And yet one more for the increasing "boomers who already more than got theirs and couldn't give a rat's ass about what's coming for the younger ones following on their steps" list 🤷🏻‍♂️

Otro estudio de animación que me rechaza y que me entero que están usando IA para "lo fácil". "Lo fácil" es la puerta de entrada de juniors como yo que ven cómo las oportunidades para trabajar casi no existen. ¿Quién va a animar cuando se jubilen los senior? Anyway busco curro de animación 2D.

So, like nine months after submitting a pitch to a literary agency, I've got my first formal agency rejection. Should I frame it? 🥲

Here's a little taste of my 128 page graphic novel - Book 2 in the series "Fox & the Magic Book" for @01firstsecond.bsky.social This would had not been possible without some amazing people, including @ivantaurisano @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social !! THANK YOU!!! #comic #comicforkids #kidlit #kidlitart

Well looks like France 🇫🇷 is out of the World cup, on Bastille day no less. Good thing they've got a comic for every occasion. ⚽ (Boule et Bill by Jean Roba. Summary in alt)

Hello #Portfolioday! I'm Deven, SF Bay Based, ND illustrator and cartoonist. I am looking for work from mid August on. I'm also looking for an agent! Open to covers, PB, early reader, mid grade illustration & magazines, etc website: dhoover.art patreon: patreon.com/dhooverart instagram: @dhooverart

#PortfolioDay ? Okay! Since I’ve been doing the Line It Is Drawn for CBR again so much recently, I’ll post a bunch of oldies, favourites and probably rarely seen ones for funsies. All characters copyright and trademark of their respective masters, obviously

Happy #PortfolioDay - I'm Gina Perry, a children's book illustrator from New England. I'm open to new book, product, or magazine projects in the fall. Rep'd by Sean McCarthy Lit. More at: www.ginaperry.com #kidlit #illustrator

Hi #portfolioDay followers! 🎨 I make original comics stories and characters for kids. Currently developing my first self-published series coming soon. Open for related work opps too! More about me and my work 👉 alzamon.com Contact 👉 beto-at-alzamon.com #kidscomics #kidlitgn #middlegrade

I apologize for the image drought in this account, but... I've been busy. Have been in crunch mode finishing a 24-page full color comics project to debut locally next month, and I'm currently in speed coloring mode and questioning my life choices. 🥲 Hoping to have this ready by EOM or before it. 🤞

Those were the days 🥹

Posting this again to remind you you dont have to be an amazing artist to draw comics!

“Lettering is supposed to be invisible” is a little simplistic. If the letterer is doing their job w/ skill, and in harmony w/ the art, it elevates the comic even though you might not register HOW. Bad lettering is more noticeable because it drags the art & writing down with it.

@dolokecki.bsky.social lo que hablábamos recién, y suscribo 👇

pugling haaland 🇳🇴

BREAKING NEWS: Meta rolls back controversial feature that let anyone tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their likeness—without their knowledge or active consent. @wired.com

Would $4 millions fix me for life? Heck if they could. Alas, no living artist's works (that are not lame attempts at money laundering that is) ever command those prices last I checked. 💸

This ancient Egyptian painter’s palette from 3000 years ago still contains traces on the original colors. (Wtf, I have old watercolor paints that look older than this…) [openculture.com]

I like this version of me. I sketched her some more.

Genuine, honest question: how do you get to promote yourselves without IG or any of Meta’s products? Because in my corner of the woods, EVERYBODY expects to find you there. I have a newsletter but newsletter culture is poor on Latin America. I hate depending on them but I don’t see much choices.

In 2009 Google Maps did exist but I didn't have a GPS or similar device back then so I _printed_ the directions to get from SF to Santa Rosa and back on a rented car to visit the Charles Schulz Museum. Me, a foreigner driver. The things we do for passion. @benjaminlclark.com 😁 🚗

Every time such a Pizza Hut news mention comes out I already think of @boxbrown.bsky.social (sorry man) 😅 so now they tell us the brand's future is to cater to us Gen X nostalgics again. Sure, nostalgia sells, but only while your clients don't die out 🍕

A longtime artist friend from afar visited me today and shows me a super rendered political caricature of his for a newspaper. — Wow, did you do this? — Nah, just prompted Gemini, I don't get paid much for this. He can draw but he's all "tf I care, art is dead" now. He's still my friend, but man. 🫤

some tips for actually doing this: -shitty is better than incomplete -you are the ONLY one who can do what YOU'RE doing -people LOVE seeing the artist's hand in their work, esp in the age of genAi -the more you say "this sucks," the more you believe it. the opposite is also true

Happy book birthday to LOVE, PANDA by Elaine Su, illus. by me! This loveable story written as a series of letters (from the panda, no less!) is out today from Scholastic! (Special thanks to Brian LaRossa for art directing!) #kidlit #panda #bookbirthday

Meta has been purposedly enshittifying IG with AI since long but this is the latest attempt. Below, capture of the mentioned setting tweaks although wording doesn’t matches that of the article. Unfortunately my local audience and market doesn’t care about Bluesky so it’s Meta or bust. I hate this.

Getting real deep over on the ole newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/delartst...

🇧🇪 They won. Bigly. Cheaters never do. 😉

Hi how ya doin’? I’m responsible for the Eisner-nominated webcomic Max Overacts. Sunday style comics, over 550 so far. About a boy who only wants to entertain, despite the critics. The oh so many critics… Start here at no. 1: occasionalcomics.com/comic/latest...

Me, every day, falling miserably at it 🥹 (I kid, I can’t even try *not* being me) 😅

Parabéns ao @mushisan.bsky.social que deu certo ⚽🙃

🇺🇸 🇧🇪 ⚽ Well, I've always liked Franco-Belgian comics better. Easy choice for me.

Happy birthday to me! Usually for my birthday I love to do a summer pic with my ocs. But as I’m now do caught up in the graphic novel I didn’t have time nor energy. So I give you a panel snippet If you wanna support me and my art: patreon.com/amalas ko-fi.com/amalas inprnt.com/gallery/amalasrosa/

Cat gets blasted by a materializing grandma ghost #comics #graphicnovel #illustration #cartoon #kittyart #fun #catart

* sounds of pain * 🥹

Y así queda completado mi aportación al evento "Muralitza't" de Muro de Alcoy! Ha sido todo un placer llenar este murete con mis monigotes. :)

Hoy he tenido un día raruno así que va una recopilación de caretos de Astrid para contrarestar.

His Holiness, I have a scant two weeks left to finish a comic, what else do you want from me 🥹

Last page of Escape from Hooverville is up. Big thank you to anybody who took the time out of their day to read this little project of mine, and I hope you enjoyed it. Next comic in 10 years buh bye

Me if I was such an actor: “Okay you can have my voice but in return I demand in exchange an audited 2% of all profits off every movie, tv show and merchandise featuring it. On perpetuity. Otherwise no go” But of course no child actor thinks or talks in those terms. This is tiring.

Can you believe it? Fast Break is coming out this year and you can already get it on sale. Added bonus: It helps us out a whole heckin lot! Fast Break is gonna be a slam dunk on any shelf!

¡Es mi cumpleaños! ¿Qué me van a regalar? Hice un dibujito cumpleañero de Patote, haciendo parodia de portadas de cómics del Pato Donald, como es mi costumbre en años recientes. ¡Tendré que cumplir muchos años más para aumentar la colección! #comics #drawings #cartoons #ducks #covers

Since today's Sonic the Hedgehog's b-day, here's a fan-comic I made years ago!

So you say this guy is 35 today. Well this 10" version of Sonic I got at a mall in the late 90s is almost as old. Yes he's had it rough, yes he needs a repaint job. But it is still here with me 🔵 🦔

Yo, ante la misión de entintar y colorear 20 páginas de mi comiquito en menos de un mes para salir de imprenta a tiempo: Mira al Javi, el Javi no se rindió, sé como el Javi 🥹

ICYMI: One in five manga artists in Japan say generative AI has cut into their income. Between ¥6.6 billion in lawsuits and industry-wide demands for opt-in training, here's how Japan's creative world is fighting back.

when in doubt, watch manben

Realizing I’m having my comics printer deadline shortened by two weeks and that’ll have me in crunch mode for the next month to finish it. So if you don’t see much of me over the next weeks, now you know. 🥲 Tezuka-san was likely hiding existential pain behind that smile.

A hill I can die on: everything just went backwards and downhill once we start caving in to optimize everything for smartphone screens. And in 9:16 ratio so as to add insult to injury. 🤦‍♂️

Happy Father's Day to everybody — whether you still have him around, or lives in your memory, or have become one and your children are of flesh and bone... or of paper and ink. Have a good one regardless. 🎁