What it basically comes down to with businesses using AI imagery, is are you gonna fund an artist's groceries for a week? A month? Or are you putting meaningless fractions of a penny on a billionaire's hoarde?

It's Wednesday, which means it's time to talk about comics! Picked up @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social's The October Girl a few weeks ago from @oldtownbooks.bsky.social. The story is right up my alley - obviously - and his art is great - as always -but it's the coloring that makes it. #comicbookday

If I say something on social media and it has a typo, it is guaranteed to get reposted a bunch. Gotta keep that in mind when I'm shilling for myself.

Just another of waking up and being angry at what's going on by noon. As the news of what's happening at the Post spreads, a really great way to funnel that anger is to local reporting efforts getting up off the ground. 51st.news/membership/.

I'm in a particularly feisty (read: bad) mood today so I've got Wu's Enter the Wu-Tang on rotation today. I don't listen to music that keeps me angry on days like this, I listen to music I group under "get shit done." #tunestuesday

Looking in to newsletter aggregation apps - something that I can use to gather up all my newsletters into a kind of newsletter only inbox - and the whole industry thinks I want AI summaries. Of the things I actually *want* to read. Grumble.

David Bowie, drawn in 2006

How can Sleigh Bells be so damn good all the time? Listening to Bunky Becky Birthday Boy, which I never gave a proper listen to last year when it came out. REGRETS! #musicmonday

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Little life update, a turn of events I hadn’t been planning on last week has occurred and I’m moving into a new apartment, which is bittersweet. I do not love asking for help, but I am really going to need it to cover moving costs and get a few things for the new place, so if you can, anything helps

One of my favorite comics (which shouldn't surprise anyone.)

Sometimes you have a silly idea and you just have to get it out cause it's blocking up your other work. I present to you: Bubbe Babka. #dogsky

Sorting through old files and came across a whole batch of fan art I did right before Covid. Pulling out ones that I think still look good, like this Constantine piece. #Hellblazer is a top ten comic for me. #fanartfriday #dccomics #constantine #digitalillustration

Koi for All Microseasons: 45/72 Farmers drain fields. The line technique I started using around here in the series has sparked something I'm going to try to emulate in my paintings. #minimalistart #artsky

she's done! a 5 x 5 inch mini mosaic of the sweetest face, little Maisie the cat

Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet (14th October 1978). "What's it for? Huh? What are you doing? What could possibly be worth all this?"

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

I've learned that I'm more particular about the dot above a lowercase i then I am about any other part of a wordmark. I will muck with that damn dot until the last minute.

I’ve decided to open some pre-orders so I can focus on making the things that people will be wanting for holiday shopping, so I’ve restocked Pangur Ban, Anatomical Heart, Anatomical Brain, and the Cozy Fox in her Den stained glass panels. Orders’ll ship by at least late November

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it." @jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

New comic book day: Picked up the DC Compact edition of Far Sector at Old Town Books. Jemisin is one of my favorite authors and the story she told is pretty much everything I want from a sci-fi superhero story. The art by Campbell is *stunning.* Great great great.

Koi for All Microseasons: 43/72 Insects hole up underground #minimalistart #artsky

Think it's time for a re-reading of the Blue Ant Trilogy. (@mb3books.bsky.social).

Koi for All Microseasons: 43/72 Swallows leave. #minimalistart #artsky

Happy Libra season! #characterdesign #procreate

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I used the word "anime" in a post and suddenly my discover feed is full of AI slop. My block button and the muted words interface are doing overtime today, but man, if the algorithm has linked those two topics together, that is a *bummer.*

I have an anime only account on our Netflix - so I don't ruin the algorithm - and it's named AniMal. I think that name is the best thing I've ever done.

Koi for All Microseasons: 42/72 Wagtails sing. @inprnt.com is having a sale right now, so you can these prints for *cheap.* I try to price my prints so every can impulse buy some art on their walls: www.inprnt.com/gallery/malj... #digitalart #minimialistart #artsky #illustrationsky #supportartists

Just gonna sit here and stare at the ceiling after finishing Expedition 33. Tomorrow comes.

bring it

In addition to the Pangur Bán panel, I also finished this Rider Waite Smith hermit tarot card stained glass panel! www.aknitomy.com/shop/p/the-h...

If you no longer desire to be online, do I have a free and fucking weird coloring book for you.

After a while here on Bluesky, I've gotta say it's pretty good! The moderation controls and lists make it really manageable to check in and then pop back off. My Discover feed is still utter garbage *but* I'll keep mucking about and see if more interactions change that.

HUMAN artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

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Koi for All Microseasons: 41/72 Dew glistens white on grass. I'd like this to this one also is heralds spooky season's approach. #digitalart #minimialistart #artsky #illustrationsky

#brekky burger on a wholemeal bun with spinach and rocket, pear, white kimchi, leftover roast chicken, bacon, omelette, six eyed scorpion crispy chilli oil, oregano, cumin, dried garlic, dried chilli flakes, salt and pepper #foodsky 🍜🍽️

Koi for All Microseasons 42/72: Rice ripens. Mmm rice. #digitalart #artsky #illustration

#brekky burger on a wholemeal bun with spinach and rocket, pear, bacon, gherkins, pickled ginger, an egg fried in butter, laoganma chilli sauce with pork black bean, salt, oregano, dried garlic, chilli flakes, cumin and pepper Gonna try out this #foodsky tag too

Koi for All Microseasons 41/72: Heat starts to die down. The weather at the end of August here in the DMV has been exquisite. Just holy smokes beautiful. Bring on fall! #digitalart #artsky #illustration

@ethanmarcotte.com coming in hot in this piece and I'm here for it.

🦊 I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

"She Is Every Poem" by sapph.dsgn Print available at www.inprnt.com/gallery/sapp...

Metro offers discounted rates for low-income residents, but few riders are using the program. Here’s who is eligible and how to enroll. 51st.news/metro-offers...

Koi for All Microseason 40/72: Cotton flowers bloom. This one was an art changing moment. There is a ton of technique in here that I love & I'm carrying it over to other pieces, both Koi and non-Koi. Don't forget about @inprnt.com's sale right now: www.inprnt.com/gallery/malj... #supportartists