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just had to cover a sudden unexpected expense so i figured i'd throw a reminder out there that i have my csp brushes and assets available on my ko-fi and vgen shops! any support is super appreciated!

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«Luna, claras terras lustra
Sicut aves per umbras vola
Et unda vasta foeda purga
Pro turba fida spem crastinam serva»

#art #artsky #AURORAmusic #nodkrai

WIP

another WIP

please stop referring what people make as "content" unless what they're making is so inconsequential that literally no other label works better

call art art, music music, performance performance, dance dance... boiling everything down to a catch-all is insulting and devaluing

lately my brain has been stuck in a loop of:

- i should record all my art processes nowadays
- but i hate the feeling of being watched when i draw
- but it'd also be nice to have recordings
- but why should i have to change how i do things
- but it'd be upsetting if ppl assumed my work wasn't legit

and i get pissed thinking about how artists have to be on the defense now because of AI grifter bullshit and a ton of people who are a little too eager to play armchair detective and accuse artists based on nothing.. so then i'm like "well fuck you i refuse to change my ways just because of that!"

i have tried many, many times to be one of those artists who records timelapses and posts speedpaints but it's something i can never really fully commit to because i just don't like being observed. i crawl out of my shadowy hole with a completed drawing every few days and that's how i like it

lately my brain has been stuck in a loop of:

- i should record all my art processes nowadays
- but i hate the feeling of being watched when i draw
- but it'd also be nice to have recordings
- but why should i have to change how i do things
- but it'd be upsetting if ppl assumed my work wasn't legit

another WIP

thank you so much! ;u;

WIP

You want to keep seeing good art that will get you through the horrors?

As people become less able to support artist through monetary means, the more critical it will be to comment and share.

Tell me how my art moves you and I will resolve to keep making art even if it doesn’t pay for food.

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I use the impasto ones ALL THE TIMEEE like in these two pics here! I cannot recommend them highly enough you can get some incredible colours with them and they're SO nice to work with!

the program i'm using / the art i'm making 🦇

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

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"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

An illustration of a man with shoulder length wavy hair turned away from the viewer, looking over his shoulder with a smile. He is standing in a field of tall grass, touching a stalk of amaranth with one hand. The image is framed with a decorative gothic border.

kristophe and the hunter's moon

An illustration with a decorative gothic border. A man with shoulder length curly hair is holding a bouquet of amaranth stalks in front of his face. He has long sharp nails and red eyes. Behind him is a red moon

amaranthine

An off-white grayscale illustration. A person whose face is covered has their hands folded in prayer. Behind him is a rough-looking sun and two panels, one with dead flowers with eyes at the center and one with a metal pattern. The background has temple arches.

the weeping prince ☀

A portrait illustration of an elf with gray-green skin and long pink hair who has one massive eye for a face. The eye is staring at the viewer and his hands, which are black with long claw nails, are holding his face.

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An illustration of a man with a long ponytail and glasses staring uneasily at the viewer, his upper half cast in shadow. He is wearing an oversized blue robe and tall white gloves. His body is being distorted with magic. Behind him, two skulls are facing left and right respectively. The background is a chaotic array of textures in blue, grey, and orange. The text reads: LELAND From the day of his birth, Leland has been afflicted with a strange curse - forever doomed to be torn from any timeline he dares to call home. The Two-Headed Seer is both the source of his suffering and his only path to freedom.

scryer leland the time-blighted

An illustration of a man with gray skin and hair encased in a stone monolith. Inside, stringy flesh holds him in place. The caption reads: "BLUE" This unnamed man, a gargoyle born from an abandoned stone monolith and left to die, has been dubbed Blue by his traveling companion. He seeks the right to earn his true name and to find a cure for the blight which consume his father and threatens to take his lover.

the man from the stone

An illustration of a long haired man with elf ears looking somberly at the viewer. He has tear tracks down his cheeks. he is standing in front of a series of eroded statues, each of which also has tears in its eyes and is overgrown with foliage. The sky is red and ominous behind them.

prince alifyr, the one who weeps

calling all artists! how do you draw elves? quote this post

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apparently i draw them as huge freaks 😛

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A drawing of Teldryn reclining on a bed with a green and gold blanket and organically shaped headboard and frame. He is implied to be naked naked, his left leg bent, left hand resting on a closed book, and his right hand is holding a small yellow cup. He is looking at the viewer and smirking. A sujamma bottle is next to him and shielding his butt and crotch from view.

A pinup poll winner from a few years ago, with a conveniently placed sujamma bottle