“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

And the character concepts for Midge Munster's special! I had to scale these for Instagram so the scale looks a bit wack now but it's the designs that matter 🤌 The actual characters are so well designed and feature some stunning costume and makeup work, it was so fun getting to stylize them all!

It's finally live! I'm happy to share that I animated the intro for Midge Munster's fabulous Halloween special - it's always such a joy getting to work with her, and animating this whole cast of fantastic characters has been a treat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmBP...

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

sorry to anyone who followed me for art, there will be more, this year has just been relentless

omw to the genre film festival wearing a shirt from the psychobilly festival carrying a tote from the dungeon synth festival

this is how i feel seeing animated films i saw at annecy get cinema releases now

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Mead Schaeffer (1898-1980), "Lorna Doone", 1930

Your humanity is so precious that fascists worldwide are working tirelessly to crush it out of you and me alike but sure, rely on a chatbot to the point that you can't even read or even communicate anymore bsky.app/profile/crim...

So this is a very, very desperate move - a very silly app of generative AI slop that will be incredibly expensive for OpenAI to run, and on top of it, they're requiring rights holders to *opt out* once they see violations. You can't do it in advance. They're washed, and trying everything to survive.

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator that creates videos featuring copyright material unless copyright holders opt out. When a business is based on theft of others' work, it is not a legal business.

"post something random or have an awful october" well i for one am not posting anything random, and instead i'm forwarding my "awful october" and everyone else's to the person who started that stupid chain. it's 2025 stop doing this shit

the sacred text 😔

This whole section really.

No clue what's going on with the moderarion discouree on here bur my own stuff gets censored for any highly stylised, non-sexual drawing of a butt cheek or boob and I have to appeal each time.

I love a monthly challenge but the one year I did a full one from start to finish (Outfit August in like... 2019, woof it's been a while), I happened to have exactly a month in between jobs so I had no job to go to but also didn't have the pressure of securing my next job.

was listening to something by an illustrator who said she "took a year off and lived off of royalties" to figure out her evolving art style when she found herself at a crossroads when she was about as far into her career as me and >

oh i forgot to say this on here but as of wednesday i'm officially bri'ish so that's one thing it's ok to bully me for now

receptionist at my physio place found out im an animator, showed the most genuine interest in animation i've ever seen, and asked about my favourite animated film... if by my next appointment she's actually watched the last unicorn i'm legally bound to propose idc if she's straight

omg a guy just tried to flirt with me by asking about the band shirt im wearing and i got to hit him with "thanks theyre called emasculator"

This is a math hate account now. If you love math I got no business with you.

last file i worked on was 8k resolution and my tvpaint is set up to reuse whatever settings my last file was in on startup.... kinda obsessed with the wording of this error message i got that's just like "girl i am NOT doing that"

do you ever look at your own art like “wow I really made this” because this piece is that for me

changed my surname to just an initial on most social media, kinda a moot point bc the full thing is in my website url/on my business card/in my pinned post/on linkedin bc i kinda need it to Get Jobs so idk... it will prob be back in a couple of weeks. recently im rly not liking it all being public

warmup miku from earlier i might clean up later because i kinda like how she turned out

migrating from vegas pro to davinci resolve and any time i open it i whisper "da vinki?" to myself

realised too late that this looks wayyy too similar to my hot topic fairy in my cover pic. oh well. little apology drawing for the fact i can't do #swordtember this year - between a job and a really cool project i can't wait to share i still have to be mindful of my RSI

moderation team strikes again, the inky outline of a butt is "sexually suggestive" now apparently. good thing i can post "adult content" this egregious but i can't send and receive DMs on here without a VPN unless i give a random third party photo ID, thanks UK government lol

some little bits from dnd life drawing last night

honestly i have so many thoughts on the whole RSI thing that i'd LIKE to share but i don't even know where to begin...

realised too late that this looks wayyy too similar to my hot topic fairy in my cover pic. oh well. little apology drawing for the fact i can't do #swordtember this year - between a job and a really cool project i can't wait to share i still have to be mindful of my RSI

saw the hatsune miku movie and i think it's rly cute how it's about a version of miku who's desperately trying to reach out to any and every artist of ANY kind who might be burnt out/artblocked/depressed & thinking of giving up because... whenever im art blocked i default to drawing hatsune miku.

used the moho sale to upgrade to v14 so now once my next few projects are through i HAVE to make a film i have no excuse

coming back from bloodstock to an onslaught of stressful things like damn listening to metal in a field for 4 days while running on 4 hours of questionable quality sleep a day is so much more tranquil than having a job

nah im starting to get the "i was born in the wrong generation" people not because i yearn for a made up utopian version of the past (that was never real) but because whenever i see/hear news about our tech dystopia and our "AI-first future" or whatever i'm like yeah man get me out of here

was sat outside at a café with my friend and this guy backtracked with his little girl in tow to say "my daughter really loves your hair"

🍂Judgement of the Briar Queen🍂

just learned the word dégueulasse from watching a movie and man..... francophones you really popped off with that one

hand injury update: i've been a lot better recently and doodled some stuff for fun so cautiously i might be getting back to drawing for fun like. once a week lmao

trying to take closeup pics of the organ in this medieval church but i couldn't take any without my reflection in them so now they're selfies

This is a cautionary tale as the animation business gradually yet noticeably shifts from full-time employment to freelance/independent contractor models where the studios are no longer responsible for paying any benefits to the worker.

I have a theory that they’re doing this in order to crowdsource the “killer app” of AI — by forcing thousands and thousands of people to brainstorm ways to use AI they figure they’ll eventually get that one thing that people will pay for

actually, genuine question... if you have a personal website and are based in the UK, how does the online safety act affect this? guidance on what's "inappropriate for children" is vague (many have pointed out r/stopdrinking fell victim to this which is wild).

Once again, Newgrounds remains one of the only good places left on the internet to share and look at art.

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music. Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use. www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

pissed off that everything is video format now because i was born to write blog posts..... and all blogging platforms seem kinda ass nowadays so i guess i have to make my own site to host it on 😩

was reminded of an old "hit tweet" i wrote when i was burning out

this is a very "water is wet" moment but turns out having anxiety, working in an extremely insecure industry in the midst of Current Events, and overworking myself, has all probably all lead to my nervous system being so fried it all contributed to me being in physical pain

just heard a kid on the bus say to their dad, EXTREMELY seriously and articulately "one thing about water is that sometimes it's so good it just makes me want to have more". preach.