Abi Freeland

art is an enemy of capitalism because art exists for fun and anyone can make it

I know that sucking at stuff is the first step to getting good at stuff but wow it sure sucks

An illustration of various crabs holding a valentines card that says "Girl, are you undergoing carcinization? Because you're the ideal evolutionary form!"

Flirting~ 🩷✨️🦀🎀❤️

The idea of “gatekeeping art” is the reason people turn to AI because of it is funny to me as an artist from a working class family. Like…I learned to draw and my mom was a waitress

I don’t like people trying to hide behind the idea working/poor folks can’t draw, because we create and always have

Storm, a Black woman with shock-white hair commands a winding tunnel of wind

Whooooosh

Black Canary.

#oax

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

drawing of a character floating in water near some huge corals and ghostly fish

ghost reef

They are at war with you. Are you at war with them

Tramp stamp idea: waterfall city from dinotopia

high on a dusty plateau a rusted relic offers brief shelter before the pilgrims resume their trek.

#5

eBay notification

This is why you can't afford RAM anymore

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I think if my cat had a cell phone he'd fill it with pictures of me

Cardi b on drag race in that outfit looks like she was drawn by clamp and I mean that in such a good way

Friendship ended with mountain dew now monster ultra is my best friend

A watercolor painting of an angry character. The text says I hate AI art

🌾 Winter Solstice, Birth of the Sun God, & my own day of birth ☀️ ❄️

Concept art of Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite by Claire Hummel, showing several versions of her outfit

"but we need to iterate on a bunch of ideas so our artists need to-"

concept artists have been iterating on ideas for decades, they're trained to do it efficiently

if you as a company want to sacrifice quality for quantity then that's on you, and it WILL show in the product, it WILL look sloppy

Concept art of Rosalind Lutece's wardrobe and outfit construction from Bioshock Infinite, drawn by Claire Hummel

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-"

wrong

I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI

get good

EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If there's anything AI has done for me this year, it's awakened a hunger for person-to-person connection. Hanging out with a baby, going to see live theatre, eating food someone made, appreciating art from 200 years ago, from 800 years ago, from 10,000 years ago... Human creation is so wonderful.

I've previously said someone should make a godfather edit to Taylor Swifts father figure (and I stand by that) but like a treasure planet edit to father figure? Just imagine

Imagine of Akira from Akira holding their head

Close up of Akira from Akira holding their head

Everyday I get emails

Another quickie doodle.

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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now

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there was an amazing article about exactly this somewhere

in the old days where everyone was paid well and was unionized, this chart was reversed, living expenses were cheap but luxuries like TVs and whatnot were what you had to save up for. You could live a comfortable life if you were frugal

Painting in progress

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day