Bad art is better than no art

Bad art is better than no art

"Chat what do I do the guy I hate just confessed their unyielding love to me"

Pride and prejudice screenshot redraw but not really, I drew them like how I felt like it ¯_(ツ)_/¯

a video game concept i had: you scavenge for food in an empty, post-apocalyptic world, and return to divvy up the limited rations amongst fellow struggling survivors.

one half of the game is a Walking Simulator™ in a never-ending twilight. the other half is one of those mobile-esque Cooking Craze/Fever/Madness app games, but with minute ingredient control and stat, resource, and inventory management.

happy pride month once again, here’s a redraw of this iconic medieval art

oh so THAT’S what y'all were doing at the Devil’s sacrament

made me think of this

[id: x/twitter qrt from user styloshka that says "I read a forum post about art once, that it's a product of the dialectic between the effort of the artist and the friction of the medium. You push on the thing and the thing pushes back on you, it has its own voice. The weight of a piano key, the tension of a guitar string." original post from user colleen_daves says "Don't you want to skip over the mindless drudgery that is making art?" I do six stand embroidery and break like 10 needles a day, would I prefer that activity didn't hurt my hands and make me angry? Sure. But that's what makes having the finished piece after so worth it to me."]

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It is done!

there are 2 kinds of mangaka when drawing: the ones that hate woman and the ones that love woman

And, guys...

i think ryoko kui really loves woman.

Ryoko Kui draws fat people with tenderness, honesty, and dignity in a way I've never seen before from other manga and anime. She's not afraid to draw people like me the way I look with the same care and respect she does all her characters.

as a writer i used to think the best feeling is when an audience laughs at your work. it’s actually when several people audibly say “oh fuck” at your work despite the fact that you aren’t supposed to do that in a theatre.

i was going to get really profound with it talking about how it is such a beautiful sound because it means that the audience believes what is happening onstage which is a feat and an honor but really this is what plays in my head when it happens

A combination of barrier mesh animation and anamorphic projection on elegant porcelain.

I don't care what it's called, Trebek, that's the tightest shit I ever did seen!

also we fucked up as a society the moment we started telling teens and aspiring artists to conflate being an artist with building a brand as if the two things are inextricable. the name of the game if you want to share your art is to work a job and sell yourself as aesthetizied content. back in my day we could just POST SHIT. to deviantart! what the fuck!

pro-tip if ur a teen or aspiring artist: stay the fuck away from tiktok. tiktok is not the place for your art. your art is not content to be sold. don’t listen to art youtubers advice if they dilute being an artist to stats and algorithms. trying to make a business or career out of art is actually something that takes a lot of experience and consideration to go into it is Not an inherent facet to getting started/expressing yourself as an artist. conflating art = selling something/working a job is the fastest fucking way to ruin it for yourself i am so serious. find communities that share your artistic interests make friends and share your art there. be indulgent and creative and experimental. you deserve a period in your artistic journey that is purely selfish and fostering of your growth. don’t let capitalism take that from you yet

not to be a sap or anything but this particular piece of little mermaid trivia does something to me

t4t Adam and Eve

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

don’t stop talking about what’s happening

While taking a nap today I dreamt there was a hazard sign called "never found" which was used to indicate a location where people disappeared never to be seen again

it looked like this

The imagery and vibes of this were so visceral I had to do art about it

(Grayscale version under cut)