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really helpful technique ^ once you know how to divide by halves and thirds it makes drawing evenly spaced things in perspective waaay easier:

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Now that it's getting into the summer I thought I'd post some of my favorite summer-y patterns.

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art by Eyvind Earle

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(crawls on all fours with blood drenched on me) I have to do arts and crafts

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Y’all I want to throw massive kudos out to the Roger Williams Park Zoo for a choice they made today: rather than joining in on a GenAI trend all the zoos are doing right now, they chose to support and spotlight an artist on their staff!

The big thing right now is these GenAI “figurine toys” of zookeepers or zoo management. And instead they shared a version drawn by one of their staff!

Go give them some love, if you’re on FB. Too many zoos are really getting into GenAI and just whitewashing the climate change / copyright issues that come with it, so I want this zoo to get as much positive feedback as we can muster for making a better choice.

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me and my homies support real artists who put their passion into their pieces instead of a machine who rips off the hard work of talented peeps

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~ Redbubble ~ Spoonflower ~ Society6 ~ Ko-fi ~ A collection of my pattern "Happy Chickens" They're out being silly in the grass and clucking around in the coop.

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~ Redbubble ~ Spoonflower ~ Society6 ~ Ko-fi ~ A collection of my pattern "Spiral Snails"

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!! Thought I'd share my pattern "Roll for Luck" it's very fitting for today. The shamrocks are made out if little D20s ~ Redbubble ~ Spoonflower ~ Society6 ~ Ko-fi ~

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New aesthetic: Arctic hares when they're coat is only half done shedding and they look a little fucked up

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I just think they're neat

the Vaporeon was a christmas gift from the other year.

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Honestly I can tell you finding out art was made by AI really does immediately, legitimately sour it for me, like people will trot this out as a Gotcha for anti-AI people but it's just making it clear they don't consider art to be the conversation that it is lol. It's similar to the way Harry Potter immediately soured for me because engaging with it while knowing the kind of heart Rowling is writing from changes the way the work feels; there isn't any moralizing or whatever that I have to do, it's easy to drop it because it's rotted in my hands.

"Oh but you LIKED this song before, nothing changed!" The conversational partner did. A very large portion of what is interesting to me about art is thinking of why the creator chose that instrumentation, or what made them want to make the thing in the first place. Finding out I've been talking to a wall completely removes an entire third of the force that art is to me, and I can't argue that anything about art or its consumption is Objectively Correct but I can argue it's fucking boring lmao

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~ Redbubble ~ Spoonflower ~ Society6 ~ Ko-fi ~ A collection of my pattern "Horseshoes and Stars"

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Anybody looking for a graphic designer or pattern maker? Just found out I'm loosing my job, the company I work for right now is going under. I promise I'm a cool person and a hard worker. You can see my stuff here. My portfolio

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~ Redbubble ~ Spoonflower ~ Society6 ~ Ko-fi ~A collection of my pattern "It's Raining, It's Storming"

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