So who is going to step up and somehow create a new thing for artists, authors, makers, single traders, indie musicians, all the creatives who lost their platforms? We have an audience, we just got cut off when the social networks went useless. Publisher etc still expect us to do marketing. HOW?!

"Sergeant, what inspires you?"

Walking Tank from @westfaliaminis.bsky.social for @trenchcrusade.bsky.social

Never start a project hungry.

#miniaturepainting #trenchcrusade #beans #nerdlings #minipainting

Thanks!

Cheers 👍

Digital painting. A Dreamcatcher readies his equipment in a city backstreet

Dreamcatcher

Really interesting post, Meinert. Feeling a lot of the same things.

Unmissable run of posts here from Wallace 👇

MONSTERS UNLEASHED #11 (April 1975), with cover art by Frank Brunner. Last issue!

Nicer in California than Scotland I think, but yeah 👍

It’s a tenement block at Portobello. Edinburgh’s beachfront!

Thank you 👍

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Thanks! 👍

Definitely messy!

Portobello architecture sketches in watercolour, coloured pencils, graphite

Portobello architecture sketches in watercolour, coloured pencils, graphite

Portobello architecture sketches in watercolour, coloured pencils, graphite

Portobello architecture sketches in watercolour, coloured pencils, graphite

Messing about with watercolour/coloured pencils/graphite sticks. Nice to turn the computer off sometimes

Love your studies too!

I love it there. The cactus garden is mind blowing. Had no idea about the painting restrictions though. Crazy!

Thanks. Acrylic and coloured pencils, some ink

Thanks Julia 👍

Mixed media Edinburgh tenements sketch

Oof

various mushrooms, some of them not necessarily real

Some mushroom studies

digital noodles

They’ll be thinking they have enough artwork in the archives now to train their ai. Humans are messy. And healthcare is expensive.

Arseholes. Vampiric arseholes.

BROKEN VEIL II

EPISODE ONE OUT NOW

Patreon.com/brokenveil

I’m sure there’s someone who has worded it better than me but the idea of MARVEL, a universe born from comics has no problem laying off their ENTIRE team of visual artists …

They’ll regret it. So sorry to hear this, man.

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it