Jon is a great friend and incredibly flexible artist with a broad skill set. Get on his schedule before it fills up!

Yessss I've always got something on the needles!! how did I miss a fellow fiber friend 😭<3 Currently working on a striped Eun sweater - though probably gonna put that one off in favor of linen projects for summertime haha!

Omg I hadn't seen this designer before, def giving them a follow 🤩

OMGGGG what a cute idea!!! I didn't know you knit too....... 🥹

statler and waldorf

yeah …….. LEAVE !!

I think a lot about the “best practices” of a digital portfolio for like, Lead Acquisition, vs complete compendiums of one’s work - the kinds of sites that I spent so much time pouring over as a kid lol. I ADORED (still do!) going through people’s rough or exploratory stuff. But I’m not hiring ofc

i remember being 24 filling out one of those calculators for freelance rates that's like "start from your yearly expenses and work back to what your rate needs to be!" and being shocked at how low the resulting rate was. like girl rent is US$650 and dinner is white bread you are living in povertyyyy

ok rhiannon's 2nd amendment joke shouldve gotten WAY BIGGER of a laugh. pearls before swine queen

I had a call result from a (twitter) portfolio day post once! But it was also a pinned post and the call happened months later and also didn’t result in a contract lmao. All this stuff is cumulative anyway no one post is gonna make or break anything

Norman Rockwell painting "Freedom Of Speech” showing a guy standing up in a room full of people. he looks so very brave

normal rockwell is this guy's name

For reviews, go into it with some expectation of the kind of feedback you want. My first question is always "what are you aiming to get out of this folio (/specific piece)?" so I can tailor feedback to help you reach that goal.

Both types: curate for who you're showing to. I think lots of folio advice can make it seem like there's a One True Best Practice TM for your folio, but curating to purpose shows that that you have good awareness of your own work *and* the ability to select for what a client/reviewer needs to see

tfw "the president is threatening nuclear war in order to manipulate polymarket bets" feels like delusional optimistic cope

I voted for her! my anarchist boyfriend also voted for her! We live in *maryland*, our votes are basically symbolic, and we did it anyway. I wish libs/dems would just say what they mean, which is "stop whining about ongoing humanitarian atrocities" and "stop asking better of the party candidate"

I thought “aubergine” was just as made up as “chokato”

Meme image of dr. Manhattan sitting on a rock in space, commonly paired with the line “I am tired of these people, I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their discourse” or similar

It would make me feel neutral trending weary

“If we deny that such a thing is possible we invite it. When we think it through and talk about it we deter it.”

he’s doing the secret: geopolitics edition

Profile of user “this user was blocked for this post” where the bio explains it’s a bot that anonymously reposts the posts that get people blocked by other users

Well yea it says it’s a bot in the account description, but it’s ostensibly reposting things that real people said lol

Tape Roulette 31 is tonight!
These are the 30 tapes on tonight's wheel. I've been saving 2 Easter tapes just for this occasion, but I'm most excited for the sealed San Antonio history tape produced by a local TV station.

I'll be slangin' tapes on Twitch from 8pm-2am ET at:
www.twitch.tv/daxjackson

Beginners might not miss those things. But I’m telling you by the time your rendering gets to pro level *you will need* the accumulated years of observation practice to keep pace. And I don’t mean like “observational drawing” I mean noticing how the world works and looks.

their distilled knowledge of a life lived and artistic techniques from their forebears + contemporaries. Even “unintentional” choices exist in a situational context for how they made it into the piece.

AI has none of this. Visuals stripped of context gives your brain nothing to eat so it atrophies.

a. the practice of how to do that, and b. your own mental library of how things actually look.

Similarly, other artists designed their pieces the way they did for a reason. Palette, composition, value structure, etc - every artist is engaging in a decision making exercise using…

Real things look the way they do for logical reasons. Seams in clothes, wires on fences, patterns in architecture, etc etc all have lineage and purpose. Stepping a level of abstraction away from reality *before you even decide how to abstract your own piece* robs you of…

Gandalf but in pink robes and bows and hello kitty

Elrond but in glittery pink hello kitty outfit

of course, my special reserve

"Litterly"

also its sooooooooo expensiveeeeeeeeeeeee (me desperately trying to talk myself out of it)

LETS GOOOOOOOO

Once observed my mom watching the movie. During dance scenes she would get scandalized and say “oh! mercy!” and fast forward. Then get bored of the dialog scenes because “I don’t know what’s happening or who any of these people are” and skip those too. She repeated this through the entire film

huge agree! there's overlap with "non-artist drawings" and "kids' drawings" but there's something special about grown-ups with fully formed decision making brains trying to translate that into a visual language. more to chew on there analysis wise

sometimes an extremely saturated low value color can do the job of black in terms of like, compositional weight and value contrast, without being a big motionless (and obviously Digital) void

4 swatches of "black" squares with different approaches/effects

Very situationally dependent on what approach is best, but I find you can lessen the punch of a huge black void by modulating in color, value, texture (or shape/breakup if you can get away with it!)