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'Cats of the Louvre' by Matsumoto Taiyo

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So Long as I Never Land - Submitted by SeesawSiya

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Would You Love to Run Away, Would You Love to Escape This Way? - Submitted by @thecatinthefedorahat

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Sculptures by Phil Young.

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The only thing I hate more than doing detailed drawings is not doing detailed drawings. (Aka I’ve been working on this page of rocks for months and it looks good (!!) AND I’m nearing the end BUT there’s still probably a couple hundred rocks to go 😅 )

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I’m getting back into my occasionally hobby of making weird bottom-heavy pottery and this month’s project is: witch cauldron cups!!! I have accepted that I can’t pull a handle to save my life, carefully attached bubbles, now I pray to the kiln gods

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Art by Leah Gardner

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we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

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I am not sure I ever posted this zine piece either but this was a fun quick thing from summer!

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Today is the day / I’ve been waiting forever!

Happy Tuck Day!

as promised here is the official unofficial Tuck Everlasting Zine! We had a lot of amazing and talented artists participate and if there's interest, I'd like to do it again next year!

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being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

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Not sure I ever posted this, so here’s my piece done for a zine last year

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Honestly the queue and schedule post options on Tumblr are extremely underrated. No other major social networking site has the ability to do that with the same ease as Tumblr does, and we've had them for like a decade now. They're fantastic features and Tumblr doesn't get enough credit for having them.

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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 Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. 

Hilarously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.

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HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

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i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors