Zack Rock

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

This event is insane

My latest illustration for @gardenandgun.com magazine’s February/March “Good Dog” column, featuring Tom Junod’s essay about his dog family tree (and his family family tree) 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

Always be generous (especially to yourself 🍦)

#illustration #watercolor #icecream #dachshund #weimaraner

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

No it doesn’t, that’s you doing that

My illustration for @gardenandgun.com magazine’s October/November “Good Dog” column, featuring Eli Cranor’s loving tribute to his beloved blue-eyed Aussie Layla 🐶

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

👇👇👇

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

A dog with angel wings and a halo leans over the shoulder of a little boy as the child types on a typewriter at an old wooden desk

Honored to be taking on illustration duties for @gardenandgun.com magazine’s beloved “Good Dog” column, starting with this year’s August/September issue!

First up, an essay by Charles McNair about the power of storytelling and plagiarism starring America’s #1 childhood traumatizer, Old Yeller 🐶🔫

I am officially OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS!

This portrait of Snowball the chihuahua was done for a family who wanted to immortalize their pet in watercolor.

If you have a beloved pet you want to commemorate or any idea for a painting you want to see realized, let’s talk!

www.zackrock.com/commissions

Recently a non-profit that runs creative writing programs for kids asked me to illustrate a book of students’ short stories. The best part was having to base my illustration on a title the kids invented.

So what choice did I have for “The Awesome Adventures”?

#illustration #picturebook #heavymetal

The Tour de France begins today! Best of luck to all the riders, remember to stay hydrated out there ☕🚴‍♂️

#tourdefrance2025 #TDF2025 #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #picturebook #italiangreyhound #greyhound #cycling #bicycle #espresso #mokapot

American Illustration 43 Winner @zackrock.bsky.social
A personal piece about feeling lost in an unfamiliar city.

#artofinstagram #americanillustration43 #illustrationdaily #illustrationoftheday #ai43 #winner #illustrator #instaart #artistsoninstagram

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Rube Goldberg: Sorry I'm late, the chicken didn't knock over the watering can

And Jesus entered the temple and said to the money changers, "You are an important part of the local economy and I'm looking forward to working with you"

The Pizza Pups promise: Delivery in 30 minutes or less, or your pizza is late™

Alas, poor Larry! I knew the bald, four-eyed @#$%.

After 24 years of cursing and discomfort, the final episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm aired last Sunday. I dunno why the story of a misanthrope who is terrible in social situations really speaks to me, but the show is one of my all-time favorites.

WHOO-HOO!!! My cover illustration for Kafka’s The Metamorphosis won an award of excellence from Communication Arts Magazine! An absolute honor to be among the 148 extraordinarily talented artists selected from the 3,639 entries, wow.

What better day to share this homage to my favorite horror story, The Metamorphosis, then on Halloween? Hope it really gets under your skin, bawhahahaahaaa 🪳🪰🕷️🪲

Happy #PortfolioDay y’all! I’m Zack, an American illustrator living in Berlin and painting an unconscionable amount of anthropomorphic animals.

www.zackrock.com
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Happy 80th birthday to the Godfather of Alternative Comics and international sex symbol, Robert Crumb! To quote the man himself, “Your vigor for life appalls me.” Jk jk, here’s to another eighty years of being a beautiful weirdo!

Show yer range

Think I’ve got y’all beat on this one

Taking chances is risky,
But these nine lives pass briskly.
So when challenged, use this key:
Don’t get fretful, GET FRISKY!

A P.S.A. from P.U.R.R. (Pets Urging Responsible Revelry)

HELLO BLUE SKY!! Here's a crazy raccoon I painted, enjoy!