— The rest of my life will be my penance. Illustration with Loghain Mac Tir for the Dragon Age zine~ [ #DragonAge | #DAO | #Origins | #Loghain ]

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

I swear, half the fun of still keeping tabs on the Marvel Rivals reddit page is to see the occasional "what do you mean women find that attractive???" discussions crop up. Like coats that shows off forearms.

Official Cover Art for D&D Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn. Truly a great honor to be given a chance to paint covers for D&D. It features best girl Karlach, the one I also made for Magic in the past. I hope you like the result! Big thanks to Emi Tanji as the Art Director for commissioning me.

Damn nice to not stare in horror at US news for a change.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

If anyone is going to Geek Girl Con in Seattle this weekend ArenaNet still has some slots available for portfolio reviews. We have representatives covering the majority of game dev disciplines:

Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union. Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

i'm laughing so hard at all these media outlets being like "bridgerton star" "wicked star" and then the ffxiv fandom lovingly shows out in full like "G'RAHA TIA SEXIEST MAN" "CATBOY OF THE YEAR" i love y'all

High Tide 🌊 ✨ Hey guys I just finished this new painting in my ongoing series of paintings called ‘A Starry Place’ where I explore spaces that are meaningful and nostalgic to me. This piece is inspired by overcoming insurmountable challenges.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

The joys of trying to think of places to yeet your portfolio at while fending off "haven't had much work of late" anxiety.

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

Always a little fascinating when people discuss writing in media and one camp is discussing the writing as events that happened, while the other camp is discussing the writing as choices that were made by the creators. I feel like a lot of disagreements comes from mismatch of those camps.

Alan Wake 2

The privacy issue with KOSA "resonating with a large swath of people"-- that's you, that was you calling your reps. Don't let anyone tell you it's pointless Let's do it again for the censorship bills in this new package

The key to realistically paint materials is to understand the "Specularity Spectrum" (term made up by me). Once you understand how reflective or not something is, you can roughly deduce how much you need to emphasize form shadows vs reflections (highlights), or whether to combine both.

🤍 Verso 🖤 #expedition33 #ClairObscurExpedition33

In this moment, coal miners turned their red bandanas into a symbol of solidarity — both to distinguish themselves from the enemy and to show that, across racial lines, coal miners were united along class interests For this reason, they were known as the "Redneck Army."

Let's keep showing them how profoundly irritating we can be, because they have an easy out. It's right there!

Keyleth and Vax'ildan

I think people misunderstand that IT IS OKAY if a book makes you UNCOMFORTABLE, sometimes that is the author's intent, but what YOU DO with those feelings as the reader is YOUR responsibility, not an author's, and which is why using that discomfort as a crux to mortality police makes you a dick

If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here. I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜

And henceforth once more, 'tis the Thanking of thee, New Follower. May thy pure heart ever light itself, as the eye falls upon mine wretched painting

Reminder that this website has NO ALGORITHM a like is nice, but if you want others to see a post, you gotta repost it. Art especially.

Next ceramics restock: Saturday Oct 25, 10:00 GMT+2 Previews are up on my website now! ⚠️ US customers: I still can't ship to the US :( I'm sorry. I hope this will be fixed soon.

We have 20 days left and are closing in on 100k Euros! How exciting! Did you know we are including material from our monthly challenges into the longer retro edition of the book?

Thranduil timelapse: #tolktober

stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Gentle and casual reminder to contemplate whether you need a new pillow because goddamn was it a overdue purchase for me. :''D

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

Delilah Briarwood for Critical Role and Everything Dice. She's on the box for the new dice set! AD: Luke Ge & Yves Eyang

Canadian friends, your government is seeking commentary on GenAi strategies and policies. Please let them know exactly how you feel about GenAi, it’s impacts, and what next steps should be! Perhaps it’s respecting artists works, environmental considerations and so on! Share your thoughts here 👇

My #oc May #art 💖

I posted that we should remember small town protests in red states and got Well Actuallyed by several people who insisted ______ has suffered more and we should remember them. This isn’t the Oppression Olympics. We need all hands, not just the purest and noblest.

1 slot left in my December mentorship!! Treat yourself to a Christmas miracle (getting some help with art)

Thread that's worth reading if youre scared that contacting your reps isnt reaching anyone or being ignored: these calls are having a larger effect than you realize, even if you arent seeing much public shift yet

I'm going to be at MCM London! Less than two weeks to go now folks~ I'm going to be at table N-19 and I'm sharing with the amazing @caitmayart.com! So, come see us both if you're there for some Critical Role and Dimension 20 yapping! Here are some of my wares...

*crying in art director* Please please please let your #portfoliday gift to yourself be adding your contact info (email), portfolio (link), and NAME to your socials. Some of you are missing opportunities because we can't reach you!!!!! 🫣

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

amber starlight ✨ revenge for witchytwink #eldenring #art #teamcrystals

Hello #Portfolioday 💖 I'm Lore and I love the moon, the stars and anything witchy! I would love to work on some more stylized ornamental book covers and such 🌱 I'm currently mostly practicing my gouache painting skills when I'm not actively preparing for cons :3 Find me here: www.lorenala-art.com

Selene

Our government are absolute cowards. If they treat international activists like this, that they know have media eyes on them, then imagine what they do to the numerous civilians they have at their mercy.

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free. When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.