R. Blaylock Art

YES

SUCH sass. Great energy.

An AI datacenter devours enough water and electricity for a whole city of people each day.

A human artist only takes up as much electricity and water as any single human.

This is why, even if we settle copyrights and such, AI will always be immoral. Just pay a human.

I think it’s a pride thing. Zeus wants everyone to know that He has a Treat.

A shot from above of a tricolor rat terrier dog holding a treat in the side of his mouth.

When you give Zeus a Busy Bone, he has to walk around the house with it for a while, like a little man smoking a cigar.

All right, I’m hooked.

Opening up some pet portrait slots ahead of the xmas rush!

- 90GBP for a painterly portrait
- 35GBP for one/ 70GBP for 3 sketch style portrait

DM/email to book
s.e.smith.freelance@gmail.com

RPs appreciated <3 🙏

Update:

I burned the first batch and filled the house with eye-watering pickle-cheese cracker smoke.

But then I got it right. Delicious.

Ah, cozy death!

Me when I was planning my meal prep: “How about some nice Dijon chicken with roasted new potatoes and broccoli”
Me today: “I’mma brine this chicken in pickle juice and bread it with crushed Cheezits and make cheesy pickle chicken nuggies”

Thanks! My process was “no thoughts, only blob” 🤣

A sketch of a burly male orc wearing an apron. He has long hair in box braids and hoop earrings. He has a pleasant expression on his broad face.

Just slowly falling in love with this cute orc blacksmith I’m working on for @bettybrownie.bsky.social and their Veridius Chronicles (available at www.patreon.com/c/EliHunt !)

A rough and slightly wobbly digital painting of four glass bottles, each a different shape and color.

Something a little different… I needed to chill out and loosen up my painting, so I just scribbled a study of these colored glass bottles while binging Supernatural with the husband last night.

Reference from a free reference photo Facebook group, used with permission.

“Your weapon, my liege”

This is fucking hilarious

Yulecat

I read #ocsky as #orcsky and honestly that’s a pretty good idea

Anyway hii

Uhh pls comment on artists/writers posts even if to you it doesn’t seem important to you

We really appreciate it and it means the world when someone actually does say they like it

It gives us confidence to continue creating btw

Yeah thanks

The platform is less shopper-friendly to navigate, but a lot of artists I follow have been switching to Ko-Fi.

A rough and slightly wobbly digital painting of four glass bottles, each a different shape and color.

Something a little different… I needed to chill out and loosen up my painting, so I just scribbled a study of these colored glass bottles while binging Supernatural with the husband last night.

Reference from a free reference photo Facebook group, used with permission.

Art brings people together

It’s peak Creaturing, to be sure

It infuriates me to think of trying to imprison the memory of my magnificent grandmother like this.

A sketch of a burly male orc wearing an apron. He has long hair in box braids and hoop earrings. He has a pleasant expression on his broad face.

Just slowly falling in love with this cute orc blacksmith I’m working on for @bettybrownie.bsky.social and their Veridius Chronicles (available at www.patreon.com/c/EliHunt !)

We were all dumb college kids who didn’t know what we’d be doing in 6 months’ time. We didn’t need to own a house. Those landlords gave us the flexibility we needed when careers or life circumstances changed suddenly (like when I moved to Seattle to marry an idiot). But also a home, in the meantime.

They sent us fruit baskets, bottles of wine, and even ~an entire Thanksgiving dinner~ once. They treated us like family, even though housemates were in and out. You’d best bet we took the best care of the place we could, and rent was never a day late.

I had one in college. An older couple. They rented an excellent, fully-furnished house in a safe neighborhood for cheaper than some crummy apartments. They included utilities, because it was “easier.” When we got a flea infestation, they arranged and paid for treatment.

An illustration of a pale axolotl with extra fins, horns, and a long tail, coiling in dark blue-green water, gazing thoughtfully at a small red fish.

Anyway, can’t share what I’m working on now, so here’s some old art: a commission of a pet axolotl as a water dragon.

I used to exclusively do weird/fantasy pet portraits and refuse “normal” ones.

I liked the way alternate timelines were handled in Some Desperate Glory. I don’t always love the trope.

I might say fuck it and go back to being a barista. Nothing matters anyway.