Ahoy! An update! I feel your shocked faces... 😄 Won't slam folks with a huge art blast—and the digital art scene is still pretty frozen for me, due to continuing computer blues—so here, have a trad piece. Graphite and a little acrylic on canvas. Modeled by incandescentkiki @ IG. 🖤 #DarkArt

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Had a fried computer-imposed time-out (and I keep forgetting about bsky) but here, have some marketing, lol! Just what you've been waiting for, I KNOW... @everydayoriginal.bsky.social Also, got a few prints rolling around: www.inprnt.com/gallery/cgri...

Had a marvelous time at @ixarts.bsky.social this past weekend! Returned home inspired, exhausted, but so very glad to be in the imaginative realism community. Back to work! #FantasyArt #SciFiArt #HorrorArt #DarkArt #OriginalArt

@cassiopeia7.bsky.social Just realized ‘Cat People’ is on Amazon Prime video and thought of yooooou 😊 (Watching now!)

Can you smell the ozone? Digitally dolled-up drawing for the Postcard Show at @brassworksgallery.bsky.social ! Coming in November... #WeirdLittleGuy #Drawing #OriginalArt #DarkArt #FantasyArt #MidwestGothic

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Tripping the light fantastic at Illuxcon, in the Showcase this year! Who's gonna be there? #Illuxcon #ImaginativeRealism #FantasyArt #OriginalArt #NoAI

CUTIES!

I need to make weirder art. Where my muses at?

Whenever someone questions market impacts of GenAi, show them this article. Make them read each heart breaking story. People’s livelihoods are being negatively impacted, by a tech that relied on the work of those same people to function at capacity. The whole thing makes me sick.

Remember the days when we all thought it would be so cool to be an Imagineer? Work for Disney, or the movies, doing fx or storyboards or concepting? What's the point anymore, when it seems like they're all such greedy, soulless cowards?

Post a witch, if you wish! #DarkArt #WitchyThings #Graphite #Digital

Gawd, I'm so glad I don't work for a big corporate conglomerate that'll can me for expressing an opinion. Especially one that is provable by fact.

The hot mess that is my typical WIP...what's the saying? "A creative mind is seldom tidy?" For @brassworksgallery.bsky.social and their annual postcard show! #DarkArt #graphite #OriginalArt #FantasyArt #spoopy

Here's another good'un. (Performed here: youtu.be/MGSdYFR50Y8)

It’s so weird hearing right wingers talk endlessly about how the left wants to hurt them. With what? Health care, equal rights and living wages?

Pencil in moleskine sketchbook #moleskine #art #leepace

AUTUMN APPROACHES

Opening tomorrow night, the Ohio Art League's Fall Juried Show...be there or be square! (I shall be both 😌) "All You Have is Your Fire", graphite and watercolor, modeled by Son #3. He has glorious hair, what can I say. #RedArt #DarkArt #HozierInspired #OriginalArt #graphite

👃 #WIP #graphite #portrait #DarkArt #DevilInTheDetails #OriginalArt

Gonna be big... #WIP #creepypretty #darkart #originalart

✏️ Happy Labor Day! 🖌️ Did you know that AI “art” is labor theft? Hi. I’m a professional traditional artist of over 15 years & I was able to make a decent living until 3 years ago. In May 2023, over 50 of my paintings had been scraped without my consent to fuel AI image generators like Midjourney.

A meditative lady enveloped in amber. All prints are on sale now: www.inprnt.com/gallery/caro...

This surly baby is heading for the Ohio Art League's Fall Juried Show...kinda surprised, honestly! C'bus, Ohio doesn't quite know what to do with imaginative realism...YET. Gotta work on that. 😏 #DarkArt #Red #OriginalArt #Graphite #Watercolor #Drawing #PopSurrealism

People who use genAI think they’re Trinity in the Matrix receiving an upload on how to fly a helicopter. In reality they watched a drone fly around without them and now insist on being called a pilot.

It's a 'No Country for Old Men' sort of day...

Helped some friends pull beer at their small town's community festival and ... welp. There's always one. *farty noises*

Quote with your gloomy art 🖤

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GODDAMMIT. No, not you too, White Wolf. Nothing is less goth than shitty AI.

I love theeem.

If you've got a minute and hate what genAI is doing to our industry and our planet! actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...

OH, ALSO! One of my rare oil paintings was juried into the latest show at the Ohio Art League! The show is called 'Uncensored', and it centers selections that might be Too Much™️ for mainstream exhibition. Bless 'em. #ArtMakesColumbus #OriginalArt #FigurePainting #Bewbs #ArtisticNudity

There's a metric 💩ton of WIPs I can't share right now, so it seems like I'm doing nuthin'. Have some lil details from the last two covers I've had the honor to illustrate and design. They pretty. For @elliscolton.bsky.social & @ellorysamhain.bsky.social ! #SelfPublishers #PrettyBoys #BookCovers

my dudes there's no such thing as "too late" to regulate AI, that's a fake idea. AI models aren't untouchable data gods, they're algorithms hosted in cloud storage. Saying we can't regulate AI is like saying we can't deplatform Child P*rn bc "it's already out there". Like, 1s and 0s can be deleted

I'll tell ya, there's nothing more rewarding for me than painting (or drawing!) twisted people with unexpected beauty. My job is srsly great. 10/10, no notes.☺️☺️☺️

I haven't read the essay yet, but THIS HEADLINE IS EXACTLY IT. LLMs are a grift. They don't know what facts are. They simply crowdsource (from stolen matter, no less), with no design to actually utilize expertise. Scrape more fiction than fact. Don't sacrifice your brain to an LLM, I beg of you.

Human Artists Use one piece to convince people to follow you

People with money: Money won't solve all your problems. Me: Probably not. But it'll solve some, so I'm willing to give it a try.

Weeeee, we got into the Ohio State Fair's art show! And I didn't even have to use a plagiarism machine to do it... 🤭

Git 'em, Mouse!

Drop something yellow ☀️

✨joy is a form of resistance✨

qrp with your queer art🏳️‍🌈 (Broad notice and support feels more important than ever this year...)

If you see this post a flower 🌸

King shit. ⚔👑 TrueRef: Real references for real artists.

QRP with your most popular piece on Bluesky!

GOALS