Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.

Really delighted by this disclaimer on spaceweather.com

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

I reviewed the muddled mess that is Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN. Beautifully lit but poorly framed, exquisitely costumed but burdened by shaky CGI, and above all, a defanged and sentimentalized adaptation of Shelley's novel. www.patreon.com/posts/143167...

GDT's Frankenstein was nice enough, save for the constant distraction of panning, zooming, and dolly tracking through EVERY SCENE. Was the cinematographer afraid the audience might get bored if they allowed a scene to breathe with a static shot?

Man is the warmest place to hide

Curaniel (commission)

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.

[Exit Clown.]

We rarely post news stories, but this is a significant and impactful story from @alexreisner.bsky.social @ the atlantic, detailing just how Common Crawl is scraping the internet for AI companies and accepting takedown requests but doing nothing: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

🔸-Fanciful-🔸 #Art #ArtSky #OC #Autumn

It's still entirely bonkers to me how article processing charges can run into the thousands of dollars.

Endpaper done for the special Mystic Box edition of Master of Salt and Bones by author Keri Lake 🖤 #art #darkfantasy #bookillustration

Alan Moore knows the score

🔻-Witch-🔻 #Art #ArtSky #OC #Halloween #Halloween2025

This compounds with, of course, the art theft that these programs are built on, and the environmental impact of generative AI. Our talks aren’t made better with it 😞

I realize that many scientists are not confident in their art skills. Simple drawings made by scientists who may not be artistically talented are significantly better than the ai art because **the ai stuff is full of errors**. “Bad” but correct figures are better than “prettier” wrong ones.

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

🦇🦇🦇 #art #fantasy #darkart

Some choice close-ups of my favorites because this is my page and I do what I want. [ #OC #Art #WIP #CharacterDesign ]

Bigger mood(s). (Expression line art done. Ready to move on to armor, etc...he's not usually shirtless, thankfully.) [ #OC #Art #WIP ]

Commission for @oceandrea.bsky.social!

Big mood(s). (Vent sketching a ref sheet for my "comfort character", Blackthorn.) [ #OC #Art #WIP ]

Nicole was a dream to work with on my recent illustration commission (the second thumbnail)! I can't recommend her enough if you're looking for an affordable character portrait.

#daily 49: pyramid + Bone chandelier; Tony Montana edition

A lot of folks (esp trans folks) are gonna need some help with SNAP benefits running out with the gov't shutdown. Just search around for SNAP mentions and try to help out. Do what you can, when you can, y'know

Glassfeather A commission I did some time ago. The mirrored wings were such a cool challenge, I really enjoyed painting them! #fantasyart #digitalpainting #angel #dragon #digitalart #medievalfantasy #characterdesign

OC commission for @catattack.bsky.social Tysm! <3

#daily 46: #study snake

Going to be a bit of a letdown when the AGI tells us the solution to climate change is to stop burning hydrocarbons.

The post made me pull my face b/c so true lol 😭💀 I get so wary when I hue my art to match the setting tone and the fact it's different across devices is annoying af 😮‍💨

i made this in 2018, people who saw it didnt care for it much at the time

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Hey, congrats! I really love the energy of that artshare thumbnail. My #WIP folder is full of brooding fantasy dudes, apparently.

8”x10” illustration commission for @oceandrea.bsky.social of their OC~🖤 Thank you so much again! #Art #Commission #ArtSky #OC

I'm so excited I've made it to 4k followers! Thank you all so much! Let's do an #artshare with a little twist! Share your WIPs! Sketches, thumbnails, in-progress things, show off all the good stuff from your #WIP folder!

Lady Thea Marlene Ziel. Royal High Spymistress of Cormyr. Annihilator of Mephistopheles. Hunter of Zhudun. Fashion icon.

I’m hoping to reach the goal on Ko-fi as I’m still on the job hunt (crossing my fingers it’ll be over soon) and have no other means of earning funds. :’3 If I get the job, I might not have time for a long while to do commissions so last chance I guess. 🥹

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

💸🙏prayer circle may portfolio day be successful for everyone participating and i wish you all a very be hired and money 🙏💸

the protagonist isn't always the hero. they are just the person the book is about. sometimes authors write books about people who are bad and it does not mean that the author is bad

If you are a BOOK AUTHOR who needs a COVER, I would love to add more cover work to my portfolio, so I would be happy to accommodate your budget right now (within reason). So if interested reach out. more of my work here danilluzin.com DM/email danilluzin [at] gmail #book #booksky #art

indigenous peoples day.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit