painting of ET getting pelted with pinecones i did a few years ago

Was reading up on solo RPGs when I was moved to search through the shelves at home and found my brother's old Fighting Fantasy books (among many others), still intact and readable. I feel like I found buried buried treasure 😂

one good thing coming out of AI bullshit i guess

Underrated point of discussion with the AI + social media uproar is giving thanks to patrons of the arts, especially non-artists, who are willing to put in the effort to support artists at a time when it has never been easier or more normalized to do the opposite.

the first time in history this shit has happened. first time and it's on camera. what a privilege

Replaying Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire be like...

happy winter; after 3 years i figure it's time to upload some concepts from pentiment. here are some animals :]

This new year, language apps are OUT Analog studying (with YouTube lessons) is IN

Finish.

Show me what you can do with just a pen! (and pencil 😁)

I don't want gen AI in my software I don't want gen AI in my phone I don't want gen AI in my email I don't want gen AI in my recipes I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation I don't want gen AI in my schools I don't want gen AI in my healthcare I don't want gen AI in my life

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Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

Dear Teach, Chapter 4 (1/6) #FE3H #FE風花雪月 #Claudeleth #クロレス

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

Welcome, Twitter escapees/new Bluesky users. Four quick tips: 1. Starter packs are awesome. I made a game dev one here -> go.bsky.app/RxQCsKS 2. Bluesky's block is much more potent. Do not quote, or dunk. There's no pay-to-win so silence does remove nasty people. Blocks and move on copiously.

IDK if I have the time to come up with a greeting art for the occasion, so have a Jester Lavorre sketch with wishes of Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings!

Hey new folks, here's a collection of top tier artists you can follow. Concept Artists: go.bsky.app/TyNJQ99 Creature Designers: go.bsky.app/SBCxqoa Pro Illustrators 1: go.bsky.app/79aS32C Pro Illustrators 2: go.bsky.app/D3T5kF Good Paleoartists: go.bsky.app/RYwJUEK

for everyone confused as to what the fuck is going on right now:

『MERRY CHRTSTMAS!』 #Illustration #LineArt #CommentPls

Hi, not everything you don’t like is AI and I need you to have better media and social literacy than that. Be a real hater and know your enemy.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

This is a wonderful summation of the beauty and value of human made art ❤️

boop

If we’re going to get really no quarter about genAI usage, I’m going to need people to learn the difference between AI and genAI real fast.

The character(s) vs how you drew them #madmax #roadwarrior

If a hyper RAM price inflation is what it takes to kick off the Butlerian Jihad over this side of the world, so be it 😤

James Baxter’s 2D animation in ‘The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball’ new episode.

I actually reinstalled Pillars of Eternity 2 yesterday to replay it again properly as I’ve never finished it (such a gorgeous game,btw). Might as well put my energy into clearing my games backlog rather than letting these disappointing GenAI-tainted upcoming releases live rent-free in my mind/time.

Met a 40yo gallery-ist at a party in SF. We spent most of the party talking abt the art world, but mostly what she talked abt was how most of her life now is telling AI “artists” that they are not artists, she won’t sell their “work” in her gallery, & that “prompt writer” isn’t an artistic medium.

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

the thing is, people will *never* stop shitting on your art either; people are mean, especially online. maybe you're not to their taste, maybe they're one of those insufferable people that love to give unsolicited criticism, maybe they're jealous, maybe they're a hater- you'll be eating shit

Put it in the Louvre 😭😭😭

When I was on the perfcap stage for Miles Morales, I - BADLY - doodled stick figures of shots and moves and showed them to the animation directors and actors. They laughed, and then we shot it. Some of my best memories on that project. So yeah this answer doesn’t work for me.

There's such a weird series of nested conflations going on here. Like, it seems that Alice wants to use AI to do art... so that she can post it on the internet for clout and praise, and Bob's advice is bad because beginners don't get praise and clout, but get nasty comments for being beginners?

For another, you can just do art and not post it. I do that all the fucking time. I make doodles for my tabletop game, I draw my little avatar guy. Art can be just for you and like four of your weirdest friends. The purpose of human expression is not Posting.

There's also this. An earnest not-very-skilled beginner posting his work got half the fucking internet engaging in joyful collaborative celebration of his effort. And have you ever read One Punch Man or Mob Psycho 100 - the ORIGINAL comics by ONE?

Aw man I love seeing this thing made the rounds again, drawn because I was tired of seeing historically inaccurate Luteces smut 😌🙏🏼

Quantic Foundry does legit trustworthy analysis of gamer behaviour, and these survey results are shockingly negative toward genAI, to the point where I’m more hopeful that data driven mobile and AAA backpedals on their uses.

At the start of the week I learned that a character I played in a podcast had an ai trained on it, including using my actual fucking voice. Hearing my voice say things I have never said was a real moment of existential horror, and oh boy I am ready to bring hammers to these fucking things.

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.

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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Yanno I’m Ride or Die with Clip Studio Paint, but there’s something about Paint Tool Sai’s crisp watercolor vibe that I cannot replicate in CSP no matter how hard I try. I haven’t used Sai in a long time because I rarely paint on the desktop these days, and frankly I miss it 😭