Niekstradamus

Devious creature

Working on maps and stuff!

An illustration featuring Zevran Arainai and Warden Ulric Cousland from Dragon Age Origins sort of squished in -- what appears to be a second level of backalley?? SORT OF? Because this is how Zevran tells this story anyway. The whole scene is set into Antiva - so the architecture is stylized to look like Venice with the red and teal tones, white ledges and cracked walls. Ulric - the warrior with a massive scar on his face, is standing on some sort of convenient portal in the alley, leaning against the wall, while Zevran, the blond elven rogue dressed in a cape slid (or climbed? one never knows with Zev) down the alley and his holding himself up in between the two walls, dagger stabbed on one side above Ulric's head for leverage. Their faces are *very* close to each other, about to kiss, Ulric caressing Zev's chin playfully. The sun is lighting up Zev's hair. The alley is partly overgrown by ivy. In the foreground there are little ropes with little flags.

"You could have waited inside, my dear Warden."
"And where's the fun in that, huh? I thought I'd meet you halfway, save some time."
"Oh, a perfect moment to waste that time now, then."

Help. I'm so deep.
#dragonage

📌 Hey, I'm Loren! I'm a concept artist and illustrator from Spain, and here's some of my #art!

🔗solelleart.carrd.co

The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.

So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌

This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

this image of the FBI at the orders of the state to arrest an elected politician for just asking the DHS secretary a question needs to be spread for the next 4 years when talking about the fascism of this administration

comment l'administration fasciste de Trump traite un sénateur d'opposition lors d'une conférence de presse

Online privacy: a thread for sex workers. I've known a lot of ladies who outed themselves accidentally (myself included) so here is a comprehensive list of privacy tips & tools. (Repost of the original from twatter, with updated bits)

Rule #1: Always use a VPN.... 🧵

Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs

I cannot stress enough: if you post AI, or have an AI avatar &/or banner, DO NOT FOLLOW me.

Not only will I never follow you, I will BLOCK you. & I go thru my followers every month or so & block all you sneaky people who change to AI or begin posting that slop.

Please, save us both the time/energy

I love minecraft. Going for Star Wars inspired sci-fi thus time around (inspiration for this one is a Jabba's Palace build by a dude on reddit I believe)

I feel so fucking bad for all the actual scientists that are being looped into this against their will #political

The Fellowship of the Ring in (a fantasy version of) Bronze Age getups.

Here it is, the Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring.

You can get a print of this here - www.inprnt.com/gallery/gora...

and you can support my little creative excursions here - patreon.com/gorangligovic

I am so not fully happy with part of this paintjob

Dual sword wielding bunny
#sketchbook

I just wish this could be a moment for some class consciousness...
the switch 2 and its games' prices are, adjusting for inflation, totally fine and more than worth it.
Nobody seems to be examining whether their own wages have been adjusted for inflation to match. That's the problem here. argh

Learning oil pastels

Rediscovering Oil Pastels, because yes!

A four panel meme from "The White Lotus," S3, Ep,6, Panel 1: Saxton: Why can't you just like my geneative A*I art? Panel 2: Chelsea: You have to be vulnerable enough to be bad at something to be good at it, but you're too much of a coward. Panel 3: Chelsea: Because you're soulless. Panel 4: Saxton disassociating

Intro to digital painting - Ghibli-style landscapes In this 36 page PDF you'll be guided through the process of painting digitally. This tutorial takes you from opening photoshop for the first time to creating a finished illustration. Tools and techniq...

If anyone wants to actually learn how to paint a ghibli picture, I have a tutorial for beginners that’s only £1 🩵

tobyfoxart.gumroad.com/l/intro-to-d...

YouTube video by Warhammer Daughters of Khaine: The Shadow Queen

We need to get back to these type of #ageofsigmarreveals #warhammerageofsigmar

youtu.be/PlQqri1FuRQ?...

Plain clothes feds, who won't reveal their names, in an unmarked car deputized by the President & Columbia to kidnap and disappear a Palestinian student

let them never appear in public again without people spitting at their feet in disdain

Divine looking snack

Another Columbia student taken by ICE.

Shame shame shame

not to be too Bush-era anarchist about it but the idea that government officials should worry about what their constituents think and always maybe have it in the backs of their minds that things could go very, very badly if folks get too mad is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing

My accounts eventually overlap without me having any semblance of a clue