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this is of course a Lady from my award-winning fantasy novel The West Passage, the perfect holiday gift for anyone who likes weird fiction, honey, monsters,
cannibalism, gender, medieval marginalia, and little guys

Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

A fullbody painting of an albino pinkish bamboo shark. The background is blue, green, and purple flowy streaks. The corners have golden filigree.

My friend has been hatching out some of the eggs his sharks have been laying, and as a shock many of them are albino! They're ridiculously cute, so I painted one of them for him.

Print available here: www.etsy.com/listing/4394...

Close up of a mixed media artwork featuring three hand sculpted and painted octopuses, depicting the species Caribbean Reef Octopus.

🥰 Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨

#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

1000000000000000000x cooler to do this & pay an artist to do what they’re trained to do than to fire up the art theft tech to generate crap.

A golden Asian dragon posed fiercely. She has sparse purple scales tipped in gold, and red ribbon-like eyelashes swirling the length of her body.

Sahn, the wind goddess

She knows all your spoken secrets, and when on the wind her loose scales sound like wind chimes.

Prints available: www.etsy.com/listing/4419...

who is this actually FOR who the hell wants to discuss a book with their *ebook management software*. i also don't wanna discuss my tea with my cup or my clothes with my closet.

Juvenile aardwolf--a puppy-like predator of termite mounds. He's grayish with a black muzzle, big dark eyes, and oversized ears. This aardwolf in particular has a black V-shaped marking between his eyes that makes him look like someone painted in an 'angry' eyebrow furrow.

Ed the aardwolf.

[Via Nashville Zoo]

Unfinished rough digital landscape painting.

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A hand sculpted octopus painted in an iridescent nebula theme, in a black, blue, green and purple color palette. Each of the octopus's arms has two neatly sculpted rows of suckers. It's sitting in a shell and holding several crystals, one of which is star shaped.

🌌 The fabulous Meridel ✨
🐙 Clay & Paint

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates #InsertAnInvert 🦑🐡

10-month-old Ume is now 456 pounds and still enjoys the occasional nursing session! Mom Yuna is as patient as ever, letting her growing calf get in a little extra comfort time behind the scenes. 💗

📹: Keeper Katie

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Forgot to x-post for a couple weeks but #TheMagnusArchivesReadalong is nearly up to the finale of season two!
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Having one of those very cynical mornings when I think that our
democracies are in full failure mode because we can't rely on the bulk of people voting for evidence-based policies--it's all about feelings, and right now people are scared and resentful. It's a very toxic cocktail.

when that show comes out i better not hear a fucking word about it. no memes. no edits. "it was so important to my childhood--" okay well human rights are important to my adulthood??

a red colored antelope with thin white stripes and short horns grazes behind a bare bush of twigs.

a red colored antelope with thin white stripes and short horns glances towards the camera from behind a group of bare trees.

It's thought that the mountain bongo's white stripes help it blend into its forest habitat. Here you can see the way the stripes mimic twigs and branches! 🌍🧪

A mixed media portrait resembling an old medallion with gold ochre vines wrapped around a circular frame. In the frame there's a young Asian woman wearing a dark armour, holding a sword and looking behind her shoulder. Commission for A. J. Anderson.

A Mystery Artwork commission for @ajandersonauthor.com of their character, Chora ✨

The base was sketched in pencil and I added the colour digitally. I'm having a lot of fun with these experimental comms!

[ #art #commissions ]

This has also been my experience in the classroom. People don't ask for accommodations they don't need. Sure, you can define "need" more strictly to create a group of people that does not meet your definition, but generally people who do not feel a requirement themselves will not ask.

Digital illustration of a male California Quail. This image is a portrait to focus on the colorful patterns on the quails head, in black and white and yellow and blue-gray, and the little curlicue feather plume that protrudes from his forehead. The background is a mix of simple vegetation patterns.

California Quail from a previous Waymakers year. So round!

#ArtAdventCalendar #BirdArt #SciArt

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

your job isn't to outsmart the reader, it's to reward them for paying attention

drawing frogs on a tree branch drinking mate. tropical vegetation in the background, plus a moon & stars

new frogs

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Digital illustrations of the prehistoric jawless fish Anglaspis, Doryaspis and Drepanaspis.

No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)

I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.

A digital painting of a large tree in fall. A figure walks through a creek in the foreground, surrounded by fallen leaves.

Autumn’s Waning 🍂

a goddess spreads a veil of morning light across the night sky, bringing the dawn.

Dawn - watercolor and acryla gouache on paper

If you want to give into your capitalistic urges, prints are
✨on sale✨ on INPRNT as part of their black friday thingy

Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild

deer
badger
hedgehog
weasel
dormouse

The cutest raw chicken!!!

I have something more elaborate underway too, but it requires a quantity of ridiculously specific paper and uhhhh given the research I did on how to acquire it, this is a matter for December's paycheck lmao

(Probably more tools too, much later.)

I'll mostly noodle around making A6 notebooks for now. Got some requests for custom christmas presents, which should be fun. And a pack of tomoe river paper just for me 👀