I went by the farmers’ market the other day and a stall had duck eggs for $8-10 a dozen. Buying 36-packs from Walmart is maybe about $1 a dozen. I don’t see it going much lower than that, or higher than $20, though.
For a while now I’ve been fairly convinced that everyday expenditures scale logarithmically with income. The increase is pretty smooth, and tapers off pretty smoothly too.
Perspective, composition, light and shading and textures, and proportions are all things that an introductory class would cover.
Beyond that it’s mostly a matter of doing it more. Draw a certain kind of object, and distort or tweak it in a bunch of ways, and you’ll get better first at drawing that object and a little bit of generalizable stuff.
The era of fucking around is concluded and the era of finding out is yet to come; now is the time of monsters
I like to think I’m a sophisticated materialist bugmensch, thank you very much.
I was reading a scientific article a few days ago about mealworms (of course), and the process by which they extract water from the air. Turns out it more than doubles their metabolic rate just to do that.
So even the biomimetics isn’t going to get us very far on this one.
The kind of solution you’re looking for involves moist soils with high levels of organic matter. That, and using less water for economic activity.