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“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

Thanks Dominique!

Thanks Eva!

Aw shucks thanks Claire!

Thanks Jim! He may need to join my booth next time as my mascot.

My first sketch of our baby boy.
As a model he wasn’t the most cooperative but he’s certainly the cutest.

In November we welcomed our son Tomas into the world. It was a little early and a lot scary. But thankfully mother and son are happy and healthy and we are so grateful for our beautiful new family.

I’ve curated another starter pack, this time to make it easier to find artists working in the illustration and comics fields! (If you qualify to be on this list but are not on it let me know, I will fill it up until it hits the 150 limit!)

go.bsky.app/JU83vmM

The funniest movies of the year! #movies #film #funny TikTok video by Kit Lazer

CODE 3 is one of the funniest movies of the year according to @moviesaretherapy.bsky.social:

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8y5oT84/

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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We can't afford these people

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

Old Boy Todd

talkin' about the AI bubble

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Four Hour Design Sprint To start this post, let me explain the very complicated and exciting position I have worked my way into over the past 5-6 years.

I recently challenged my Vis-Dev students to a 4-hour Design Sprint, and did a little write up about it on my Substack! betsybauer.substack.com/p/four-hour-...

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

Oreoboros

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

No. That’s enough of Bob’s shit now, this man needs to go.

Is it possible to double cancel Disney+?

An exchange on twitter. controlla.xyz: If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans lesliejandersonwriter: If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!

I love this.

Started this lighting study last night to practice using @maxulichney.bsky.social ‘s oil brushes and I may end up rendering this one out more.

photo of vince gilligan with a quote from variety: "AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit." - Vince Gilligan on why he hates AI

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Fantastic work Joaquín!

A black feral wolf stares at the splashing waves of a rocky seashore while holding a dagger in his maw. He is limping, bloodied, tucking his tail between his legs, yet he holds determination in his amber eyes, and also holds tightly to the obsidian-bladed weapon. A pack of wolves watches from under dead trees. Behind the mountains, a giant dome looms, glowing a dark red next to the star-studded sky.

“Voice of the Canids”
#NossSaga #Illustration

I've said this about writing and art -- the goal was not to replace writers and artists with AI, the result was either:

a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less

b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out

Here we go! See you guys at Lightbox soon!

I have so many recs

All the @maxulichney.bsky.social sets are probably the best of the best if you want to replicate traditional materials and techniques