I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.
Some old personal work.
We used this to test the rough line treatment that ended up in the Hyper Light Breaker trailer.
Composite by Craig Nowicki
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this is me finding out that kuramei are not your ocs 🙈
Omg she is my darling
(For digital artists)
Lift weights to prevent desk-sitting back pain!
A drawing of Olive, a young satyr bard, as she draws a sunset in the sand with a stick.
I ended up liking the drawing more than the painted version 🫢 #ocsky #dndart
Fr I respect them so much!!
(this is lovely)
Tommy Shelby from Peaky Blinders. In panel 1, he is pointing emphatically at one of his gangsters. Caption reads, "No defeatism." Panel 2 has him shouting at the room, "NO FUCKING DEFEATISM!"
now more than ever:
My furry nun comic 😇 1/4
Happy New Year everyone! 💕✨ May it be a peaceful one, even by FORCE!
happy new year your art brings me so much joy 🫶
one final bad drawing to end the year with
EVERYONE GET MORE INSANE ABOUT YOUR OWN OCS NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel like the advice to not put your eggs into one basket by using those apps that mass-post your stuff to multiple platforms does people dirty because of this
don't really like the thought of dropping stuff somewhere I never look
I did nothing for the last few days! feels bad not guilt-bad but my brain just feels like it's smooth and uncomfortable
I get to draw now 🥰
Klimt winning the hard angle challenge
(recliningyYoung man and man in profil perdu - 1886-87)
people complaining about different numbers on twitter vs bluesky - like.
its an internet literacy thing. You do not know what those numbers mean if you are putting that much weight into them on the dead bird site.
Likes and reposts are not analogous to real audience or click through/stay rate.
Yessss ☺️
Show me what you can do with just a pen!
it's not my most elaborate but it feel nice (•ө•)💙
#DTPYSNOV25 late because I wanted to take the photo in natural light 😤
@theposearchives.bsky.social
woww that's so pleasing
I was trying Rebelle 5 out but never quite found a comfortable workflow (hope to keep trying because the trad brush engine looks great)
rough painting of east-asian man with sunburn: he is holding a hand up to his over-ear headphones the reference photograph went viral in 2024 and was drawn by many artists
sunburn 2024!~
Are you 🫵 a twitter refugee? Are you 🫵 an OC artist? Unsure how to switch over to bsky?
Some quickfire tips from a bsky user who didn't use it much when I first joined, and then started using it properly about a year ago!
#oc #ocsky #ocart #OriginalCharacter #artistsupport
“Why lock your front door? People can just break through your windows.”
Okay. I’m still gonna lock the door.
