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HEY! Do you make products? Are you hoping people will buy them as Christmas presents?

Send me links, photos, and descriptions in my submit box, and I'll post them on here!

Not only am I looking for some great Christmas gifts myself, I'm in the process of looking for better ways to buy. Y'know, slow fashion, small boutiques, hand-crafts. Better products that will last you longer and be a LOT cooler than typical mall shit, with money going back into the local community instead of to some CEO.

Shopping/consumerism culture in America SUCKS but it's not impossible to find the good stuff. You just have to know where to look.

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I'm having a Cyber Sale in my Etsy shop! 25% off everything until 12/7/24! Sale does not apply to custom, wholesale, or previous orders.

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A very much WIP illustration of Pesto the giganto king penguin babby, menacing a candy factory for lollipops. And he's already molting! 😭 I've taken so long on this piece that by the time I'm done, he'll be fully mature.

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Title: "One-Way Ticket"

Have you ever felt the desire to fuck off to a new and far away place, and start fresh?

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Experimenting with a bit of v a p o r w a v e . . .

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My illustration piece, Popcornin' has been accepted and is currently on display at SAMA's Biennial Juried Art Exhibition until October 20, 2024.

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Just recently added this handmade farmer's market-inspired hanhaba obi in my Etsy shop. There's also a few days left on my 15% off store-wide sale, so snap it up while you can!

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"...Don't judge me."

Warm-up sketch of Vincent as a Parrot Head (personal headcanon).

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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A.I. photos are flooding social media and contributing to an Internet where we can't believe what we see. Spotting A.I. 📷s is an important media literacy skill.

None of us have time to research every image we see. We just need people to notice BEFORE THEY LIKE OR SHARE that an image might be fake. If unsure, check it or don't share.

I've started drawing some comics explaining the basic of AI spot-checking and media literacy in the age of disinformation. Follow along here or on my Twitter.

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Another new listing in my Etsy shop:

Vintage Light Pink Japanese Furisode Juban

This one was part of my personal collection, only personally worn once or twice, but spent the rest of the time in safe storage. I've been paring down my kimono collection to clear up space in my home, keeping only a select few pieces that are more "practical" to wear (as far as kitsuke goes!).

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Whoopsie-doodle—I forgot to promote my newer Etsy listing: Handmade Space Print Hanhaba Obi

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Ugh, I'm bad at the promotion stuff.

I'm currently having a 25% off BFCM sale at my etsy shop until Monday 11/27 at 11:59 p.m. ET! I'm still trying to add more inventory and will probably also do a Cyber Week sale.

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Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

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So...I did a thing and got accepted to Las Lagunas Art Gallery's Laguna Beach Open Exhibition.

"Guinness Brewery Tower" photography print // Dublin, Ireland

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Supermoon 🌕 // July 2023

Not a bad attempt, considering I was dragged along by my dog while he was hunting for a pooping spot. 💩

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I'm having a Christmas in July sale in my shop!

All items listed in the linked collection are 25% off (yes, including clearance items!) throughout the month of July. Discount will automatically apply to your shopping cart.

Sale ends 7.31.23 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Does not apply to wholesale, previous, or custom orders and cannot be combined with any other offer.