Y'LQAR | DAVID L.B

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Also.

This has been suggested a few times.

I’ve seen some people suggest Apple Music as an alternative but they’ve also given significant support to the Trump administration.

I’ve also heard good things about Qobuz, though. Does anyone have experience with it? Is it a good Spotify replacement?

“It was hidden for a reason” “But what if… I look right at it.” “Maybe letting it out…” “… will set me free.”

Digging through it.

This is so helpful! Thank you so much, Babs!

Don't know if I can add another one, but a french director also said that basically, everyone has ideas, but the difference is who makes them.

Not HOW they make it, just that they make it for real.
So now I try to focus on making, is it good or bad? I'm not the judge of that I'm just doing my silly

And also I got someone telling me I inspire them to keep going. And even though it seems impossible to my eyes, I don't want to let down this person.
Nor the little kid in me who dreamt of the quarter of what I'm doing today.
I do this for my inner kid, and imposter syndrome ain't gonna stop me.

A friend said "There's always a place for you, but if you don't take it, someone worst might."

And honestly, yeh. Maybe I do want to add some good out there even if it's little it's something.

art is so hard but im too stupid to stop

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That's so fucked up... They are the one making it a big deal, we're just fucking living like everyone else. They are the ones giving this attention to it, not us.

A lot of strength man 🫂.

A painting of seagulls

Be a seagull. Be loud. Annoying. Cringe. Go for it. Fight those who are keeping out chips from us.

Seagull painting done with housepaint.

The feel good story of the summer, AI art thief bullied off internet

a little something, mid-progress

Okay, I know I sound like a broken record but IF YOU ARE AN INDIE COMICS CREATOR YOU SHOULD JOIN THE COOP BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN IMMENSE WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND COOP DISCOUNTS AND ADVICE AND EVENTS, ALL OF WHICH IS EXPANDING DAILY

Anyway, that's my TED Talk

Skeleton character with bold inking on the lines and a orange background. It is a very gritty piece and tries to illustrate how the character isn't recognizing himself (in a reflection).

Attack for @maelias-sweet.bsky.social on the Art Fight !

#af25 #artfight #teamfossils

*you have, sorry, typo T.T

An illustration with a green palette portraying someone standing over water, looking at their own reflection. It has only one eye showing up and his smile on his chest. It has no face but appears to have a feline type of face shape. His tail with eyes is staring through the dark.

#artfight attack for @hykxeo.bsky.social ! Had a lot of fun with this lil guy.

It's my 3rd year participating! If you've a profile or want to be attacked, don't hesitate to share. I might not do it all but I would love to discover more characters!

#artfight2025 #teamfossils

ArtFight card for the team "Fossils" showing four characters, Zachary, Peter, Nazar and William.

Join me this year in the ArtFight !

I've made an attack list, but would love to discover more artists and characters!

artfight.net/~Ylqar

Title: Hair Tips (Note: EXTRA mean stuff that aren't in the image) Body: (left to right/ top to bottom) 1 - Sketch mainly focuses on big shapes, then add in small strands. EXTRA: Don't worry too much about perfecting the lines in the sketch layer, because you'll be drawing over them anyway later. Just have the main shape you want. Start with big shapes, then add in smaller shapes/lines. 2 - Simple flat colours 3 - Basic shading: > Bright + Saturation on both top and bottom > Darker in the middle EXTRA: This is mostly a style thing, I don't always follow it myself, so you can mix and match and just do whatever here really, just a basic gradient for now is good. 4 - Basic rendering + blending EXTRA: I use a flat thin regular brush for this part to blend in the gradients and add some separation in strands, but it's okay to be muddled here as well, the magic comes later. 5 - Over the line-art, draw thin strands by colour picking corresponding[ly] to the area you're [drawing] the strand in. EXTRA: spelling mistakes lesgooo. Anyway, for this part, the strands shouldn't be too big (you can use a very generic brush for this really, I just use a flat one sometimes, and sometimes a round brush). The strands you add here give volume and depth to the hair. Add them in accordance with the flow of the hair, but don't be shy to go against the flow sometimes (stray hairs), and the most important part is to outside the hair shape from the sketch by a little bit. 6 - Add in even thinner strands over the line-art and use them for highlights. Side note: I increased the top and bottom saturation using the overlay layer. EXTRA: same as the previous step, just use much thinner strands (sparingly) to add highlights, and for little stray hairs, going against the flow here is usually better to make the hair volume pop out more! Experiment and have fun!

Hair tips! (with Otti!) Just some brief pointers on how I usually do hair

Included in the alt text are some extra comments I couldn't fit into the image, so take a look there!

five years since socialist teeth

An illustration of a coat of arms on a yellow background with a knights helmet perched on top of it. The coat of arms is in the trans flag colors, depicting a white lion with a crown and broken shackles. The ribbons flowing around the coat of arms have text on them saying "Trans Rights are Human Rights".

Artwork by Ara (https://artfight.net/~arakkami) and Valk (https://artfight.net/~valkriia) A white graph background with a 'torn blue paper' design at the top and bottom of the page. At the top of the page, the word 'REMINDER' can be seen in red text. Below that, the sentence 'Please don't make early attacks!' can be seen in black text. To the bottom left-hand side of the image, the text 'it makes wormston realy sad...' can be seen. To the right of this text, a tearful, sad drawing of Wormston (one of Art Fight's mini mascots) can be seen.

🛑 Reminder! - Making attacks before the event officially begins on the 1st of July is prohibited and may result in your account being suspended from the current event or future events!

Grabbing Clip Studio is just a good thing to have, and this price is berserk. It's also 60% off the fancier version which has a bunch of comic stuff in.

Thumbnail images of the 685 comics pages I've colored in the last year, all in Clip Studio Paint.

After working in Photoshop for 29 years & coloring over 20,000 comics pages in PS, I switched to Clip Studio Paint on June 22nd, 2024. Since then, I've colored 685 pages in CSP (attached) & I'm happy to report it's a superior app.

Make the switch. Ditch Adobe.

#comics #colors #ClipStudioPaint

That's true. I was just trying to add more nuances to the position itself and how it can drive them to do wrong. That doesn't mean all take the opportunity but that the opportunity still exists and has to be seen (don't know if that makes a bit more sense 😊).

digital sketch commission of a smirking, snarling, scarred-up fossa pirate character wearing an eyepatch, v-neck shirt, jewels around their neck and biting a sparking golden coin.

Pirates Life 🌊🏴‍☠️

I'm glad you never had to deal with teachers as bullies, very happy for you and I hope you will never have to go through it in your superior studies. I do hope you'll have the empathy to understand someone who lived it though if it's one of your friends. Wishing you the best.