Darren M. A. Calvert
@dmacalvert.bsky.social
Designer and teacher by day. Freelance illustrator by night. IG: http://instagram.com/darrenmacalvert | Etsy: https://shorturl.at/hpEFO | 🇨🇦
Have tried a few times lately to get to bed "early" (around midnight) and my body just goes "Oh, we're taking a nap?" and 20 minutes later I'm wide awake. 😐
From 2018: a lythronax on toned paper based on their appearance in Jurassic World Alive
I'm teaching a Monday morning class this fall but because of the University not having classes on September 1st and the 7th being Labour Day, we don't meet until the 14th. 🙃
My sketch of Alex Jones testifying from 4 years ago.
Came across an account that was following me that was posting A.I. images pretending to be an illustrator. Just go away.
NICE Was just thinking about this the other day www.youtube.com/shorts/Dlvgr...
NEW CONCRETE STAIRS AND SLABS!
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bskycheck has now updated their top posts results so that you can filter to just show your top text posts/top image posts/top videos/etc. which is really handy if you want to find out what your top art posts were. Don't have to log in or anything, just enter the name of the account.
Darren M. A. Calvert@dmacalvert.bsky.social · 24h agoThis was what I used: bskycheck.com/userinfo.php
A fire-breathing dragon puppet I got for my nephew back in 2022
Had a sudden spike on my Tumblr and, as usual, it's because people found my post on improving your mechanical drawing skills: www.tumblr.com/darrencalver...
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💬 46 🔁 77928 ❤️ 103928 · People often say to me: “You draw like some kind of inhuman machine. If I eat your brain, will I gain your power?” The answer is yes, but there is another way. The key…
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From 2018: a lythronax on toned paper based on their appearance in Jurassic World Alive
My sketch of Alex Jones testifying from 4 years ago.
There's my girl! I'm excited for you all to meet Sophie in October! Sophie is very much drawn from my childhood fantasies of unexpectedly being called upon to take the lead in a show... But of course as a kid I never dreamed of playing Clara. I wanted to play The Rat King. 🐭👑🎄
Children's Bookshelf@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · yesterday★ “The Nutcracker gets a plot twist” in Ashley Quach’s picture book STARRING SOPHIE, an “entertaining account of a performance gone deliciously awry”
Videos or "moving cameras" as we call them.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d agoTrump on the Reflecting Pool: "Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. There was vandalism…We have photographs or tapes — like moving cameras — where people are on the side cutting it with a box knife…The judge was extremely unfriendly to Jeanine, and frankly I think she choked."
It’s a nice day and relatively mild and I feel like I should go for a bike ride but can’t decide where to go…
I have seen Spider-Man. It is a good Spider-Man.
Read this distractedly as "FREEZO: A TASTE OF HELL"
old roadside pics@roadside.xor.blue · 3d agofreezo ice cream sign, knoxville, tennessee, 1984
Of all the unnecessary A.I. tools added to sites, this was one of the most unnecessary.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoUpdate: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Donald Trump is amazing at golf in the same way that Elon Musk is amazing at video games.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
Man, the heat has my patience *thin*. I’ve been sleeping but it’s not restful. Little things are making me irrationally angry.
Uh oh. Finally picked up Baldur's Gate III 😬
Gale (Baldur's Gate 3) - Plenty to Look Forward To
Alt: Gale (Baldur's Gate 3) - Plenty to Look Forward To
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The Emperor Has No Clothes www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump insists vandals damaged Reflecting Pool, blasts DOJ for dropped charge
The president acknowledged “there may have been some contractor difficulty” but said he disagreed with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for dropping a criminal charge against a former Olympian.
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