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Webcomic creator, crazy cat lady. A/I is theft and will be blocked on sight.
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Ok, I'm putting this out there to make it real: Anger Ham's anniversary is on November 17, and I'm setting a tentative goal to be able to start posting Chapter 3 on that day. There are a few variables that could get in the way, but... I'm gonna try!

A basic worksheet for evaluating character design when you’re looking at narrative media (or real life). For help or the same sheet in pdf format, just ask

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'.

Mods are asleep, post Jack Hamm drapery lessons

Somebody asked me about my fire process so here is a mini tutorial. Hope it helps you out!! #artref | #arttutorial

Indifference is compliance. You need to give a shit.

btw if you're so petrified of doing a bad job that you can't even start, then what you need isn't advice on how to make comics. you need to learn to embrace being messy and bad at things and being okay with that because it's necessary, and actually it's GOOD. being messy is WONDERFUL

Because i made this dumb video about being Gender Evil and people thought it was funny. I'm still surprised how often i see #nonbinary people call themselves gender evil.

A little motivation

Every commercial font we've ever made, all zipped up in one pack. There are handwriting fonts, techno fonts, pixel art - the whole pack has a vast range of genres and vibes to choose from. Use them in game dev, books, album covers, ttrpgs, web comics etc ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack #gamedev #booksky

From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck. Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special. "She probably doesn't mean me" I do.

Artists: are ya unable to find an audience here or been on for abit but cant grow cause the sites "dead" Non-artists, are you tired of artists leaving BECAUSE it feels dead? Well heres tips to help your growth! Please spread this as much as you can :P #artistsofbluesky #artists #art 🧵 a thread🧵

Sharing so you can block it

tbh it’s just kind of disheartening to see people who ostensibly have good politics around labour just… use genAI ‘oh but it’s just for X’, ‘i’d pay someone but I can’t really afford it’, ‘it’s just this one time’ and in the end it really comes down to ‘I don’t actually value creative labour’

My #WebcomicDay offering is The Epic Adventure of Anger Ham - a magical girl adventure about two sisters and the reason behind their furious hamster's incandescent rage. It's my lighthearted tribute to a real life hamster I once knew, and it's entirely free to read! angerham.thecomicseries.com

Something creators forget when trying to value themselves: comics can exist without publishers. Publishers can not exist without creators. You are the commodity, and you deserve to be valued appropriately.

A David Lynch quote for every creative person who may need it today. It resonated with me when I came across it reading it in Lynch on Lynch.

Eeyy icymi my #WebComic, #FracturedComic, is on preorder RIGHT NOW 👀 You can totally put PREORDER in the discount box to nix the taxes (I mean I still have to pay them but YOU DONT)

“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

*taps the sign*

❌ I. WILL. NEVER. STOP. EMPHASIZING. THIS. Being too cheap gets u cheapskate customers who will torture you over every penny they spend on u. Absolutely not worth the effort. Ppl who pay fair prices will usually value your work & behave. ✨ Know your worth.

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

Routines are your friends Checklists make you feel accomplished Everything is made up, do what you want (but dont hurt anyone) Buy that plushie Paint your nails wear that dress you're not too old, DO THE THING Good insoles do not have an age limit prevention in your 20s saves you pain in your 30s

Quite the payoff

I’ll add to this - If you use ChatGPT, grok, meta ai, midjourney, stable diffusion, Gemini, copilot, or any other gAI program, you’re a loser.

the reason gAI-curious/apologists are so quick to argue 'but what IS art really, no one can say 🤔' and patronizing artists about copyright law like we need to be educated on our own exploitation is because it removes the discussion completely from real-world effects and firmly into the theoretical

I want to make a point about tools and artistic intent This is my over the top brush set for painting water colour and gouache I've collected these brushes for 10 years, added to the set, taken some away.

applying for jobs again

Dear young artist, Use reference. Anyone telling you otherwise has no interest in your development. Also, stop shrimping. Hydrate. I see you, and you need both. Love, An Artist further down the path.

So... I'm gonna be a bit more blunt today in regards to AI usage in the TTRPG space. The harder it is made for folks using AI to find acceptance and gain traction, the less of it we will see. This means blocking them on Social Media, and reporting them on sites where they sell their trash.

it's cartoonist day. yeah, that's so

GENTLENESS (1997) Acrylic on Canvas - 11" x 13" Not a classical Virtue, but based on observing my young son with our aging family cat. It's how I hope we'll care for all the earth's creatures. www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/ge...

I don't have a ton going on this month so... what if May is project month? It sure would be cool to take a big ol' chunk out of my two biggest projects that have been haunting me for literal years. Let's see how much I can get done in the next 30 days. >:3

Hey I'm looking for some #pixelart work! DM me or email me if youre lookin for a confident character artist and animator

shout out to my fellow neurodivergents that feel like every interaction you have with people ends with choosing the incorrect dialogue option in a video game

My painting process TIDAL WETLANDS

You know what day it is

This may be one of the worst times to be posting art online. So many platforms being swamped with AI, spammed with aggressive bots and algorithms that will hide you until you play their silly secret games. What else can we do but ride it out? 🐻 #TheBearMinimum

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please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

Hubble has spent 35 years in orbit! 🥳 Celebrate with an array of compelling images recently taken by Hubble: Mars, dramatic views of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent spiral galaxy: bit.ly/4jjsAs7 🔭 🧪