I redraw my line art a lot when the piece starts feeling too cartoony. For this one, I kept rebuilding the face, hair and weapons until the mood felt sharper and closer to what I wanted. #ArtProcess #ArtFight
ZoLo 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 🇳🇴
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Web dev, game dev, graphic design, digital art, and whatever else takes my fancy. Nerd of Boardgames, video games, wargames, TTRPGs, amd films (especially horror films.) I'm queer (trans and pan) and neurodiverse, and live in Wales with my wife and dog.
How insulted will a potential customer be if I have a dung beetle moving a big ball and compare it to a line of ants moving stuff for how to change the way they migrate the system by tackling some of the big ball of mud (ddd) issues they're facing to break it down to smaller chunks? 🪲 Vs 🐜
"removing my adhd diagnosis was a relief (because of ablest policies that discriminate against a significant proportion of the population)" is the new "I'm happier after detransitioning (despite my ongoing dysphoria, because I'm not being actively transphobically abused every day by my society)"
Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 3d agoYou'd have to read to the thirteenth paragraph to discover the pull quote for the title was from Marcus Siding, a 23-year-old Swedish man living in Sweden that wanted to become a cop, but his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 12 barred him by law from becoming a Swedish cop Seems relevant
Had an idea, but my graphic design brain is on strike today, so this is the best I could come up with. Boycott Harry Potter; JK Rowling's money is her power. Nerf her wealth, and she won't be able to hurt us anymore. #NerfTheTERF #transphobia #transRightsAreHumanRights #art
Creating an environment study in Procreate. I progress from initial blocking to refined textures and atmospheric lighting. #DigitalPainting #ArtProcess
Hey #art community, does anyone have any recommendations for tutorials, guides, books, etc on drawing people? It's something I'm struggling with and really want to overcome. I've got a bunch of @adorkastock.com images that I'm practicing with, but it's clear I'm missing something. TIA ❤️
Planning a symbolic portrait feels a bit like describing someone through clues instead of labels. An expression, a hand gesture, an animal, a color choice. Those small details can say a lot. #art #artsky #mercurialmuse #bskyart #arttips #composition #painting
🚨 BREAKING We've filed a complaint to the Charity Commission about Sex Matters, detailing 46 incidents which we think, together, amount to misconduct and mismanagement. But we also need wider action against charities spreading hate - help us tell the government & Commission they must step up 👇
Sex Matters are breaking charity law with transphobic hate – we’re taking action | Good Law Project
We’ve made a formal complaint to the Charity Commission and the government, citing 46 examples of offensive transphobia
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Commission for Sleazy! A nameless Karakuri (DnD Hombrew) 💖 Had a lot of fun with the smoke ghosts, looks like they're having fun 😱 #fantasy #dnd #illustration
Recently decided to try a new (to me) comic on Webtoon and it turned into an obsession. The author/artists has just wrapped up the series after six years and it's been a wild few weeks reading it. Just go read it, it's incredible! City of Blank by @66sharkteeth.bsky.social #webComics #art
City of Blank
In a world where ghostly Blanks can steal your face – and your life – at any moment, a young boy named Rex hunts for his brother’s killer. Cursed with the unique power to physically touch Blanks, Rex ...
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Enter the wild inter-dimensional world of Travis Deverell's He Who Fights With Monsters! Travis has partnered with Catalyst Game Labs to bring the world of his series to the tabletop in a big way! bit.ly/HWFWM-Announcement #LitRPG #HeWhoFightsWithMonsters #HWFWM
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
I'm being forced into it by a very pro-AI team lead. The loss of agency in my graphic design job is painful. My work feels devalued. I hear AI output described as "good enough" pretty frequently. It honestly sucks.
Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.
Cinnabar moth lino print :3 I grew up surrounded by these guys because our back garden was absolutely full.of ragwort, they're very cool #art #linoprint #linocutting #moths #cinnabarmoth
With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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I drew another warrior woman, as I am wont to do ✨ I tried a different rendering technique for this one, painting a kind of "3D model" that I could colour on top of. Painting the model took some time, but the colouring process was very quick and fun to experiment with! 🎨 #characterdesign #art
More kitties ✨ I need to set up some sort of reminders so I don't forget to post #cats #art #drawing #digitalart
Just to add to this; today I was doing some DIY and needed to Google wiring for a ceiling lamp. All the top hits were the same AI articles with tons of text and no images. If ever an article requires a ton of photos it's when it relates to electrical wiring!
ZoLo 🏳️⚧️ 🏴 🇳🇴@zoelocke.bsky.social · last mo.🧵 Blog posts have changed: articles were written to be user accessible (balanced & concise text, lots of images) but now they're written by and for AI (huge amount of text, lots of repetition and rephrasing, no images). SEO is all about being cited by AI, making it harder to avoid AI search. 1/3
going to be crystal fucking clear here, this account responded to my art, it's giving 2016 era internet art critique where it doesn't even understand the point of a critique. which that's fine, people are entitled to do what they want online. except. this is not a person it's an ai bot.
Sat on the draft of this one for a long time. I wanna have this solar system of a cast hanging from my bag #outerwilds #fanart #illustration
Looking to feel equal parts affirmed and heartbroken? I just finished @ahhcade.bsky.social 's How to be Human, and you should read it too! A story of loss, transition, and love. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #webComics #art m.tapas.io/series/HowTo...
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I keep thinking about blogs around specific topics and webrings. The worse search and data access gets, the more I want to want to start writing things for others to consume. I hope I can make things easier for people to find if I start writing about my interests and research
🧵 Blog posts have changed: articles were written to be user accessible (balanced & concise text, lots of images) but now they're written by and for AI (huge amount of text, lots of repetition and rephrasing, no images). SEO is all about being cited by AI, making it harder to avoid AI search. 1/3
