#maybe repost some old art

[pepa-is-drawing]

made this silly worm divider for instagram cuz i think im returning to that godforsaken place <3

[lazydayslivin]

playing sonic after work is a double shift. these fkin koco

[bobcat-pie]

I'm constantly wondering when to set my queued posts.

I've got an art account that i sometimes log onto and queue stuff for, but it doesn't get anywhere near as much engagement as this account does! I was wondering if changing the queue time could help that.

Sorry I don't have a "see results" option! it only lets me have 12 buttons. I'll reblog the poll when it's finished, but if you can't wait to see the current results, please pick a random one to limit artificial data skewing!

also please reblog for a bigger sample size. please please please, this survey is already flawed, at least give me a big sample size so i can get an answer

[sillysadduck]

for those who didnt know my previous accounts, or even those who do, in 2020 I was also SUUUPER harassed for a fnaf fanart where my humanized bonnie and mangle LOOKED AT EACH OTHER.

I'M TELLING YOU, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO BACK THEN. NOW I CAN LAUGH BUT BOY DID I SUFFER.

so I may redraw that fanart for the good old times, here's to me being the black sheep of every fandom for no reason😭 lmaooo

[solradguy]

What's super tragic about these Dengeki PS Oct. '95 scans is that whoever scanned them skinned their copy of the magazine to do it. These issues are rare as all hell, but the scans have been passed through the tubes of the internet so much, with the original source scans long gone, that they're one step above being deep fried. So whether or not they had skinned their copy would hardly have mattered with the shape the files are in now. Some of the text is straight up illegible. Guilty Gear's equivalent to Epic of Gilgamesh tablets... Lacunose...

Saluting whatever poor soul yanked these pages out of a rare magazine issue god knows how long ago and the chain of people that volleyball'd these ancient JPGs around until I got them though.

[snezus-christ-risen]

release the horn drawings

I’ll have to finish them first!

[lion-buddy]

being the resident nezuko liker is such a challenge sometimes

[brooklynnsart]

a bunch of concept and production work for my 2d characters and environments class in college - 2020

our sememster long assignment was to develop a pitch bible for a tv show/comic. Mine was about an accidental time traveler getting stuck in the 1970s, I called it Far-Out.

[cosmicrot]

HI I’M REPOSTING THIS CAUSE OF SPACE DANDY 9TH ANNIVERSARY AAHHHH

i love dandy so much

[etcetceteras]

i love that one of my last post was about tumblr imploding and this one’s gonna be about... twitter imploding! :^) hey sooooo

[thebirdqueen]

Hey I'm sort a back-

sorry again for leaving I'll post some art rn for y'all but yeah I'll he appearing here a little more often 😭

[wheatcak3]

Hello!!! I finally caved and made an instagram account haha 🤩 It's got some catching up to do in terms of art posts but I hope to see some of you there! 🥰❤️

Https://instagram.com/wheatcak3/

[shoddylottie]

a few silly looking fellas

[boatemboys]

i need to be more careful with what i say i have some really cool mutuals that i gained recently. dont run away in terror i can do cool things sometimes promise.

[mollyjames]

The point shouldn't be to identify for sure 100% what is ai art and what isn't. I keep seeing posts advising one to look out for wonky perspective (as if perspective doesn't routinely trip up even the most experienced artists) or to pay attention to fudged detailing (as if impressionism wasn't one of the most influential artistic movements in history), and I think that's coming from a good place but frankly it's a losing battle. Remember when everyone was on about counting the fingers or counting the teeth, and a week later they had that shit ironed out completely? All you're really doing is giving these people more data points to work with to refine their algorithm. It's just going to be constantly shifting goalposts, and at a certain point real artists are going to get exhausted trying to make their art look as not algorithmically generated as possible. It'll be impossible to keep up.

So what should we do? Honestly, I think old practices are still best practices. Find real artists and follow them. Don't repost art, and dont spread reposted art. If something doesn't have a source, skip it. Support artists you like, either by sharing their work directly or donating. And if someone's work looks suspicious? Maybe give them a second look. See some of their other art before jumping to conclusions.

And yes, that means sometimes, you're gonna be tricked. Some people are going to fly under the radar and pass off ai art as their own. And that sucks, and they're liars, but you can't let the obsession with bad actors police real artists out of their communities, or discourage new artists from entering the scene.

[drchucktingle]

One of my fav podcasts is doing an episode on you and I'm shaking my head because they're not real buckaroos and they don't understand that you write because love is real and everyone should have joy in their lives. They're just making jokes and I'm like "at least buckaroos embrace what makes us happy"

yes this is interesting thing that happens with my trot A LOT. i usually will repost a podcast or interview if someone does a nice talk on chuck, but there is STILL a large portion of folks who seem to have the irony poison pumping through their veins and cant come to terms with the fact that my work is sincere

you can pretty dang quickly tell if someone is laughing AT you or laughing WITH you. i have trotted onto interviews where i IMMEDIATELY know i am getting laughed at and honestly that is okay. i cant really blame them because i know the way the culture of irony swirls around us and swallows everything up, especially online. i also know that as i trot forward and break down walls of 'low brow' and 'high brow' art there will be resistance, ALL the good trots forward will face resistance.

HOWEVER it also has to be said that a lot of this is just plain old SUBCONSCIOUS BIAS (or maybe conscious bias sometimes) against queer people and neurodivergent people. if my work was straight and i followed the neurotypical template for art i would not be treated like this. honestly the most fascinating thing to me is that these otherwise kind, well-meaning or even politically left people are just publicly tearing apart someone for, if you really wanna get down too it, being bi and autistic. i think they would be HORRIFIED is someone pointed that out, and for some reason they cant see it

i think a lot of this has to do with people thinking i am not 'real'. it is much easier to treat a 'character' this way.

but it is fine. its the trot ive got, and if you think about it, even though these folks are resistant to take me seriously and with actual respect for my work, it is actually THEIR loss. a podcast episode where you make fun of my book titles for an hour is SO MUCH LESS INTERESTING than a podcast where you pull apart what im actually doing and the intention behind my work. any time a buckaroo dives into THAT part of it, their analysis resonates across this timeline. so really its the folks makin fun that are missing out