Happy women's day!

I'm kind of fascinated by this AI blog post that spooked the market. Apparently, "what if AI succeeds and that's bad" is scarier to the market than "what if AI fails." I'm starting to realize these people genuinely, truly believe the spaceship is about to arrive.

Show us your fairy tale art for Tell a Fairy Tale Day! Here's some art from team members @michelerosenthal.com, @kitsnow.bsky.social, and @xanaroker.bsky.social

Reading a book at the end of the world 📗🌋

What's your favorite licensing story? I'll go first. Let me tell you about the fashion brand that licensed my pattern, and the celebrity who wore it.

Some thoughts behind my illustrations for the Love and Other Catastrophes and Go Fish blurays, part 1

Lately I keep wondering how much of the AI bubble is being propped up by fascism. AI can't generate profit? Easy solution: make the military / police / ICE its biggest clients. I don't think we talk enough in general about the economic incentives that fuel fascism.

That's right

Hello art friends, we're back from our social media break! We have so much in store for 2026, including the official launch of our website in the coming months! 🚀 Read our newsletter for more: armadillostock.substack.com/p/2026-the-y...

The Cave

Let's go NYC!

What should I make next?

Brad Holland

Debate moderator voice: "Mr. Mamdani, do you think there should be kink at Pride?"

I hate hearing leftists say "the problem is that people are stupid." It's such an ablist take. The problem is that people lack empathy and imagination, and the best way to combat that is through art. Intelligence has nothing to do with it.

Ok hear me out, what if cave paintings depict animals more often than human figures because our ancient ancestors were furries?

What a fantastic ending to our Kickstarter. Thank you to everyone who believes in this project as much as I do! And a special thank you to our marketing team, @xanaroker.bsky.social and @kitsnow.bsky.social, for the work and wisdom that made our grassroots campaign such a success!

I can't stop laughing at "of Cuomo, Adams, and Sliwa, I trust Sliwa's word the most"

*smoking a bowl, gazing up at the stars* I wonder what happened to the Entwives

With less than 48 hours left in our Kickstarter, we'd like to take you on a quick tour of our wireframe!

I refuse to believe we're in a "media literacy crisis" unless someone can point out which period in history had more media literacy than today

Girl with a Perler Earring

I'm so proud of the entire Armadillo team, so grateful for the community support, and so ready to build the best licensing website we can build!

We're so close to our goal!! Help us cross the finish line so we can build an alternative licensing website for illustrators!

The Armadillo Ambassadors are the talented group of artists featured on our site who supported us early on. Thank you @paulheaston.bsky.social, Kendyll Hillegas, @breelundberg.com, @sonnyross.bsky.social, @feanne.bsky.social, @alannaflowers.bsky.social, and @michelerosenthal.com! 2/2

The Armadillo Ambassadors are the talented group of artists featured on our site who supported us early on. Thank you @paulheaston.bsky.social, Kendyll Hillegas, @breelundberg.com, @sonnyross.bsky.social, @feanne.bsky.social, @alannaflowers.bsky.social, and @michelerosenthal.com! 1/2

Photo of an artist's photo-reference morgue. A really nice one. Before the Magic Electric Internet, artists & cartoonists had to create their own Google Images, by clipping photos out of magazines and filing them according to topic. I had a morgue until the mid-1990s. Not as good as this one.

Here are answers to a few common questions we've gotten. Let us know what else you'd like to learn about the project. And thank you for helping us reach over 3/4 of our goal, let's keep it going!

This is exactly how I feel about fine art vs commercial art

Thank you so much for supporting a licensing platform for illustrators! We're well over halfway there, and we couldn't be more grateful! #illustration #kickstarter #noai www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

It was so wonderful to talk to Julien about @armadillostock.bsky.social, illustration licensing, artist organizing, and more! There's even audio if you prefer listening to reading. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about the things I love!

After one day, we're about 50% funded!!! I'm so proud of the work we've done, and excited to finally share what we've been planning. I hope you'll support us and help spread the word!

The Armadillo Kickstarter is LIVE! Help us launch a community-built, free-to-use platform for licensing human-made art directly from illustrators! Find out more: kickstarter.com/projects/dialmformichele/armadillo-stock

James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.

It's finally happening! Our Kickstarter launches next week, so we'll see you there!

These are spreads for McCall's magazine by Andy Virgil, 1959. Each spread was paying about $1,500 at that time. Today that would be between $9,000-$12,000. The average price of a brand new car in 1959 was $2,200.

If you find drawing "deeply unpleasant" then don't do it

Chappell Roan (2025) / Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

I'm curious, do people think of movies as commercial art or fine art? Or a secret third thing? Or does it depend on the movie? And is it different for television?

I think Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter and the woman that everyone thinks is Rosie the Riveter should kiss

Okay, I've deleted my earlier post. Apparently, this is *not* a pipe. But the fact that I thought it was says a lot about society.

Tech bros are like "what if we could permanently separate the mind from the body?" but I'm pretty sure that's called psychosis

1965 YouTube

Morrissey 😞

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

Can't stop laughing at how the composition leads the eye directly to her alien crotch

What are you all listening to these days? I need album recs, old and new

What's funny is I remember being a small child and hearing scare segments on the news about how Sesame Street shortens kids' attention spans and gets them addicted to screens, but all Sesame Street did was teach me how to read

What are you all listening to these days? I need album recs, old and new