Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

Beautiful women named Air Quality Alert keep texting me

Just let me draw pictures!! 🚫🗯️ [ #cuteart #illustration ]

Every artist, get more self indulgent NOW! Draw your ships kissing, draw your blorbos, draw that idea you’ve been putting off (you’re good enough to do it!!!), redraw that old art, draw yourself wearing a cool outfit, draw a better world- just draw!!!

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

Instead of almost exclusively loud events with alcohol, more pride or pre-pride events should be after hours at a museum or an aquarium (all alcohol and pot free but still for adults). Drag shows and bars are sensory hell, but I'd love to chat with other queer people about fish, dinosaurs, or art

Shoutout to everyone who choose to create in spite of everything

"Faster, more efficient" = cutting artists and animators "3rd party video models w/ a proprietary model portfolio" = we won't tell you what data we trained off of (likely stolen) A bill in Cali would force AI transparency, but it needs YOUR help! Please sign this petition tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

This needs too be normalized at conventions.

the fuck it will

I reposted part of this thread last night, but it's a good thread. Create art. Not content. Don't chase trends. Be a huge weirdo about something and people who are weird about the same thing will come to you. Forever. That's so much more sustainable & valuable, even if it's a harder road

🗣️ Last call for merch orders! Tomorrow my Etsy shop will be closed for the foreseeable future. A huge thank you to everyone who’s supported my little store thus far, I can’t wait to reopen with something better that’s actually sustainable. blackdaggerart.etsy.com

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Artwork of Captain Hook I painted for the novel "The Lost Ones" written by Lauren Destefano

I had a viewer in chat tonight express that they feel bad 'bothering' an artist for a commission. Please know. It is never a bother to give an artist a living and show interest in hiring them. If an artist has commissions open, they are asking for work. You are not a bother, you are a hero💚

My cat Sula has a tumor on her bladder. More tests need to be done to see if it’s treatable or not, and as we all know the vet is expensive. If you need some cool character art please consider commissioning me - all comm money made will be going to Sulas care for now. ✍️ 🔗 vgen.co/Inkviral

It feels like a failure to close, but sales aren't keeping up with Etsy's fees (despite opting into their marketing, which costs even more) & I'm not willing to let them continue to take from me while I profit nothing. blackdaggerart.etsy.com #humanart #artsky

🚨 The keys to being a successful artist in 2026: - produce as many pieces as possible - make short form videos of you doing that ⚠️ What I'm doing: - spend forever on one piece - whining about pressure to make short form video

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

Aeleryn Drow | Any Pronouns | Bard 🎼 | College of Glamour ✨ I'm in a Dungeons and Dragons mood~ Would love to play this disaster bard again, I've barely gotten to so far! Have you come up with RP characters you're dying to play? #dnd #dndart #dungeonsanddragons #oc #originalcharacter

Finished up a little something new! The urge to use a rainbow palette remains strong heheh. Broke out the all the markers to bring this October doodle to life! I miss spooky season already, don't you? #art #traditionalart #witch #spookyart

It’s October! 👻 Time to kick off spooky season properly! It seems appropriate to feature my lil ghostie pins again, have you grabbed yours yet? blackdaggerart.etsy.com/listing/1335... #enamelpins #Halloween #pins #spookyseason

Trying to pull myself out of the worst art block of my life with some traditional ink work...This has been a mood for sure. 💀 #art #artist

This right here. I know art is a “luxury” and when people can’t afford even the basics, it’s understandable that they aren’t spending money on art stuff. So if you still support artists in these though times, know how much we all appreciate it. (And don’t feel bad if you can’t.)

Useful thing to use here

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

It feels like a failure to close, but sales aren't keeping up with Etsy's fees (despite opting into their marketing, which costs even more) & I'm not willing to let them continue to take from me while I profit nothing. blackdaggerart.etsy.com #humanart #artsky

Art is permission to show the world who you truly are inside without saying a single word.

I think I personally dislike “content” because the word is intended to be solely consumer-facing. It implies it’s like video game loot, there for the taking and of no provenance. A project, a production, or art suggests that somebody applied specific skills to make it, and we can’t have that.

A fanart of my fav villain couple! ❤️‍🔥 #venturebros #themonarch #drgirlfriend

I’m at the “a new sketchbook will solve everything” stage of art block (or whatever this is), whilst there are 5+ unfinished sketchbooks strewn about the house.

Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

I'm reviving my RedBubble, since I still get sales there and it's helping me towards my goal of making enough income independently to stay in Europe! You can find this on shirts and lots of good stuff now. Also, happy New Moon!! 🌑🖤 ✨ redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Artemis-by-zimmay/180018899/lrcw

Since #artfight is coming up, I'll be sharing some of my favorite attacks from previous years! Loved doing this Demon Hunter for @rabbitobj.bsky.social back in '21! (I miss WoW sometimes lol) artfight.net/~a_rogue_reb... #wow #worldofwarcraft #wowoc #art

Since #artfight is coming up, I'll be sharing some of my favorite attacks from previous years! This is Lily for Bordybee on Insta! artfight.net/~a_rogue_reb... #art #artsky #humanartist

2nd attack done!! I am burnt out from my day job but I persevere. 😤 For @dibblesart.bsky.social. I really dig Kian's design and want to start drawing more men again, so here he is! ✨ #artfight #teamcrystals #artfightattack #artfight2025 #tiefling

May every laid off artist find lucrative work and happiness, so when they realize what a mistake they made and reach out to re-hire, you can say no.

Friendly fire on @pestilencecat.bsky.social! Pirate drow? Pirate drow!!! I'd love to know more about her adventures and trading spiders for octopi lol. #artfight #drow #elfart #dndart #art #teamcrystals

It's limited color palette day for #ShareYourCanvasBG3! I suppose this counts, I drew it for a Pride event last month using the colors in the pansexual flag. My Tav Ravyra ✨ #BG3OpenTheVault #bg3 #art #ocsky

I got tired of staring at screens, oof. Caught up on revenges for now though!! A drow for fellow drow-enjoyer @schrodingersking.bsky.social!! #artfight #drow #dndart #teamcrystals

@coloursofthegate.bsky.social is over & I can share my full illustration! The blue tiefling is my Tav Ravyra, a bard from the city. I imagine this taking place at camp after they finally solve Karlach's little engine problem (please imagine the title music playing lol) #bg3 #baldursgate3 #artsky

It is always the case that any radical action by workers to resist the power of capital is "violence" but the constant suffering of poverty, absence of healthcare, hunger, surveillance, wage theft and the rest of it, well... that doesn't really count as "violence."

No bingo for me!

An excerpt of an interview with art historian and critic David Sylvester which i think feels relevant to the environment artists find themselves in the digital/social media/algorithmic content age

She was watching over them. 🌕💫 #Artemis #MoonJoy

I need people to know that the photos of colourful moon are not from Artemis II. They were made by a Ukrainian photographer, who enhanced the colours of the moon's surface to represent its mineral composition. I can't stand to see an individual work be misattributed and misrepresented like this.

I just want all artists to succeed and make cool shit. I want a world where all artists could just make so much art that every story can find its audience and every audience can find its story. I just want to live in a world where we can all bask in the joy of getting to make and participate in art.