Clearwillow Designs

@clearwillow.bsky.social

Carra | She/her | Fantasy and Fandom Artist Commissions are open through Artistree: https://artistree.io/clearwillow Etsy: https://clearwillowdesigns.etsy.com For early access/HQ art: https://www.patreon.com/clearwillow Carrd: https://clearwillow.carrd.co

Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.

Using AI for concept art is like: “I want to come up with something no-one has ever seen before, so I’m going to use this machine that can only regurgitate existing stuff after blending it into a lumpy paste.”

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · last yr.

The "using AI to generate concept art early in the process to quickly iterate ideas" thing is so absurd to me because like. You don't know what concept art is. You don't know what concept art *does*.

Just a periodic reminder that it's a good idea to bookmark your favorite artists' sites, sign up for their newsletters, and follow them everywhere you can. (My links are in my profile & pinned post!). Because of the current climate of censorship you never know where we'll get kicked off of next.

all i can say is that if an artist you like has a zine or something you've been eyeing up but always talk yourself out of buying, now's the time to get it. in a time of rapid digital decay and looming widespread censorship, certain physical artefacts are terribly, irreplaceably precious

The creations of artists are a gift, and should be appreciated as such, and for fans to tell the artist what they should or shouldn’t be making is beyond arrogant and entitled. To see so much art, especially now for free and in such abundance, is a privilege.

This is actually the best advice I could give a comics editor. Your feedback should never just be corrections, but rather the totality of your thoughts. Not just what needs adjusting, but also what you loved, what made you laugh, what moved your spirit, what surprised you that you weren’t expecting.

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com · last yr.

Anyway, if you like a creative's work, please tell us. Tell us what you like. Tell us what it means to you. Because we probably don't see it ourselves.

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

Make that self indulgent comic. Make that comic about your OCs. Make that comic about whatever the fuck your want. JUST 👏🏾 MAKE 👏🏾 THE 👏🏾 DAMN 👏🏾 COMIC! 👏🏾

If you like a piece of art or media that means it’s good for you. There is no objective good in enjoying a thing, it’s all subjective. If someone else doesn’t like it it means it wasn’t made for them, not that it’s necessarily bad. Unchain yourself from the prison of “good” and you’ll find enjoyment