Gale ✨ 🔜Fursonacon! 🔜BFC ✨🏳️‍⚧️

@nightengale.org

Queer art by two queer artists. Gale (she); Trey (they). 35+. Handmade, high quality custom plush & badges. Commissions are open - DM us! 💙 Links: 🔗 https://Nightengale.org/links ✨ Shop, gallery & commissions: Nightengale.org 💕

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Chiitan loves all genders 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Because I myself have no gender. Even now, transgender people are carrying deep anxiety— yet I believe they have the right to freely love the ones they desire, and to live together with their true soul.

Did you know that you have the power to shape cons? Emailing cons with good experiences you had goes a long way. Vendors you enjoyed? Panels that were a blast? Decorations for photos? Tell them! If its always bad it can be a bummer. Toss good in there for more of what you enjoyed 🥰

I am a disabled artist with a life limiting disease, and I would love to work for you. I am offering a portrait of your cat. ETA is 2-5 weeks, earlier if my health permits- first come, first serve. Each digital portraits is 50 usd apiece. (Cont)

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆。˚ 𓆝⋆。˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️@littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beloved cats I have painted for people lately

just as a general note if i share something that's AI generated please give me a heads up, i do not want AI art and fakery on my feed and sometimes i'm just not on the ball enough to catch the signs. getting tricked sucks so if i fall for one please pat me on the head and tell me i fucked up 🙏

I’ve said this before privately and now I’m saying it on the record Go check the status of your voter registration and set a recurring reminder to do it again this time in two weeks. Do not let this lapse.

I’m seeing Squarespace upped their fees and just saying - if all you need is a portfolio website, Carrd will suffice. You can use my free portfolio template. It’s basic, but it’s way cheaper than SS & not hard to set up

Sygnin@sygnin.com · 10mo ago

Since #PortfolioDay is coming again, I just wanna mention I made a free Carrd template you can use to make a basic portfolio website. There's also a video with instructs on how to use the template. You can get it for free or pay-what-you-want on my Ko-Fi:

(My table is G08) Anthrocon Adoptables thread! All of these designs are one of a kind. By buying you get a finished beret, printed art, high res digital art and full rights to the character! More designs in comments! Please share to help me get traction on these for tomorrow!

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Tomorrow is the last chance for OVERNIGHT CUSTOM PLUSH Kuttari this year! Plus, tomorrow they will be MAJORLY discounted! Call it a holiday special~🤭💕 Normal Kuttari: $395 Large Kuttari: $485 Overnight Normal Kuttari: NOW $450 (No Large available for Overnights) #Anthrocon dealers table C-11!

A picture of two handmade beanie baby style plush with detailed embroidery and applique on their faces and bodies. They are wolves, one white and one in shades of brown. They have golden eyes and are looking at the viewer while nuzzling each other.A picture of a handmade beanie baby style plush with detailed embroidery and applique on its face and body. It is a forest spirit made in leaf green fabric with six brighter green leaf ears, six big black eyes, and antlers made of tree branches with dark green leaves on them. It has fireflies resting all over it and a cicada on its brow.A picture of a handmade beanie baby style plush with detailed embroidery and applique on its face and body. It is a blue dog with yellow-orange eyes, tan and black and white accents, and a fluffy tail. It is held in the palm of my hand, looking exceedingly puppyish.A picture of four handmade beanie baby style plush with detailed embroidery and applique on their faces and bodies. They are big cats: a powder blue snow leopard, a neon pink leopard, a lemon yellow tiger, and a plum purple jaguar.
Gale ✨ 🔜Fursonacon! 🔜BFC ✨🏳️‍⚧️@nightengale.org · last mo.

#Anthrocon, here we come! Just part the charity tables, come see Nightengale Custom Plush @ C-11! We have charms, plush commissions, and our Anthrocon special: OVERNIGHT custom plush! This year, our Overnights will be our new Kuttaris! (You can also get them mailed after the con for a discount!)

Informational graphic showing my booth location at Anthrocon this coming weekend - table C11 - as well as an arrow illustrating the path from the front doors of the exhibit hall to my table

Hello, #Anthrocon!! Come see my custom plush, charms, clearance plushies, and beanbag geckos at C11 💕

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Gale ✨ 🔜Fursonacon! 🔜BFC ✨🏳️‍⚧️@nightengale.org · last mo.

#Anthrocon, here we come! Just part the charity tables, come see Nightengale Custom Plush @ C-11! We have charms, plush commissions, and our Anthrocon special: OVERNIGHT custom plush! This year, our Overnights will be our new Kuttaris! (You can also get them mailed after the con for a discount!)

Informational graphic showing my booth location at Anthrocon this coming weekend - table C11 - as well as an arrow illustrating the path from the front doors of the exhibit hall to my table