August 𓃹

@082km.bsky.social

Call me August/Fresco. Cheesed to meat you. I do draw the Kidlit sometimes 🐔🇨🇦 📚’26: INTO THE WILDERNESS | 📚’27: A ZOMBIE DAY https://082km.weebly.com Rep'd by: @jemiscoe.bsky.social @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

bro. just saw art from the person who stole like $30k in funds from a fan zine to spend on genshin impact on my feed. under a new alias on bsky. this is a crazy day

A day late bc I’m on deadline & the days of the week all blend into one lately, BUT I wanted to celebrate that the 1st PB I illustrated is now available in paperback! Happy Pub Week to DADDY DRESSED ME, and a most wonderful father daughter team, Michael and Ava Gardner 🎉 @jemiscoe.bsky.social

Pile of books of DADDY DRESSED ME written by Michael and Ava Gardner, illustrated by Nadia Fisher, published by Simon & Schuster. The cover shows an African-American father sitting at a sewing machine with a bright colored and patterned fabric, while his you g daughter hugs his around his neck.

Artists - just cause you CAN monetize your work doesn't mean you should. There is NOTHING wrong with just doing art as a hobby. I miss it actually. When my art became my main source of income, my relationship with my work changed forever (and often feels way less creative than it used to be).

Birdie Tam@birdietam.art · last yr.

My biggest piece of advice for artists who want to run their own art business is that first and foremost you need to want to run a business, aside from the art. (A thread 🧵⬇️)

anyways one of my favorite things to see on xhs is chinese middle schoolers posting their warrior cats fanart/fancomics that they drew on printer/lined paper 😭🙏🙏🙏 ai art could never