The art world would genuinely be a much better place if artists stopped constantly attacking each other. I’m so tired of the superiority complex some people have, constantly looking down on others like “real art” only counts if you pull every single thing straight from the depths of your brain +

the gentleman vampire's evening routine #iwtvoc #originalcharacter

5.6💐教官誕生日(仮)おめでとう〜！

the romanticism of the starving artist is invoked not by artists but by people who aren't. it's misery/inspiration porn functioning as propaganda for people to feel like it's a worthwhile sacrifice for artists to die in misery instead of horrific, because they can take the art for themselves.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

Hot take: people up in the comments being like "but artists are allowed to be criticized" are directly adding to and exacerbating the issue of abuse, and it is abuse, within fandom.

👋 ¡Hola artistas / público de eventos! Desde el mes pasado, estoy creando una página web para buscar artistas con encargos abiertos, tienda o stand en eventos por fandom. Comparto la lista preliminar de fandoms (+1200) aceptados en la web. Si tenéis tiempo, revisadla y decidme si falta alguno! ⬇️🔗

Reminder: Remove the default block on "sexually suggestive (cartoon)" posts in bsky's secret second moderation settings page! It's on bsky.app/profile/mode..., not the page in the settings cog!

Okay so Syundei the author of "Go for it Nakamura!" was harassed so much by random assholes outside of Japan for a non-existent TeacherxStudent grievance in the manga, accusing her of pedophilia that she deleted her Twitter account. You're all fucking nightmare monsters. #goforitnakamura #BL

Louder for the people in the back.

Takashi Tokita (Final Fantasy IV, Chrono Trigger, Live A Live, Parasite Eve, etc.) will be at Japan Weekend in Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸 on May 9-10, 2026 and will host a panel each day as well as signing sessions: www.japanweekend.com/valencia/

This is catastrophic.

I am thinking of coming back very slowly. Just the thought is heavy, but I want to.

I never post here, but lately I've been following the steps of "The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron. I do not think my open wounds will let me draw. But I do try to do it. Lately drawing hurts, and I tried writing about what I like. The characters I love. The things I want to do.

12.31 さよなら悪友

My fellow Europeans, I'm once again asking you to write or call your EU representatives and tell them this is unacceptable. They're essentially selling our sensitive data to companies, effectively destroying our privacy and risking our digital well-being. Check the site! fightchatcontrol.eu

consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.

Don't think about anything else and answer only to me. #Sunday #HonkaiStarRail #HSR #Art

Hey people! I know I'm not the only one who's both worried and confused about USA's Executive Order that said "F*** you small businesses" so I've made a document explaining: - What that EO entails - What that means to small businesses - How we can still win drive.proton.me/urls/AWWVZPA...

Hice un doc explicando cómo se podían hacer envíos, espero que te sirva bsky.app/profile/kyot... Yo me he rendido con lo de pagar pre-envio, pero Fedex manda un link con pasarela de pago para los destinatarios en las actualizaciones del tracking. De momento va todo bien!

La gente no hace arte por tener un dibujo o una novela propios. Lo hace por, literalmente, amor al arte. Por tener algo propio que cuesta esfuerzo, por disfrutar de la creación, ver nuestra propia capacidad de mejora. ¿A quién coño le importa cuál es el mejor prompt para hacer la Mona Lisa?

If you're a Patreon creator who hasn't received the AI survey, request it through their support ticket: support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/req... If you did receive it already, please do it. Make it clear you don't want AI on the platform in any way.

Being "wholesome" and "non-problematic" and "vanilla" won't save your ass if you're a smut artist. We're all going to be affected, so stand up for your peers even if you don't like their themes because censorship is going to kill art and then ourselves. -A "wholesome, non-problematic" smut artist

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No se si ya lo conocéis pero si no, os voy a hacer un favor cultural o como mínimo interesantisimo, este canal recoge mas de 600 mini documentales de tradiciones españolas seguramente ya no seguidas, es increíble ver todo de forma tan cruda y elaborada youtube.com/@eugeniomone... Además lo sube el

Bluesky Europa, os pido difundir y firmar contra la destrucción de los videojuegos en este enlace. LOS DERECHOS DE LOS CONSUMIDORES ESTÁN EN RIESGO Y SOLO QUEDA UNA SEMANA PARA QUE ACABE Además la campaña ha sufrido desinformación que ha frenado por completo. Lo explico en este hilo 🧵

No puedo elegir uno, soy paciente de #endometriosis y he acompañado tanto física como virtualmente a tantas otras, tanto durante el proceso de diagnóstico como después durante tantísimos años que podría escribir una enciclopedia de anécdotas sangrantes propias y ajenas. De hecho, aquí hay algunas.

Seeing people dismiss the Discord DomoAI thing because they read text that made it *sound* like it's opt in is so infuriating. Don't just trust what the corporation claims! You can literally go into Discord, hover over *someone else's* image post, and see all the AI options pop up! Anyone can do it!

This is such an aesthetic part of my workflow

More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers. The ID is 1153984868804468756 Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will. #Discord

Ko-fi request

People don’t want to know about your weakness. People don’t want to know you are sad. People don’t care that they hurt. People just want friends that act how they want, even if that breaks them inside.

What a carrousel of year...

What flavour of husband you like best? #FFXIV #EmetSelch #GrahaTia #Haurchefant

It is scary as hell having to stare down that chasm again tbh. It burned me out hard before and setting limits/figuring out how to incorporate commissions into the work I *want* to be doing is tough. So yeah, please support us, in the ways we *need* the support to do our work.

This does mean accepting less patreon rewards. This does mean occasionally skipping out on paying $$ for your own characters. Weird art needs room to breathe, and 'I paid extra for my commission' isn't that. It's still just someone doing work that isn't theirs.

Think of all the artists who just post commissions. That's all they ever have time for. You don't know what they like or who their OCs are because they're always working. throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.

i treasure every versions of him

- HarperCollins: "Usamos IA para traducir porque para algunos libros el mercado es demasiado pequeño para permitirnos un traductor" 🤦‍♀️ - Also HarperCollins: "queda expresamente prohibido cualquier uso de esta edición para entrenar a tecnologías de IA generativa" 🤡

"Para los mejores autores literarios siempre usaremos traductores de principio a fin". Que alguien le avise a Laurie Gilmore que para HarperCollins es una autora que solo merece una traducción automatizada por IA. En cambio a Roxy Sloane sí le asignaron un traductor humano 🤨

"Hay escasez de traductores", dicen desde HarperCollins para justificar el uso de traducción automatizada por IA. Lo que hay es escasez de ética, de respeto hacia los trabajadores. Hay escasez de cuidar la cultura y ofrecer material de calidad. @atrae.bsky.social @traducarte.bsky.social

HarperCollins es otro grupo editorial que dice ser uno de los mayores de todo el mundo pero que a la hora de pagar a traductores o actores de doblaje, elige usar IA para reducir costos. Y se asociaron con empresas de IAG como ElevenLabs que están bajo demanda por infracción a los derechos de autor 🤦‍♀️

You don't need a background in every panel of your comic- here's how to use them effectively! Read more in my book How to Webcomic! https://thestarfishface.com/products/how-to-webcomic #art #webcomics

happy holidays ✨ #awitchscross #art

We cannot be doing this as industry professionals, especially in an age where our careers are already threatened by gen*ai. We must hold each other accountable because this is not okay. There are so many honest, more deserving artists who are being hurt by people like Rian.