Ringlov's art vs artist grid: 8 drawings in a 3x3 grid, with a graphite self-portrait doodle in the centre. Clockwise around the selfie, starting from top-left: 1. a portrait study of a person in a fawn costume, wearing horns, fluffy ears, and a painted snout on their nose, long brown wavy hair and mustache and beard fitting in perfectly 👌, 2. a portrait study of a short-haired person wearing glasses, leaning their chin on the back of their hand, looking absent-mindedly to the right, rendered in faux burnt sienna oil paint + turpentine in Procreate, 3. a digital pencil sketch of a curly-haired bearded man wearing a coat with the collar popped up, looking towards the left, 4. a graphite pencil + watercolour sketch of a highlander cat with its cute curly ears, 5. an ink + watercolour drawing of a white mouse wearing striped pants and a maple seed tied to its back that looks like wings, brandishing a needle sword with a button for a guard, standing in blossoming moss, 6. another faux oil + turpentine sketch in Procreate, of a woman in 3/4 view, making eye contact with the viewer, her long curly hair framing her face, 7. a drawing of a Dragon Age character with a winged cape, jumping towards the viewer, big grin on their face, their long black curly hair flowing behind them, the billowing cape making it look like they're flying, 8. a drawing of a white anthropomorphic feline character brandishing a bo staff, in a low stance, looking menacingly off to the right

Art vs Artist 2025! I didn't think I'd have enough to show for, but I dug up some studies and doodles as filler 😊 another year defeated!

We even get a new selfie doodle this year hehe

#artvsartist

If you want to communicate your idea to an artist all you need is 30 seconds and the basic ability to grip a pen

Develop “concept art”?? 💀 💀 💀

All the image models solely rely on stolen work of countless of artists to function at capacity.

Using them not only is deeply unethical but puts the company at risk.

Not worth it and I truly hope ( hell, I’m begging) that they reconsider 😭

Day 5, Lesser white-fronted goose

Vulnerable (16,000-27,000 mature individuals, decreasing. Via BirdLife International)

Rick behaves in a stubborn, closed-off manner to Seraphim's questions about him and his sheriff job proposal, suggesting he's reluctant to take the job.

The Red Sand Blues
Chapter 3 pg 41
colorist: ringlov.bsky.social
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Stop using AI for placeholder assets.
Use sketches. Use lorem ipsum. Use bright pink materials. Use programmer art for fucks sake, literally anything else.
If your studio is using AI even for temp, even if they think they've covered their tracks, SPEAK UP because people WILL FIND IT

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Meme: a quirky hand-drawn cat beneath the script "AHEM - please don't give billionaires more of your money this holiday season - buy something cool and handmade from some fun weirdo instead & help them eat. Shop small, y'all." Image credit: "Small businesses need your support more than ever 💗 By Sugarhouse Ceramic Co."

Love this so much. 💜

sheith still holds a special place in my heart 😌 i'll dm you!

thank you sm <3

why hello, what a blast from the past! thanks so much for the sweet words <3 i dug through my now private twitter and found a privatter link that i could dm you if you want! aside from the fic itself and my now-defunct patreon that was the only place they were ever shared :)

as a neurodivergent & also weird kid school was hell for me, though these days I struggle to remember the names of all the teachers who bullied me. But the three that treated me like a person have never left me. Now more than ever, I hope you all try your best to stay unsquishable!

Mel WIP

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Mastodon VS Bluesky

A ramshackle structure of driftwood frames a view of the Pacific Ocean. A tiny stone swings suspended on a piece of twine from the edge of the shack. The sky is bright blue and traced with faint clouds. It is morning. You are happy.

Before I go: take a minute to breathe in real deep and picture yourself sitting in this driftwood shack at Rincon Point. Someone's hung a little rock from a hole left by a piddock clam. It's swaying in the breeze. There's an osprey overhead. You can see a seal in the surf. Soon you'll go swimming.

give me fucking physical media. let me keep things. no more monthly subscriptions for shit i should just be able to own

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Jack Hamm drapery lesson

Jack Hamm drapery lesson

Jack Hamm drapery lesson

Jack Hamm drapery lesson

Mods are asleep, post Jack Hamm drapery lessons

A couple walks down the street, the man in a turban, the woman in a very high-collared fur coat. This is ASHWAY and BERTREX A: You know that origami flower shop we keep talking about maybe one day wandering through? A: I finally had an occasion for which I would have liked some paper flowers. But they’ve closed! B: That’s a shame, they just opened like five years ago! B: I wonder how much of our community is powered by people imprudently opening wildly unprofitable businesses, pouring their time and savings into them for the period of exactly one commercial lease, then letting them close. B: Like, it didn’t turn out to be sustainable, but for a while, you offered some cool origami classes for kids, and some people in the neighborhood have some paper flowers in their homes now? I assume? B: Sorry it didn’t make you a millionaire, but you shoved the big stone wheel back uphill a few turns, and that helped us all. A: And, in this metaphor, the big stone wheel is... B: The thing that’ll smash us all into dust with its uncaring inertia if we don’t hold it at bay with our collective effort, yeah A: Okay, cool. And our collective effort, in this context, means buying forty-dollar paper flowers? B: Is THAT how much they cost? B: I kept meaning to look in the store window when I walked by, but I never managed to tear my eyes away from my phone.

tell me all the businesses that inexplicably survived or inexplicably failed in your neighborhood

Wondermark #1569; The Foldery has Folded

I want to staple this (in as much as you can staple a video clip lol) onto the foreheads of writers and editors who have limited experience making comics.

“Oh did I see you posting A.I? Instant unfollow Are you trying to argue with me about it? Instant block” There is a small cartoon portrait of myself, a round-faced Asian guy with round glasses and short hair, saying, “I’m just not that patient.”

UwU

The problem is that "hallucinations" is a bad term. Every answer, correct or incorrect, spouted by LLMs like ChatGPT are produced in the same manner. LLMs don't know anything. They just generate likely patterns of texts. "Hallucinations" is how the whole thing works.

Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.

BLUE SKY DOES NOT PUNISH YOU FOR ADDING LINKS OR TAGS

PLEASE ARTISTS, PUT YOUR SHOP LINK IN THE POST, YOU ARE FREE HERE!!!

NO MORE "🔗 in b1o
YOU DOnT HAVE TO CENSOR YOUR WORDS HERE!!!!

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Trying to keep my painting skills sharp and really lean into the um tiny details