de #sable du #Sahara remontent sur la #France ce vendredi, donnant parfois une légère teinte jaunâtre/orangée au ciel, comme ici du côté de #ClermontFerrand.
https://twitter.com/Danieldeclerm/status/1902989887453683772
Un voile nuageux parfois épais remonte sur le pays ce jeudi 20 mars 2025. Il est chargé en poussières de #sable venues du #Sahara et donne au ciel une teinte caractéristique, ici à #Chamrousse.
https://www.meteo-chamrousse.com/
Les quantités de #sable du #Sahara dans le ciel de France atteindront un pic demain vendredi 21 mars 2025, remontant des Pyrénées et du golfe du Lion vers la Belgique. Notre article
https://www.meteo-villes.com/actualites/sable-du-sahara-dans-le-ciel-de-france-jeudi-et-vendredi
Des poussières de #sable venues du #Sahara survolent la France ces 20 et 21 mars 2025. Les concentrations seront plus importantes vendredi. Notre article
https://www.meteo-villes.com/actualites/sable-du-sahara-dans-le-ciel-de-france-jeudi-et-vendredi