Folks! The ban against states regulating AI is DEAD! It’s was voted 99-1! This victory belongs to us all! Unfettered GenAi is an issue for us all, and groups from all walks of life came together to demand we regulate! Your calls and action made the difference! So thank you everyone! We did this!

Early concept for Kpop Demon Hunters

I decided to start #MexicanGothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia today. I'm only about 30 pages in, so not much to report on yet. But I do want to make a point to highlight the cover artist @miaaraujo.bsky.social for this super cool edition. It's how the book caught my eye.

I'd love to see more authors get comfortable with mentioning the artists they work with while promoting their book. I promise it's not going to take anything away from the book to mention who made the "absolutely gorgeous cover" or the amazing character art you're showing off.

Using AI is risking plagiarism, and nothing will kill a writer's career quicker or deader than that. AI lacks flavor, and the special sauce of any writer is the flavor they put there themselves. Writers and Editors FUCKING HATE AI. Who becomes a writer to become disrespected? AI: not even once.

Update: The TERRIBLE 10-Year Ban on State AI Regulations advanced House Committee. What does this mean? It means we BLAST the HELL out of their phones! Call your House Members AND Senators today! Called a few days ago? Call again! Tell them NO on 10-year State AI Regulation Ban! (Info in thread)

Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down! www.404media.co/republicans-...

Creaky Acres is out today! At last, you can now find it at your nearest indie bookstore or library. And if you can't, tell them you want it! @calistabrill.bsky.social #graphicnovels #comics #kidlit #kidlitart www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/558467...

Happy audiobook release day to #SerendipityLit author/illustrator @miaaraujo.bsky.social on AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS! The story is being narrated by actress Wunmi Mosaku, who has been in Ryan Coogler's SINNERS, as well as SCAVENGER'S REIGN, LOKI, and LOVECRAFT COUNTRY.

For Independent Bookstore Day (tomorrow!), I’m happy to tout my new (for me) local bookshop, Small World Books, right on the Venice boardwalk. It’s swell.

Happy Book Birthday to @miaaraujo.bsky.social — her debut novel AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS launches today. 🚀 These next 6 days are important ones for her. If you haven’t already preordered AFIA, please buy it during Mia’s release week. Gorgeous, beautifully-designed volume — well worth the wait!🔥

Happy Book Birthday to #SerendipityLit author/illustrator @miaaraujo.bsky.social for her debut novel, AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS! You can order from Bookshop here: bookshop.org/a/10902/9781... AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS is available now from Scholastic!

#GiveawayAlert! Read my interview with @miaaraujo.bsky.social and enter my #giveaway to win her MG Afia In the Land of Wonders @ Literary Rambles. #amreading #amwriting #kidlit #teachers #librarians tinyurl.com/2whdxjbf

A $15 donation to your public library or ALA's Show Up for Our Libraries fund gets you a @libro.fm audiobook credit. Donate before #NationalLibraryWeek ends tomorrow! blog.libro.fm/libraryweek/ #ForOurLibraries #BookSky 📚💙

CA Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan @bauerkahan.bsky.social appreciation post: she introduced a bill that would require transparency about what goes into AI datasets, giving artists & creators insight into if their work was scraped (possibly w/o consent, compensation). Please give her a thanks & follow!

Gorgeous book post today from #ScholasticUK. Looking forward to reading middle grades Afia in the Land of Wonders by @miaaraujo.bsky.social; The Cartoonists Club by @goraina.bsky.social & @scottmccloud.bsky.social, both out now, and YA title Hot Young Royals by Katy Birchall, out 08/05 📚

Not all of the imagery gets vetted. I had to publicly yell at them to remove "stock images" that used my name and were generated using my portfolio without my permission. And I wasn't the only artist, there's been a consistent flood of images with dubious sourcing all over Adobe Stock.

Happy National Library Week! #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians

My first #portfolioday ! I'm Lucía, fantasy illustrator specialised in graphite, but I also work with mixed media (mainly digitally colored graphite) and purely digital stuff. I'm most interested in editorial illustration and concept art, but I'm open to other work! Here some varied samples 🖤✨

Hey hey #portfolioday! My name is Dominique and I am an illustrator and designer. Past clients include Netflix, Walmart, Delta Air Lines, and Penguin Random House 🌵www.dominiqueramsey.com 🌵[email protected]

Hi #PortfolioDay! My name is Nilah. I am available for consideration for your picture book and cover illustration projects! #kidlitart I am also a storyboard revisionist for animation and will be available for full-time storyboard work in August. nilahmagruder.com

Hello #PortfolioDay 💗 I'm Alecia, and I'm a freelance Concept and Illustrator based in Montréal. I love designing humanoid and robotic things! I'm currently looking for work! Portfolio: tallnquirky.artstation.com 📧: [email protected]

Hi #PortfolioDay 🎇 I'm Christina, a freelance fantasy artist from Germany who loves to paint light and magical things. I'm currently an artist mainly for Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone and book covers.🥰 🌎https://christinakraus-art.com ✉️[email protected]

Hello, #PortfolioDay ! I'm an illustrator, visdev artist and character designer. My contact info is in my bio :)

Hello, #PortfolioDay ! I'm Faith, an artist working mostly in animation/publishing! You might also know me as that person who draws a lot of swords, a lot of ladies with swords, swords all the way down etc

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Mia and I paint in acrylics. My debut illustrated novel, AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS, which I've been working on since 2012 is being published by Scholastic on April 15th--thrilled to finally be able to share it soon! I love painting book covers and fantasy art too.

Today is National Library Workers Day—a day to celebrate the hardworking professionals who keep our libraries thriving. Library workers are facing tough times, and it’s more important than ever to show our support. Show some love to the library worker in your life today! ala-apa.org/nlwd/ #NLWD25

AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS by #SerendipityLit author and illustrator @miaaraujo.bsky.social is an Amazon Editor’s Pick for the best books of April for ages 9-12! Congratulations, Mia! You can find the full list here: www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding...

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

The Chesley suggestions are up and we invite one and all to suggest works of art in 2024. You don’t have to be a member or an artist to suggest art! You can suggest your own art as well, one piece per category please! Suggestions close at the end of March! asfa-art.com/news/2025-ch...

If you see this, QPR your green art 💚 Adding some green armors to this green train

Spider-Man '77 animated look test. I loved this show as a kid. I feel like the 1977 Amazing Spider-Man gets over looked a lot, but as campy as it is, I really love the design. #Zbrush and #Blender rendered in #EEVEE

AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS by #SerendipityLit author and illustrator @miaaraujo.bsky.social is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! Congratulations Mia! AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS will be available on April 15th from Scholastic! Preorder your copy here: bookshop.org/a/10902/9781...

This is an older story, but worth keeping in mind through every step of the AI hype cycle. The whole business model relies on violating copyright law. If your business model relies on stealing your inputs, that's normally called not having a viable business model.

In April, the great Dark Delicacies is closing its doors after three decades. Swing by to Burbank to pay it a visit while you still can! www.sfgate.com/la/article/l...

Generative AI is so damaging it got all the UK papers to unite against it. How's that for some solidarity 🇬🇧

Newsletter: There is no AI Revolution. Consumer adoption of generative AI outside of ChatGPT is barely 100 million people, every single company in generative AI is deeply unprofitable, Microsoft is pulling capex, and OpenAI spent $9bn in 2024 to lose $5bn. www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-m...

Learning how to draw with less noise in my mind is proving to be quite more difficult than I imagined (started adhd med past month). This has been my only "finished" piece in 3 weeks. I used a nib pen (novelty!), Deleter black 4 ink on a small sketchbook. I actually loved every second of this 😭

I testified against HB900 in the last session, as did an eighth-grader. If you fall anywhere between "published author" and "middle schooler," love the freedom to read, and can make it to to the Capitol in Austin this Thursday to testify, I hope you will.

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Reposting this again bc like — I want to be able to respond in some productive way to every awful thing I see, but we are literally not built for that. So I picked an org in my lane and I’m offering up my skills. Spent an hour today working through the first piece of a new plan. And it felt good.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Every artist I know is really struggling right now. Financially, emotionally, their confidence, in general. If you like an artist's work, support them any way you can. Buying their stuff or subscribing to their Patreon is great, but words of encouragement are also incredibly helpful.

UK Artists/art fans upset about the government's AI copyright legislation plans that throw creatives under the bus, please see this document and fill out the linked government survey by the 25th!!! That's Tuesday!!!! Go go go! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Did this one for Halloween of 2022, still one of the things I've painted i am the most proud of! Oil on board 18x24"

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

Happy #blackhistorymonth ✨✨ The theme is BRIGHT AF😎 #blacksky

I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist. Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.

Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago

It’s that time of year again~! Stop by my shop and pick up some lil valentines and show your partner, friend, or etc with love <33 Bottlingsunshineshop.com Valentines will be in my shop until February 14th! Stock is limited and all valentines will be shipped promptly after being ordered.