with how things are going today i felt like it might be fun to draw a jolly roger sticker/flag. its partially in response to today's bullshit (wip obviously, feel free to draw your own with your own slogan too if ya wanna, tag it: #NoAiJollyRogers)

As happy as I am to see my work make cameo appearances in YouTube vids and stuff the lack of credit always stings. 🫩 my websites tos page has instructions on how I’d like to be credited too…

Suzuri-No-Tamashii - [Yokai] - A Haunted Akama-Inkstone, the stone overflows with waves of ink, tiny samurai battle! Either the grudge by those that drown at "Dan-no-Ura" ..Or perhaps it was the talents of the calligrapher who wrote "The Tale of Heike” countless times samkalensky.com/products/suz...

Wire Gremlins - [Aviation Gremlin] - Low altitude gremlins, known to pluck the telephone/power cables surrounding air fields causing them to become invisible just as a pilot comes in for a landing.. They also cause mishaps on base by 'organizing' cord 'jungles.' samkalensky.com/products/wir...

Yoro-no-gakuya - [Yokai|Tsukumogami] - Bunraku puppets used in Kanadehon Chushingura (47 Ronin) it's said that every night past 3:AM the dressing room would come to life & they'd battle it out just like in the play. Perhaps they where enchanted by the actors talents.. samkalensky.com/products/yor...

The Orance - [Fearsome Critter] A nondescript critter from the Ozarks. Sometimes described as a 'orange-gold' wampus cat with two pairs of legs. Whenever it is hunted, it attempts to run, but It ends up going nowhere fast, as its legs move either which way, at once! samkalensky.com/products/ora...

Sushi insanity continues~ BEHOLD MY GUNKANMAKI FLEET!!! I posted like nine? new nigiri stickers today; each has a bite sized biography, so do check em out: samkalensky.com/product-cate...

Today I logged in, opened social media read some comments, immediately felt like tearing off a robots head, so I did!!!! 8D - 🚫🤖 - Nab one here: samkalensky.com/products/sup...

This really is it, this is the part that keeps me raging against the machine. Every day of my career I’m shoulder to shoulder with incredible people, pouring their skill & point of view into the work they do, making choices that amaze and delight me. Frame by frame, drawing by drawing…that’s THE job

I think it's about time we stop idolizing people for being the director or "creator" of a project we love unless we see and hear them uplifting their entire teams at every chance. I truly think a lot these creatives aligning with the dark side is them thinking ONLY THEY caused their success.

I hate everything thing about all of this, but most of all hate the fact that there’s a “GenAI Creators Fund,” when 75% of the US animation industry lives paycheck to paycheck and/or can’t find work, and dozens of my colleagues’ original pitched shows have been scrapped

with how things are going today i felt like it might be fun to draw a jolly roger sticker/flag. its partially in response to today's bullshit (wip obviously, feel free to draw your own with your own slogan too if ya wanna, tag it: #NoAiJollyRogers)

⛩️⛩️🦊TEN THOUSAND GATES🦊⛩️⛩️ faces of devils faces of foxes... spring breeze 鬼の面狐の面や春の風 -Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶 1763-1828). Trans. David Lanoue. An afternoon hike amongst the foxes of Fushimi Inari (伏見稲荷大社). Kitsune (狐) are familiars to the 'rice god' Inari Ōkami (稲荷大神). #Kyoto #京都

Rolling indeed.

Never change, Japan

Good reminder that even if you're working with a company full of genuinely good people making promises they intend to keep *now*, all it takes is for those people to leave and be replaced by shitheads for all of those promises to be broken. This happens WAY too much in the arts.

Once prolific artists feel safe going along with AI slop because we didn't come down hard enough on artists who went to bat for NFTs a few years back.

⚠️ DO NOT ORGANIZE ONLINE ⚠️ GO ANALOG. EVERYTHING DIGITAL IS HARVESTED.

Hi! In the light of this news, I've noticed many of my followers & mutuals, who holds values of being against gen AI in creative work, may want to either go unfollow or block @mexopolis.bsky.social, because I do not think they realized they're following him. I figure they might appreicate heads up!

theres nothing "punk" about ai dumbass

This shit is dreck and I'm not scared of AI, what actually hurts my soul is seeing Jorge Gutierrez sell out to this AI plagiarism. I'm so fucking sad. I respected this man and his amazing films and series so much. This one really hurts. Goddamn it. Does he even know how it works? Sigh

yikes :(

Why do AI people always have to use extremely weird and sexist analogies for why its good?

lmao

“Creative breakthroughs happen when visionary storytellers are given access to transformative tools”-- Actually, creative breakthroughs happen when people don't have to drink brown water from data center waste. This is not cool or accessible, this is disingenuous & disappointing.

The word “sellout” has kinda lost its meaning lately but I think we all need to bring it back full force to describe artists who sell their soul to corporate AI-slinging garbage machines for a fat stack of cash.

Eritate-Goromo - [Yokai | Tsukumogami] - The high collared Kimono of the profoundly prideful Tengu King, Sōjōbō of Mt Kurama. After decades of being worn by such a powerful yokai, the robes sprung to life. Perhaps they are just prideful as the Tengu who wore them... samkalensky.com/products/eri...

Shibeamon-Tanuki -[Yokai|Tanuki] - Sumoto Castle's Kabuki loving Tanuki, who would transform into an old man & frequent the Nazaka theatre with his wife, paying with leaves disguised as gold. Sadly he was mauled by guard dogs... Soon, venerated as 'God of theatre!' - samkalensky.com/products/shi...

Chokuboron - [tsukumogami] - A set of miniature sake-cups that were dropped and cracked! After a long time they came to life as little men & began parading as tiny kumoso monks, it is said that they'll appear In your dreams, scolding you after long nights of drinking. samkalensky.com/products/cho...

Kinutanuki - [Tanuki?|Tsukumogami?] - Seemingly, an antiquated 8" roll of silk, which after years of not being tended to or beaten with a Kinuta (laundry mallet.) came to life In the guise of a Tanuki! ...Or is it simply a tanuki in disguise as a bolt of Hachijo silk? samkalensky.com/products/kin...

Have a wip of a yokai also, Ask me anythin’

In Japanese the phrase "hayaoki wa sanmon no toku" (早起きは三文の徳 "waking up early gets you 3 mon") has the same meaning as "the early bird catches the worm"🪱🐦 Mon (文) was a unit of currency used in the Edo period (a bowl of simple soba was about 16 mon)🪙 #Japan #Kyoto

Dark Horse employees have created a petition to help them unionize.

Wake up babe new organized labor in comics just dropped

Bunyan Pigs -[fearsome critters] - The pigs at Ol' Pauls camps were as fat as they were smart: they would dig out of their enclosures & wander into the woods. Inebriated, the Axmen built a non-euclidian fence, poor pigs could never tell if they were in, nor outside! 🐷 samkalensky.com/products/bun...

This one is officially FULL!!. Y'all should take a moment to check all these fantastic beans!!. I was also able to add some peeps to my Dark Art pack, whoo! 🎉 There were plenty of ppl wanting to join, so later on, I'll make a part 2!. I'll see ya guys around! ^w^)/~°•☆ go.bsky.app/8hnuGvp

The Orance - [Fearsome Critter] A nondescript critter from the Ozarks. Sometimes described as a 'orange-gold' wampus cat with two pairs of legs. Whenever it is hunted, it attempts to run, but It ends up going nowhere fast, as its legs move either which way, at once! samkalensky.com/products/ora...

If you figure out what the thing that makes you happiest is, you will make it with such unparalleled enthusiasm that it will be impossible for people not to notice in a way that will be so much more memorable than treating yourself like a branded product before you figure out who you are.

Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have. No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added. go.bsky.app/6DRdowf

Uramaki burger.

Yarikecho - [Tsukumogami] - A war-tassel that was once part of a Kiyari (A ceremonial spear) which broke off after being hoisted by Japan's strongest warrior! Now it charges forth to attack, he always strikes first! Leader of the “Mushroom Purification Squad!” samkalensky.com/products/yar...

Koinryo - [Tsukumogami] - A Tsukumogami made from the 'pelt of a vicious beast' it wears a lacquered Inro box on its head and grips a tiger clawed rake, it is known to suddenly sprint at ridiculous speeds towards its targets! 2nd in the “Mushroom Extermination Squad" samkalensky.com/products/koi...

Zenfushō - [Tsukumogami] - An antique teakettle which sprung to life at an otherwise tranquil Zen Tea Ceremony, It overflows, Splashing all over & leaping about causing a ruckus! Following the example of a certain tanuki. - Final of the “Mushroom Extermination Squad" samkalensky.com/products/zen...

DERASHISHISHISHI. I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING.

Afternoon repost of late night thread

This needs too be normalized at conventions.

Sushi insanity continues~ BEHOLD MY GUNKANMAKI FLEET!!! I posted like nine? new nigiri stickers today; each has a bite sized biography, so do check em out: samkalensky.com/product-cate...

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

Giving her a bit of a redesign for MerMay 🧜‍♀️❤️ (aka I really just want to finish this creature concept oml) #art #creatureconcept #creaturedesign #wip #mermay