mu's rambles

hi everyone! i’m going through some financial hurdles so it’d really help me if you shared this post promoting my brushes, maybe consider gifting them? it is the season 🫶

you can find them here:

🫶 www.patreon.com/MerlinGG
✨ ko-fi.com/everydaymerlin
✨ merlin2g.gumroad.com

LOOKING FOR WORK!! i’m merlin and i’ve worked in animation, games and comics as a visual developer and illustrator 🫶🎨 past clients: netflix, d&d, magic the gathering, volta

🎨 www.artstation.com/merlin-gg

📧 merlin.artworks@gmail.com

strawberry dress miku sketch

i recently started collecting miku figures 🩵🩵🩵🎨

A drawing of a calico cat laying on green grass.

Hi, I’m Michi.👋
This is my recent artwork.
I do commissions for digital pet portraits. If you are interested or want to see my other works, here is the link.
ko-fi.com/michi33984

just posting a little compilation of these guys because i fixed some small things on them #oc

was going thru my gallery and found an old gortash doodle i did on PS loong ago 🚶i don't think i ever posted it here

A small watercolor portrait of a grey and white kitty named Max with bright green eyes.

This is Max, for someone who lost their little buddy. He’s watercolor on 9x12 paper. I’ve a Patreon: patreon.com/RichardCox

photo of an ipad, there’s a sketch featuring a blue knight and it’s mii version

using mii to tweak my OC 🎨✍️💙

a lil more progress before bed 🎨

yeah unfortunately a lot of the algorithms used for upscaling are not what they used to be, a majority of those services now rely on generative shit to "aid" it :(

why are so many studios forcing the implementation of ai in their shit now 💀 ton of them already atp and now respawn and ea just openly announced it too, either use it or get axed and good luck finding a job in this climate like this shit is fucking grim.

okay lmao hi i finally finished it!🐈 #oc can't catch a break i keep falling ill and work's taking all my time but at least i finished this 🖤

here's the ⌚lapse 🐈

Sketches of OC Diane and OC Cassandra standing around facing left. Diane has her arms on her hips, she is wearing waist high slacks and a sleeveless turtleneck. Cassandra has her arms crossed, in her super suit, face revealed

Who knew drawing my OCs would make me want to draw them more and actively make me want to work on my boards? Crazy concept.

they have another campaign

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okay i finally finished cat gang 🐈 more #oc stuff, i hope i can finish the last batch of this little abandoned project i have planned this sunday 🫠

A drawing of a cat. The cat's eye color is yellow, and the fur is white and gray with a few black stripes on its head and arms.

Finished! 🐈

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[ #art #digitalart #cat ]

A drawing of a black cat with green eyes. The background is done in ivory.

Sorry, this one took me too long to finish!

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[ #cat #blackcat #art ]

A drawing of a calico cat. It's sitting with its back facing at the viewers, looking at viewers over its shoulder.

Experimented with a different brush this time.

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[ #cat #art #drawing #petportraitartist

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❤️ im gonna need two of thoooose

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

bit late but peaking my head out for #PortfolioDay!! hi im ly, a polish artist who's currently deep in the oc x canon trenches. i love doing queer relationship art!! currently open for bw illustration commissions, nsfw included <3

smoke coming out of my ears

bro real and i just don't fucking get it it's like some people are fucking addicted to destroying every relationship and friendship they have lmfao and then throw a surprised pikachu face when said friends are fucking sick of it

it's almost like both friendships and relationships take effort, shocker....lmfao, it feels specially worse when it's like the third or forth time it happens with the same person 😙

like idk my guy it's pretty fucked up to only be a back-up in someone's life you feel me and then be surprised your ex-friends feel hurt about it, wild concept aparently. it's almost like you should still be available to your friends to keep said friendships lmfaooo

losing close friendships to fuckass romantic relationships is one of the worst feelings on the planet and i'll stand on that lmfao when bro dips off the face of the earth for whatever weird dynamics are going on only to come back after a break up like bro didn't just ignore us for a whole year

drawings of Lady Dimitrescu with blood dripping from her chin to her generous bosom ✏

some old drawings of Lady D 😌
#re8 #ladydimistrescu

Actually, wait - how long do GPUs last, exactly? Four years for training? Three years? The A100 GPU started shipping in May 2020, and the H100 (and the Hopper GPU generation) entered full production in September 2022, meaning that we’re hurtling at speed toward the time in which we’re going to start seeing a remarkable amount of chips start wearing down, which should be a concern for companies like Microsoft, who bought 150,000 Hopper GPUs in 2023 and 485,000 of them in 2024. Alright, let me just be blunt: the entire economy of debt around GPUs is insane. Assuming these things don’t die within five years (their warranties generally end in three), their value absolutely will, as NVIDIA has committed to releasing a new AI chip every single year, likely with significant increases to power and power efficiency. At the end of the five year period, the Special Purpose Vehicle will be the proud owner of five-year-old chips that nobody is going to want to rent at the price that Elon Musk has been paying for the last five years. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the rental prices for H100 GPUs that went from $8-an-hour in 2023 to $2-an-hour in 2024, or the Silicon Data Indexes (aggregated realtime indexes of hourly prices) that show H100 rentals at around $2.14-an-hour and A100 rentals at a dollar-an-hour, with Vast.AI offering them at as little as $0.67 an hour. This is, by the way, a problem that faces literally every data center being built in the world, and I feel insane talking about it. It feels like nobody is talking about how impossible and ridiculous all of this is - it’s one thing that OpenAI has promised one trillion dollars to people - it’s another that large swaths of that will be spent on hardware that will, by the end of these agreements, be half-obsolete and generating less revenue than ever. Think about it - let’s assume we live in a fantasy land where OpenAI is somehow able to pay Oracle $300 billion over 5 years. Said money is paying for access to Blackwell…

Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years.

All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
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