not me rewatching all my old process videos over and over to remind myself that I actually KNOW how to do this and that I shouldn’t abandon my current painting just because it doesn’t look good (yet) 😭😩😭😩

still taking a break from drawing faces so here’s a tomato 🍅 #art

GIT YER ART REFS AND STUFF

I actually managed to get my old @gaiaonline.com account back 😳

get rid of the AI and I’ll be back in a heartbeat dA 💀

just spent forever figuring out how to make my own custom feeds and ended up using skyfeed 🥲 i THINK it's working? i just wanted a way to organise my own posts by big themes and i'm slightly annoyed i can't reorder them on my profile's public facing feeds tab.

got tired of portrait studies and needed a break, so here’s an apple 🍎 I’d like to work on more still life studies if I can find the time 🤔

Bad Bunny’s halftime show was a reminder of how powerful human creativity and exuberance can be; all the designers, costumers, props, set, cameras, sound, lights, choreographers, performers, even the tree people made this happen. AI could never.

here’s my weekly portrait study 🤗 I think I’ve just started to get comfortable with using this new brush 😅

In today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:

here’s portrait study number 5! I’ve been pleasantly surprised by my progress so far with this exercise and am having lots of fun playing with new brushes 😊 #procreate #artstudy #digitalpainting

got tired of my old profile pic so I made a new one 😌 #art

ya girl engaged in jobless behaviour and finally got the Legendary Defender of Ascalon along with Dhuum’s Covenant 💀 #gw1 #guildwarsreforged

Still struggling with overwhelm so I challenge myself to stay consistent by making at least one post a week and have zero expectations of the outcome for now. I’ve been so pleasantly surprised by the encouragement I’ve been receiving from everyone so far, thank you all so much, I love you 😭💕 #art

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

struggled really hard with this quick study and reworked it three times, so I don’t know if I broke the rules I set for myself (not spending more than 3 hours on each one) 😭 this one ended up taking exactly 2 hours 😅 #art #artstudy

intensely grateful I don’t have to be anywhere today and can hide at home in a snowstorm with a cup of hot tea and my iPad to draw and read with. I legit haven’t seen a snow storm like this in my whole entire life 🌨️🥶😵

my submission for the Throne of Eros fanart contest! I managed to finish it on time 😭 I really loved the slightly modified outfits the chibi models got for the ice skating game and really wish we got the full sized version! #loveanddeepspace #rafayel #恋与深空 #祁煜 #恋と深空 #ホムラ

some important advice i always give to new artists just starting out: "it has to be perfect if it's not perfect, i, shen comix, will personally kick your ass"

so uh…does anyone have any tips to spot AI soundtracks on social media??? 😭😩 I’m just doing my best to avoid any cover art that looks like AI when I compose my posts and reels.

I didn’t expect my last post to get the views that it did, thank you all so much 😭 here’s another quick portrait study because I’m having a hard time getting back into making original work 😭

…tried resizing some PNGs in Affinity and nearly lost my mind 😩 I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to free myself from Photoshop jail 😭😭😭

This year I want to get good at blocking in paintings more accurately without relying too much on lineart so I’m going to work on a bunch of studies and see where it gets me 😤

yooo I’m back on social media, what did I miss?

The other weird thing is people like to conflate a follow-count with an artist's level of skill or prominence, and that's just an incorrect metric. Some of our most skilled and well-regarded colleagues have modest followings online. Developing a following online is a whole other skill.

The lack of algorithm on Bluesky tells me that we were fools to accept it elsewhere. We all now talk about how Musk uses it to suppress dissent on twitter, but he hardly invented it. Letting someone else set parameters for what you see is maybe the most poisonous thing that social media normalised.

…disappeared because I was / am busy with packing to move at the end of the month 😩 I miss drawing 🥲🥲🥲 I’ll be back in July, hopefully stronger and and a little better 🥹

a huge thank you to the lovely queer opera kids who saved Eurovision twice in a row 😮‍💨

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Did AI kill your job? If so, I want to hear about it. The response to my story on the AI jobs crisis has been overwhelming. I heard from so many people impacted by AI that it made me want to collect and organize these stories to better understand the phenomenon. Share yours at: [email protected]

…okay I was randomly browsing Amazon Japan for books and randomly came across the Japanese editions of Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron WHY IS THE COVER SO YASSIFIED?!

tried to make a new reel after taking a long break and noticed that capcut gradually paywalled even more functions that were previously free. what a pity because capcut was genuinely great at editing short videos for social media and I was considering getting a pro license once I got better.

trying to set aside time to work on more studies this year to practice more anatomy and drapery ✌️ I’d like to keep my studies brief and not get TOO carried away with little details because there really are diminishing returns after a while 😅

Artists, please move your stuff to Ko-Fi or Itch.io or, like, anywhere not associated with DOGE

There is this website, which is an easy-to-recall URL for the next time a “yes, but” business owner tries to tell you they don’t have access to any other options to Uline. Maybe we can guilt/shame/bully some ethics into capitalists if they won’t show any morality on their own.

The FB algo is so cooked. 50% of my feed is random pages and 30% are ads. Some anime communities don’t care about managing spoilers and I keep randomly encountering spoilers when I open FB 🤦‍♀️ What’s even better is…I’m NOT even subscribed to ANY anime/manga groups/pages 😭

“A.I. makes art accessible.” Art has always been accessible. There was like a six month period where I drew all the sketches for my comics with a lined notebook from the grocery store and a random green marker.

once again IG is unable to understand context 🤦‍♀️ a real artist with a sarcastic message gets demonetised but accounts that repost stolen content or slop are allowed to thrive.

got to watch Princess Mononoke in IMAX tonight and the theatre was FULL. what a testament of people’s love for ghibli films and how timeless its themes are. don’t get lost in over consumption, don’t forget your humanity, keep taking care of each other. also, yakul is best boy.

You know what? The doodle or drawing you consider being "bad" or "not good enough" is so, so much better than the AI garbage that is made. So be proud of your own work, at least you made the effort to create it.

In China, the myth of the Nine-Colored Deer of Dunhuang is widely known. The deer once saved a drowning man, who later betrayed it by revealing its whereabouts to the king. Driven by greed, the king tried to capture the magical creature 1/3 #mythology #art

drew a character from a game/manhwa who lives in the deep recesses of my memories Lunarena 🌒

Happy Birthday Rafayel! 🐟🧜🫧 #loveanddeepspace #rafayel #恋与深空 #祁煜 #恋と深空 #ホムラ

trying to stay productive today with my pomodoro timer but I keep getting interrupted and can’t get into a flow state at all 🥲🥲🥲

The holidays can be hard even during the best of times. Please be gentle with yourself; seek out the joy in caring for others, in being cared for, or in creating the most beautiful and generous solitude for yourself. 🖤

虚無ディグダ 🙋‍♀️ The Emptiness of Being Diglett

I have decided to catch up on some vintage series and watch Revolutionary Girl Utena / 少女革命ウテナ🌹 whenever I’m on the treadmill. I will report back with results. 絶対運命黙示録

Tired: I need to achieve a consistent art style Wired: My style cannot be divorced from who I am and my tastes will shine through no matter what I do Inspired: I'm drawrin' a picher 😙🎵

okay. going to do my best and try to FOCUS on getting some personal tasks done today. ever since daylight savings ended it felt like my soul left my body and I went into autopilot mode. i just never handle the time change well. i’m posting this publicly for accountability purposes 🥲