experiencing the height of gaming lately (playing Kings Quest 5 for the first time)

Putting in a request to my library right now, I loved Tides of History so much and I’m so excited for this book!!!

Thank you for creating a specific space for this. I often feel wary of sharing my work in tags because it’s dark and intense. I hope people enjoy! bsky.app/profile/thes...

Your designs are so sharp, these are excellent 🙌🙌🙌

I love the feelings of texture and layered emotion here, really wonderful work ❤️

Absolutely in love with that second piece, all in red with all of those different compositions. Really smart and sharp compositional work, I love it!

I love this, I love the way you use color!

Thank you for creating a specific space for this. I often feel wary of sharing my work in tags because it’s dark and intense. I hope people enjoy! bsky.app/profile/thes...

Reading this made me so happy thank you so much for sharing it, yes absolutely I would love to hear more! I’m going to check out the reference as you mentioned, you’ve already given me even some good keywords to look up, thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏🙌🙌🙌

what if we kissed at the intersection of gore and intimacy

Picked this up from the library because I’m tackling the daunting task of trying to understand how human beings learn, and how I can design to embed learning, and retaining, and understanding in what I do. If any scientists, neuroscientists, teachers, etc have book recommendations, PLEASE send!

Art is not separate from other domains of learning, it’s fully entwined. It just depends on whether the person doing it knows how to connect those threads of the web of how things are interconnected and complex, and whether they can verbally articulate their web of versus just feeling it wordlessly.

the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

I will simply never be over how much I love your designs and your art for these characters 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️

Painting of a mountain range with a figure and a yak walking over the snow. Done in acryla-gouache. Photo referenced is from the cover of the book “Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation“ by Robert L Fleming Jr, Dorje Tsering and Liu Wulin.

Photo study in acryla-gouache. Practice.

Art is not separate from other domains of learning, it’s fully entwined. It just depends on whether the person doing it knows how to connect those threads of the web of how things are interconnected and complex, and whether they can verbally articulate their web of versus just feeling it wordlessly.

And yes, while I am an artist at heart, I don’t pigeonhole myself into genres of learning. I have 20 pages printed out about forest ecosystems shoved into the back of my sketchbook with highlighting and notes.

“do you really need 2000 words of free writing on this highly technical and ethical problem“ you best believe I do, because now I can have nuanced and complex conversations about it without having a computer in front of me!

My colleagues laugh at me sometimes because when I’m trying to understand a problem, I will open a text file and just free write about it for a few minutes until I get a sense of what I understand and what I’m missing. It’s been one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself and my practice.

I do believe that writing from scratch with a specific outcome in mind is especially one of the most challenging processes for the brain, and therefore the most rewarding when it comes to learning. So this is an attempt to codify those processes.

Our current Tech Hell is doing things to our brains that we need to be aware of. And when we can pinpoint what those things are, we need to also pinpoint ways to pivot from these patterns, to fight back, to know that it doesn’t have to be like this and it shouldn’t be.

Part of my practice has been continuously widening the lens of what I am willing to learn, which is basically anything. Knowing how to learn is its own skill. And those of us who are experienced learners know well that friction is part of learning, understanding, and retaining.

I didn’t just start this, this has been a long-term effort. But I want to be able to design and create work with intent that *builds in* skill-building and RETAINING, especially in our current world that seems to be working to erode cognition.

Picked this up from the library because I’m tackling the daunting task of trying to understand how human beings learn, and how I can design to embed learning, and retaining, and understanding in what I do. If any scientists, neuroscientists, teachers, etc have book recommendations, PLEASE send!

A young male figure with dark skin holds a sword and wears a pale suit. An iron crown sits on his head, from which iron bars sprout. Behind and above him is a feminine figure holding a sword entwined with tentacles

Da finish

I said “hell yeah!” at my screen when the background and full piece was revealed—gorgeous work!!

Hello! I'm looking for a queer horror artist for an anthology short (6-8 pgs)! This is paid work and the rate will go up based on crowdfunding.

New creators welcome! Please DM ME with your PORTFOLIO. Final pages will be due in two months.

I'll contact my choice in the next two weeks. Thanks!

Imagine the following scenario. You are mentoring a student, and they come to you asking you to solve a coding problem. You help them, walking through the solution step by step. They then come back and ask you to solve another problem. And then another. Eventually, you might pause as you recognize that something is going wrong. You realize that your student isn’t learning how to code and is simply learning to rely on your help. You subsequently sit them down and talk about the value of persisting through challenges, of practicing new skills, and what it actually means to learn. This scenario highlights a fundamental aspect of human collaboration. Good collaborators optimize for long-term objectives (Bratman, 1992; Grosz & Kraus, 1996; Balcazar & Keys, 2014; Mattessich & Johnson, 2018). For example, a mentor encourages independent development by adjusting the type of help given and sometimes offering no help at all. In essence, the best collaborators maintain a balance between helping and fostering autonomy; they know when not to help (Koedinger & Aleven, 2007; Van de Pol et al., 2010; Soderstrom & Bjork, 2015). Current AI assistants are a stark contrast to this dynamic. They never refuse to help (unless for safety reasons), and provide instant answers to almost any query, across domains ranging from writing to coding to tutoring (Brynjolfsson et al., 2025; Buc¸inca et al., 2024; OECD, 2026; Shapira et al., 2026). In this sense, AI systems are fundamentally short-term collaborators: extraordinarily helpful in the moment, but indifferent to what that help does to the person receiving it over time

From the study -- this distinction between helpful human mentorship + collaboration vs. what chatbots provide to people by default is really striking:

The study is here, and it's fascinating: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.04721

some personal work goals for the rest of the year:

- i would love love love to do art for a game.. please let me draw some crusty dark illustrations for your game!!
- more covers! webnovels, novels, comics, you name it
- i want to get off my butt and do more process videos for my youtube...