The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

Sometimes I wish I could be this kind of teacher. And sometimes I’m really glad I’m not.

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

I've been saying from the beginning that their end goal is literally to create God. Good to know there's actual historical backing for this.

I just spent a couple of hours researching the costume for a figure that will be less than an inch tall in the published version of the cover I'm doing, because that's how I roll.

tapping the sign again #art

"lol people on bsky believe posting on Twitter is bad" As someone who still posted on Twitter up until recently, bro they were right. You're using a csam generator app to post ragebait for fake engagement 💀

Response to somebody looking for an artist who "only used AI to show what I want."

Resolution. We can do it.

Resolution. We can do it.

Between this and the Illustrated edition of A Feast For Crows, it seems that all you have to do now if you're accused of obvious AI use is just go "NUH-UH!" and that's pretty much that.

Fuck yeah

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I was just remembering how much fun the internet used to be. Now I'm sad.

QRP with some pin-up art! This is the closest thing I got.

QRP with your flower art 🌹🌹🌹🌹

Semiotic paradox alert!

I hate this so much. Although @pattonoswalt.bsky.social's bit about doing punch-up on one of these movies is pretty great

QRP with your flower art 🌹🌹🌹🌹

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

To hell with Brigitte Bardot, we lost a real artist today

QRP with your flower art 🌼

QRP with your flower art

QRP with your flower art 🌹🌹🌹🌹

QRP with some pin-up art! This is the closest thing I got.

You know who was great? Claudia Cardinale. Terrific actress, fine human being, never became a fascist. Also extraordinarily beautiful. She was a feminist and a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. She died earlier this year. Just remembering her today for no particular reason.

Counterpoint: St. Louis style pizza

AI in a nutshell

As noted before, the premise is flawed, but yes.

Hell yeah, somebody had to say it.

It doesn't really matter if it's good or not. Good comes with time, and practice, and building your style up from the trash like a magpie lining its nest with the shiniest things that catch its eye. Doing it is what matters. You've got to. It will never become good if you don't.

It's okay, you don't have to do engagement tricks and the commercialized shtick here; you can just be a person and post art, it's gonna be okay, it's gonna be alright I know twitter taught you this & sucked your soul out & art memes became the only way to communicate it's over now, you can be free

Also, even the most "famous" illustrators are still the kind of famous that they are surprised and delighted that anybody knows who they are, and primarily work alone so they jump at any opportunity to talk shop.

Big news! I don't know when it updated, but Bluesky finally hides posts as soon as you mute an account!

Hell, I'd wear this if I could pull it off!

Quoting for emphasis: FACT CHECKING IS NOT PART OF THE STANDARD EDITORIAL PROCESS FOR NON-FICTION. Copy-editing is, but that only covers basic things like names being correct etc, and publisher's legal departments are only concerned that nothing is libelous or otherwise actionable.

I just had this advertised to me. It may well be the single most useless “art tool” I have ever seen!

Everything alive in the Devonian period tried too hard. “Ooo, look at me, I’m a weird elongated pentagon” Shut up!

Frankly the world should look more like Douglas Henderson’s Triassic scenes

Hey Now You're a Boxcar Full of Children Solve Crimes

I just had this advertised to me. It may well be the single most useless “art tool” I have ever seen!

If you don't change a limb position 10-15 times is it truly making art?

Exactly. The interesting thing was the weirdness, the things it got wrong, the things a human would never do. But for the developers, the metric is how successfully it can fool people. The better it gets, the worse it gets.

For those who don’t know anything beyond the melting clocks: youtu.be/FecpubFKvcA?...

TIL that in 1948 Hallmark hired Salvador Dalí to design a line of Christmas cards. They didn’t sell well, so Dalí asked the company’s president for advice, who suggested that Santa cards always sell. Dalí came back with this! Hallmark bought the art for their collection, but never published it.

My new hobby: calling artists who are AI apologists quislings and watching them not understand.

I really liked this one (and completely forgot I preordered it, which is how I started reading a new book at midnight and just finished it now)

Something I miss from the old era of yearly core sets is the cadre of relatively generic fantasy soldiers When I was a kid, for whatever reason, I LOVED my copy of staunch defenders from 8e lol

I am delighted and honored that this piece was accepted in to the Society of Illustrators (@soi128.bsky.social) annual exhibit!

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me: