Velvian

First scenery piece I've done in a LOOOOOOOONG time. Feel a bit rusty, and it's not something I'm very experienced in.
I still need to practice this some more, but now I'm ready to draw some more Aardesh and others ;3

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

As a side-note, the story characters have changed names and are no longer Velvian and Kiera, but Valgar and Kyrra.
Velvian will be my personal sona and Valgar the story character.
I am very open to critique & questions, especially as they help me flesh out what I don't know about my own minds world.

I know I don't post stuff very often so I thought I'd compile a bunch of unfinished ideas and concepts I have going and I'm still working on.
These are are all part of a story I have going in my mind and I'm still writing.
In no particular order.

Gigantic aurora Pokemon in a nostalgic nighttime dreamscape of ice and sparkling stars. There are 12 kinds of creatures in this illustration - some obvious, others well hidden. Can you find 'em all?

Only on the darkest arctic nights can you encounter this Primordial Pokémon. It manifests as aurora and ice, gently towering over the pole's frigid denizens...

✨❄️🧊

(There are 12 kinds of Pokémon in this #art! Can you find 'em all? Some are well hidden. Have fun & don't give away answers! 💕)

Digitally illustrated graphic with big, bold, black text in the center reading "trans lives are more important than harry potter". Two cats with alternating colours of the trans flag lay above the top left and bottom right of the text, turning it pink & blue where they cross over.

happy pride month!

You're welcome, for you have been blessed with the full extent of my cheese knowledge, I can teach you nothing more.

Actual tragedy.
Recommend getting a block instead.
Lasts longer, tastes better, melts better and isn't covered in extra preservatives 👌

Stinky 🫵 (in disguise?)

☝️

vesna discord is up join if you like vesna or news about vesna and the vesna game etc discord.com/invite/8g7sj...

"Intellectuals"
Triple pet portrait 🦜🦜🦜

DND team
Drew this a year ago

A pair of scribbly vagabonds.
Spent far longer on this than I intended, but it was fun and great practice!

Hello! I am Oliver, I'm a brazilian artist who draws mostly furry art.
#PortfolioDay

Thread of my Loyal Hound Vesna comic:

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

Yeps *cronch monch*

A pair of scribbly vagabonds.
Spent far longer on this than I intended, but it was fun and great practice!

Another character of mine, her name's Aniya.

Reunion hug scribble
Drawing the cheek and face fluff was fun

A sequence of sketches of Jacky being dogged by anxious thoughts (depicted as squiggly lines that get worse).

chasing anxious thoughts

Yop! Pretty much banished to the waiting realm 😑

Oh saaame, I'm on the verge of losing interest in my current game and it sucks when I feel it's just around the corner :[

The Shark Nebula: A cosmic predator made of interstellar gas & dust, harmlessly floating 650 light-years away in Cepheus. Massive stars sculpted this 15 light-year structure with their energy. See smaller dust nebulae too. Credit: Timothy Martin

The Shark Nebula: A cosmic predator made of interstellar gas & dust, harmlessly floating 650 light-years away in Cepheus. Massive stars sculpted this 15 light-year structure with their energy. See smaller dust nebulae too.

Credit: Timothy Martin

For anyone missing context: Adobe opened a BSky account, got mass reported by anti-AI labeling folks, closed the account shortly thereafter.

A fantasy character with a flowing cape jumps atop a large stone shield held by a 4 armed character. The jumping character stabs through the shield with a glowing spear.

Brittle Facades

Lunar snek