be bad at your new hobby who cares

A sticker sheet with three frog stickers: Top- a frog with a lily umbrella Middle- a frog with the text “the toadality of existence transcends time, we are just a drop in a formless pond Bottom- a frog eating a fly

March stickers 🐸

You aren't going to fail if you don't make a NYT bestselling novel before you're 30. No, listen to me, look in my eyes: not publishing/not having a smash hit in your 20s is normal. You aren't dead if you don't. Fucking relax

At midnight today, it will have been 2016 for the past decade.

A halloween illustration of a smiling black cat with a pumpkin themed collar sitting next to a jack o lantern in a graveyard. The moon is full in the background with bats flying across the sky.

Grinning it up with grandpappy pumpkin. Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇

So beautiful 😭😍

i think its good that bluesky is boring and you dont want to scroll through it too much because you're not supposed to waste your day away scrolling on social media when you could be using the computer to play & draw & learn before the corporations destroy the rest of the internet. tick tock

What's happening: Elon Musk confirmed that X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. In other words, the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts and videos every day to decide what users see. At the same time, X is testing a new interface that keeps users inside the app even when they open external links.

Welp

The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now

thank youuuuuu ✨♥️

sorry for being generic, but... what brush do you use? Texture is so coooool 😍

I was not built for deliverables and asset files I was built to have a wealthy patron who pays me to paint their prized show horses on their sprawling estate.

I love Louie Zong’s digital paintings. They’re like pastoral encartacore.

Fuck AI on the cheek 🤌👏

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

Two witches sit under a tree by the edge of some water. “Hmm. What time is it?” one of them asks. “Dunno,” the other responds. “Is that important?”

Trying some slow comics for Patreon. Black gel pen in a sketchbook.

if you are a concept artist currently using Vizcom and believing that it's "just a tool", all you are doing is making absolutely certain you will shortly cease to be a concept artist

Background paintings by Sylvia Liu for The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (2015–2017), DreamWorks Animation Television

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads: "Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI" "you might not like it but shareholders love it"

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

I dont know who needs to hear this but your full body commissions are worth more than $20

DIY > AI

i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

I don’t know what the answer is, but requiring folks to move to the most expensive places in the country for work, not paying them enough to own homes or save, and then laying them off ain’t it

A word balloon saying “AI makes art more accessible” above a sketchy drawing of Beethoven at a piano. Below, it’s says “Beethoven was literally deaf. Stfu and pick up a pencil.”

If you use GenAI, you’re not welcome here #NoAI

Money aspect! How much money did you need to order the first batch of product? How much money do you think you need to start from scratch? 👀

Personally, I think "We're embracing AI!" is the smoke that billows from the "management fundamentally misunderstands the value of what they have and what their community wants" fire

Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently.

I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.