Erica Costello

if you bought a book last week, it has been shipped! there's still a few left so grab yours before they're gone

Some hand sheets I made for the animation team! I looked at how Dana drew hands a lot and coupled it with my own anatomical knowledge of hands. #KnightsOfGuinevere

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Boston Children’s Fights Back For Trans Kids: Judge Quashes Trump Subpoena Around 2,000 BCH employees and untold numbers of patients were targeted by the DOJ. A judge just told them, “No.”

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth.

Many complied and shut down their programs.

Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care.

And now, they just beat Trump in court.

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Idle — The Wealth Race Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!

We need to tax wealth not work.

Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.

Someone made a game to show this:

therichdont.work

This Background Layout is up for paint here: eyecager.gumroad.com/l/pipifanart

It's a fanart based off the animation The Legend of Pipi: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cF...

You can use this for BG Paint portfolios! Just be sure to mark it as The Legend of Pipi fanart and credit the original short!

Useful today: bsky.app/profile/did:...

links to my things! 🫰🫰🫰

painting of my knight OC

commission for heimerdingers VA Mick Wingert

some of my brushes

more fun brushes

it’s my birthday!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎂 i’d appreciate it if you could share my art and brushes today,
ty for supporting me all these years 🫶🫶🫶

BARS

Learning new things is hard. Week 1 of @warriorartcamp.bsky.social Colored Pencil Sketching workshop with Amy Erickson!

Once more for those at the back:
CRESCENT COUNTY IS COMING TO KICKSTARTER!

Please follow our campaign and spread the word✌️
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

Literally all they do is lie

Partial image of german election results showing that urban areas regularly have stronger turnout for left-wing parties, even deep in an AfD dominated east germany.

Similar map showing the upper half of the united states where you can clearly see metropolitan areas are where the vast majority of liberals live. The more dense, the more democratic.

it's playing the long game, but IMO it's crucial for democratic city leaders to make living in cities the cheaper, easier, nicer option.
- High frequency + redundant + accessible transit.
- Dense housing with options for families (3bd units)
- Shelter for all
- Parks + quality public restrooms

refern. | The all-in-one curated image reference platform refern. is an ad-free, Pinterest-like image organizer, reimagined for creatives — save, find, organize, moodboard, study & share curated reference images all in one app.

Gonna leave this recommendation here for everyone tired of pinterest's shenanigans

Maybe it will turn sour eventually like everything else apparently. But can we foster alternatives while they are still on the good path?

It has images like the ones on pinterest +community labeling -ai

You know what really sucks about this? People upload my work onto Pinterest all the time without my permission, so it'll be scraped now whether I like it or not.

My 3 completed 16x20” paintings. Is there stuff I would do differently now? Heck ya bud. Am I still happy with these? You betcha I am!

as a reminder, the bare minimum you can do these days is to not use ai to generate art or writing! consider instead paying an artist or hiring an editor :)

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

FEMALE HEAD, LIGHT REFERENCE TOOL After the success of the first one, I decided to create another version of the lighting tool. So this is the Female simplified head version. Hope it will help you for your works ! feel free to share =...

This is one of my absolute favorite tool for face lighting! You drag the head to the angle you want and then press play or drag the bottom slide til the light is where you want it.

williamnguyen.artstation.com/projects/6a0...

women don’t look like any one thing. my unreachable ideal for the world is that gender stops defining what people have to look like. its exhausting and it just causes trouble

A Photoshop workflow trick for those who still partake;

You can name your layers with ".PNG" or ".jpg" on the end and go to
File>Generate>Image Assets
or
File>Automate>Generator Plugins>Image Assets.

It will create a new folder in the PSD's location with those things and will auto export them

I can't tell you how many beautiful sounds my brain makes when it's blessed by the sun. Vitamin D how I miss you!

Some helpful tools for image posting on this app.

Sunbathing with the squad! 🐈🐈‍⬛

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