A lil late to this, but it's my birthday, so I get a pass, right?

the icon // the artist // the work

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van Alt: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van pointing at each other

@estirdalin.bsky.social

Never related to a meme harder than I do with this one right now

Artistic Process in a nutshell.

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

Okay but what if we collabed and you made your pretty bug art and I made stickers js

A medieval themed sticker sheet design

Here's an art, as a treat ✨

#art

Ace/Queer Filipina artist throwing her hat in the ring ✨
bsky.app/profile/jenn...

If you see this, post your bird art

Come watch me and my pals play DnD, and, while you're at it, throw us some subs and you'll get some flexes from a strongboy in return 💪🏻

A naive floral illustration with a severed hand that was already all fucked up because it was made by a slopper. With the text “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser”

Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience

www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks

If you see this, post your bird art

init init init init

A medieval themed sticker sheet design

Here's an art, as a treat ✨

#art

The climates in Chicago have turned icy, of late, if you know what I mean.

Which is to say: stay vigilant, stay safe, and check on your friends and loved ones 💖

If you happen to be canceling streaming services for whatever reason, maybe throw a few bucks to a creative's Patreon or Ko-fi. Many have monthly tiers starting as low as $1, which may not sound like much, but if they get enough sign-ups, it could be life-changing money for those living on the edge.

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

I am mad.

Even if they didn't listen to the feedback, please keep posting your stuff here.

You art is powerful and inspires many. It might never please everybody, even so, don't be stopped, don't be censored.

Post and post and post, I want to see all creativity here.

All of it.

SFW.
NSFW.

Jennifer reaches for the camera. She's wearing a blue striped crochet baby tee

Interrupting your feed to share a crochet make because I'm still really artistically burned out, but I'm still trying to create things ✨

A Filipino woman, standing on top of a toilet, taking a selfie

Hi, it's me, your favourite infrequent and very occasional artist ✨

I will say the thing that AI does really well is emulate that precise feeling of meeting someone new, and they seem amiable and pretty verbose, but over the course of the conversation you start to realize that they’re very stupid.

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor.

stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.

they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.

fuck them, pay labor.

stranger: say, you're pretty good at that. me, 12 years old: thanks! i draw a lot of anime. stranger: you should draw for a living. me: really???? stranger: yeah. stranger: i'm satan, by the way. from hell

was reminded of an old "hit tweet" i wrote when i was burning out

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Hey gang I've had to learn recently that the whole "burning out" thing is real so if you find yourself being panicked every waking second that you're not working on something, despite those seconds being very rare, you should maybe listen to the signals and take an intentional break before you crash

u get me

Hellohello, Bluesky ☁️✨

I'm Jennifer, a freelance illustrator and artist, and here is some of my art 💖

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The promise of AI efficiency should always be followed up with “efficient for whom?” Considering that illustrators are more efficient than ever and yet wages have not increased in 80 years.

Ah I see people still love to conflate the arts with frivolity, and I wish them all a very Suffer Forever