“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political”
Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for.
There is no “other half”.
Monkey minion sign that says good art for good folks
There’s a reason I put our tagline “good art for good folks” on our convention sign. I don’t want money from willfully ignorant, bigoted, awful pieces of garbage.
I need people to know that the photos of colourful moon are not from Artemis II. They were made by a Ukrainian photographer, who enhanced the colours of the moon's surface to represent its mineral composition.
I can't stand to see an individual work be misattributed and misrepresented like this.
The problem is, the people ostensibly in charge of what’s going on don’t know what’s going on, either. So there’s no definitive source for what’s actually happening in the world.
NEW: The Wise Owl!
Our latest design is based on the winning pitch from our annual Patreon member tournament. This judgmental Bubo is AVAILABLE NOW as both a fez and chapeau over at Fez-o-rama.com
#owl #WiseOwl #FezORama #fez
Schroedinger’s War.
If you see someone's fresh idea gain well-won and deserved attention for their risk paying off and your first thought is to redraw it in your own style and get it into production the next day, I can tell you other artists know when you are doing this, especially if it's a pattern.
Hey artists! Next Tuesday, Apr 14, is #PortfolioDay! I thought it would be fun to do a little knowledge sharing for the art community ☺️
What are your top tips for building a professional art portfolio? How do you approach it differently if it's digital or physical?
he meant causal*. There is a direct causal relationship between AI usage and diminished persistence (sticking wish a task) and independent performance (performance without AI).
Buying one of my sun catchers, enamel pins, or the large canvas print I have available on Etsy will help offset the cost of the pump I had to buy to unflood my walkway and foundation
#help #mutualaid #gift #handmade #store #crafts #art
Joe Rogan better watch out - the regime is coming for his audience…
I don't know why so many people jump into the art business game specifically to pump out everyone else's most popular ideas.
This job is grueling and inconsistent and soul-crushing. If you're not doing it to share your own voice with the world why are y'all even here.
Artemis photo showing the Earth in Space
I still haven’t recovered from this
Mars nerds stay seething, best planet in the universe and it’s not even close
Monkey minion con schedule 2026 SD Birdfest . . . .... Courtyard ECCC • AA 622. ..... AA Planet Comicon KC . . AA Huntsville Expo . . . . AA Oakland Comic Con . AA MomoCon. . .. AA SDCC. .. Booth 2007 GenCon. . . Booth Comic Con Nebraska . AA DragonCon . . . AA
SCHEDULE UPDATE! We've added a few new (& I do mean NEW) shows to our list! Whether new to us, like @momocon.bsky.social or Huntsville Expo or new to the world like @comicconoakland.com or @comicconnebraska.com we're branching out all over the place this year! Will we see you anywhere on this list?
We talk popularly talk a lot about the Latest Cretaceous, or the End-Cretaceous, but the Cretaceous *wasn't* ending over its last ten million years, or two million years, or 50,000 years. It was in no sense drawing naturally to a close. It was randomly murdered over the course of like 5 seconds
Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:
- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal
I can't be drafted bc I was denied enlistment for medical reasons (and now I'm too old), but in case you aren't as lucky as me, this might be good information for you to have on hand.
I think everyone should stop interacting with bsky mods posts entirely. Especially when they AI troll. Imagine their next post landing like a wet fart.
Please please PLEASE show support to all of the Iranians in your life right now. Here’s a starter pack of all of the amazing Iranian artists and creatives I know!!
bsky.app/starter-pack...
The nice thing about being as prolific as I am is that I can usually flood the zone with stuff before anyone else can copy me. It doesn't stop them, but it makes it more obvious amongst con attendees who is copying ("inspired by") whom. Small victories.
black and white warbler borb
Ok, kids - timeline cleanse! I'm sitting down to draw some new Borbs and want to do a warbler. Which one should I do? Reply here with suggestions and reference pics (pics are important bc a lot of warblers look similar) & I'll pick one in about an hour to add to the docket. B/W Warbler Borb for ref.
Art of Supergiant book when? :)
A high resolution image of earth fully illuminated. In the lower left region, the far side of the moon is lit up as it transits the earth, appearing about 1/4 the size of the planet
I’m seeing this picture going around today being dropped in with the other amazing Artemis II shots, but this is not an Artemis photo!!!! This was taken by the DSCOVR satellite in 2015, from a distance of a million miles from Earth. 🧪🔭 (1/3)
📸: NASA, NOAA
Yuuuuup. Same.
I always wonder if the $3-$600 fee covers the trophy when the “win” or if that’s an extra charge?
I got ya beat - I’m still in bed.
For you “what have you been doing besides sitting on your phone” people
Peaky Blinders no posting that you can go to jail over no fucking posting that you can go to jail over
I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.
this is the kind of stuff people should snap into when they get the big picture, our place in the universe, our little impossibly lucky place to live, but self-reflection and realization has been crushed out of every human endeavor
