Juliana Salcedo

One of my unfinished sketches with color palette. Text: ai art is lazy, uninspired, and it all looks the same. Just fyi if you use the human plagiarism machine I don’t respect you as a creator.

Seeing a big influx on Insta of “children’s book illustrators” following me. Their profiles of full of clearly AI-generated, generic, smiling, dead-eyed children.

Imagine a newsletter subscription that includes also a yearly book. Something you could lick (not sure it'll taste good though, but you could!). A nicely printed object, fully made in Japan.
From today, ALL MundoMendo members get the books (a 30 euro value) for free.

www.mundomendo.com

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

A middle-aged woman sits at a desk and takes notes. Her headphones are connected to a radio receiver.

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Rough ink sketch of a woman sipping some soup.

Also: soup

I am not trusting Discord with my ID and netiher should you.

Flat illustration of a Great-tailed Grackle with beak to an apple with a bite taken out of it titled "Grackle of my eye".

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Illustration in dark blue, orange, black and white. The illustration is of three trees, a horse grazing, a bird, a dog and a person riding on another horse. Each of the trees has hand drawn lettering on the foliage. This reads: "Far Sea LNY market, 8th Feb, Brighton Open Market. DIY Art Market, 14th Feb, Unit 8 Peckham. LNY screen printing 21st Feb, Mimo Brighton."

Some things we're doing this month:
8th Far Sea Lunar New Year market at Brighton Open Market
14th DIY Art Market at Unit 8, Peckham
21st LNY screen printing event at Mimo, Brighton

Adobe stock down 38.23%

Is it bad if your stock is down almost 40% over a year despite quadrupling down on AI during a stock market bubble?

All about KidLitArtPostcard — Gina Perry Illustrations

Tomorrow is #KidLitArtPostcard day. I'm so excited to see everyone's beautiful illustrations on Bluesky. Get ready #kidlit , more info here: www.ginaperry.com/postcard

If you are a person who cares about books, you’re different from Jeff Bezos. Now would be a good day to stop shopping from Amazon, permanently.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Here, there, and everywhere.

No le debemos nada a la patronal, no le debemos nada a la clase política.

Se nos está robando y se nos está precarizando con ello. Y pretenden hacernos creer que es normal e inevitable.

Nos quejaremos, protestaremos y lucharemos hasta que entiendan que no no vamos a aceptar esto.

All about KidLitArtPostcard — Gina Perry Illustrations

Attention all #kidlit friends: This Thursday, February 5th, is #KidLitArtPostcard day! Get your art ready and I'll see you on the timeline! www.ginaperry.com/postcard

Another Procreate Dreams experiment:

Artistas y gente de España que valoréis el arte: ❗ El Gobierno quiere normalizar usos de la IAG en la cultura.

El RD está abierto a aportaciones hasta mañana 2 de febrero. Por favor, participad. @arteesetica.bsky.social ha preparado un extenso artículo sobre el tema. Abajo os dejo enlace y más 👇

Mundo Mendo, Book One - We Made This A review of Luis Mendo’s publication Mundo Mendo, Book One – a collection of illustrated stories from the Spanish designer and illustrator.

Mundo Mendo Book One by @luismendo.com is an utter delight (and the spine is particularly so).

Read all about it at wemadethis.co.uk/blog/2026/01...

El Estatuto del Artista es la nueva avanzada del gobierno de España para normalizar el uso de IA generativa – Arte es Ética

ÚLTIMA HORA | A ver si @eldiario.es tiene ganas de contar la otra campana de esta historia @eldiariocultura.bsky.social

Si quieren conocer la opinión de muchos artistas, de diferentes rubros, sobre la IA generativa, acá les dejamos un resumen:

arteesetica.org/el-estatuto-...

Concept art by Hayao Miyazaki for Future Boy Conan (1978), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Nippon Animation

Ink bottle, brown fountain pen, text "As times become increasingly fraught, I find myself retreating to the smaller and increasingly analouge [sic] elements of my life."

Lately the only part of Bluesky to bring me any joy has been the fountain pens feed. Consider this an expression of my gratitude.

50 Swedish snow variants.

watchingtheswedes.com/2018/02/28/5...

Illustrator Contact Form Hello! My name is Brian LaRossa, I’m executive art director in Scholastic’s hardcover picture book group, where I’ve worked for more than 20 years. I oversee our Branches and Acorn imprints which are ...

If you're an illustrator and you've ever cold emailed me and I haven't replied please know that I do wish I had bandwidth to reply to every cold email that I receive for whatever that's worth.

Don't forget I also have an illustrator contact form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Erica X Eisen on the overlapping forces at play in Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s spectacular (and flawed) colour photographs of the Russian Empire: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-search-of-true-color #longreads

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

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#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Ruby Wright from A Crinkled Screaming Thing, which explores the thoughts of a new baby with the elder brother as the hero. Story by Sarah Tagholm. Screenprint in soft colours of father and kids. Andersen Press 15 Jan @andersenpress.bsky.social @rubywrightlino.bsky.social

Thank you! :)