🍁Gale🪶

“I asked chat GPT”

It’s a custom design from the artist themselves, which is still under production.

Just booked my first tattoo appointment! I’m so incredibly nervous but also very excited!

I don't have a hot comics take.

Uplift your peers, celebrate your friends.

that's it.

Screenshot of text I’ve written that reads: I really want to rant about the way the world is going and how the creative industries are being destroyed and how those two things are so closely tied together and I want to complain about how hard it is to just exist and create right now and how it feels like you always need to be 'on' and the pressure to always be making content and be visible that's pushed on us by this capitalist fast tech-driven world we're in right now and how it's stifling creativity in the worst way and how it feels like you need to choose between being visible and actually making good art and experimenting and being a human being but I am exhausted and all my energy has been drained

To All Artists:

Repost that art. Milk that piece more, it took a lot to draw. Post close up shots, color edits, speedpaintings, the background lore. Be annoying about it.

It took too much effort!

Don’t support big company. Big company don’t like you. Support small artist. Or just save your money.

An illustration of a cute, chubby pigeon sitting like a load on top of two stacked pumpkins, with another tiny pumpkin on its head. The color palette is very autumnal and warm. Above the pigeon it reads “pure whimsy.”

Pure whimsy 🧡

[ #cuteart #illustration ]

same for artists. no artist is burnt out because their workload would be less with AI or their project managing software could be assisted by AI.

we’re burnt out because our work is not respected enough. what we do is seen as disposable and replaceable, rather than valuable.

Illustrated comic by Yeppenny Doodles of a cute bunny reluctant to rest, and a cat tucking the bunny into a blanket and reminding them that rest isn’t a reward but rather it is part of their progress.

You deserve rest 💙 #art #comics

Trying my best to get back on the horse so here is a snapshot of what I’m up to these days, feat. two of my backyard birds that appear every evening for their mealworms.

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.

That’s how I feel about larger quantities like cheese and bread. I don’t want to eat a sandwhich every day but those items risk going bad if not eaten soon enough. We need half loaves or smaller proportions for things.

That’s incredibly stressful, I really hope she shows up and is completely healthy. As for your parents, their behavior is fucked up and I’m so sorry.

ARTIST PROPAGANDA I'M NOT FALLING FOR: X Pulling all-nighters to make art proves you’re dedicated to your craft X True artists draw every single day X Only make friends with fellow artists cuz they’ll get you gigs someday X Freelancing is for artists who can't get a "real" studio job X Drawing fanart is cringe X Your portfolio should only have what studios want to see

Artist propaganda I’m not falling for (and you shouldn’t either):

No one can convince me that a yard of cactus and desert plants is superior than a lawn of wildflowers and greenery to boost the local pollinators. I love being outside, so long as I can actually breathe and not burn after 3 mins.

Every year I hate being in Cali more.

The desert is bullshit. I just want rain, green, and things to actually grow.

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

a cat is laying on its back on a blanket with its paws in the shape of a heart . Alt: a cat is laying on its back on a blanket with its paws in the shape of a heart .

This place is full of so many incredible artists, writers, crafters, musicians, animators, creators making cool meaningful projects that change lives.
You’re all so skilled, and you all deserve a better, kinder world than this one.

Still, I’m proud of you for creating in spite of that 🙏 🫶

I know that people people like to talk about the nonbinary shapeshifter trope and 1) please point me in the direction of every nonbinary shapeshifter you know, I need them for…my files……. and 2) do you know how hard it is to make a shapeshifter cis

There is someone out there who wants your weird little book. Even if you doubt yourself sometimes, don't doubt their earnest enthusiasm.

I said this to my friend last night and I think it's a good thing to think about:

If no one else, make art for your younger self. Make art of your ocs that your younger self would have dreamed to be able to draw. Make art that would make them keyboard smash an excited reply to. Make art for you.

Commissions are open, link in bio if interested!

Recently completed commission for @tinkspins of their very creative character Anastasios. Had loaaaads of fun with this one!

SOON!! They’ve started leaving lil hints on their Insta!!

OMAM IS BACK!
I’m going to be very annoying about this cus my fav band hasn’t dropped anything new in 8 years and I’m STARVING.

’ve fallen deep into the rabbit hole of birding/backyard bird feeding so these days all I’ve got are a lot of bird studies. Starting with a yellow-rumped warbler, one of the first to make an appearance in my yard.