seen on fbook this morning

I’ve frankly been too worn out to do any shopping posts, BUT! Do consider buying my books for loved ones for the holidays. I’ve also got prints and such at the link in my bio.

Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.

By all the gods, I want a real kotatsu SO bad. ... because the cat would love it...

Post something random or you'll have an awful December

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild Kodiak bear Black bear Peregrine falcon Moose Whitetail deer

Quote your arr with glasses🤓🥸

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to Vision Video Dresden Dolls w/Devotchka Stevie Ray Vaugh w/Robert Cray They Might Be Giants Atom and His Package (x5)

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to R.E.M. Tori Amos The Beastie Boys The Monkees Iron & Wine

Morning Meezy! Gonna do some more poses. She's as fun to draw as Briony was... maybe more fun. Wasn't at home so Micron rather than G-nib #goblin #goblin-girl #mangaart

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Unsolicited compliments like this one from last week; when someone tells me I make them happy when I didnt do anything special. I work at an indie bookstore and I just try to make people happy. I don't recognize the custy but, apparently they did not feel worse for interacting with me.

Happy possum

From Insta. This is so neat! We need monsters like this. Stylized, fluid, unconventional. (Not me however. My spine says “no,” but in less polite terms.)

Quick little Meezy before bed. #goblin #goblin-girl

If you can see this, post an anime you love

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

You're kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are coming to rescue you. I am SO going to be okay. And there's a chance I'll get some omurice when we get home.

We've had this wooden bookstand thing kicking around for years and never used it. It was outside all summer Today, I sanded it down, waxed it up and made it an art workstation in the dining room It's perfect The giant angled drafting table in my studio is clunky and will be retired #studio

Some "brush(pen) mileage" tonight. After initial inking was done, I realized Meezy's pose and proportions were WAY off(I will blame my new blue lead pencil) So, thought I'd play around with the pen. Got some nice moments. A rework is in order. #mangaart

More #mangaart learning with my G-nib dip pen! Evil magical mouse kemonomimi girl! Overhead perspective is hard but, I do think I got the creepy look down. Hair is better, too

Things I feel diminished for not liking: 1) kale 2) poetry that isn't haiku or The Raven 3) classical flute music 4) The Count of Monte Cristo 5) Chinese and African folklore & mythology 6) stand-up comedy (Neil Gaiman used to be on the list but, I don't feel bad anymore...)

the key feature of "bad photoshop" was not that it was "bad" but that you could see the hand of the person who made it. "bad photoshop" is a triumph of human will over technical stumbling blocks. it's why the shaggs are magical and AI Music Slop is forgotten before you can even finish listening

More art night! G-nib practice with a Kasumi sketch I did this afternoon. Gotta keep getting some pen mileage to improve! #mangaart #kemonomimi #magicalgirl

Art night! More #goblingirl inking practice. Learned a bit and definitely not expecting perfection. Found my mini-painting brush not great for inking On a whim, used a #sumi stone, ink and brush a friend gifted me. Never touched one before but tried the only #kanji I know the stroke order of.

I love #milet 's voice SO much. One more reason to wish I was fluent in Japanese youtu.be/qpJisYsDo_I?...

Get to know your mutuals List 10 random things you like 1. Gravel bikes 2. Drawing 4. Romance anime & manga 5. D&D 5e 6. Helicopters 7. Cortados 8. Maple Old Fashionds with Toki whiskey 9. Murderbot books 10. John Carpenter films

While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

Quickie drawing of Kasumi, The Daughter of the Wolf. Zebra mech pencil with blue lead fornthe drawing, Microns for the inking and a Tombow Fudenosuke for the characters. I DID do some work on my Meezy studies but wanted to draw something relaxing before bed #manga #magicalgirl #kemonomimi

When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage. One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME

hey yo

Realized I need to buckle down and practice #mangaart hair and facial proportions as well as working with my new pen. So, I'll be doing a bunch of #goblingirl Meezy portraits. Here's the pencils. I'll be posting no matter how they turn out... More to come.

As a Gen-Xer who (though I built a LOT of models of cool vans) has 0.0001% nostalgia for that time... The poster is correct. 100% correct. With some unicorns thrown in for good measure. Now, a call to all artists to do some van art, myself included.

Using my voice as a creator to put out a small PSA on how to disable the new feedback feature on our favorite overly-nosey payment processor. Reminder to never comm details on payment websites, and to never directly link your payment pages to your NSFW work.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Bad art can become good art if you work hard enough. Trust the process. Make. Learn. Grow.

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Ever seen a badger get the zoomies? Now you have! (Little timeline-cleansing cuteness I found elsewhere for y'all <3)

Not sure why none of the folks with #learningJapanese advice have thought of this. 'cause I work in a bookstore, I thought of beginning readers! Found free ones! tinyurl.com/bdd8jswe This AM, I read a story about a kitten and his big sister. I got the story and learned the word/kanji for 'bird'!

Yes, H.S. slice-of-life #anime have repeating tropes Indirect kiss Taking care of sick person Going to sento/onsen Embarrassed shopping I still love (most of) 'em! It's like having mac & cheese done by different cooks. It's still mac & cheese but, little bits of individual flavor with each serving

Part 176 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE

Oito Line,Nagano (2024)

Yes! Make! DO IT! Everyone should at least try!