ARTISTS! Here's your semi-regular reminder to check your Patreon Creator acct settings to make sure that Free Members can leave comments. This is DISABLED by default! Here's what a Free Member sees by default unless you change your settings. There're so many times I wish I could comment, but can't!

Happy birthday, Sarah! Hope it's a good one. Thanks for sharing the wonderful discount as well! 💝

What a gorgeous Hades x Persephone set just in time for Valentines Day. Definitely going to have to snag this for my own artistic endeavors soon!

Haha love it!🥰

For artists interested in IAMAG’s suite of tools for anti-AI protection on images, image use scanning, easy 2D to short vid creation, collage creation, etc. they have late pledges open for their one-time payment lifetime tiers for a limited time (till Feb 6th).

This speech encapsulates so many thoughts I've had trouble explaining to my AI-curious friends & family. Whether it's destructive to the environment or not (it is), whether it is based on stealing or not (it is), it also robs you of the opportunity to learn through the experience of creation.

Such a helpful resource! Thank you for being so thorough, Blake. Things I found esp useful: - How to use the invisible hashtags so you don't have to eat up valuable post text limit - The list of hashtags for artists - Best practices for artist profile info And lots more. I'm still processing it all!

Luckily, I've gotten much better at this lately!

Just looking at some of my most popular packs to highlight on the website... This is one of them! Easy to see why. For just $5+ you can use these to make incredibly life-like character reference sheets! ko-fi.com/s/5709775f81 #Pose #PoseRef #OCSky #OCArt

🎉SURPRISE PACK!🎉 Male character reference sheet, featuring @blumineck.bsky.social This is a @ko-fi.com exclusive pack. For just $5+, you'll get 12 pose reference sheets to make your best character art ever! Get it here: ko-fi.com/s/9c507dfc0c #Pose #PoseRef #OC #OCsky

For the record, when I need facial plane reference, I use William Nguyen's models on ArtStation. They have adjustable primary and secondary lighting, and can be rotated to be viewed from every angle. Male Head: www.artstation.com/artwork/GX3Ax1 Female Head: www.artstation.com/artwork/6a0Par

Head’s up folks, esp creatives! Discord wants to know in their latest survey if we want more AI in their app. Let them know your thoughts! discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A heartfelt thank you to all who buy from independent artists, hire us, or even share our work or give words of encouragement. Even the most established of artists are feeling a decline in work and sales this year. Your support in all or any way is felt and appreciated amongst us! Thank you!!

My Black Friday Artist's Wishlist: - The Comics Experience Writing Class Bundle - The Swatches Academy Illustrator's Bundle - All the cool pose packs from Grafit, The Pose Archives, etc. I can only choose one HRRGGGG.😭 What cool art sales are you guys eyeballing this year?👀

Another pose challenge! This one’s deadline is soon, but we have the whole wide weekend ahead of us, art friends!

Activate the muse with this pose challenge!

[Blog Post] Con Report - Multiverse 2025. I had a lovely time at this small, chill con this past weekend! Here's a wrap-up of my thoughts on the cool people I met, the wonderful inspiration, the selling trends, etc. plus pics of the premiere of my upgraded display. www.patreon.com/posts/con-re...

HOT TIP! If you need a free QR generator that’s not gonna expire after some annoying hidden trial period, Adobe Express (their freeware Canva-like cloud-based service) has a free QR generator for static urls. www.adobe.com/express/feat... #conventionartists #artmarketing

It is time... Spooky pack is back. Get 219 FRIGHTENING poses for just $5+, including 32 BRAND NEW never before seen Tom motorcycle poses and Sarah witch poses. Grab yours today: ko-fi.com/s/5eb9f771bd PLEASE NOTE: If you bought Spooky Pack 2024, you will have almost all of these already! #PoseRef

New blog post! "Planning a Convention Booth + Art Show Display w/ Visual Aids" I wanted to give you guys a chunky Behind the Scenes peek at my prep for Multiverse. Sharing my booth mockup planning, discussing layout decisions, and other bits & bobs! Read on -> www.patreon.com/posts/139809...

I did the maths and, across all the offerings, there are now a total of ✨150 page dividers✨ available in my freebie library. For free. 150. Free. ko-fi.com/alderdoodle/...

Well worth a read to be aware of the impact of this tech on artists, but also the world at large.

Hello, my precious! @dominikmayerart.bsky.social's book has finally arrived from last year's Kickstarter. I look forward to pouring over the pages of expressive art. It perfectly captures that dark, glittering mood I'm moving towards in my own art. Gorgeous book! I shall treasure it. ❤️ #artbooks

It was more than a year in the planning, including growing the flowers and figuring out how to get the camera a good 15 feet above the ground to reduce distortion. You can find it on my Gumroad page: howardlyonart.gumroad.com Use the code SUMERTIME to get 30% off!

Run! #PoseRef

It's time for #ArtFight! Need to boost your team's scores? 💎 🦴 Backgrounds give you more points, and guess what, I have some handy dandy references to make it that much easier for you ;) Get 15% off all July with code: ARTFIGHT ☆ ko-fi.com/sambeawesome... #shop #artresources #stockphotos

Quickie look at my first Fourthwall samples, which are all quite nice! I’ve been testing out this option as a free shop alternative for artists after learning about its passive fee structure. What questions & concerns about them should I address in a full review later? Let me know in the replies!

Welcome to the Muse's Library! This Art Resources account shares reviews for artists, photo references, art marketing advice, & more created by an artist for artists. It will also signal boost other useful art resources. This account is curated by illustrator/Muse @angelasasserart.bsky.social 👋

I no longer collect this artist (to put it mildly), but I'm culling books from my collection to help with medical bills. This is a rare bundle of the #Angelarium KS 1st edition books + extras. I'll be happy to see it gone towards a good cause! www.ebay.com/itm/22683240... More book culling to come!

Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

I am literally at peace. Literal Better Pinterest™ for Computer. There's even Pinterest import. Also you can tag things, get color palettes, export your setup to a plain old set of image folders, look at videos… I moved all my OC stuff today. Art, Design, and 3D reference will be some other time.

I fantastic art and reference book I just had to re-share!

Only five days left of our 2025 Summer Sale 💔⚔ 25% off TrueRef+ and 30% off all single packs!

Head’s up Artists! If you don’t want Pinterest to use your data for training their genAI, do the following: - Go to Settings (via the ellipses) - Under Privacy & Data - Toggle training off - Bonus Step: Let Pinterest know you don’t support this by leaving feedback at privacy-support(at)pinterest.com

✨💌USEFUL LINKS FOR ARTISTS🎨🍊: A 200+ link spreadsheet of some of the best references and websites out there, for free on google sheets! This blew up on twitter ages ago, and I just went through and tested all the links and added more. send to ya buds <3 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Dear artists: Afraid of death? It’s coming anyway. Afraid of failure? We all fail. A lot. Sometimes spectacularly. Afraid of these fascists? There are more of us cheering you on. Don’t stop creating. Not now. Make art. Piss them off. Create. With anger. With hope. Keep going.

A good opportunity for any illustrator!

Q&A Excerpt: "Can't I just use AI to improve at art? How do I get better fast?" Some gentle, but firm advice on why you need to study instead of generate art, how generated works affect other artists, & other advice on study resources. youtu.be/stLjQiqBUmk?... #artistAMA #artistFAQ #studiohangouts

Excerpt from Jan's Studio Hangout + AMA. Answering a good question from this month's AMA with encouragement for my artist buddies who are feeling some kind of way right now!🫂 Q: How do you stay inspired when things are rough? A: youtube.com/shorts/xm3Vk... #artistAMA #artistFAQ #artistlife

I need everyone here to know about my #1 favorite male model site because they are AMAZING freephotomuscle.com It's super buff Japanese guys doing everything they can think of while shirtless and flexing as hard as possible, what's not to love

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

A very helpful resource for looking up conventions in your area just in time for convention season planning!

People with an LLC!! IT'S BACK. FILL IT OUT TODAY. It'll take you ten minutes TOPS. If you're like me and put stuff off if it feels hard or too official, this is an actual easy task. hyperallergic.com/865082/new-a...

Gothic Romance is here! 💔🩸🗡 Melodramatic pose references with a hint of horror.

Oh? I've heard on the artist grapevine that there's a new commission platform coming up that's anti A/I & artist friendly called @vgen.co. Signal boosting for others who might find it useful! I'm still not open to private comms, but should that change, I'm considering my options for sharing info.

Massive "Painting The Worlds of Studio Ghibli" new art book is coming next month. 844 backgrounds from all Ghibli films, from "Nausicaa" to "The Boy & The Heron". 568 pages, supervised by art director Yoji Takeshige. International preorders >> amzn.to/3Vp4fro

We're excited to join our TAG members and supporters here on Bluesky. Please share this post to help us spread the word! #StandWithAnimation

Black Friday sale head's up for Artists! If you've switched to a free video editing option like Davinci Resolve, the premium version is currently on sale. Extra points because this is buy once & updates forever software that's fairly powerful!👍 www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/dav... #artbiz

Head’s up, artists! There’s a great CSP sale going on right now with 60% off and a free upgrade to version 4 when it comes out in March. graphixly.com/pages/purchase

Good tips! #artmarketing #socialmediatips