🐉Skorvern🐉

Goodnight my friends. Leave a kind comment for our fellow travelers if you are so inclined.

Spotted in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood

"Canadian" citizens here's a petition to strip ICE of everything we have given them. Armoured vehicles, offices across the country, and the ability to operate and work here, which is not the US:

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

I've been getting back into comics while I wait for more info from my concept job, and I thought I'd make a post about something very important to me, which is COMIC PANEL VARIATION and HOW TO THINK ABOUT IT.

A tattoo of a black dragon filled with stars on an inner thigh. It is flying in front of a sun.

Celestial dragon ✨

bit more

After I watched ReBoot I started blowing weed smoke into my PC to hot box all the little computer people inside

Something silly for the new year. ✨

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this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities

if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

C'mon, gang! Let's finally cross the threshold!

Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Wanted to make a nice phone lock screen/background for myself, so I redid Look Outside's title art picture.
(Credit to: Francis Coulombe)
#LookOutside #LookOutsideGame
🌌👁️💥

A snowy scenery with soft colors, the trees are covered in frost and snow

A snowy scenery with some birch trees and a sun shining through them

The weather has been so cold but I love all the snow

Art by • Frank Frazetta

🕯️~Halloween is nearly here~🕯️

Green dragon holding a cross

#daily : 53: dragon + profaned cathedral

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

quote with your red art ♥️

Its important to be silly because the whole world is stupid

Human Artists!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!

(Sorry this is the one I always share. I had a ton of fun working on it 👉👈🥺)

A screenshot of a tumblr post reading: "Title: So you want to learn pixel art? Subtitle: Part 1 of ??? - The Basics! Hello, my name is Tofu and I'm a professional pixel artist. I have been supporting myself with freelance pixel art since 2020, when I was let go from my job during the pandemic." Two images comparing artistic improvement, the left is of a rudimentary tree, and the right is of a statue in a wall recess surrounded by plants and dappled light. "My progress, from 2017 to 2024. IMO the only thing that really matters is time and effort, not some kind of natural talent for art. This guide will not be comprehensive, as nobody should be expected to read allat. Instead I will lean heavily on my own experience, and share what worked for me, so take everything with a grain of salt. This is a guide, not a tutorial. Cheers!"

I never posted this here, but I made a pretty big write-up over on Tumblr for anyone interested in learning #pixelart!
It's a guide on software, fundamentals, jargon and resources.

Since links are legal on Bsky I can share it: www.tumblr.com/tofupixel/75...
#tutorial

Hope someone finds it useful!

‼️ REMOVE AIslop from your PINTEREST results.‼️
Let's see how true this is....

1. Go to ‘Refine your recommendations’ and remove everything related to ‘generative AI interests’.

(As if anyone who visits the site for reliable references would be interested in that...)

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.