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gregdotorg · 1 year ago

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You may know Henry Codax from the giant monochrome paintings exhibited under his fictitious name by an anonymous collaboration of other art world denizens who got the character from a novel published by another fictitious artist and gallerist run by a corporation.

But now at Everybody, a gallery in Tucson Henry Codax is revealed to be an artist who does all that by showing paintings of QR codes that link to a monochrome webpage. It is at once a breakthrough, and a continuity, decoding what this project has been about all along.

images: henry codax, 2023 installation view from everybody.gallery; screenshot of untitled (b6688f), 2023 via henrycodax.com/b6688f.html

#henry codax #everybody gallery #collab #corporations are artists too #monochrome #the first eleven works from a series of what? 16.8 million?

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kirby-the-gorb · 11 months ago

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#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #so like aliexpress used to have a terrible reputation in terms of like quality and truth in advertising and such right #but like. amazon and etsy are swamped with bootleggers and dropshippers now too #so I figured like. can't be any worse right?#besides I know how to double check descriptions and measurements and examine images critically #I've shopped shady sites before like back when banggood was the only place to get those cute diy miniature kits #(now you can get them at regular craft store chains which is Wild to me)#but I have never opened aliexpress because everyone was always just like 'Never Go There'#(but then again these days folks are doing massive temu hauls left and right)#(so clearly norms have changed even if common perception of aliexpress has not)#I open it up and I immediately find the rug I spent an entire day hunting for unsuccessfully earlier in the month.#and a ton of incredible bootleg kirbs.#and a style of hair clip I've been hunting for for *years*.#soooo I spent the entire day in a pastel fugue lol #(I have not spent any money yet but I'm probably gonna)#(so like I can't confirm that you're not gonna get scammed or whatever just like. use common sense.)#(don't trust sale prices read descriptions/reviews when available and try to avoid work stolen from independent artists)#(that's usually gonna be on printed stuff like phone cases and posters)#(and tbh I have no qualms with stolen official art as long as the quality is as advertised)#(but there's a big difference between stealing from Multinational Corporation and stealing from Some Guy)#anyway done rambling now <3 #favorites

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adobe-outdesign · 1 month ago

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Are you pro-AI/chatgpt?

#okay nuance: I try not be too much of a boomer when it comes to new tech and I don't think AI has to be bad inherently #when used as a tool to help do menial tasks it's great!#unfortunately though corporations want to use it to replace artists with AI slop so like. fuck it #also it being a misinfo machine also doesn't help #AI #asks #Anonymous

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asterdaydreamer1020 · 9 months ago

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🎲 GOOD MORNING TOONTOWN!!! 🎲

+ phase 3 suit version because 😳

#art #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #toontown corporate clash #high roller #Won a bet with friends to make this :0 #and as an honor of defeating him with a friend that went on for almost a week #might considering drawing the other bosses at some point too :0

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liliox-ciel · 7 months ago

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EGO Laetitia

#digital illustration #fanart #illustration #digital artist #chibi art #chibi artist #limbus company #project moon #lobotomy corporation #limbus fanart #limbus company fanart #limbus outis #made this one a year ago too i think

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ekholocationn · 10 months ago

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day two of lobocorp doodles. wanted to draw some ladies and ended up giving them each varying levels of finish

crops under cut

#i watched my sister beat gebura's suppression last night so the plan was only to draw her #then binah and angela kind of Happened #been having a lot of fun just sketching these characters!!!#ekhoartworks #my art #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #lobotomy corporation #lobocorp #project moon #project moon fanart #lobotomy corp #lobotomy corp fanart #angela lobcorp #gebura lobcorp #binah lobcorp #punishing bird is there too but im not tagging it cuz its just a shitty sketch in the corner

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creator-indy · 11 months ago

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My new girly pop Valarie valentine

#art #drawing #digital art #artists on tumblr #oc #ocart #indy’s art #toontown corporate clash #ttcc #toontown #toonblr #cog oc #toontown oc #toontag #midge is here too but eh whatever #original character #Valerie valentine

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cylove · 4 months ago

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concept art for a knight au !!!!!! i’ve wanted to do this forever, like cmon he’s the sword for his king? the aus just write themselves. i went with the first one because i wanted that traditional knight in shining armor look mixed in with thai armor. i plan to steal the helmet from the far right and give it to the left design. BTW id love to hear ways to improve this design, ik it’s not the most time accurate, but i’m more so going for a fantastical look. i don’t delve into character design a lot, so i’m still learning

#my art #kengan ashura #kengan omega #gaolang wongsawat #kaolan wongsawat #im a slow artist but im hoping to make some stuff with this design!!#rama is his king OBV and saw paing is a dragon tamer? i had an idea that training in lethway made him “tough as dragon scales” lol #sayaka is a princess retsudo joined the royal gaurd instead of being a prince? agito is a knight too #it’s relatively easy to translate characters in a medieval setting as they would be knights for their respective “kingdoms” or corporation #the tournament is just that a tournament for royalty and wealthy citizens to watch. and some kingdoms sought out criminals mercenaries etc #but i don’t rlly care about them lol this is a gaolang centric blog (currently)

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herbgerblin · 2 years ago

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Justin Tyler Mcelroy: i'm gonna DM a fun theme park world where big corpo's investment in hardlight tech is an active threat to the likeness, autonomy, and agency of the creatives that they employ lol

WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and other unions: *fighting to protect their likeness, autonomy, and agency from the threat of AI and other tech*

#I'm almost caught up on steeplechase #I hope this series gets graphic novel-ed as well #something something it's not enough to market the art. we have to market the artist too.#corporate wants you to devote your whole life to this character so that you'll be nothing when we rip it away and turn it into a hologram #nostalgia marketing. parasocial currency. you will die and we will sell your ghost over and over

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aroaessidhe · 6 months ago

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2024 reads / storygraph

Outdrawn

f/f contemporary romance

two cartoonist who’ve been rivals since uni, and now have competing webcomics online, have to work together on the relaunch of a cult classic at the comic press they both work at

they both struggle with art-related physical and mental health issues, and complicated families

#outdrawn #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #sapphic books #I thought this was decent! I liked the concept (even if I got distracted by some art related things…)#and the dynamic between the characters was good. I enjoyed their relationship development broadly speaking #and the emphasis on communication; though it was a quick flip into being together all of a sudden.#The sketchbook doodle flirting was cute. Some interesting exploration of their complicated family situations too.#There’s a lot of exploration of burnout and carpal tunnel and the dangers of artists overworking which I think are important conversations #and are done with some nuance. But it’s pretty much all discussed in the context of the personal pressure they put on themselves #rather than the industry corporate greed and artificial competition created by the comic platform - which are significant in this story!#It felt odd that that connection wasn’t really ever made?#I know that this is a romance and nitpicking the background plot is beside the point and also that I am not a big romance reader #but the premise that the comic hosting site archives everything; wipes the leaderboard; and out of nowhere has a comic competition for #new weekly chapters…I’m sorry but the art world would riot. Even if people enter because they’re desperate for the cash they’d be pissed #People live off the income from their webcomics! if they were erased (temporarily) with no notice…..there would be crimes committed istg #I simply don’t believe that it would be doable to create a new weekly webcomic with no notice while you also have a full-time comic job #(especially as the only stylistic choices mentioned are full-colour) - not to mention what happened to their 8-years-running webcomics #that were archived? they don’t think about them at all after the beginning? surely they’d care about that?#And then with their new comics they make for this competition (after work I guess) we get vague snippets about them but barely anything #- if they’re consuming that much of your time I would expect to feel like they’re thinking about them all the time #rather than the vaguest discussion about genre and cast numbers only.#I guess I just think the whole comic site stunt felt unnecessary for the plot anyway -#it would have worked exactly the same if they were just competing on the normal leaderboard with their normal comics???#anyway - I’m not judging TOO hard about all that because again I know it’s not the point and maybe the industry is like that in some place #Unfortunately it was distracting enough to affect my feelings on the book tho lol.#Lastly: the audiobook………oof. The narrators talk at different speeds; for one.#And Sage’s VA does this deeply weird raspy-anime-teen-boy voice for Noah which is such an odd choice #and doesn’t match her character at all.#unforch my library only had the audiobook (what I usually prefer) so I just had to sort of….translate the narration into a normal voice lol #anyway the romance is good tho

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vilochkaaa · 2 years ago

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a silly little AU, where Pierre joined "evil", and became a ordinary employee of Joja Co.

damn he so bbgrl in that business suit💯

they've been working all night... 😔

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😡😡😡

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squidslugs-art · 1 year ago

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HERE YE ALL HIGH ROLLER'S HIGH ROLLER FANS

so for like, the 2 people paying attention to me talking about my "secret project" on my main blog, i hope you like the result, because my december project has been...

LOW BALLERS!!!!!!!!!

ive been quietly painting ducks and creating myself a trio of little guys over the last, hm, 2? 3 weeks?

i dont even rember. but ive been planning this for months, i just didnt have time around university to do it til now.

BUT i had so much fun with these. painting ducks is surprisingly fun and it all went really well! i think the only issue is the only hats i could get had a straw texture already applied.

i used silver for details, mostly because i forgot to buy white and i thought id see how silver looked so i could dodge trying to buy more paint at christmas, and it looked good on the first so i stuck with it!

for those curious: i used white racing ducks (means they dont squeak or squish, but i think thats ideal for a painting project) and plastic hats designed for dolls and crafts. and wine bottles toppers, according to the terrible names that these get on amazon. with acrylic paints and superglue to affix the hats down. they aren't waterproof, sorry to the belivers.

heres a turnaround for ya'll too, i added some goofy details like sparkles around the glasses and the hat. its a tragedy i couldnt get metallic paints for the hat.

i think thats all ive got to say, hope everyone else likes my little guys the way i do :3 now on to make more until i have an undefeatable army of them...

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