these dung beetles keep stealing my snowballs

You know what? 2026 is the year I'm not playing nice anymore. If copyright means so little to use A / I for playing around, here's one of his book for free: Color and Light James Gurney [English] : Free Download, Internet Archive share.google/qjDjFS6QhhZJ...

even in a time of crisis it’s absolutely wild that an independent, unaffiliated organization can weaponize the grey warden treaties in inquisition. so wildly inappropriate

these are the ones

Comic-Con should be a celebration of illustrators, comic artists, writers and so on. Elevating the actual craftsmen and women who make the works that fans love! Instead it opens the door to slop that can only exist due to the stolen work of those same creatives, to then displace creatives. Gross!

they made this for me specifically

All the best illustrators you have ever known or heard of, whether they admit to it or not, likely make heavy use of reference. Use it. Even if your style is more abstract, the advice still applies.

heavily invested in the elf ear economy

speaking of

This is a common theme with me, but my only thing this year is to actually finish something. the amount of 90% done wips I have is pathological at this point

we used to be a country

seek inspiration outside your chosen medium

Ideas are nothing; finished work is everything. Sit down and do it.

Shadow of the Colossus

we’re so bad at alan wake it’s embarrassing

Worst photo of two of my favorite thor covers. l: glenn orbik r: akira yoshida

I did a little lie when I said I’d organized everything left from the fire over a year ago, but now I’m actually done and I can wear shoes that aren’t loafers again

Love how getting up early this time of year is just night pt. 2

Art by • Yasushi Nirasawa

i’m not buying anything extraneous this year so going through the 1000 perfume samples I’ve accumulated is basically shopping

my son smells like a rotten egg

This will sound ridiculous to people who actually know about it - if I have a pair of faded jeans that I want to re-dye black, would that work? they’ve faded to an uneven grey, but they’re stretch so they contain synthetic little fibers

velvet enters the apartment, is immediately and instantaneously covered in cat hair

Art by • Bob Peak for Excalibur 1981

Fellow artists: is there a type of art or style that you love but don’t do yourself?

is anyone else just exhausted. I feel like I was handling the lack of daylight well until this week

cute

they should give out purple hearts for dealing with your partner’s siblings

most art is mediocre and the sooner you make peace with that, the better off you’ll be

The Apiarist, one of my first prints from the riso print subscription I started this year Definitely going to do a weird western story with this one (after I finish the other three books in front of it)

Another xmas with my old man

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

hawk the slayer-ass gloves

i think if you use genai for anything, even writing an email, you're both a moron and a huge baby, and i dont want to play your video game as a result. its not that hard!

happy holidays to me

I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!” And I hate to say it But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas Quit.

rage

Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane? Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.

feels like forever since I’ve drawn

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.

Our thrift store continues to be wild

Art by • Alexey Gorboot

not to be on some woo-woo bullshit but my soul literally cannot bear to be spending most of my time online