Discovery of the Soft TACO

deadline is extended to april 26

Is ‘The Nerd Reich’ Taking Over the Government? | KQED We talk to Gil Duran about what these tech elites – a group he calls “The Nerd Reich” – are reading, thinking and saying.

want to subscribe to some truly SCARY stuff on the current world? After listening to KQED's interview with reporter Gil Duran on the 'Nerd Reich' this should scare the bejeezus out of you.
www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Never thought I 'd be drawing the COVID virus again, as it has mutated into the Liberation Day virus! How is your 401K doing?

Deadline extended to April 26! Refundable deposit. Join me for drawing and painting in Taormina. chuck

Taormina does not look like these, but painting and drawing will capture the beauty of the place. Join me in October!

yeah, if he waits a few cycles we starve and die. even quieter

PAC model session with JJ. shorties. vine charcoal on paper.

Travel simply calls for sketchpad and pen/pencil, even if just to get through getting there.Going to Taormina in October with pad and canvasses. Join me?

Teaching a workshop in Taormina this October. Sketching, painting, touring Taormina's many historic sites. Join me!

the step daughter turned 39 while working for....

I am teaching a week long workshop in Taormina come October. If you are interested, here is a screen grab:

Hmmm, a study of Leigh Kidwell. The event was put together by Leigh to celebrate the imminent departure of Keith Wicks, who is headed to France. As I was finishing an illustration job in Acrylagouache, I though I would do this in the same medium just to LOOSEN UP a bit.

if the model is on break, draw the artists...

because Tina isn't on Bluesky, I can post the Valentine's Card...

On the back of an old pad; Baron vonFeist in character back in the day. Well, he CLAIMED to be a Baron down at heel...

In a show at Medicine Man Gallery in Tuscon.

Rando figure drawings. Nothing better for the eye than time drawing from the model

This is Japan’s first AI-generated manga comic. But is it art? | CNN For his new sci-fi manga comic “Cyberpunk: Peach John” anonymous Japanese author Rootport used visuals produced entirely by an AI image generating tool.

Manga is a sweatshop industry for many, and now they can compete with this: www.cnn.com/style/articl...

an old cartoon dealing with another downward trend in illustration...

a couple sketches from teaching days in Clothed Figure Drawing

and a golden age for social commentary art!

STOOPID

Just shut my mouth and call me stopped....

Revelations in new biography! AI originated in France...

they are all screaming, "No, not ANOTHER Brodner...." ;)

DALL E3 epic fail cover sent to me by a friend who thought I had ( hand painted) it. AD should be ashamed on so many levels., not least for putting a bowtie on a sweater. Count up the goofs! Their subscription to AI should be suspended...and hire a real illustrator.

300 characters! Here we go: My AI protest/satire cover. AI generated in under ten minutes. At least the fingers work well. Needed to do this once so I can say I have tried it. Typist as artist. Monkeys typing Shakespeare. They know not what they do...Sigh...

Fall is always the time for our rodent friends show up in force

Sarah McBride Wasn’t Looking for a Fight on Trans Rights The first trans person elected to Congress discusses how to respond to a bathroom bill and transphobic attacks from her new colleagues in the House.

just listened to this moving interview: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...