Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

Winning on the music front - forgot that Shinedown was coming out this Friday just gone, and then there's new Evanescence next Friday!

"Death Blowing Bubbles," 'Created by Johann Georg Leinberger between 1729 and 1731 for the ceiling of the Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany.' bamberger-dom.de/gotteshaus/N...

Oops! You accidentally forgot about your tea for too long 🐥🌸

aren't carpenter bees so pretty

💖 THE DETAILS 💖 How much detail do you like to put into your drawings, even though you're aware that no one will see it? Me? A lot. To my own detriment. 🥲 #art

Paras, who had a big dream

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

And we are a bunch trying to reduce our use of anything to easy to get access too. I'm getting my playlist offline on a USB key in my car, looking for a inde gps, considering to go back to paper maps, considering to jump on a dumb phone next... I want to think again and stop feeling dumb :)

Everyone starts somewhere, and everyone has their own path of progress. And here's mine ☺️ #art

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

People seem to mistake rich for cool. Especially rich people.

water your plants

hadn't drawn a moody little animal in a minute

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘸𝘰-𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦? 🧜‍♀️ 🧜‍♀️ 🧜‍♀️ I think this might be the first year I've managed to draw more than one mermaid for #MerMay! And with a sick child at home, which makes it an extra achievement! 🥲 Hope you like it! #art

Using the imminent Google-pocalypse to plug my Resources and Neighbors pages on my PerSite bc they are awesome hikatamika.com/resources/ hikatamika.com/neighbors/ You should make Resources and Neighbors pages too. Even if they're a carrd or a Google (oops) doc.

Happy to announce that since this article was published, Fortnite raised its rate to $5000 :)

could websites and programs quit messing with GUIs *just slightly* like either commit to the bit and make a massive change or don't change it all????

I do not want GenAI in fanart. I do not want GenAI in character design. I do not want GenAI in world design. I do not want GenAI in writing. I do not want GenAI in storyboarding. I do not want GenAI in voice acting. I do not want GenAI, period. If any piece of media uses GenAI, I don't want it.

It's the last day to back Modern Dragons!

this is the most millennial dad joke ever conceived

Aaaaand quite frankly I'd rather see more workers in our government and municipal offices, working with paper systems, than have our democracies held hostage by tech companies in charge of our infrastructure, who can raise the prices whenever they please 😤

PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

warm up sketch but also a ...vent art. Had a bad C-PTSD nightmare last night and I woke up sad. Couldn't shake it. Then I saw a youtube short about generational trauma that kinda helped clear it out of my head. didn't realize I was pouring myself into Mythral like I was, but the more I write of her

thanks!

Lineart. No kidding, I could probably draw linearts for the rest of my life and never tire of it. This is pure pleasure for me, as the sketch is already established and all I do is create lines over it. Anyways, here are some of them from my gallery! #art

headline after headline about the new scooby doo anime coming to tubi and literally not one "Tubi Dooby Doo". we've let the profession of copywriting wither on the vine

I also think the artist should ALWAYS be stated somewhere in the book. It doesn't require too much space but it gives crredit and exposure.

Possibly unpopular opinion? I think artists should get to sign the art they make for book covers. It should be right there, on the front, because it’s never been more important to showcase the humanness of art. And also there are many times when I see a beautiful cover and wonder, “Who made this?”

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Dear people, keep backups. MAKE backups. If you haven't made a backup of your computer, your photos, your files, your art, your phone, your music, your project, anything, in the last few months, THIS is the sign you were waiting for: Make a backup now.

Nobody here needs me to tell them not to do this but Jesus Christ in a Cadillac do not do this.

✨fuck AI✨ all my homies hate AI I dreamt up this sticker yesterday so I made it real ✨ get it here: mcapriglione.art #caturday

Sunset of Cockatiel 🌤️ #birdart #cockatiel #digitalart #fantasyart #creatureart

faith in humanity restored

I really want commercial artists to all be paid enough to do weird little side projects and make a bunch of pointless OCs or whatever without feeling like they have to always be hustling

I don't have time to create new mermaids, but I remember the heroes of past years #mermay 🐠✨ Owned by AmphithereRose #art #artsky #oc #dnd #digitalart

Please remember if you’re worried about winning or losing something that all prizes are a reflection of what the granting institution wants to say about itself far more than they are a reward for pure excellence.

Gandalf the White 🔮 LOTR is probably the thing I’ve read/watched/been obsessed with the most since I was like 6 🗣️ #lotr #gandalf #tolkien #art #fantasy

AI breaking common, everyday things that used to work is why people fucking hate it! AI cluttering up things by offering to summarize 3-sentence emails is why people fucking hate it! It's obvious! It's in fucking plain view! I like it less every goddamned fucking day!

if the flyer is AI I am not going; large chance it's scam/not worth it either way

aside from all the other issues genAI has, it tells me you are cutting corners. why you are cutting corners I don't care, it's none of my business or issue to figure out but it tells me you are willing to cut corners and so I start to wonder where ELSE you cut them, you know

same goes for books, movies, albums, restaurants, talks, idk it signals to me your product is probably cheap, not worth my time and money and potentially even dangerous

floppy heart, 2023 #floppydiskart

In the Name of Venus

mermay comm for @vampyrean.bsky.social! turned lovely Vale into a shark 🦈 #art

💜🌿 poster commission for @wendysketches.bsky.social [ #art ]

I can't believe we're going back to this kind of discourse but: Using references isn't cheating Using 3D mannequins and photo references is STANDARD, even for professional artists Shaming people and pushing them to draw exclusively from memory is harmful and can set back people who are learning