#i used to be an artist ... goddamn

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

[shithowdy]

realized a drawing i'm doing rn is almost identically posed to one i did 8.5 years ago of a different oc, except the old drawing was instantly tainted by one of the players featured messaging me asking if i could take it down because their abusive, possessive rp partner saw it and got jealous of them "roleplaying behind their back" and i said "nah" and it became a whole Thing that i should have walked away from at that exact moment but didn't and the 6 months that followed contained some of the most truly condensed batshit i have ever witnessed in an rp community already well-known for its batshittery.

... anyway i love my friends. so happy to accidentally redeem the pose.

[enbypotat53]

Oops I got bored

[eliathynfer]

Ram Doobay

1/2/3/4…

“I’m sorry I wasn’t there while you… I don’t know what you felt, but… Inside, I felt that I was dying with you.”

Holy fucking SHIIIIT this took me AGES. Yes, I procrastinated, yes, the details fucking suck, but I don’t care as it is 04:30 AM and I’m STARVINGGGG. Anyway, slay king, he’s a cutie patootie.

[ethemreal]

"an untitled portrait by Van Dyck, 1621"

(watercolor on paper, 9"x12", 2024)

also on ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/57560983

inspired by this post/fic by @cuubism

https://cuubism.tumblr.com/post/699751218188353536/a-van-dyck-dream-drawled-dragging-a-light

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42802623

[grandmother-goblin]

My least favorite thing in Tumblr fandom is going into a character tag, and then coming across several posts of my dreaded, unrelated, blocked tag alongside blorbo.

Hozier.

[kittywillcutyou-illustration]

Drolta Tzuentes (Could have done anything to me, frankly)✨️✨️✨️

[earthtocaptainsky]

AI is going to send me on my villain arc. If you want to make art or a novel or write an essay do it yourself coward, partake in the human experience. You are no better than what you can create with your own hands, even a stick figure holds more merit than a generated image.

[what-the-fuck-khr]

october tenth

[bravano]

Not my best work, but this week has kinda been shitty lol

[aggressiveguitarnoises]

Mads sketch:3

[whatisamildopinion]

shout-out to the true master of playing with characters like dolls: country and folk music. no one else puts little guys in situations like true country and folk music. shout-out Devil Went Down to Georgia. shout-out I hung My Head. shout-out Banded Clovis. like, yes!!! tell me a story!!! make some shit up!!!! slay queen, this song is NOT AT ALL related to the artist's life!!!!

[nyancreeperpony]

Hey Hazbin Tumblr can you do me a super small, eensie teensie favor and tag your Alastor Ship Discourse so I can block the tag and don't have to see it, thaaaanks :)

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Even since Michael's heavenly ascend, not just the music industry but, quite frankly, the entertainment industry as a whole has been left with a massive void that I don't believe will be fulfilled in the near future or ever again. That man had a star power equivalent to three Galactuses at their most powerful. You will never witness someone like that ever again, not in this lifetime nor the next one. He was and still is one of a kind.

[lunar-eclipse-bunnies]

My piece is about a Japanese boatwoman navigating the sea surrounding Mount Oyamaand meeting the nature spirit responsible for the waves there. The boatwoman is grieving, as every fiancé she’s had has perished in some way, leaving her an outcast in her village, and considered a bad-luck charm for the young men there. In her grief, and to leave her village, the woman cut her hair, stole her father’s hakama and joined a fishing boat’s crew under the guise of being a man. Her presence continued to cause unlucky accidents for her male coworkers, until she was the only fisherman left on the ship. She decided to sail until the sea took her life as well, but instead of a watery grave the woman found a chaotic and bored nature spirit, responsible for the choppy waters and waves she had purposefully sailed into. The spirit’s kimono was made of the sea, her otaiko the Mount Oyama itself, her crescent hair stick is the moon. Her kimono sleeves frothed at the edges, flinging pearls into the sky. The woman saw as the spirit apathetically transformed random pearls into swirling balls of light that floated lazily up into the sky and past the clouds. She realized that those must have been the souls of those who died at sea, and some of them must have been her fellow fishermen. She stood in awe on her boat, just watching, waiting for her own turn to become a pearl. My piece was heavily inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night as well as the Japanese woodblock that inspired it, Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa. One of my personal interests is the effect of Japanese woodblock prints on the western art world, especially the on the post-impressionists (some, including van Gogh, were so into Japanese culture that they were called the newly-coined French term, “Japonisme.”), and I especially adore Hokusai’s work. I took the iconic moon and stars from van Gogh’s piece and the composition, boats, mountain, and wave from Hokusai’s print, molding them to fit together. Instead of a cypress tree in the foreground, like in van Gogh’s piece, I instead drew in a human form holding some oars, putting it in the same place in the foreground as van Gogh’s cypress tree; both are meant as symbols of death and mourning.

my art history prof gave me 100 for this and the essay i turned in with it :3c her class is the only one im not dying in this quarter lmao

[harukowitch]

I’m a sucker for crossovers and this is one of my favorites. One Piece x DC, Such an interesting concept! Robin, my beloved, I had to try to draw her.

Now her outfit is based on the dress she just bought in the last chapter. The first picture is my first attempt at the dress, it wasn’t until I actually decided to look up the the word ‘ruched’ (which I thought meant draped not puckered) for writing the alt text that I came up with the second design, which I think is closer to what they had in mind. Do I think I got it exactly right the second time around, no; but I at least had to try. I’m still glad I went back and did that redesign I like it so much better.

I didn’t add any jewelry because I honestly couldn’t think of what would look best.

There were a few other scenes that I could have honestly drawn but I couldn’t pass up her being a boss in a dress. I can not wait to see what happens at the gala.

Pose ref: @leteulteu or @jugsun61 on Twitter