Well, hey, that's part of an otter's job description. Loved the lighting in this one.

🤔Question for @queench3rry.bsky.social: How did a (mostly) white cat get the name "Ginger?" You'd think she'd be an orange cat, with that name. Was she named for a relative, or did Ma and Pa Hestwood have a quirky sense of humor?

"Repost to declare your page a no hate zone?" Yeah, I can do that! It's more than a little sad that I have to do that, though. Like, why are you so angy? Was your village attacked by rouge LGBT people when you were a child?

Work in progress. I'm planning on coloring it in and adding some simple background. And yes, I know I made the front overhang too short. 😼

I would just like to stress: IF YOU FALL FOR THE "SOMEONE IMPERSONATED YOU" SCAM AND CHANGE YOUR EMAIL/DOWNLOAD A SUSPICIOUS PROGRAM/CLICK ON A LINK THEY SEND YOU, YOUR BLUESKY ACCOUNT IS GONE. YOU ARE NOT GETTING IT BACK. PAYING THE SCAMMER WILL NOT GET YOUR ACCOUNT BACK. IT WILL BE DELETED.

I have a really silly idea! www.youtube.com/post/UgkxakE... Please spread this like wildfire :D I want this to work!

Is Aelith a mind reader? I was thinking about this painting: "I love the expression on the woman's face. Aelith should post this one; it's a favorite of mine." And here it is!

Well, I told myself I was going to post one original thing a week, even if it was just a quick sketch. (So now you've been warned!) This is based on a comic book ad I saw decades ago. I think it was for some tabletop RPG. I wasn't that interested in the game but the image stuck with me. #sketchbook

Painting reflections is always a tricky task. It's like you have to consider multiple perspectives at once. Rochegrosse did an admirable job here.

This is a new A4-sized artwork I created for the cover of my art book. It took four months to complete. For me, the paper size is large, and the production period was the longest I've ever spent on a piece. #Illustration #LineArt #CommentPls

😂😂😂 #archaeohistories

I might have missed it in @fakehistoryhunter.net's timeline, but this video (youtu.be/_aIW6PvjGqs?...) exemplifies what she's often talked about. Castles in the Middle Ages were more colorful inside than we'd been led to believe.

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

I could not make this up if I wanted to. Reading a thread from @stormifolf.bsky.social, I was intrigued by @clairefelidae.bsky.social's PFP and looked at her timeline. Eventually followed her. Apparently while I was doing that, this happened...

Since this scam is still going around: DO NOT CHANGE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO ONE YOU DO NOT CONTROL FOR ANY REASON. IF YOU DO THAT YOUR ACCOUNT IS GONE. PERIOD. Someone DMing you saying you've been impersonated and your account is gonna get deleted unless you talk to someone on Discord? ITS A SCAM.

my animation for the wastelandia pilot. my reel

Fire in the Forest (1897), by Alexey Denisov-Uralsky

A beautiful image of Harlan and Christine in happier times. (IIRC, Christine died rather young, and knowing this makes this image powerfully bittersweet.)

On this day in 1945 a brave Danish Dutch diplomat drove his car into a Japanese concentration camp and saved my grandmothers and thus my life. A thread. It is August 15th 1945, my grandmother and her daughter (2 years old) are prisoners in Japanese concentration camp Lampersari.

The expression on his face! He looks like he's had a falling-out with his superiors. I like images like this that look like they are part of a larger story. Nothing against just posing your subject dramatically, but this adds an interesting layer.

Bunnygroove 🐰🎷 #ocart #bunny #furryart #art #oc

If you weren't walking to school uphill both ways in 1929, you might have been picked up by something like this: a Ford Model A school bus conversion. Seen at the Vinoy #car show several years back. #cars #blueskycars #weircarsBS

At one point, I saw a TV program featuring a very small mouse called a pygmy mouse. I thought it was very cute, so I created this artwork. The inspiration to create art usually comes suddenly. On the contrary, I don't think I ever plan my artwork in advance. #Illustration #LineArt #CommentPls

Surfin' Spotz comic: Marina's parking problem

Join me on wishing a happy birthday to the legendary maestro, Don Giorgetto Giugiaro! Giorgetto, Car Designer of the Century, was born on August 7th 1938 in Garessio, Piemonte, Italia. He designed both supercars and everyday cars, as you can see in this simple homage you will probably recognise.

"Artificial Intelligence will have an impact ten times greater than that of the Industrial Revolution," says somebody whose only knowledge of the Industrial Revolution must come from Artificial Intelligence.

Have you ever seen one of those statues with a general mounted on a horse? I read on the interwebs that the position of the horse's legs was a code that described what happened to the rider. #sketchbook #pencil #drawing Might revisit if skills improve...

I used to draw little cartoons when I was a kid but drifted away from that as I grew older. Now, I want that back. So let's see where this goes ... "How to Give a Pill to a Cat." #cat #cats #cartoon #sketchbook

I love how seemingly every #aislop kids' channel on YouTube has a hand-washing episode. It's as if the AI bros are so creatively brain dead that they can't even think of *an original prompt to give to their ArtBot.*

Heh, heh, heh ... 69. Okay, I'll grow up now.

This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

A man knew he was in trouble the moment she walked in, all smoke and shadows, with a smile that could charm a devil into confession. #TheNightingalesVice #vintage #filmnoir #vintagevibes #worldbuilding #retro #noirvibes

This is a well-regarded painting now, but in 1962 you could have bought it for less than £100: youtu.be/0XzMRYoX2eY?...

Me after i got naked and went swimming in the bass pro shop display pond and security yelled at me until i jumped out and went SPLAT on the floor

All right, who wants to see the reverse angle on this one? 😉

If you use AI to do the parts of writing that aren’t your favorite you will 100% be a worse writer. Bad at pacing and using AI to fix that? Great, now you have never actually learned pacing. Bad at descriptions? Sweet, you have no idea how descriptions reveal character. You actually just suck.

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

The Rumour (2022) Oil and acrylic on canvas

Attention @ibolt07.bsky.social : Here's another artistic weasel pic for you.

All of the shops that appear in fantasy games are dreamlike. This artwork was created with a dreamlike yet slightly realistic atmosphere in mind. #Illustration #LineArt #CommentPls

The lighting in this piece, from the sky at dusk (or just before dawn), to the glow of the dashboard gauges, makes it more atmospheric than you'd expect from the cab of a semi.

Jimbolian VA requested Willa crossing over with Hollow Knight's Hornet. #PatreonIllustration #P5ychArt https://www.patreon.com/LKComic

close up in case bsky's compression goes crazy on this one again

Gang, I promise that I can think that the Texas officials were horribly criminally negligent AND that people on the left gloating over kids drowning is reprehensible. I have MAD multitasking skills like that. You don’t have to pick just one!

Latest painting. Oil and acrylic on canvas (60x115cm)

Silly Rudolph doodles

Do we need to get @catsofyore.bsky.social to mediate between these two? youtu.be/7tPuvNib3cI?...

I haven't played this game, but I like this character design, especially that little strip across the bridge of her nose.