Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I have drawings ranging from $40-100 available on my ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...! It would help a lot this month if you could buy something while I go through the process of finding a day job. I've been slowly working on new art as well and hoping to push through this rough time the best I can!

Please support your girl!!! ko-fi.com/diananguyen . I am a slow maker, but I promise I will be coming back with beautiful treasures that I put my heart and soul into from my little cave <3

I am once again asking you to support a real person who drew this instead of AI slop that is now everywhere 🥺

Anyways, save your tears and mourn for all oppressed people who continue to face relentless violence by the state. They are the ones we should be in struggle and mourning with.

Went out all day on a random Wednesday and now catching up on the internet. Let me tell you...what in the world???

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

I have reached the point of career crisis where I am entertaining the idea of going to school again for a completely different industry LOL

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

It's Friday Night Lights rewatch season for me 🍂

Being on the internet feels like being constantly trauma dumped on

Deeply obsessed with tomato sandwiches right now 🍅 🥖

Studio flash sale! Lots of sketches and small paintings collecting dust and looking for a new home. This one is an acrylic plein air painting on watercolor paper of Queenie Park $50-$100 sliding scale. Reply or message me if you are interested ⭐️

This was the *point* of these things being taken up by corporations. If you're just hiring people to "fix" something, you can pay them less than if you're asking them to create it -- even though it requires them to do more work. In particular this was the reason for the WGA strikes around this.

committing to making more time for my creative practice this month!

Most of the time, I expect nothing from these calls for support, but then I'm always pleasantly surprised by who shows up. It's always the people whom I least expect, and I'm just so grateful. It means more than you know, and I hope I can return the kindness one day when I'm back on my feet! 😭❤️

Something, anything. I need a win. I beg. Universe, help a girl out

Something, anything. I need a win. I beg. Universe, help a girl out

I have drawings ranging from $40-100 available on my ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...! It would help a lot this month if you could buy something while I go through the process of finding a day job. I've been slowly working on new art as well and hoping to push through this rough time the best I can!

I haven't gotten any new illustration jobs since May and supporting my work in this way would help a lot. I deeply appreciated! Thank you to everyone who has already bought something. It really means the world! 🥹💖

Would be kinda cool if a good thing happened for once idk

Side note: do you ever have the sudden urge to be very active on all of your socials and then realize this actually might be mania?? Regardless, I have the energy today!!! LOL

Please support your girl!!! ko-fi.com/diananguyen . I am a slow maker, but I promise I will be coming back with beautiful treasures that I put my heart and soul into from my little cave <3

The dog in me is a weed and I will not die!!!!!!!

This is the longest I've been unemployed and what's been helping me think positively is that I come from a line of people who should have died in war. Who came here with nothing and I'm a by-product of their survival. I will find a way to keep going 😠

I am once again asking you to support a real person who drew this instead of AI slop that is now everywhere 🥺

I would love to work on more art but I am busy applying to jobs in this current dumpster fire of a job market while also trying to sell art that people can't buy cause they're struggling as well while also stressing out because freelance work has not come in since May. Live, laugh, love

In our magazine: Palestinian artist and writer @deltahead.bsky.social is frustrated by how American fiction depicts their people. They take us from Adam Sandler to James Cameron and beyond in this visual essay ...

Anas Al-Sharif gone just like that... Fuck the US and Israel now and forever. I will only know true happiness of the heart when neither of these fugazi Settler-Colonial projects exist. They exist only to bring genocide and horror into this world, time and time again, generation after generation.

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Realizing that I just want to live in a place where I can access nature without having a car.

The amount of people that actually want to live a life where AI makes every single decision for them. What's the point in living if you can't even think for yourself?? You should just swallow your phone and become it

Hi! If anyone is looking to support real artists and not ai. I have some affordable original art still available on my shop 😊. Thank you for your support as always! ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported my work by buying a drawing so far! It means really means a lot. These are the last drawings from my sale and I have a couple drawings on my kofi shop (ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...) that are still available. Dm if interested! Thank youuu 🫶🏻✨

I have some of my favorite original inks up on my shop for sale and would love to find them a new home! <3 ko-fi.com/diananguyen/...

Could 8 kind people help us today? We need £120 to cover food and some basic essentias.🫂 Every contribution helps my children get through the day with dignity and stability.❤️ You’re not just donating... you’re sharing in our life, our safety, and our dignity.🕊 PLEASE donate Or boost 🔃

They look so thin in this new photo

I have some drawings up for sale right now and I thought I'd share it here as well. DM if interested! I also have a few drawings up on my kofi still as well ☺️❤️

Watching The Last Dance and my god the media...deeply infuriating

We are not submissive to Isreal. Isreal is submissive to us. They can't do these evil deeds without our money, weapons, and approval. Isreal is a puppet state. One phone call from the president would end this. Biden could have stopped this. He simply didn't want to.

I've got one group chat talking about crankbait and worms for our upcoming fishing trip and another about skin and hair care. A girl can truly have it all 💅🏻

More pages ✒️

More pages ✒️

Freelance offers that essentially pay less than minimum wage by the hour, not even counting in how much will go to future taxes, trying to tell you they are doing you a favor by even using your work while they will profit from what you do a thousand times over

The thing that I never prepared for as an artist is having a market in which people desire what you do, will make money off of what you do! But do not want to pay for it, and will try to convince you that bad pay that would bankrupt a person for every job is normal and fine right now

So are we all just going to ignore one of the strongest quakes recorded that just rocked Russia yesterday and multiple nations given tsunami alerts?????!!!!! 💀

Stop showing me your labubu's. I'm trying to be nice and polite but I am a hater LOL