ratbat

@ratbat.bsky.social

THIS MACHINE TURNS CHICKEN DINNERS INTO ANXIETY. https://www.titanatelier.com (content warning) https://ko-fi.com/ratbat , https://www.patreon.com/ratbat ** accounts with zero posts will be blocked

My back is utterly trashed. x.x . I wish their was a machine that i could be strapped into that pierces me with tubes and fills me full of pain killer while the rest of it re-arranges my bones back where they are supposed to be, and refreshes/regrows the joint material back to factory standard.

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There is no way Dire Machines will ever be scary due to our evolutionary history as simpler creatures. Machines are just too new to be afraid of- eyes or not. You need the Uncanny valley, the darkness of isolation, diseases, gnashing teeth, rape, or other ancient ques humans universally understand.

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Best advice I ever got in this vein was look at your favorite illustrators and artists then figure out who they were looking at for inspiration, then figure out who THEY were looking at, then pull your references and inspo from those artists. This lack of diving deeper is a problem everywhere sadly

Screenshotting this to avoid dragging op into furry blsky, but this is something I've been yapping on about in the context of furry art for *years* So much of the space is ouroboros-ing itself - you can massively up your game (even as a mediocre artist like me) by expanding your frame of reference

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Demon of flotilla 12. (also note, I am going to get a color cover or 2 done so I can at least publish the pdf's online) Maybe get ready for physical editions later.

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Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

Facial expression sheet just became an image about 2 huge flying nerds trying to Impress and educate their woman.