Athena (SAK)

This hits way too close to home

Amazing art!! You have such a gorgeous style! Happy Balloon Day!

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Jerry wanted you to hear this from him.

We built Ben & Jerrys to stand for peace and love. It was needed then and it’s needed more than ever now. Which is why Magnum must #FreeBenAndJerrys

See Jerry’s full message at freebenandjerrys.com and be part of the campaign.

Okay, wow, this looks amazing?? OBSESSED with the visual style and animation!

Mindhunters was INCREDIBLE!! True crime tackled with restraint and an insane eye for detail

The decision to cancel it while continuing to hemorrhage cheap, exploitative "documentaries" aimed at filling as much runtime as possible was the final nail for me. I quit Netflix in their race to the bottom

If anyone brings up anything remotely related to either Firefly or Mindhunters it will trigger a full-throated rant lasting far longer and louder than anyone deserves

Two completely different shows cancelled in their prime with the kind of wasted potential that leaves an aching in my heart

SEPTEMBER 1ST ITS HALLOWEEN

Will never forget this scene from Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide

Wow, I just now noticed my garbled auto correct???

* But you don't like it

Damn, was that so hard???

Or you look at something like Fury Road: heavy on practical effects and stunts, mostly all planned out in advance with intensive storyboarding, and looks just as good or better than many bloated “everything green-screened and edited 100 times” blockbusters

More broadly, VFX bloat is at least 90% a result of poor planning, poor management , and execs/leads generallu treating artists and studios like a black box they email to receive infinite executions, revisions and costly minor variations around the clock and on demand

What really gets me besides the obvious rich ass trying to not pay skilled talent is YOU. MADE. YOUR. MOVIES. FUCKING. VFX HEAVY, MY GUY. YOU DID THIS. THIS WAS YOU FROM THE BEGINNING. YOU MADE YOUR OWN PROJECT EXPENSIVE. YOU GREEDY BITCH. NEXT TIME MAKE A MOVIE IN YOUR BACKYARD.

Worth reading the entire thread. I wasn't aware of the complete fallout of the Tumblr!NSFW ban, but even as someone who doesn't post NSFW art it smelled like bullshit a mile away. Let people post their creations. If it's not harming anybody but uojndknt like what you see, click away. It's that easy.

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor.

stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent.

they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't.

fuck them, pay labor.

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

RETRO SURVIVAL HORROR.

LIVE ACTION CUTSCENES.

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Now it's hot garbage thanks to Eclipse & AI

Unfriendly reminder:

I dont "NETWORK", I do not "keep a consistent schedule", I don't try to make my art "stand out" on people's feeds. I POST MY ART. And if it flops, I DON'T CARE.

A digital illustration in very comic book style. At the center is an 80s Punk/Mad Max/Tank Girl-type girl with bright red and yellow rough-cut hair, wearing a red cut up tee, lots of belts and a studded collar and bracelets etc, denim cutoffs over electric blue fishnets, and tall blue combat-type boots. In her hands she has a red chainsaw with a skull decoration on It that she's holding at the ready. There’s a bag slung over her shoulder with the handles of a baseball bat and a machete emerging from the top of it. She is reared back on one foot, having just delivered a tremendous kick to the head of a humanoid robot which is reeling backwards, face half smashed in and turned toward the viewer, arms stretched out, with flames and sparks shooting out of its neck. It's one of those retro-future streamline robot guys that you would maybe see Superman fight in a Fleischer cartoon. Behind on the left you can see from the waist up another such robot which has been dealt with similarly just before. Above and behind all this is jagged red lettering over a jagged yellow outline reading DESTROY next to dimensionalized sans-serif letters reading "A.I." (quotes included) over a 🚫 symbol. Under the reeling robot are some important anti-AI talking points rendered in rough maker-style hand lettering: 'Bad at Everything! Kill the Planet! Brain Atrophy!' I could go on but there's only so much space in one drawing. All of this has been worked up digitally to look like it's a vintage screen printed t-shirt design with cracked and worn plastisol inks. In conclusion, fuck your AI.

I saw someone posting that AI haters are as annoying as AI pushers, a perfect 2025 ass opinion. Powerful people/corporations shoving AI into every product and service regardless of harm or utility in an endless race for profit are the same amount of bad as people saying 'can we not?'

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

the thing about moral panics is they aren't about moral panics. it's about community control and rampant bigotry. censorship is a tool of fascists, those who purity police are fascists, and if your disgust agrees with their mission more than the right for fiction to gross you out, you are a fascist

"artists should charge more!" then pay them. Do comission them. tip them what u think they're worth.

Artists wont believe they are worth money until u give it to them. They know what it's like to not have much, & hope everyone can afford their art. SHOW them they CAN ask more. Don't just Tell them.

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

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time for my new favorite tumblr post

if you are a concept artist currently using Vizcom and believing that it's "just a tool", all you are doing is making absolutely certain you will shortly cease to be a concept artist