Aric Campling

A post from girldante reading “i think you can recognize that the usage of AI by students of all grades and all around the world to cheat through their assignments is not a personal moral failing but just yet another symptom of the mechanistic if not, at this point, basically dehumanized processes of our education systems which are nowadays almost solely focused on demanding production from students and churning out degrees required for jobs while ignoring any tangible verification of their actual knowledge, intellectual development and critical thinking skills, much less their mental health, while also pointing out that using AI to write your essay isn’t a power move to cheat a flawed system, it is behaving exactly as the system was designed, it is cheating yourself by giving up your ability to speak, think for and challenge yourself and bowing your head to powers that will only benefit from not being questioned, and the only reason text genAI is so widespread right now is because it was born on the perfect breeding ground that is anti intellectualism.” Then a response from anarchistmemecollective reading “oh turns out someone had already finally said it and better.”

Saw this on Instagram and thought this applies to art too. Not only are genAI “artists” stealing, but they’re also cheating themselves out of the benefits of creating.

The joy of the process, the complex decisions, the pride.

Giving up creativity for productivity is exactly what capitalism wants.

Me trying to get over impostor syndrome and analysis paralysis at the same time....
Now I have to think about this advice a lot, too.

My imagined Bsky reply: "You're a cartoonist, proofread before you send."
HMPH.

*being.
Bsky, an edit function please?

I can *relate*.
Right down to bring so impatient and opening a bag of snacks from the bottom!

PANEL 1: SHELDON, a ten-year old boy with large glasses, floats in a green floaty in a swimming hole. ARTHUR, a yellow duck, sits in the water next to him. ARTHUR: How are we supposed to know when to “trust our intuition”? PANEL 2: ARTHUR continues to swim in the swimming hole, musing alone. ARTHUR: Intuition is just your brain using pattern recognition BEFORE logic kicks in. So we register it as a “gut feeling.” Rather than a valid response to data. PANEL 3: ARTHUR turns away, getting more stressed. ARTHUR: But sometimes, what you THINK is your intuition is actually your biases kicking in. It’s your brain feeling before thinking, by leaning on established prejudices. But that ain’t intuition! PANEL 4: Close up on SHELDON and ARTHUR as ARTHUR has a breakdown. SHELDON: I’ll add a third one on there: what if “intuition” is actually just crippling anxiety rearing up like it always does? ARTHUR: AUGGH. WHAT IF IT IS?!? What if it is? ——— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller

How do you know when to “trust your intuition”?

Check this out, fellow 'toonists. A guide to lettering word balloons by master word-balloonist @davekellett.bsky.social!

Do something you love and you will work every day of your life.

https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16638

If you're not following @owlsintowels.org then you're missing out.

This one got me, that last line is gold.
(Artist: Kal Dunsmuir www.instagram.com/p/DJt4ZV7gG4...)

I was literally just thinking about that storyline in Bloom County earlier this week. Are you reading my mind? From the past?

Oh my gosh it's true. Bonkers.

A comic depicting Medusa looking in the mirror, aghast that she has grown one white snake in a head-full of green snakes.

Thanks to @portsherry.bsky.social for the laugh this morning, seen while stumbling around the internet trying to motivate myself for work.

Fellow artists... you know this feeling.

Hey, you, stop doomscrolling and go get The Cartoonists Club from your local small bookstore today!

GLASS NIB INKING. is AMAZING. and I bet it's lefty-friendly and I wanna try it so much now. These lines are beautiful!

I used to use blender. The last time I tried it, last year to create a part for 3D printing, it was nearly indecipherable.
I cannot WAIT to try bforartists this weekend.
Very interested in how they handled grease pencil.

The metaphor of a classic phone with earpiece being past and microphone being future is *deeeeeeeeeeeeep* man

BlueSky, would an Edit button be so hard?

Direct link
bsky.app/profile/bsky...

"On the days you only have 40%, and you give 40%, you gave 100%." - Jim Kwik

If you love the BlueSky ethos, their founder's shirt is back on sale. 💸👕

Alt-text is readable for text-to-voice setups or text-to-braille, not all people with vision difficulties use their eyes to surf the web and rendering text is far more accurate then attempting to use OCR to read an image full of text.

Always have your own website.
Own and control your creative works! Platforms only get you so far.

Thank you so much for sharing this! I need to study this. Your gallery works so well. I keep trying to build a gallery but have problems with spacing and alignment, especially gapping below short boxes next to tall boxes.

Sometimes... sometimes Duo can be a bit intense.

Don't let yourself off the hook!

Predictions and goals for 2025 | Comic Lab As we begin a new year, cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar make their predictions for 2025 and share their goals for the next twelve months.

Here's the episode!
comiclab.simplecast.com/episodes/pre...

The @comiclab.bsky.social guys talked about tariffs' impact on comics creators in a recent podcast, and here is a good, detailed explainer from TCJ. H/T @sxbond.bsky.social.

Three great cartoonists walk into a bar... or something, and out comes this absolute gem!