Apparently a lot of ppl needs to hear this #bskycensorship

Maleficent

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

Can't believe it was FIVE years ago I made this little one, BEEZÜ #artdoll #artdolls #creatures

More reasons to be anti-AI

All appropriate phrases have been muted until i dig myself out of my backlogged clerical grave to actually get the energy to play it. Have a Quirrel in the meanwhile

Hollow Knight costume design

🧵 My 7 steps to get you out of artblock:

Fear the Old Blood 🩸🧠👁️

Sometimes, your best work comes from defying everything you thought was true about creating art. What seems difficult is allowing yourself the freedom to do something different. But really, all you have to do is make a choice.

Be brave and be creative. Be brave and be creative. Be brave and be creative. Be brave and be creative. Be brave and be creative. Be brave and be creative. Be brave and be creative. Be brave and be creative.

When I am like now, where I am like 'damn I cannot draw and all I have ever made looks like a pile of shit' I find comfort in this. Artists are so fucking cursed, man. We're so cursed. 💀

Book cover progress. Still loving new technique.

If you can't draw without AI, that means you can't draw. If you can't write without AI, that means you can't write. If you can't code without AI, that means you can't code. Sorry. Not everyone can do everything. Either work hard to acquire these new skills or just do other things. #aiSucks #fuckAI

Better a freak than a fascist 🔥

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.

Bells in the fog - process

Also he modeled her pose on Isaiah in the Sistine Chapel

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

Your creative path will evolve throughout your life. When you make space for that evolution, you allow your creativity to flow instead of forcing it into a box early on. Try new things. Make what excites you. Experiment.

I am an adherent to the philosophy that all the best artists are perverts in some way, if not openly then privately. What is perversion if not having unchecked passion, the same passion that fuels artistry.

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

This. You keep doing the things you enjoy while you can -because- things are shit and it keeps you going. Shitty people want you to be miserable, dont give them that.

More old commission work. Karthus. Truthfully gun to my head I could not tell you what this dude’s whole deal is beyond I assume he’s a necromancer/lich/whatever he’s undead that was good enough for my aesthetic tastes 💀 #bascombsbeastiary #LoL #Leagueoflegends #Karthus #art #fanart

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

All this AI shit makes me feel like there's an entire genre of people who resent having to think at all.

L̶a̸d̵y̷,̷ ̸d̶e̴l̷i̴v̴e̸r̷ ̴u̷s̶

This. I cannot emphasize enough how influencer and hustle culture have completely changed the internet from "weird and wonderful things people make for the heck of it" to algorithm chasing joylessness.

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:

i think he should sometimes be a bit weird looking

You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone

THE RODENT!! HE IS ALIVE!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!!!!!! #art #cartoon #sonicthehedgehog #animation

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills. A true role model for today.

When we finally start to build community and solidarity.

Needed this reminder today.

Today I bring you a set of concepts and a final illustration for an NPC, ordered by the Big Empty Blue Studio for their book. This was a fun project, with a lot of concept exploration and some fun textures to render #dnd #npc #conceptart #steampunk

Here is a goblin berserker (not berserk at this time).

twin

Sheer. fucking. spite.

One of the sweetest, brightest highlights of 2024 for me was getting together with this huge group of friends to put together a great, spooky artbook. Circumstances be damned, it's some of the best stuff out there, and now you can get it for free!

Zero(no) Suit

using the same workflow/shortcuts as overworked industry artists isn't going to improve your work the way some people on here would have u believe. it's okay to NOT want to constantly use references or trace. its okay to paint intuitively, improve your skill through practice and loose interpretation

And the current one, little cog one share the similar strategy, And i don't change brush when doing linework, And also it is better to use the same brush as eraser, which can keep an natural edge when erasing it, especially for pasqal drawing case that some shape is done by erasing

I just looked at my old drawing's timelapse (30s version) and i would say the process is pure violence (cuz was discussing how rough my draft usually is)