Quick Reminder that handmade hardwood ornaments are 30% off in my shop with coupon code: YULE2025 Valid through Dec 31st after which I'll be taking them down. www.galdrecraft.com/category/orn...

🚚Join us for an Evening on Deck!🌌 We're excited to bring a special event hosted by the Queen Mary on Wed Jan 7th, from 5 - 11pm! Free w/ your ALA Badge! For details, visit: https://animelosangeles.org/events/an-evening-on-deck/ Visit animelosangeles.org/registration to get your badge today! 🏯

Doing one final round of kofi doodle requests to end out the year!! If there's something simple you'd like me to draw (e.g. your OC, a favourite character, a ship you like!) then you can request it on my kofi! It's £13 for a sketch, an extra £7 for it to be coloured in! ko-fi.com/drawsmaddy/c...

If you're new please change your pfp from anything but the default as soon as you're able! We know there's an influx rn but a lot of people are wary of follows from blank accounts because of the history of anonymous twitter access being abusive. It'll be easier to make friends!

you have to love your oc with an overwhelmingly burning passion so that others can feel it too. the joy will radiate from you. the story will tell itself. joy. whimsy. cringe is dead. embracing your art is life ☁️🤲🏾

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

State birds and wildflowers for a friend's Christmas gift to her parents. California, Kentucky, and Oklahoma 🐦🌷

For any Critters coming to Bsky now :) CR artists pack 2: go.bsky.app/NS6c5Wf CR artists pack 1: go.bsky.app/6JtN5QK

Happy Holidays! ❄️🦌⛸️

To all the new users, please, this is extremely important. Tag your adult artwork properly so those of us who have filters set don't see adult content. Mine are set to warn me so I can use this site in public. There are minors on here too! Please be respectful!

Feel unbelievably bad for artists. And extremely alarmed for women. And really anyone who has posted photos on that site. Family photos. Photos of children. My god. A lot of incredibly evil shit is going to be made from this.

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Every artist, get more self indulgent NOW! Draw your ships kissing, draw your blorbos, draw that idea you’ve been putting off (you’re good enough to do it!!!), redraw that old art, draw yourself wearing a cool outfit, draw a better world- just draw!!!

Lazy Nezumi is on sale until the end of the year! Add stabilizers, perspective rulers, scripting, and more to Photoshop, Clip Studio, and your favorite art programs! As an indie dev who almost never advertises, I'd really appreciate if you could tell your digital artist friends! :) lazynezumi.com

If you are a teacher, I beg you with everything I have: Do not inflict "A.i." on your students. Do not make them use this evil tech that could end up telling them to kill themselves. Do not make them use image generators that destroy their innate, human ability to create on their own.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support this past year! 💖 This was this year's festive winter card for those who signed up to receive snail mail art from me~ <3 ❄️ Happy Longest Night ❄️ 🌿 #art #OCsky #LongestNight #WinterSolstice

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

happy winter solstice! here's some old art #art #artsky #wintersolstice

Thank you to everyone for your continued support this past year! 💖 This was this year's festive winter card for those who signed up to receive snail mail art from me~ <3 ❄️ Happy Longest Night ❄️ 🌿 #art #OCsky #LongestNight #WinterSolstice

Happy solstice, everyone, and remember, out of the darkness the light will always return.

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Day 19: Reani. O holy night or something #CriticalRole #criticalrolefanart

End of the Year, so time for a new #artvsartist ( it was a good year for OCs 👍 ) 🌿 #art #ocsky #ArtvsArtist2025

Friends please remember. Be kind to each other You never know what someone is going through in thier life. The happiest people are usually the ones going through so much on the inside. Check up on your friends and family when you can. Even if it’s just a quick hi

I will never, ever, understand people who want to outsource their humanity. Learning how to make something feels amazing. And I mean the whole process, including the frustrating times. Because then you know you MADE it. You can't feel genuine pride in something you didn't make.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

And here's Scorsese's storyboards for the final massacre in Taxi Driver This applies more generally: people seem to think you need to have a background as a Big Two artist in order to do storyboards, but that's not what they're about - they're visual writing. You're writing for yourself AND others

hoping for much more wheee~ than whooo~ in the new year 🫂 🌿 #art #coe33 #expedition33 #ClairObscurExpedition33 #fanart

hoping for much more wheee~ than whooo~ in the new year 🫂 🌿 #art #coe33 #expedition33 #ClairObscurExpedition33 #fanart

I crocheted an abnormal stone cluster from Elden Ring 🪨👁️ #eldenring #crochet

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

Day 10: Jester Lavorre. A candy cane skull cracker. #CriticalRole #criticalrolefanart

I do not want your AI slop I do not want it in my mop I do not want it in my house I do not want it in my mouse I do not like brain-rotting AI spam I do not want it, Sam Alt-man

So since EVERY game studio is using GenAI we gonna see those game prices cut in half right? Oh all while the scope of the game is doubled and you put them out three times as fast? Right? Revolutionary technology! Right? Wait... Where are you going?

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

everyone invest more in human artists now

I mean every word of this with every shred of my humanity.

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Here's how to support human artists! 🎨

Using AI is loser behaviour.

Choose your words very, very carefully now, Swen. What's wrong with lorem ipsum that you have to resort to ML? What's wrong with searching for references & curating it yourself? Instead you make your employees swallow whatever slop genAI spits out AS REFERENCES OF THEIR WORKS? LISTEN TO YOURSELF.

I'm reposting this not for doomerism purposes but because she talks about some ways that you can identify AI images, which people who follow me may or may not already know about

Please I’m begging be careful what you repost. Some good tips here. Assume anything online could be AI at this point. (Especially if it’s meant to evoke a strong emotion or reaction. yes this includes cute animal photos/videos).

The only acceptable amount of genAI usage is zero, IMO.

AI bones are inherently brittle, and anything built on them will rot.

hey, I am not gonna doompost about it necessarily but, a glance around will tell you it's a hard & stressful time for artists, and especially so this year consider dropping a kofi donation, or reposting a shop link, or even just, leave a comment so someone knows you like their work it does matter

Show me 1) a photo reference you took yourself and 2) the art you made from it! Reference making might be one of my favorite parts of the process. Also I misread and thought it said reference you took "of" yourself. Which is why I chose this one in particular 😜

You know what's amazing? Coming home from darling-vacation to the cuuuuutest mail from @ravennowithtea.bsky.social !! 💕🙏 LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTIES!!! A very happy holiday season to you as well and thank you so so much for brightening my long travel day (and more following days!!) with this!!