Sage Spaulding

Incredibly shit news about and from the creator of the "Chikn Nuggit" cartoon shorts; they're quitting the series, and Buzzfeed, due to forced AI integration.

They're on Bluesky as @kyrakupetsky.bsky.social. Please follow them to stay up-to-date on their new projects.

I had a chance to listen to this finally, and:
1. The episode is super well edited.
2. Joel and Avalon are fantastic hosts.
3. It's probably the best podcast intro to Arium. Ever.

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good morning!! i'm starting my moving out sale today officially - i'm opening $45 full-body character pieces to begin. if interested, please dm! payment through paypal/and or ko-fi!!

A badass artpiece of Nonshedo from Ghost Junk Sickness next to commission informational text which reads: Yoko's Comm Sheet Avatar: 20USD, buy 4, get 1 free (great for item icons or ttrpg party portraits) Sketch: 30USD, add a character + 20USD Portrait: 50USD, add a character + 30USD Illustration: 200USD, add a character + 80USD, add background + 100USD Contact: YWeaverDesign@gmail.com (or via DMs) Discounts for: Repeat Clients, TTRPGs, and if you give me visual reference of the exact pose you want. The whole image is very cool with sick purple, green, and pink vibes

Some further examples of commission types, in this case, Avatars and Sketches. We see an avatar of a cute girl, and places below her is a backgroundless floating blood orange with lil drips to make it both juicy and foreboding. On the sketches side are two sketches, one a bust of a guy lit by rimlight and the other is a fullbody depiction of a woman in a fancy dress with long curly locks and horns. Instead of lighting, this woman has a multicolor fill on her dress and transparent veils, providing contrast and shape to the overall composition of the piece.

More examples! What won't I draw!? First up is a long-eared disgruntled looking man, next to him is Yami from the comic Black Sunshine, who is wielding a knife. The picture to the right of Yami is a bust of a character named Cyrus, artfully cut off at the shoulders by ice and snow set atop a base for a figure, suggesting the illusion that he is a resin figure of some kind, but how preposterous! This is a drawing! What do you mean I can give this artist money and they'll draw my character as if they were a figure!? The next two pictures are a black and white picture of a four-armed cat girl (sorry, I don't remember her name!) and a random pic of a very pretty woman that I doodled one day. It's been like 20 years but I still really like this pic of her.

EVEN MORE EXAMPLES!? When will they end!? Now. They end after this because you can't upload more than four images on Bluesky. Sorry if I got your hopes up. First image is an artfight piece of the characters Catis and Nightshadow, owned by Rae who creates the comics Overlord of Ravenfell and On Empyrian High! Under that is a character sheet of an old DnD character of mine, her look is inspired by unicorns and bunnies. Next to that pic is another artfight piece of Eliana from the webcomic Princeling! And last but not least is a piece entitled Asphodel, depicting a skeleton girl wearing some kind of horned animal skull, dripping golden light from it's eye, that is also glowing from within her ribcage. It was created for the Death and Decay art zine!

After three years, commissions are OPEN!

Even if you can't afford to buy a comm, it really helps if you repost and let others in your social circles know. I also plan on twitch streaming again, so if you buy a comm, you can probably catch me stream/recording it! (unless asked not to, of course)

Said crab restaurant, it's shaped like a crab. With big ass pincers

What if we kissed in the abandoned crab restaurant in Dagupan city

If I sell you my story, bare minimum I expect to have an editor who reads my work, a marketing/design person who does more than an instagram post with my name misspelled, and a quarterly sales report.

A comic page with 4 panels: The first panel depicts a woman, Celdervinn, leaning against a pillar, her arms crossed looking sleepy, over-viewing a square where people are clashing and practicing their sword-play. In the distance far off, between the gate towers, stand two silhouettes entering the square. The second panel shows Mihoko carrying a bag of belongings while being guided through the gates by a knight. The third panel shows Miho and the knight making their way through the square, passing by squires practicing. The fourth panel shows Miho passing by Cel, paying her no mind. Cel, on the other hand is eyeing her suspiciously. There's a narrating bubble which reads "From the moment we met.".

Welcome to the Academy of Mélusine - the most prestigious Knight Academy in the Kingdom.

This little 4 page teaser took me a month to make (🫣), I hope you enjoy it! I'm aiming to publish my comic some time this summer.
Stay tuned for the next pages, I'll post them the following days!

#KnightsAU

If I could have a "how I met my partner" story half as good as, "Got shot in the stomach and had to be babied."

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

So often during session I will pass a check that I had very much wanted to fail because the flop would have been funnier overall.

OOOOH I totally misread. That’s a big my bad OTL

That is both weird and concerning behavior on their part if not incredibly obnoxious. Like. Please log off and go outside rather than be annoying to people you don’t even follow.

I left Twitter bc it wasn’t really doing much for me, but it’s still the one platform that people get the most engagement/connections/business from. It’s tiring that everyone who has a Twitter just gets lumped into together.

comic fury has been an amazing, indie run comic host that has lasted for 17 years for a reason. comics will help comics. at the end of the day, we have each other.

4 halfbody drawings of the main cast of "umamusume: beginning of a new era". from left to right: Dantsu Flame, Jungle Pocket, Agnes Tachyon and Manhattan Cafe. Background is white with pink, green, blue and yellow squares behind the characters.

Im going to go see the movie!! (again lol)
I'm so excited to see this incredible movie on the big screen for real, so I just had to draw something for the occasion! Its simple but I still think its cute! 🐴💚

(Agnes Tachyon best girl btw😘😎)

#art #fanart #ウマ娘 #umamusume

bittersweetcandyshow - Twitch BCB PATREON DRAWSTREAM!!

We are LIVE!! Come chat with me while I draw a bunch of cats!!! www.twitch.tv/bittersweetc...

It’s a good time to do the brainstorming!

Pepper, a purple haired tiefling bard with blue-green eyes and short dark hair, looking cute and in plush form.

Pepper plush pepper plush pepper plush

She is illegally adorable ;-;

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

Ooooh it looks so nice here. You also reminded me that we have to clean our stove this weekend too.

Helpful words (from the dad of Sam Reich host of Dropout and Game changer)

This is the answer I feel. We can see the charm working on Phaedra.

This is alongside working on inks and getting pages prepped for colors better. Launch date is probably June-ish at this point?

My plans for March:
- Set up the website for Red Ledger
- Actually make some better color palettes for Red Ledger

I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

I HATE MY BRAIN I DREW THIS HALF A YEAR AGO

YESSS!! Thank you! It was one of the few layout changes for a page I made compared to the thumbnails that was entirely worth it in the long run.

Hey artists! QRP with your sketch vs final!

I kinda prefer the scared Billy drawing in the original thumbnail sketch vs the final, but I just love him looking goofier lol

oooooooh I love getting to see how it changed between versions.