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reality has humbled me to promise I will never mock a story for being too blunt ever again.

"Blackguard McEvilPerson who runs the company Evil Murder Machine wants to eat babies and destroy the world for fun" is if anything a documentary title

Burning down that warehouse will cause more delicious pain than anyone is discussing. YouTube video by Farming While Beige

I never know what I'm in for when this guy does any of his videos but it's guaranteed to be the best thing I'll see all day

www.youtube.com/shorts/Sc9lG...

Animating Lego bricks

Kinda tired of this now 🫩

今日、本当にどうしても欲しい食器があって、ショッピングモールに行ってきた。目的が超ハッキリしていて、すごい集中力だったから、問題なく帰ってこられた。これは買ったものたち。

but teamwork is labor and labor is expensive and AI exists to make sure you die instead of pay you.

actually, a correction: there is one way to reduce workload in art, and that's assistants and collaboration. and that isn't offloading work you don't value to someone beneath you, that's offloading work you care deeply about to someone who has the expertise you can trust your vision to.

lettering is not "just type words on a page and place them where there's room". that's an ignoramus' idea of lettering.

lettering controls pacing. it controls tone. it controls atmosphere. it controls how readable the visuals are, much less the text. letterers get enough disrespect, jfc.

"saving time" in the art is an argument to disrespect the process of making art. it's saying there's parts of it that are beneath you and don't have value

lettering has value. it's page composition, it's eyepath flow. figuring out how to show characters talking is the fucking point of comics

there's this idea that because someone didn't find a way to make art in a linear and predictable way, they're somehow doing it wrong or not built for it, instead of understanding the truth: creativity is not predictable. you're holistically guesstimating what you can manage, always.

what is your raison d'être. why are you alive. why are you even here. what is the point of money for you. you are as complex in design as an amoeba.

being embarrassed by failure is a good thing. not wanting to fail is a good thing. learning from that failure and making sure it doesn't happen again is a good thing. I don't think you should be scared of failure but you shouldn't fucking pretend like it doesn't matter!! IT'S THERE TO LEARN FROM

I just. I can't handle this anymore. I can't handle knowing my basic millennial normie ass knows more about marketing and product design and basic physics than billionaires today. I can't handle being ruled by people with the mental intelligence of a 10 year old failing preschool

How people imagine artists: stands cutely in front of an easel, painting romantically

What it actually is like: drops on the bed like a soggy pancake after a 14 hour work day

A stylised illustration of a cheetah

Cheetah

journal page featuring 3 diecut stickers- one is a lucky cat, one is a cat in an apple hat, and the third is a cat saying "paper planners! because I don't wnat the govt. snoopin' around!"

My shop is finally reopening tomorrow with some new stickers (Saturday, Apr 18!) 🥲

people gotta stop putting all their eggs in one basket, I swear

casually creating bookmarks of art portfolios like the good old days when I used netscape so I don't lose them in case this platform dies because the people who run it don't know enough code to figure out what they vibed and feeling despair when a user's only portfolio IS their bluesky account

drawing kirby from memory

i just want politicians who agree with me that living is good and listening to the people who want death is bad. the bar is so fucking low, man.

Illustration of a nine-tailed fox breathing out green smoke

nine tailed

[ #art ]

the day Studio Ghibli is run like Disney is the day it is dead to me

I looked at 200+ artist portfolios. Here's what I learned I went through a ton of artist portfolios, and I saw what a lot of them have to offer. Here's what I took away (and what I'll use!)

In working on the no gen AI directory, I've looked at a LOT of artist portfolios. Like, 350+ of them at this point. And I thought I'd compile what I was seeing done right, what surprised me (positively), and then what I was commonly seeing done wrong. Use this to tweak your own portfolio!

when you love blorbo but blorbo is owned by one of the most evil conglomerates on earth but also the stuff made for blorbo is made by real people putting love and work into it but also they're probably underpaid but also they probably still wanna keep their jobs 😔

Ultimately, the question I keep coming back to is if you outsource your work and personal decisions to genAI, what is the *point* of you? You’re intentionally making yourself a meat puppet, a homunculus, a revenant haunting your own life.

People who use AI to make images on their behalf have no idea how much their actual art would be loved not just by normal people, but also the artists they're stealing from by using it.

april 2026 has been such a weird month. there's like 5 of the worst things that could ever happen and 5 of the best possible news that you could hear in this moment cancelling each other out literally daily

yall remember… companies dont make art, people do. there is no disney art, there is no unreal or tencent art. they create a wrapper around someone else’s art. find out who makes the stuff you love