i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Been watching some videos about the failings of modern art practices and writing and just like, I shouldn't let these realizations about today's world impact my creativity in a negative way. it will, of course, but a part of me also sparks with the spite to show my humanity in my endeavors. 1/?

KEEP DRAWING!

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

MONKEY WRENCH EP 5 - INTERLOPER Now available on Youtube! #monkeywrench #video #indieanimation www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2nZ...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PGP... This is a super cool breakdown of how the song works in-game with its sound channels and it's one of my favorite songs from this game, give it a listen if you're into something like that.

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

💙 ROADMAP UPDATE! ❤️ The Miranda Plushie has reached 25 sales! We're halfway to her being made! With 2 weeks to go! 👀

AUTHORS! ASSEMBLE!

Let’s help support indie artists! #OC

Car's maintenance reminder came up, so just droppin' this here again. ko-fi.com/c/6d8ff5adb1

⚪🔵Headshot sketch commissions are open again!🔵⚪ Limited quantity at this price point; full color available as well~

🎉 500 FOLLOWER RAFFLE 🎉 Thank you so much for supporting me! To celebrate, I'm hosting a raffle where the winner gets a Cel-Shaded Half Body! To participate, simply repost and follow! RAFFLE CLOSES AUGUST 1ST! P.S. Depending on how this goes, more winners may be drawn... 👀 #raffle #promo #art

Happy Birthday Megaman ZX!

Early Birthday Art for @linkakami.bsky.social of their OC Ilia! I would've rather posted it on the day itself but I'll be out of town during that week. The potential for jokes based on the motorcycle were numerous, but I showed restraint. Also, I don't think I wanna draw one again lol.

A family friend wanted me to draw something for him, so I went ahead and whipped this together for'm. It's two different kinds of Warhammer 40k helmets split down the middle. I haven't really thought about doing commissions in a while, but this has me thinking about it a bit more.

Early Birthday Art for @linkakami.bsky.social of their OC Ilia! I would've rather posted it on the day itself but I'll be out of town during that week. The potential for jokes based on the motorcycle were numerous, but I showed restraint. Also, I don't think I wanna draw one again lol.

TW: SA/INCEST/ABUSE Normally I don't do this, but I got permission from @longlongbunny.bsky.social to help spread awareness of their situation. Please help them by sharing this Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/longlongbunny Evidence: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

"ai is inevitable" no you are just a weak coward

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

UNIANIMOUSLY!!!

The Alexa feature "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" you enabled no longer available. Now everything will be sent to Amazon cloud server and it may become part of LLM training. Only Amazon knows what they are going to do with all that data.

It gets more dystopian. Open AI knows its gonna lose their lawsuits so not only do they want the US government to destroy legal systems (copyright) in the constitution in order to get away with theft, they want to oversee and seemingly control all ongoing legal cases. An outrageous overreach.

Art's hard when you can't build up the desire to draw.

Voting for Choose Your Legends 9 for Fire Emblem Heroes is up and it is once again time for me to put all of my eggs in one basket. It's female Kana btw. Cinnamon bun with a brave alt in the 5 star summoning pool with unique and strong skills would put a big smile on my face.

My latest obsession is a Mega Man X mod for SM64 that has X, Zero, Vile and Alia all play around a sandbox enviroment with their shmovement. Flying through whole levels as Zero has unlocked a need in me that has been stated but never satiated. 3D X games need to play like this.

Remember that you too can get a sketch commissioned from me! Helps me out while I wait for more job interviews to be scheduled. ko-fi.com/c/418321fe25

Headshot sketch commission of @legendaryexalt.bsky.social's OC, Kana. [ #art #commission ]

Sybil from Pseudoregalia, because it's a good game and she's cool too.

If you wanna help us get the ball rolling on Ep 5 check out our Kara plush campaign! www.makeship.com/products/kar... Sell 200 and she gets made, sell over 400 and we get the cash to start recording Ep 5!

Sybil from Pseudoregalia, because it's a good game and she's cool too.

When I went through Dragon Ball Fusions and A Hat in Time, I played as the same character, so this funny interaction popped up in my head.

Nightshade is out! Free, easy nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu Good for artists, ya, but everyone: poison random web images, memes, social uploads A small % makes the web less safe to scrape. My 2022 mac laptop did the attachment in 3 min. Noticeable on a solid color image like this--learn to like it ;)

Hirohiko Araki on the evil of AI art in today's "world of con artists". He worries about the impact AI-generated fakes will have on manga. He recently saw an AI image and was shocked at its similarity to his art style. - Hirohiko Araki's New Manga Techniques (November 15, 2024)

Something *really* telling about open ai calling artists “abusers” for trying to set up boundaries to protect our work.

ART THEFT LABELER @arttheft.bsky.social This has the potential to make bsky so much nicer for artists and help eliminate customers from being scammed by fake artists Let me show you how it works ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The Harvard Business Review has some hard to swallow numbers on AI's impact on artistic jobs. Within just a year of AI image gen releasing, demand was down 17%. "... over time, there were no signs of demand rebounding, revealing a growing trend of job replacement." Stay loud, keep fighting.

Haven't found the motivation recently to draw something new but I'm not really too bothered by it either. Art'll happen when it feels like it.

Drew up Pinich from Dragon Ball Fusions! Had a lot of fun with Fusions back in the day, would be neat if a sequel of some kind ever happened.

SHE GOT ANOTHER UNIT BAEBEE!!! (I still want her actual unit instead of another alt but-) YEEEEAAAAAAAH!!!!

Drew up Ilia Baker, who @linkakami.bsky.social came up with. Been wanting to draw her for a while now but GOODNESS I have motivational problems lol.

"And I've never been to Boston in the fall!" Drew three of my OC's: Idalla, Kana and Leona dressed up as The Pirates who don't do anything for Halloween! Also gave me a chance to test out a filter I got recently. Happy Halloween!

I guess I'll give drawing a shot. Had to come up with a watermark, but it looks kinda bland lol. Maybe I'll come up with a better one later. But, here's Lucina! My favorite Fire Emblem character. She make-a me swoon.