So extremely bummed to see hear Sandfall used Gen AI in Clair Obscur. And that it is being used in the new Witcher game too. Gen AI is unethical, and that doesn't change no matter how excited I was about a game www.polygon.com/clair-obscur...

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Ruler of a rainy kingdom

Remembering that painters always used to show horses with all 4 legs stretched out b/c they knew there was a point in their gallop where all 4 legs were completely off the ground, but it wasn't until 1878 when Muybridge filmed the first horse in motion that we actually saw what that looked like!

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

I really appreciate when artists talk about this publicly!! As an AD I have so much more strength behind my request to publishers when I ask them to stop using AI references if I can say "this is costing us artists"

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Snowy days are my absolute favorite type of magic. My heart literally beat faster with wonder several times today

Après sledding

I love that ending of The Witch (2015) is basically just this painting by Jakub Rozalski

Little house portrait commission! Houses have just as much character as people and I love bringing out their best!

Artists who use 3D for reference, are y'all just using blender? I'd like to find something I can run on my iPad pro since I don't need it for anything complicated, but haven't found any clear winner

More traditional media experimentation! Watercolor, ink, color pencil, and a little bit of digital touchup.

I'm always nervous about art markets and craft fairs these days, worried that they will be full of AI slop. So when I find one full of hand made mugs and whittled wood ornaments and illustrated butterfly garlands I get so excited and spend....a loooot of money 🫠 But we have to support real artists!

Time for my semi-annual depression when I remember that even very helpful art teaching platforms like Schoolism and Proko have overwhelmingly male teachers/guest lecturers and example artists Proko roster: www.proko.com/browse/people Schoolism roster: schoolism.com/online-art-c...

Hey, is it still #folktaleweek 2025? No. Sigh. I'm still going to work through the remaining prompts because I'm learning a ton and enjoying the process very much. This image is for CHARM. (Included the 2nd to show how it repeats on the horizontal.) 1-4 here: open.substack.com/pub/jacobsou...

Great breakdown of why spotify sucks and why this will be my last year posting my wrapped www.instagram.com/p/DR07drKjfU...

When my partner saw my previous #kidlitartpostcard he challenged me to make a forward-facing version. So here it is! I love illustrating busy scenes, vibrant colours and silly animals ❤️ Website: rachel-foo.com Agency 💼 : astound.us/publishing #art #kidlitart #illustration

Happy December #KidLitArtPostcard! 🐻 My name‘s Martin and I’m a #kidlit illustrator & author based in the Lake District, UK. I love to illustrate the natural world and animal characters. 🌐 martinstanev.com 📖 Rep’d by InklingIllustration.com ✉️ [email protected] #kidlitart #illustration

Witch of the Way Original available at bad-king.com

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#hellboy in my style ‼️

Disappointed to see that in an otherwise cogent and interesting vid the speaker trots out the concept of the "angry vegan" -Shrill feminist -Annoying SJW -Angry Vegan These are all silencing tactics used to try to convince someone "you're embarrassing for getting upset about harm to others."

Vegan Thanksgiving dinner! My partner and I ruining each other's photos 😘Happy to share recipes for any and all these dishes, they all turned out SO TASTY

Vegan sweet rolls from scratch! I've eaten three of them while waiting for the other food to cook and they're DELICIOUS

Don't open the door for just anyone who knocks

I've been taking this great art class from @yumingart.bsky.social that goes over so many fantastic composition concepts including the idea of "checkerboarding" or placing light shapes on a dark bg and vice versa. And I can't stop noticing examples of it now including this gorgeous sky of clouds!

Eyvind Earle

1/3 Massive efforts are being done to ensure states do not regulate GenAI. Regulations like CA’s AB-412. A transparency bill that terrifies Big Tech! On Dec. 8th, there is a major hearing on this bill. We need as many folks to show up! Come join in support of creatives! Rsvp link in thread!

Yeaahhh I think we're all biased towards thinking the art we grew up with was the best, but I am at least very grateful that publishing seems to have given up on the stock photo phase of the 2000s Because tell me which of these you were more likely to open as a kid??

Sighhh I really love teaching but I do NOT miss commuting to universities. I think my dream job would be teaching/mentoring online from an illustrator-art director perspective. I'm really inspired by people like @chuwenjie.bsky.social who run their own very successful classes!

Woah! Ontario passed a law starting Jan 2026 that it is illegal for companies to ghost you. If you have interviewed for a job they are legally required to inform you if they hire someone else or close the position. The law also requires salary transparency on listings and disclosing use of AI

Remember, "sales" online especially around Black Friday are just made to look like big discounts after they artificially jacked up the price a few days beforehand. You can often check the item's price history to see if it's actually a reduced price

Love finding tasty shapes 🤌

I was in college for UX and had to drop out because of chronic illness. I started teaching myself photoshop from youtube tutorials for fun because that was something I could do without needing to get out of bed.

I love how quickly I can finish a piece when I work with these big soft brushes. This took about 1.5 hours and that's close to the limit of how long I enjoy working in one sitting. It's not perfectly polished and detailed but it's good enough for me!

I genuinely have no idea why people rake or leaf blow their lawns in fall? Leaves insulate the lawn against cold, fertilize the as they break down and can just be mowed over in the spring! Is this just a cultural thing I missed the memo on?!

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

Sometimes its nice to just push values around without a drawing or a plan

The reason you see AI pushed so hard in products, ads and promoted posts is that they know people don't WANT to use it but they are desperate to recoup on their millions in investments. They wouldn't be over-saturating your feed with AI tools if people were buying these things on their own.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

And finally here is Cricket! My first cat who I found crying in a bush in a west philly park when I was in my early 20s. Why anyone would choose to buy a cat when there are so many amazing discard and homeless cats in need of love is beyond me!

Because I'm feeling sentimental and I already posted about Maple, here is Bindi! Our youngest cat who we found on the side of the highway covered in fleas and with an infected eye as we were driving to our honeymoon. We cancelled the hotel and drove home with her instead. She is bff with Maple now

We fostered a litter of kittens that we named after trees: Rowan, Ash, Maple, Willow and Bonsai (the runt) Maple was the only one who didn't get any adoption applications, and she was our favorite so we kept her and now she sleeps inside my sweater while I work 💛

Maple realizing she's being photographed

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

I found this to be a really helpful video by @pikat.io on drawing clothing that covered things I hadn't considered before like thicker fabric=fewer folds and being consistent with whether your lineart shows creases vs shadows in the cloth www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOK6...

I saved this perfect comic by @patabot.bsky.social years ago and I revisit it whenever I'm stretching myself creatively (literally doing anything)

One of my biggest skill gaps as an artist is being able to think three-dimensionally. It means I am overly reliant on reference and can't extrapolate small changes from imagination. So I'm doing exercises like this- where I draw an outfit from ref and then draw again from imagination at a new angle