Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

Tis the season of spooky ness and I’m totally doing #inktober this year. I’m still struggling with a bit of artist block and something like this challenge may help get ideas flowing without thinking too much into it. Anyone else thinking about doing an October challenge?

A word of warning: Bluesky automated NSFW labels overwrite any label you put on a post yourself. It repeatedly labeled a CLEARLY adult sketch as "Suggestive - No Nudity" when I had already labeled it correctly, and only showed the automated label to another user. This sucks. Leave my label on!

A word of warning: Bluesky automated NSFW labels overwrite any label you put on a post yourself. It repeatedly labeled a CLEARLY adult sketch as "Suggestive - No Nudity" when I had already labeled it correctly, and only showed the automated label to another user. This sucks. Leave my label on!

Well, I did it. Warning: may contain fauns, devils and tentacles. Peruse at your own risk! @kaeldritch.bsky.social

Well, I did it. Warning: may contain fauns, devils and tentacles. Peruse at your own risk! @kaeldritch.bsky.social

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

Wild rose

This whole situation makes me want to recreate my side-monsterlover NSFW account JUST to spite the puritans. I'm not a NSFW artist, and I have very little to share, but goddamn, I want to fight back. 😂

The upcoming proposed rules surrounding NSFW art are bad and the Bsky mod team should feel bad. Fellow artists: Remember that even if you don't make NSFW art, rules like these eventually come back to bite us all, especially if we make works about queerness.

This is an illustration drawn for the owner of those cute little finches! It's so amazing that their chirping sounds like a cat meowing owo✨ #illustration #digitalart #artwork #originalart #bird #birdart #pet #animalart #cute #commission

The Pearl Fairy ✨ #art #digitalart #draw #drawing #illustration #украрт #ukrart

Vision and Biology of Seeing is a pretty good book and answers a lot of questions like this. I'm reading it again on my camping trip this weekend.

one of the most frustrating things is to watch clients accept flaws in AI work that they would never accept from a human artist. art generated without layered files? inconsistency from one image to the next? impossible to print? why do we extend grace to the machine instead of to each other?

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.

I feel like this piece always worked much better on a light background, so this is what it looks like with the trademark old deviantart green as a backdrop.

I feel like this piece always worked much better on a light background, so this is what it looks like with the trademark old deviantart green as a backdrop.

Going through some old art today! The quality of my work was inconsistent at the time, but I found a couple of old gems. I painted this arcanine in 2015 back when I was stubbornly trying to blend with the wrong brush. I left the tumblr link on it for authenticity. :'D #throwback #fanart #pokemon

❖ Behold, thy spirit in the dreary and empty Come, now, for art thou not hungry? ❖ // #art #oc #animalart #canineart

Soulless Monopoly Sandwich 🫠

A fleet-footed herald who will run any distance so no city is forgotten on his mission to bring the news. #furry #fantasy #art

Isrixia, the Twilight dragon 💜 #warcraft | #originalcharacter | #dragon

'tis done! My paper crimes have paid off, at last! The back of my watercolour paper is more unforgiving than the front, but it lent itself beautifully to layering. This painting was a success! #illustration #watercolor #merman #traditionalart

'tis done! My paper crimes have paid off, at last! The back of my watercolour paper is more unforgiving than the front, but it lent itself beautifully to layering. This painting was a success! #illustration #watercolor #merman #traditionalart

Nemesis Knight - linocut try [ #art | #medieval | #linocut ]

Worm Wizard 🐛

Commission for @havockreaper.bsky.social 🌱🌼

I know it's the big strike today, but please humour me! I managed to paint a bit yesterday & it got me thinking. Before, sharing my art online gave me purpose and a place to belong, in a world where I increasingly don't. It was a lifeline. Today, it's hard to muster the courage.

It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour www.emilyhare.co.uk

Like the turn of the wheel, the cold of the steel Ain't no use for the cryin' in the den of the lion. [OC: Petrichor Artz, CoS - level 8 portrait! #NewtsOCs]

Finished commission of Endymion, a fey vampire!

Commission for the amazing @annalisejensen.bsky.social , Earwig from her comic Fairydoll ❤️

New product on my shop, The Longest Cat. This is a set of four stamps to create cute mutant cats. guypradel.fr/produit/the-...

I've seen folks using the word "OC" for their own original characters and stories. (Nothing wrong with that) Interestingly, that term used to (and still does) qualify fan-characters within pre-existing settings, which kind of means the opposite! Language evolving in an unexpected direction.

Wither and Bloom 🥀🌹🌷✨️ Gardénia's favorite spell 💗

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

an illustration i've made for the "Dark Fairies" zine! 🦋

Some reflections on replicas, the internet's untethering of information from reproductions of works of art, and a lovely email I received from a stranger one year ago. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down

Listen. Our right wing parties have been Obsessed with surveillance for the past 25 years, and it is HELL to have to live with their designs Right now we have a majority left wing in parliament, but the right wing ministers and EU reps are back-dooring this in Please take a moment to fight this

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Friendly reminder that I block deliberate gen•A•I users on sight. My work is not for anyone to exploit as they please. (And if you're wondering how much I hate the idea of a machine thinking for me, I'm the type of person who disables predictive text on every phone I use)

🌟🌟 die Sternensammlerin 🌟🌟 #artistsonbluesky

Did I start a new drawing even though I have too many things to finish lying around? Yes. Yes I did. 😭

It scans true! Was worried a bit because multimedia. Saves so much time in art app too and looks much more like I picture the finished work. Only thing left is to see how to colour it digitally.

Commission

"Black and Gold" This illustration will be available as a print through @novamali.bsky.social 's silent auction benefiting Gaza Soup Kitchen! 💜 Along with many other cool items here: www.32auctions.com/Novaandmali2...

My fellow EU citizens: we've got work to do and someone made it extremely easy 👏👏👏 For any danes out there, I've made a translation of their basic text, so if you want that please let me know!!

One of the original artworks I'll be making available tomorrow (sat 8/16) is a personal favorite - I'll be sad to see it go, but happy for it to go to a good home. "What Makes Ed Happy" 11x14", ink on paper dorywhynot.com/shop #ofmd #ofmdfanart

Green & Gather is available in my shop now!