oh i'm so sorry, Nadia! We're wishing you the fastest recovery. I hope the warm weather this week melts the rest of the ice for good, out of ~spite~

when i'm barista at the coffee shop i'd say that about only 2% of people bring their own cup anymore, so i'm with you on this!

oh you should ask morgan, bro! they've read quite a few!

Also if you're hiring an artist to hit your visual target that's one thing, and if you're hiring them for their art style you can't then be overly fussy if they give you something that's their take on the subject, but not to your tastes

I wanted to be able to give direction that felt fair to the artist and their work, and leave room for pushback if they disagreed. I feel like it helped when I gave the reason for my revision (eg the values are too light, the character gets lost against the background.)

When I was art directing I tried to break it down into the subjective and objective. Which parts would concretely make for a better piece, and which were driven by my own personal preference?

i like the anteater but they need another crack at that deerstalker

i love this! i swear i'm not roasting your lovely grandmother!

did she grow up in an andrew wyeth painting

want to eat em

i had such a good time with this! thank you so much, i love spending time in this world

i use gnarly in the dish pit constantly so they did us both way dirty lol

i loved it and i loved her burnout uncle's design!

this was like twenty years ago, but as an art student i asked gurney a question about illustration, and he very generously sent me a reply and an example of his postcard mailers. i hope he replies to you, the project is so cool

thanks josh! i hope we send that nerd to the void

Bride's Story is so beautiful! Kaoru Mori's drawings of embroidery make me want to chew wood??

god so relatable

is... is this bad

i hope you're not too stressed in there! this happened to me once, i empathize with the 'there is no toilet in here' feelings

we're all set for snow, pack it up boys

i want this so much! fuck!

I think much of it is companies turning to AI or expecting higher sales than genuinely likely, some of it is post-Covid customer drop off, but the majority of it is just the result of greed.

In my experience with art-based industries as soon as you can divest your product from bespoke creative labour you'll save money (see corbis/getty putting illustrators out of work in the 00s).

😭 i appreciate this!

Oh were you learning Dutch?

trying to get back into comic drawing after work 💖

I hope they go on to do quietly great things, and find creative happiness in whatever medium they choose to work in, and I hope the people that make these ghoulish calls don't.

It's been brutal to see so many of my favourite devs get unceremoniously shown the door in the last year. These were people that defined so many of the story beats, characters and visuals of the last decade and suddenly their work is no longer good enough to hit some arbitrary publisher number.

oh no, what a loss! such massive amounts of skill and knowledge!

The number of people who would instantaneously jump ship from twitter!