レディ / Duchess
#ELDENRING #NIGHTREIGN

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2961:
Your voice is unique. It’s a combination of many factors: your upbringing and background; the books you’ve read; your personality. Some people may not like it, but it’s yours. Keep it authentic. Trying to sound like someone else is a betrayal of who you are.

A softly textured warm beige background with a fluffy black cat centered at the bottom. The cat has wide, round white eyes and delicate whiskers spreading outward, giving it a gentle, attentive expression. Above the cat, in simple white handwritten-style text, it reads: “I hope that no matter how busy things get, you don’t forget to rest, eat well, and be gentle with yourself.” The overall mood is calm, comforting, and caring.

A drawing of Sellen from Elden Ring pointing to a list of social media accounts run by Artelsia Her accounts are @artelsia on Twitter, Instagram, and Bluesky Commission info gets posted on @artelsia_comm on Twitter and Instagram (note: they usually get posted here on Bluesky @artelsia as well) Her Youtube art channel is youtube.com/@artelsia

Drew a quick doodle to list my socials :)

A black fluffy cat with big expressive eyes looks at the viewer. In the first panel, the cat says, “I’ve noticed something quite special about you…” In the second panel, with even bigger eyes and holding a small heart, it continues, “You can become more of who you want to be, at your own pace.”

If you’re a Hachette author you should be talking to your editors and teams about this. If they’re using AI to counter AI, it’s still AI. And it may also be giving your work to the machine, serving it up on a contractual platter.

Watchdog of the Old Lords
旧主の番犬
#Bloodborne #ブラッドボーン

A four-panel comic featuring two fluffy black cats sitting side by side on a soft pink ground with a blue-purple sky. In the first panel, one cat asks, “What’s your favorite place?” In the second, the other cat replies, “I don’t think I have one.” In the third, it continues, “I think I have favorite beings. And places feel nicer when they’re there.” In the final panel, the first cat looks at the other with heart-shaped eyes, and the second cat says, “Just like this one!”

Happy Caturday 🐾🤍

Artwork of my OC Megaera wearing a delicate and embroidered purple dress with flowing petal-like sleeves. She is holding an umbrella adorned with purple flowers and draping silk ribbons.

Elden Ring inspired artwork depicting Godwyn, Prince of Death wielding Death Lightning. Facing away from him is his sibling Megaera, Goddess of Graves (my OC) in her Twinbird transition form. Both of them have a hand hovering around a golden aura of Grace. A faint image of an eclipse sits behind them.

Art of Revenant from Elden Ring: Nightreign with ghostly skeletal arms around her.

Artwork of a woman with long horns, tail and white hair in a large flowing braid. She gazes down with a hand reaching out. She is surrounded by thorns, roses and falling petals. Character belongs to @deviltailart

Hi #PortfolioDay ✨ I'm Gwyn, a digital artist from southeast asia. I draw OCs and fan art. 🐇💜
#oc #art #illustration

⊹ Portfolio & links ⊹ Vgen Commissions ⊹ Ko-fi ⊹

Fanart of Queen Marika from Elden Ring

A modern version of Ciri from The Witcher 3

A modern version of Queen Sonia from Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

Millicent from Elden Ring peacefully lying in a field of flowers

I'm Artelsia and I draw fanart of games! #PortfolioDay

A black fluffy cat with very large, round eyes looks up gently from the bottom of the image. The background is a soft, textured gradient of blue, green, and warm tones. Above the cat, white handwritten text reads: “I hope you know that you’re more than the things your mind says on hard days.”

Moon Presence

#Bloodborne #Art

Duchess and Wylder
#ELDENRING #NIGHTREIGN

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8104:
Easy reading doesn’t mean easy writing. It takes a lot of practice and expertise to make something seem effortless. (This goes for genre, comedy, kids’ books and lots of other well-crafted books not perceived as “literary.”)

人形 / The Doll
#Bloodborne #ブラッドボーン

暗黒衣装レディ
#NIGHTREIGN

Revisited: Young gloam-eyed Queen

If you're a writer who uses generative ai for your cover art or promos, you're a bum. "I wrote it all myself though." Nah, I can't trust that now. And I do not give a fuck anymore. How would you feel if an artist drew a cover, then generated a whole novel?

Be better.

NO WARRIOR CAN FIGHT ALONE. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT.

shout out to all the writers and artists who take forever to finish something. I get it, bro. I take a long time too. but your worth as a writer/artist isn't built upon production. so just keep striding it out. keep taking those steps. we each have our own race track. we'll get to the finish line

People say AI is a magic shortcut to creativity & success. I’ll tell you the real secret and it’s voraciously reading, being interested in everything, being diligent in the pursuit of learning, paying attention to the interior lives of others & keeping a heart open to the world.

Big Tech is offering you a Faustian bargain. It promises to remove all the friction from life, to keep you from having to think or study, and the result is your brain will become pudding, you’ll become incapable of creativity or communication. They want to make you a non-person.

You can write your emails just fine. You always have! Want to improve? Take a writing course (there are cheap and free writing courses for a variety of types of writing to be found online). Using features like this is literally dimming areas of your brain. Keep them lit. Forget this feature exists.

I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.

I find it depressing that so many people seem determined to outsource their basic brain functions. Like WHY ARE YOU EVEN ALIVE IF THAT'S HOW LITTLE YOU THINK ABOUT EXISTENCE

[“Take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be human and isn’t yet, or used to be human once and isn’t now, or ought to be human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.” — Mr Beaver, The Lion, The Witch & the Wardrobe]

C. S. Lewis tried to warn us about AI

Headline in today's Guardian that reads "Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40 percent, study finds. Cognitive health in later life is 'strongly influenced' by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers."

This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.

I find it bleak how many people seem to have given up on having any kind of intellectual life. Depression is rampant because we’ve abandoned books & hobbies in favor of joyless amusements. The single most attractive thing a person can do is read often & delight in learning.

AI art isn’t real art and AI artists aren’t real artists.