#Art is important

[hiatedateus]

Thinking about getting an ‘art is important’ tattoo someone either talk me out of it or steal my card please

[ephiesoul]

I love that you’ve been doing this for so long. I’ve watched out for your posts originally when I was a teen or something. Now im an adult and I love to see that you still make these art pieces. It’s cute and always makes me smile!

Oh and it’s because of kind people like you that I continue making these, as long as my art can make one person smile I will continue creating 🖤

Thank you ✨

[werkutttttttttttttt]

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on work vs just woke up

[kittygirlpaw]

I love to see art, especially kink oriented art/writing, that I absolutely am not into at all - or even makes me uncomfortable! The amount of effort and care that goes into a craft when it's something the artist is so passionate (and/or horny) about is honestly a beautiful thing to behold

Like seeing stuff involving stuff that I'm not into at all, and I'm just like "what a fucking exquisite way to describe and/or show this, 10/10"

I love seeing ppl express themselves well and truly and being put outside my comfort zone has only made me appreciate the craft of it more.

[noodyl-blasstal]

You know when you have a stupid idea and nothing can stop you?

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“Are you done yet?” Lup asks through gritted teeth.

“The more you ask the longer Taako’s going to take.” Taako prods her shin with his foot

“How about now?”

“Yeah, no, absolutely, glad you asked actually,  cha’boy’s completely done.”

“Really?” Lup relaxes her face. ”Lemme see!”

“No, Goofus, put your face back!”

Lup sighs, but settles back into her cross legged pose and resumes the terrifying smile. “You owe me.”

“It’s worrying how well you can enunciate like that.”

“Years of practice.” She winks at him as he peers over the canvas.

“A multi-talented muse.” Taako squints at Lup, then ducks back behind his stupid tiny easel. He should probably prop it up somewhere else, but the legs hadn’t been right when they were fully extended for years, so the sofa with some structural cushions was his studio of choice. He’s applying the last few brush strokes to the teeth when Lup starts to fidget again.

“Are you done now though?”

“Just let me…” Taako looks at Lup, back at the page, and back again. “Yeah, you’re good.”

“Can I see?”

“Taako isn’t moving it. That’s what smudged it last time.”

Lup vaults unnecessarily over the back of the sofa, then runs round to stand behind him. She takes a deep, reverent breath. “Koko… It’s glorious. Your best yet. You captured the emotions so well.”

“It’s true.” Taako nods solemnly. “Cha’boy has a gift.”

“Everything your brush touches turns to gold.” Lup rests her head on his shoulder to get a closer view. He absently rubs his cheek against hers.

“Uh huh. How many gold specifically? Like 400?”

Lup snorts. “Dream big, why not six?”

“Good point, Taako needs to remember his worth.”

“Hell yeah!” Lup stands and pats him reassuringly on the back.

“Ooooh, that’s good.” Taako grabs his brush and makes a final addition.

Lup waits for him to finish. “Perfect. You’re a genius.”

Image description: a screenshot of a Facebook marketplace post which shows a picture of a blue owl perched on a triangular black shape. The background is a dark blue sky with a large moon directly behind the owl. It is grimacing with human teeth. "hell yeah" is written in the top left of the painting. The marketplace title is "one of a kind contemporary art piece hand painted acrylic on canvas." The price is $600. Description ends.

(I saw this and immediately thought of Taako haunting the buy and sell boards with these.)

[prettysymbiosis]

I'm so moved that through the darkness and strangeness of this whole saga, the love has truly come through to the audience. all the fanart and web weaving is like oh yeah. these wretched two love each other more than anything and that's why we're really here. they made it with love and we've received it with so much love in return. kind of feels like my heart's been ripped out in the best way ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[phanstan4eva]

So my T-shirts and stickers came today and I’ve decided to ✨spice✨ up my laptop but to me it looks too “gappy” (is that a word) any suggestions to fill the extra space in. Thx

[mypointisdolphins]

I just got a new dragon whom I’ve named, Bugsy. He’s going to be my ‘Save the bees!’ representative. Bees are important to the earth to grow new flowers and trees, plus their honey and sugars make up a lot of our daily foods. Bees are super important!

[artists-deserve-better]

Three important petitions that I want to give more awareness to.

Tagging artist I admire: @euqinim0dart @climbdraws @canisalbus @lackadaisycats @judilyart @dappermouth @thekeymonster @beffalumps

[animatedmess]

I hate having to live through these times sometimes.

Artists have always been hated in a way, but to see the sadistic triumphant glint in the eyes of people when they talk about Ai art, how “it’s over for designers and artists and animators”

Why are you so happy about people losing their livelihoods? The opportunity to live off of their craft and passion? Why are you so exited about losing something so fundamentally intertwined with human expression to a machine?

One of the first sign of humans existing was art, before we could write we could draw and sculpt and make things, and now you are happy to have a soulless machine replace the mind of creative people? Ai doesn’t create anything, it’s not new or innovative or creative, it’s based on real art, most likely stolen. If there are no artists there’s no art. All great ideas come from the human experience, a machine cant replicate it.

It’s not only the fact that what is happening is sad and frankly scary, is also the fact that there’s so many people absolutely elated about this.

It’s depressing.

Im just glad there’s still people that value art, artists, the creative fields, and that if nothing else, we have each other.

[grayswan444]

everywhere i go i carry this deep rooted feeling that there's something more than this

[dino-boyo-agere]

Do I hate capitalism? Yes!

Did I also buy the new DanAndPhilCRAFTS merch, the second it came out? Absolutely!

Here's the merch btw!!

[topicstoughtotalkabout]

First

They came for our art And we did not speak out Because it was only art, and we had to make a living

Then they came for our books And the librarians said something But they soon quieted, because "think of the children"

Then they came for our music And no one noticed, Because all the stations are owned by the same companies

Then they came for our language They called it slang, and vulgar And we didn't speak out because they silenced us

Then they came for us And no one noticed Because we had all already disappeared

With apologies to Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

[arts-and-chaos]

Please create 🙏 it’s good for the mind and good for the soul

Friendly reminder to not punish yourself for creating. 

[mypointisdolphins]

Made this for my art shop on FR. Its my new signature link! :)

Cool, right?

[juunipupu]

Knight and the enemy within