anyone else feel like this

Most of the art I love is nothing like mine. Work similar to mine I can appreciate, but there’s not much mystery to it. If anything, I tend to be hypercritical, since I understand the process so intimately. What blows me away is when people see the world in a way that I would never be able to.

The Other Happy Place@theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 2w ago

I love when I adore an artists work and it's nothing like mine at all. It's so fun how many ways there are to DO THIS

Isn’t Abigail just the best?

Abigail Larson@abigaillarson.com · 2w ago

Happy Autumn 🍂

Well, that’s a depressingly apt metaphor.

Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!)@kimsokol.bsky.social · 2w ago

(Absolutely no shade on OP, I appreciate the dedication to hiring human artists, it's just frustrating that somebody opened a Human Shit Bakery next door to my bakery and now I have to stick a sign in my window saying We Guarantee Shitless Bread)

'Countersculpt' Magic: The Gathering | Reality Fracture AD: Zack Stella

Artists, show how you paint stars!✨️

Littleevil0ne@littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 3w ago

Artists, show how you paint stars!✨️ It changes moment to moment 😅 (Cw nonsexual nudity not adult)

Oh, we’re doing THIS again? Well then, let me repeat one of my proudest moments of my entire life: Einstürzende Sauerbraten

Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈@anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 4w ago

Make a band edible: Emerson Lake and Palmier

Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you! 🥰 emilyhare.com #dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns

Opinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 4w ago

Opinion | Democrats have lost Silicon Valley. Here's what it will take to win it back If Democrats want to become the party of the future again, they need to stop treating the people building the future like political enemies.

The Old Saints of Blight's Hollow wish you a Joyous & Restful Labor Day. Don't work yourself to the bone.

Night eyes 😎 Finally got proper pictures of this amazing phenomenon! Mantises change their eye color (and light sensitivity) at night by transporting pigments from the surface of each compound eye unit toward the deeper eye region. Same female Tenodera sinensis, two different times. #bugsky

I had hoped to get further on this before classes started, but c'est la vie. As always, feedback is welcome, even if I ignore it!

Happy Labor Day Weekend from Scabby and friends!

There’s painting like ‘oh god this is a disaster’ and painting like ‘ok I’m killing this’ and I haven’t found a way to not have to do both kinds to make a painting.

I had hoped to get further on this before classes started, but c'est la vie. As always, feedback is welcome, even if I ignore it!

Horror vacuAI– the inability of AI image generators to not fill up every last bit of empty space.

I will block you for moral/ethical reasons. I will mute you for esthetic reasons.

Interesting. Artstation’s new owners seem to be making an effort to undo at least some of the damage that Epic did to the platform. I’m not rushing back yet (it was never particularly useful for the markets I primarily work in anyway), but I’ll keep an eye on things.

ArtStation Should Put Artists First - ArtStation Magazine

ArtStation is enabling default NoAI protections and partnering with Cloudflare to limit AI crawlers and content scraping.

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Back in the Sijun/CA/EP forum days of the early 2000s, it was a big joke when people would post that they really wanted to become artists, but they just didn't like drawing. Oh how we laughed and laughed. Guess the joke was on us.

Birthday post part 2: tried out the carousel to show off some images that tend to get squished, here’s some of my grid-appropriate MTG work!

Kim Sokol (Open for Commissions/Freelance!)@kimsokol.bsky.social · last mo.

We’re allowed to ask for birthday reposts, right? Happy birthday to me, help out an artist trying to get their career in a better place and maybe get some more book covers before they turn 40, I got one year left!

Comics were more popular with kids in the 1940s than either video games or social media today are today.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

I thought the article image was some stock photo capitalizing on the "pervert glasses" narrative, but no, the credit is from Meta. Meta released this image of a man looking like a combination of Barry and Dexter secretly plotting to murder women

Libby from Biscuit@thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 2mo ago

JFC ban these sex crime glasses in healthcare. If anyone you know buys them it is your duty to mock them until they stop wearing them.

Steelborn is a USA Today and Sunday Times best seller! Congrats to Taylor J. Larue and everyone at @waywardtxf.bsky.social. Big thanks to @jennykimura.bsky.social

People who claim to be leftists and shout "tHe ReAl PrObLeM iS cApItAlIsM" while carrying water for billionaire tech oligarchs can eat a bag of dicks.

worst chili peppers album ever

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Qsy@qsy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You know it's nice to use the guillotine as a symbol, but when you make one you should know the real thing was over 12 feet tall and it really helps with its aura.

my fav @michaelhobbes.bsky.social hot take that i have now stolen as my own: we need broken windows policing for white collar crime.

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2mo ago

A central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬

Ea-Nasir as a meme is so funny to me, imagine a client sends you a pissy email and as a result, MILLENIA later, future people wielding sorcerous, unfathomable technology use it to clown on your ass

Stephen King: guys, i'm really excited King: tonight we've got an actual, genuine humor writer to talk to us! Piers Anthony: oh gosh, steve! you Anthony: you flatter me! King: i uh King: i wasn't actually talking about you, piers Anthony: