Being an artist means you’re drawing daily for hours while wishing you had time to draw

This is a very good thread about AI.

Birch fox 🤙

"Where Claude Went Wrong" "Some More Of Claude's Greatest Mistakes" "What Is This "Claude" Thing Anyway" "Well That About Wraps It Up For Claude"

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

Stop measuring your right to create by how "good" you are today.

Local artist hasn't had coffee yet.

This is not wrong.

Rattlesnake but instead of a rattle it's a theremin and it makes sci-fi sounds at you.

kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days

“It is vital that pilot and co-pilot maintain open communication at all times.”

✦ Shudder ✦

"No more shoes?" "Nope. AI all day." "What does that mean?" "It's AI. It's in everything. It's the future. So we're the future." "What does your AI do?" "Multi-modal agentic self-supervised latent-space singularity." "You don't know what that means, do you?" "No." "Here's a billion dollars."

Princess Mononoke

The Brush Bearer ep.8 : Page 1/4

O B S E S S E D

The brush bearer, monday mood.

THIS. The vast majority of the insights I depend on as a writer (and digital artist) have arrived as a byproduct, usually serendipitously, of the “grunt work.” There is NO Quick Easy Trick into the mastery of craft. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying, and likely also trying to sell you something.

I bought this pen recently and I really love this pen

If you can't stop yourself from making comics, then you should make the comics which make you happy and that you want to read. If you can stop yourself from making comics, you should. Get a proper job. Then use your spare time to make the comics that make you happy and that you want to read.

Old one, but apropo

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

Local artist reacts to their to do list.

Heating oil prices are sky-rocketing around the world. The Nordics have understood the risks of using fossil fuels for heating early on and transitioned away from heating oil almost entirely whilst phasing in heat pumps.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Creating stories for people who are hungry is what it's all about

(it is only a five page preview...!)

So AI might be intentionally deskilling us so it can rent cognitive ability back at their chosen rates. That's the bad news. Here's the good news. 1/3

This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!"

Artists- life is so much calmer if you stop comparing your work to others. Same goes with careers and wee internet art groups, the whole thing. Fuckit. Do stuff for you. Never show anyone most of it. You’ll improve your mental art health a lot. Even just for a bit.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

Casper in the sunshine from 6 years ago today.

imagine even thinking about using ai when a living breathing master of the craft is putting his knowledge on youtube for free

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world." #AIslop #refuseresist

Writers: “How can I be promoting my books while The Horrors escalate daily?” Everyone one Bluesky: “These are my emotional support books. They are the only thing that makes life in this hell forsaken timeline bearable.”

Long live 2D animation (& practical effects).

For @hal-monitor.bsky.social's recent Draw This in Your Style:

Mood

Very good advice for when you really wanna do a thing, but are afraid. <3

Consider the third mode:

We don’t need AI training sponsored by the tech firms selling it. We need AI education to help people understand what it can’t do, and what dangers lie ahead if you entrust your life to it

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

Mood.

warm again

All righty -- this year's writerly resolution is live, should you care to read it. The tl;dr is it's actually quite an optimistic read, so hopefully it'll give you some juice to kick open the new year and put words to stories that need to be told.