I think artists should be able to make a decent living without living in one of the three designated "this is where you live if you want to be an artist" cities

A commission info card. It shows 5 cropped illustrations of animals and plants with text over the top that says “commissions are open”

🌷✨ May Commissions are OPEN! ✨🌷
I'm open for all types of commissions, if you are interested, check out my TOS and send me an email! I'm excited to work with you. :3

Reposts and Shares = 💚

Thank you all for your shares and interest!
[ #art #commissionsopen #commissions ]

opening commissions for these goobers for 4 USD to help evacuate @milliefomx.bsky.social from an abusive house. I know 4 USD is barely any money but I want to make this affordable.
if you're interested my discord is victoree6680. payment via paypal
#furry #furryart #OC #OCart #YCH #Y/N #anthro

I keep getting leftist memes on my fyp that’s just AI slop.

1. I don’t care if it’s tailored to my exact beliefs, AI slop = immediate block.

2. Don’t call yourself a progressive/leftist if you’re willingly feeding the right wing propaganda machine to make your 50th “haha orange man bad” post.

a good thread but I want to add: literally all of every sport favors people with genetic advantages

but no one complains when cis men have them

Michael Phelps’ muscles produce HALF the lactic acid as an average cis man, meaning he can go twice as long before tiring

is that unfair?

nobody cared

I dunno how I feel about non-therians pivoting into selling therian related patches, merch, etc.

Preferably, actually buy within your own community

I know that ko-fi is essentially platforming AI but Patreon also does that too and I can't afford to keep jumping ship when most platforms have that blanket half ass statement. IG, Threads, and even here technically "platform" AI accounts. The solution can't be "well I'm out" everytime. 😪🫠

Reminder: "separate the art from the artist" is about literary analysis. It means your interpretation of a work is not invalidated by the author saying "nuh-uh". It does not mean "you can consume any media without guilt".

You are responsible for your choices. A misused phrase doesn't change that.

for the past few months I've gotten well meaning messages from students asking how to break in, and then when they show me their boards, they're lacking in fundamental draftsmanship. I hate to say it, but the industry is no longer at a place where we can train people to draw better anymore

Love the vibe of these two as I mentioned on discord! 🥺

I drew @amberzwinter.bsky.social's pair of cool and awesome Joltbreons, Flash and Lanter
the pawbumpers,,,
#art #fanart #pokemon #eevee #eeveelution #jolteon #umbreon

It's nice to see my character evolve over the years, especially to fall in line with my gender identity and who I am as a person lol, that makes me feel a lot nicer about myself. Plus designing stuff is fun (2/2)

Currently (well, for a while now), I am planning to make a new ref sheet of Amberz, which just feels like some features elevated to be larger, like neck fluff, their ears, semi-sabertooth fangs, tail feathers, and tail, in addition to his clothes and accessories. (1/2)

Next week there will be another existential boogeyman designed to discourage you from pursuing art. There will always be a mosquito in your ear trying to convince you your creativity has no value. Let this Sora situation be a lesson. Stop getting pushed around by scammers. Make art

Dear Authors:
Please for the love of god DO NOT use AI to make your cover. Not even if you're in a rush. Not even if you can't afford real art. There are cheap options.

You do not want your hero to hold his gun with his thumb and index finger on the SAME SIDE.
And you don't want to rip off artists.

Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)

Re: my last reposts

“Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

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Please RT if possible! #mutualaid #helpsky

By the skin of our teeth, we've made it out of CA. Our next goal is to get our belongings shipped here, which are being held hostage by the moving company until we can pay them the other half of the cost of service, which is $657.72.

Bluesky IS actively hostile to real Palestinians on here but you guys have to re-engage your brains and not treat genocide like fandom wars, ppl will be and are taking advantage of your impulse to never criticize your own ideology to take ur money. PCRF and other reputable orgs are the best targets

Cuz I feel like drawing characters of random ideas, but I don't want to keep them, I sometimes feel like doing adoptables, but probably want to do actual commission first lol.

The amount of 'realism' I want in a game is exactly as much as the art team behind that game intended. The lighting I want is the lighting the art team behind that game intended. The character appearance I want the way the art team intended.

That's it. Stop touching it.

Nice progress on your human art!. It's going great and true. It's painful looking at old art or sometimes embarrassing, but is a step in progress

If your entire argument against something boils down to, "It's just not for me" but you have to frame it as, "This thing is complete dogshit and never should have been made and you are stupid if you like it and..." then kindly fuck off. Please. Stop mindlessly hating stuff. For clout or otherwise.

i think its good to want things to be softer and kinder. the world is so hostile against too many things, makes it harder to exist unnecessarily .. plus its exhausting to be angry at everything all the time

I so understand when people aren't feeling one of their own specific pieces (we can't only make bangers) but it IS genuinely exhausting being around creatives who are always self-deprecating.

In a world with much negativity, the least we can do is be proud of our own work, as much as we can.

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guys who do commissions you need to stop calling ur art negative stuff 😭 why would someone want to spend their hard earned money on something you, as the creator, call trash or lazy? put value in your work and respect your clients too 😔

just so i'm clear, i trust no one that prefers not to speak about politics. if you have told me you'd rather not state your preferences on the political spectrum i do not trust you. i do not care how long we have know each other, just know that i trust you a lot less if you claim to be apolitical 🖕

I feel it's a complete failure of media literacy to look at something animated and go "okay but what if this was literal/real life". it's not supposed to work as a literal or live action, that defeats the allegory and with it the narrative foundation