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hey, we're always looking for new artists and illustrators to work with. please, if you are/know someone who is a great HUMAN artist, drop a link to your/their portolio. no promises, but we'd love to browse some portfolios today!! also pls share for visibility!!! 💀🖤💀

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Added a lot of books to the Indie Bookshelf this week on Horror Tree, but I've barely scratched the surface of August! Link me your indie spec-fic books! Any genre! Smaller listing is free! Up every Friday. horrortree.com/indie-booksh...

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Nice bit of sunshine on the south coast today. Fun bit of book-related trivia: the rocks to my left as I took this photo are the edge of Burgh Island, a big part of the inspiration for Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

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Today is the National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood. Short, short stories are posted all day, throughout the day. Dip your toes into the flood and enjoy a wonderful selection of flash fiction.

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It's a really good read! And today's the perfect day to pick up a copy.

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this hasn't personally happened to me, but i've seen other artists here talking about it intermittently. so here's an infographic about a handy feature i think a lot of people are overlooking! #artsky #artistsonbsky

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I haven't posted this one in a while. A moody, apocalyptic scene with a pose based on an @adorkastock.com reference. ArtByJon

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Happy #InternationalPigeonDay .  Just sharing my little post pigeon Mr Coo who’s story I’m still working on. June 13th was chosen to commemorate the death of Cher Ami, a pigeon who helped save the lives of 194 soldiers in WWI. #pigeonday #worldpigeonday #pigeon #pigeons #birds #kidlitart #kidlit

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Wow, so many new followers recently. I guess I should do another intro post! I'm Alan, a UK indie sci-fi author & book blogger. I post about writing, book reviews, videogames, and archery. Anti-AI. Love to support indie authors 💪🏻 Check out my books! Link in bio if you're into that kind of thing.

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🖤 FRIDAY THE 13TH 🖤 Grab your spooky read! Five stories of the eerie, tragic, and macabre ⏳💀 One novelette of dark waves and folkoric vibes 🌊🖤 Five gardens you do not want to mess with 🤎🪱 From 99c! - https://books2read.com/karenlykkebo - https://klykkebo.itch.io/ - https://ko-fi.com/k_lykkebo

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Do you ever just sit and think about how goddamn perfect the poster for Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) by Noriyoshi Ohrai is? Yeah, me too.

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I wanna take 3 commission slots! I'll spread them from easiest to hardest so i can work faster! And i can't work on several paintings at the same time, so i'll do them one by one PLEASE visit my carrd for all information aurulincommissions.carrd.co Reposts are HIGHLY appreciated! #commissionsopen

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In the Disney lawsuit, 10 pages are dedicated to citing the work we did. In pursuit of this evidence, Midjourney banned me 3 times and updated their ToS. The first ban encouraged me to dig a lot deeper, so I'd like to congratulate CEO David Holz on his massive unforced error.

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Some sort of functional landing craft. Very much a workhorse type of craft, not one of these flashy spaceships! ArtByJon

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This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

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Some sort of functional landing craft. Very much a workhorse type of craft, not one of these flashy spaceships! ArtByJon

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Art vs Artist 2025 Eh. Hopefully the next half of the year is more productive. [ #ArtvsArtist ]

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First time I’ve seen this in the credits. Heretic. Great film too.

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Snippet from an old book cover illustration. I still like the squinting expression I managed to get for this character.

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A group of bullfinches is a bellowing, & my linocut shows a bellowing bellowing, singing loudly. I am making a series on the weird & wonderful terms of venery -the collective nouns for groups of animals. Some are evocative, some strange and obscure.🧵 How could I resist a “bellowing” of bullfinches?

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A bit of classic Public Service Broadcasting for today's #MusicMonday youtu.be/BHIo6qwJarI?...

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Snippet from an old book cover illustration. I still like the squinting expression I managed to get for this character.

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I forgot to turn my computer on first thing this morning and I'm now sat here watching it slowly whir into life. It takes quite a while these days, so I usually try to give it time to come round slowly. I guess we all feel like that on a Monday morning.

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I hope you enjoy the timelapse painting process. #art #digitalpainting

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fashionably late for mermay, as is tradition #art

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2017 >>> 2025 This isn't a totally fair comparison because I was experimenting with different styles back in 2017, trying to find what I enjoyed, so these aren't exactly comparable. But I'm happy I ended up finding the style of illustration I enjoy painting. ArtByJon

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I've had another surge of followers (hello!) so it's (re)introduction time. I'm a UK-based freelance illustrator. I offer human-powered book artwork for indie authors and small press publishers: covers, interior illustrations, maps, and character art. www.jonstubbington.com BookCoversByJon.com

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drop something yellow 💛🤡

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We're excited to reveal the theme for our first anthology: FOLKLORE. In a month's time, we'll be open for short story submissions of 2,000-10,000 words from writers living in the North of England. Spread the word, and get your keyboards/pens/typewriters at the ready...

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COVER REVEAL: The cover for THE DAUGHTER WHO REMAINS, the finale book in the SHE WHO KNOWS trilogy (DAW Books, Feb 2026). It was illustrated by the one and only Greg Ruth. Read what the novella is about in the alt text. Najeeba’s story is complete. 🥹 Fun Fact: The first chapter is in nsibidi.

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It's time for the annual LGBTQ+ Pride fundraiser! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Every year I do a special event to support these 3 orgs: 🏳️‍🌈The Trevor Project 🏳️‍⚧️The Theater Offensive 🏳️‍🌈Transgender Emergency Fund MA 100% of profits from this pack 6/1-6-30 will be donated. 🥳 ko-fi.com/s/32a448ad89 #Pose #PoseRef

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2017 >>> 2025 This isn't a totally fair comparison because I was experimenting with different styles back in 2017, trying to find what I enjoyed, so these aren't exactly comparable. But I'm happy I ended up finding the style of illustration I enjoy painting. ArtByJon

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Good choice with Northern Exposure, but this is mine. If you see this, quote with a show with an awesome theme song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q58G...

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FREE ADVICE: so, there's a filmmaking concept called "business." "Business" is, essentially, the stuff your character does while talking. Fixing a car engine, ice skating, eating an ice cream cone, ducking gunfire. You gotta give your characters "business" so they're not just standing there yappin'.

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It's still almost May, isn't it? My late #Mermay illustration. I didn't get to spend as long on this as I wanted, but I'm calling it done. ArtByJon

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ANGEL OF OTHERLAND (1999) Preliminary concept for MOUNTAIN OF BLACK GLASS Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 9 ½” x 6” When the series by Tad Williams was pitched—originally as a trilogy—I seized on the idea of having each of book dominated by a key color of the basic art spectrum... 1/2

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Lots of questions about Kobo, #kobowritinglife and how, when and why we are using AI. Putting "AI" in the same sentence as "authors", "books" or "publishers" makes a lot of alarm bells go off, and for good reason. 1/

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Some Metric music for an alliterative #MusicMonday youtu.be/LqldwoDXHKg?...

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Really interesting, useful, and anger-inducing thread about the Unbound/Boundless situation.

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Duck, duck, moose. Edmontosaurus Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, 132 × 85 mm. I think I botched the birds somewhat. 🙈 It's a hot day and both I and the ink (because it dries out on the brush too soon) were fighting. This piece will be available at auction next week.

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In lieu of a mermay mermaid, here's an older commission that at least has some water in it. Commissioned by author Mark Runte. ArtByJon

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