'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele

Behold, the power of cheese!!

🎨 @eligecos.bsky.social

This is the way. Irgendwann wird es einfach ermüdend das überall zu sehen. Ob man hoffen darf, dass auch die Verwendung irgendwann ermüdet? Wenn man vielleicht merkt, dass einen AI nicht wirklich zu einem Kreativen macht - nur zu einem Auftraggeber, der lieber Silizium beauftragt als Menschen?

Oh neat, is this Gloucester? Have a great time there!

Drawing of a cartoon rat, holding up a dead smelly trout, as a birthday present

And another birthday present for a good friend in Canada, who is going through a rough time. Sometimes, you just need the Trout of Vengeance. It helps. Happy Birthday, Nancy, and hang in there! 💪💪💪
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#zeichnung #art #drawing #rat #ratte #furry #furryart #sketch #skizze #illustration #cartoon #toon

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

This is why I sit & draw/sell toony stuff at Furry conventions since such a long time. Artists, fans, friends from all over the world, like Brazil, Israel, Malaysia, Australia... Beign a "tour guide" through Berlin at times for folks visiting for a con, too. In times like these, this is healing.

Drawing of a cartoon rat, holding an open birthday package with a miniatur tornado whirling around in it.

A little present for my nephew, who has a soft spot for tornados.
Text says "Hey Kalle, hard to get those things wrapped up into a package, but... happy birthday!"
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Kleines Geburtstagsgeschenk für meinen Neffen, der ein Herz für Tornados hat.

#art #artwork #furryart #rat #ratte #tornado

You can have a pizza IN the movie theatre, watching 90s TNMT?

You, sir, have found perfection. It is hard to come by, but you have mastered it!

Have fun! 😄

Das mit dem Verdampfen und als Herbstgewitter wiederkommen klingt vielversprechend, das sollte ich vielleicht mal antesten. Danke für den Tipp!

Hey Portzebie, just wanted to take the opportunity to say how happy I am to see you being around, creative and strong, rocking those cons. Seems like a lifetime ago that I saw your drawings for the first time, and they haven't stopped making me smile eversince. Hope you have great sales, cheers!

I remember when AIDS came up as topic in Germany back in the 80s, a sinister threat looming on the horizon. It later became a normal part of (sex) life, always present in the back of the head - always use protection. That I live to see this in my lifetime, the dawn and potential end of this... wow!

P.S. letters to bases throughout Europe, not throughout Germany. If I remember correctly, one sent to a hub in Belgium must have found its way over to Jacksonville. The reply came in 1996. Feels like on a whole different planet. But a good reminder.

I was grown-up, in the Army myself, when the answer came - if I still wanted those. They even had an older machine that had that vintage debossed look. I wear them since, as a reminder what you can achieve if you hang in there long enough, even today. They came from Jacksonville. Cheers!

Back in the 80s, as a "TopGun"/jets-fascinated kiddo, I wanted nothing more than a pair of dog tags. Without internet, no shops for that in Germany, I sent letters to USAF bases, throughout Germany, with the help of my dad. Years later, one letter reached a Naval Aviator base in Jacksonville. -->

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And they say Alpaca herds are so nice! Guess still waters run deep. 😅

Since it's that time of year again... enjoy some art from the most American non-American I know, @frazzle.bsky.social!

This is probably the best illustration of what being an illustrator these days feels like. For depicting being a 2D animator though, the little guy would probably have to be on fire, while someone is playing "Last Christmas" for ten hours straight. In Chinese. At twice the regular speed. Backwards.

Bei uns die selbe Strategie, mit nur einer Abweichung: Wir haben die Geschmacksrichtung Erdbeere, nicht Himbeere. 😁
Halte durch!

-- Even if it is hard, or better, especially as it is hard: Hang in there. You are a wonderful and talented person, and you have friends all around the globe who listen, and who are rooting for you. You got this. Let's hang in there together, all of us. Better days will come. They must. 💪💪💪

-- just in a different kind of "bad bush", in a situation we haven't picked, but that we have been dropt into, relentlessly. Yes, there may be a monster under the bed. We can't ignore it, so we can as well turn on the light and check. And even if we find there is one, we at least can react. --

-- with a plane in a remote area. Think from the inside out. Prioritize, as if your life depends on it - because at the end of the day, it does most literally. Work on the 10 inches in front of your nose, then the 10 ft, then the 10 yards. Fight for every positive thought and feeling. We are --

Same here. Feels like wading through a swamp. Every step feels like a whole journey. And you spend too much energy on just keeping one haunting question out of your head: "Why even keep moving?".

It makes more sense if you apply a survival mindset to this, like you would apply f.ex. when crashed--

Thoroughly Modern Marian... @foxpopvli.bsky.social continues to be such an influencer hehe... 🦊👀

#art #artwork

Sketch of a cartoon rat holding up a giant heart, saying thanks

Thanks for being some of the good ones, both of you. ❤️‍
I am glad about anyone who wants to keep creating, rather than giving this process away to the robots, for quick & cheap reactions.

"Where deadlines meet existential dreads,
we're working quite late,
Drink up, me hearties, yo ho.

We design perfect logos by daytime,
by night draw foxes who fornicate,
Drink up, me hearties, yo ho.

Yo ho, Yo ho, an artist's life for me!"

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"We draw and we model,
we ink and we paint,
Drink up, me hearties, yo ho.

We see the world in cubes, spheres and cylinders,
and with both computers and pencil we animate,
Drink up, me hearties, yo ho."

While ogling your phone, because you know it will ring any second now with news that will twist things around again. "Hey, AI now learned crisp inking!"

This may sound like complaining. But for us, who would just succumb in a number-crunching 9to5 office job.. would we really want it any other way?

And when money is there, time isn't. But as soon as time is available, money turns elusive. And when by an unprecedented miracle all stars should align, and you find yourself in the rare situation that there is both time AND money at your hands, and at the same time as well... you're out of energy.

Ohhhhhh now I understand the post correctly, finally 😅 - we had a Cocker Spaniel once, with the same problem. Good solution!