Folks, the Inktober guy doesn’t own everything you post with inktober tag, that’s not how copyright works. He trademarked the logo, so if you sell an inktober art zine *with his Inktober logo* he can order you to take it down. There’s a difference, don’t repost wrong info.

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid. The first movie I ever saw in not-a-house. My parents took us to the Drive-In to see it.

New Pen And Ink Sketch Drop: The Explorer... We have a new #PenAndInk#sketch of a #AlienAdventurer exploring ancient ruins at the edge of known space is now up in in the shop here www.thomasperkinsart.com/product-page... More original art can also be found at thomasperkinsart.com/shop! Cheers!

This is why I have my replies set to followers only by default. If you're scolding others for getting what little enjoyment they can during these times, you need to take a long hard look at yourself. Maybe get your grandkids to take your phone away from you.

IMPORTANT PSA: You will NOT see posts from non English speaking artists if your content language is set to English! Make sure it's *unset*!!! If you're following Chinese artists or whatever and wonder why their posts never show up on your feed this is why!

If you see a post with true info above one of these fake alerts and a "misleading" label, it's bc the bsky moderation AI is flagging the "This user is suspected" text, not the information above it.

If you see this italicized "info text" on posts, it's a fake label. It's a stupid copy/pasta that moved from Threads to here. *shakes fist at Threads* If you've been on Bsky for more than 15 minutes, you know how it labels accounts and it's not with italicized text under a post.

They must be here for the asian carp and zebra mussels. Truly dangerous aliens.

Sometimes when you notice AI in art and photos it's easy to point out to folks not tuned into that - wrong number of fingers and so forth - but sometimes you just devolve into I CAN TELL FROM SOME OF THE PIXELS AND FROM SEEING QUITE A FEW SHOPS IN MY TIME

A reminder that LA Comicon used to be “Comikaze” and then “Stan Lee’s Comikaze” and have long been part of the Stan Lee Exploitation Industrial Complex. This “Weekend At Bernie’s” style Stan’s corpse marionette is gross. Just fucking foul.

Starting #drawsomethingwhenIfeellikeit month. Starts whenever we feel like it. Posting optional.

Also, doing inktober serves to help build the brand of an asshole. Inktober is a trademarked brand & Parker has a history of issuing takedowns of anyone selling work using the word Inktober. Ask me how I know.

Inktober sets completely unrealistic expectations regarding output. Making a complete inked drawing in one day EVERY day for a month is insane and a recipe for burnout. Don’t tie your worth to something that even professionals believe is unrealistic.

I LAUGHED SO MUCH please watch it

October is around the corner, so it's time for the friendly annual reminders: • Don't do #inktober, spend your creative time doing literally anything else and go at your own pace. • Jake Park is an asshole and you don't need his stupid branding to jumpstart you into drawing and posting about it.

Stop buying Brandon Sanderson's books.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Unrelated to my last sneak peek, here's another one!

twin cities people: if you had a night to yourself and a bag full of books and notebooks with which to entertain yourself (and a backup knitting project) and wanted a patio good food and beer or wine, where would you head?

Pssst. Hey. Wanna see a sneak peek of what I've been working on on and off for a month?

The spoopy pop up market is on in beautiful war-ravaged Portland! #shopSMalloween

Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896) — an Art Nouveau reference book full of elaborate ornamentation: winged dragons, chiseled hieroglyphs, warring sea creatures, and more... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/das-thier-in-der-decorativen-kunst/

imagine being a studio that uploads process, and hypes it up before release, and lets artists post the work that they did on it...imagine. imagine this.

I’m all set up at Mississippi Pizza for the Spoopy Pop-Up shop! 12-6pm come by and enjoy the beautiful sunshine on this wonderful Portland Saturday!

Fred Armisen made a goofy lil show about our city for personal gain, that was a main catalyst for fast-tracking gentrification here, which has led to a major housing crisis. Would be nice if that li’l shit-ass got in front of some cameras now to do some PR for the city that he’s taken so much from

“Hey you know that thing on LEVERAGE where you whip up a media frenzy with bots, is that real?”

Thomas Nast, the father of the American political cartoon, was born on September 27, 1840. He created the elephant as the GOP symbol, popularized the donkey as the Dem symbol, shaped our notion of Santa Claus, helped end Tammany Hall, etc. (And the political cartoon is more important now than ever!)

Reposting some evergreen content hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

We not doing that whole twitter quote dunking for clout shit. Thats still lame twitter shit and you’re lame when you do do it

🚨 PDX ADVISORY 🚨 Feds are coming to Portland, Oregon NOW That means they may use previous tactics such as warrantless cell tower spying! Have a trusted friend with whom you check in REGULARLY, in case you are black bagged! Remain anonymous, and keep your friends safe! Spread the word!

It's my birthday! 🎂 All I really want is for this move to go smoothly. We're down to just needing to pay off the current unit, I can bootstraps everything else. If you can help, share, etc, that would be very nice 💝. #mutualaid #birthday #moving #theworstapartment

I maded this.

I saw this going around. Spoke to Henley at Kinky Fridays. The story is a bit more complicated

Info here: www.livescience.com/space/black-...

Well don't I feel stupid

Buyers: So your games... guns and football, yes? EA: Mmhmm, mmhmm, mostly guns and football, yep. Buyers: No gay stuff? No politics we're not going to like? EA: Haha, definitely not! Hey, could you give me one sec? I just need to shut down a studio real quick. kotaku.com/report-saudi...

Advice for creatives

I’ve never been into Jane Austen much, but this is cute as heck.

Chapter 1. page 5- now with watercolors!

Happy (beginning) pub day! I am proud to introduce the world to 'Hex Me, Again', a monstrous retelling of Pride and Prejudice. New pages will go up every Tuesday and Thursday, but for this week I'm updating a page a day at my website redcatcomics.com New pages will be added to this thread.

“How do you even promote that? ‘From the folks that brought you 9/11 here's the new Sims 4 Halloween bundle.’ I mean, the guy that’s paying for Mass Effect 5 is the same guy that paid to bone-saw Jamal Khashoggi and put him in a fucking suitcase. But don’t let that stop you from buying the DLC!"

Rn, Bsky has 1.2 stars on Google Play, but at the Apple Store it has 4.2 stars. Bsky has a new policy setting in October that could censor art and make user moderation irrelevant. Sending them feedbacks about it and giving this place one star is how we get their attention! Get loud! #bskycensorship

It was suggested to me that I put this on Teepublic, so here's that link should you want this on a shirt, or something: www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8087...

Please do me a favor… if you’re a fan of my father’s & hate people using AI to imitate an artist after his death, please 👎🏻 & report this asshole to Google. youtube.com/@georgecarli... It’s whack a mole for us. This is a nightmare.

I had to check the reviews.

I like that Youtube has whole ass movies for free, but you get some WEIRD shit, if you scroll too deep in the movie listings.

No artist gets paid in money for the SB Halftime show. That said, if there's *EVER* been an artist that didn't need the "exposure" that the SB offers, it's Taylor Swift. If anything, they need exposure from her and should have done whatever she asked to get her agreement.