I always start with face 🤭

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Since the Steam situation is the newest bee in my bonnet ... am I the only one who finds it interesting that after the AAA Industry was freaking out about indie games it is now the two biggest platforms for indie developers to be able to monetize their games that are being attacked?

It's that time again, Dreamers - I'm live on #Twitch for Tenno Tuesday! The Tauforged Goblin Crew and I are taking on Amar tonight, then off to the Netracells for more shards. Come hang out, say hello, and enjoy the shenanigans: www.twitch.tv/hexergraf #Warframe #TennoCreate

Getting back to it. I'm feeling rusty as hell, but I'm happy to get some art in again. So, some Warframe fanart it is. #warframe #fanart #gouache

Quick and very messy sketch of Arthur Nightingale from Warframe 1999.

Bringing this back because this has been my life for the last week:

yeah there's a lot of "create weird art" and not a lot of "your favorite artist can't balance their shitty dayjob and emergency expenses with creating art" or "your favorite artist is burnt out because they've been doing more commissions than personal art for years"

The true meaning of "The Great Despair," and the legit worst part of #Warframe 1999: when you hit Best Friends with everyone, and the daily messages stop coming. :( I'm begging you, DE: don't punish me for doing bounties. T_T @foxsyn.bsky.social suggested this, and it is PAINFULLY ACCURATE. #art

Bit of a throwback, but I am vibrating out of my skin waiting for the #Warframe announcements during the Game awards. My Operator and my version of Ordan Karis.

Tonight's quick reminder: if someone posts a creative work, do not offer your critique unless the creator explicitly asked for it. Unsolicited advice is criticism, always.

If you're an author or musician, don't bother following me if you have a generated AI banner or icon, I'll just block you. I'm not interested in puzzling out whether you're a thief or just a hypocrite.

Quick screencap study to work through my #arcane feels and artblock. #fanart #digitalart

I feel like it's really telling that a recurring complaint I see from a certain crowd about DATV is that you can't be an asshole to people...

Oh man, I haven't been here in a while. Life has gone a bit crazy and I have been nursing an injured shoulder, but I'm still drawing when I can. I have also fallen headfirst into #warframe .... so, hey, lemme come back with some WF fanart? Quick study/style exploration on Amir.

I'm begging you please, if you have ever enjoyed erotic art of any kind, tell these websites like Patreon and Gumroad to stop censoring us! It's going to stop existing if you don't!

So, I've recently fallen headfirst into Warframe... There might be some fanart of it coming...

Oh man. I've recently gone on a bit of a social media detox. Plenty of things (and sometimes also people) around that were not doing too good for my mental health. I'm still drawing, learning, improving and focusing on my health.

Ahh, i can hear your cries already: "But I never know what to comment!" As usual, you're overthinking things again. You don't need an essay! The word "cool" has never and will never go out of style. Just cool. Boom, done. Or! Three emojis, any three except 💩, and make one a heart! Easy, right?

My year started out wild and I can't believe that we're already a month in. Oh well. Hey, hi, hello, I'm still alive and still doing my thing. Here's a quick sketch during some dead time today. #goodomens

Today is the day. Nightshade v1.0 is ready. Performance tuning is done, UI fixes are done. You can download Nightshade v1.0 from nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu Please read the what-is page and also the User's Guide on how to run Nightshade. It is a bit more involved than Glaze

Dear (especially youtube) reviewers: Learn some nuance! 'Reviews' along the lines of "this thing sucks, buy this instead!" and then 'this' being twice the price or a completely different usecase are not helpful.

I am on the last page of my sketchbook. The goal was to finish it by the 31st. So .... go me! Now to decide which one of the ones I have lying around here will be the next one.

I might have gone and bought a Switch and I don't think I have enjoyed gaming quite this much in YEARS. I've always had a weird fondness for portable consoles and the Switch hits all the right spots.

if this makes AI people mad it's not because of the message it's because I had an idea and drew it

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After mostly doing line drawings in this sketchbook, I decided that I might want to get back to some shading again. #fanart #sketch #sketchbook #art

We all have parts of our creative processes that are tedious (and sometimes that may even vary, sketching can be tedious one day when I just want to get to painting while other days it's the goal), but if you genuinely don't enjoy creating, then... I'm sorry, but you're not a creative.

I just got this question at Thanksgiving. If I needed a computer to spit out 15 bad ideas, I would not have the right skill set to be an artist. The only purpose of AI is to make art cheaper for corporations. Every artist I work with has 2 lifetimes of ideas; we don’t need a computer for that

One of the really annoying things about AI discourse is that it all revolves around an advanced, sci-fi conception of it that doesn’t currently and may never exist. It’d be like if we were all debating the ethics of transmogrification and we just had the cardboard box from Calvin and Hobbes.

www.etsy.com/listing/7377... I've got some really cute gay Christmas-y stuff in my Etsy store! Shop small this Holliday season! #art #queerart #NightMarket #supportartists 🎨

Having fun with sketching in ballpoint again. There's something weirdly relaxing to me about not being able to erase. I know that sounds entirely backwards, but It works for me. Some Wentworth Miller as Captain Cold in Legends of Tomorrow. #sketch #sketchbook #fanart

I don't know where I took the motivation from today, but I got a serious step further in my sketchbook sprint! Three and a half pages, six sketches, one of them with two people. I have identified some weak spots (rounded faces and open mouth smiles), which is good. Means I know what to work on.

I have filled two and 2/3rd sketchbook pages today with studies and I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere with this. I have set myself the goal to finish this sketchbook by the end of the year, which comes around to a little mmor than a page a day and the quantity has helped me loosen up.

I just realised that a lot of people don't even know about the absolute RIDE that is Metallica's Through The Never... And now I'm gonna go and watch it again.

Continuing to fill my sketchbook with different faces for practice. Con O'Neil as Izzy Hands in Our Flag Means Death. #ofmd #fanart #sketchbook

Continuing my sketchbook sprint (filling the rest of this sketchbook until the end of the year) with some Blackbeard. #fanart #ofmd #sketchbook

There's a lot of people who rally against it when I say that I don't believe in talent, that being creative is a skill that can be learned. They seem actively uncomfortable with accepting that. I'm not saying that I'm better than someone who hasn't put in the work to learn to draw...

I have a big ol' softspot for these two idiots, so today's sketchbook page was dedicated to the idiot vampire and the unintentionally badass hunter. Anyone else watch What We Do In The Shadows? #fanart #sketchbook #wwdits

Today's sketchbook practice: Sketching directly in pen for a relatively unfamiliar face. I should probably draw more gals .... #art #faart #ballpoint

Drawing pretty men is my JAM in both digital and traditional!

Practicing some expressions and inking to take a break from teaching myself to paint with oils... #art #fanart #penandink

I've gone back to doing a lot of traditional sketching and focusing on my fundamentals. It's nothing that produces great, showable results, but it's still satisfying to me. Because I enjoy the process of making art, I enjoy seeing my progress through the work I put in. And I think that is ...

Practicing some gouache painting again. Been a while. #hannibal #fanart #art #painting

Authors need to stand with artists by REFUSING to use AI content for promotion, illustrations, or cover images. If you believe people should pay to read your book, then pay your fellow artists for their work. Now, I just auto-block writer accounts using AI images.

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I think the best response I've seen to AI anything has been, "Why should I bother reading something that nobody could be bothered to write"

Slowly filling up my sketchbook. Page 69 of 160! #art #fanart #sketchbook

Starting off the spooky season with a new skull friend on my skull study page in my sketchbook. #art #artpractice #watercolor