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John Bateman
#homestuck#john egbert#a skele fanart#my art#post game john looking at patrick bateman like:#i am not saying what he did was ok. but he has some good points.#i was fuckin cackling while drawing this btw
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at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"
like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.
"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."
... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.
and i'd still keep writing.
i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.
i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley
"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"
and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.
it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.
you create because you're greedy.
#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME#there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing#and the writing is what i need to be doing#writeblr#this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to#edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol#i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!!#my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means#i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her)#hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong#i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet.#i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse#i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!!#i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO#i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness#and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it#im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us#i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer#and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art.#i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work#even if it means being miserable#but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.
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“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.”
#Frankenstein#frankensteins monster#victor frankenstein#mary shelley#gothic lit#gothic art#goth artist#sooo the creature is pretty fuckin terrifying and I don’t think I’ve conveyed that much in my art yet#if you haven’t watched the royal ballet I highly recommend you do#I may post some clips bc I haven’t seen anyone else do that?#but ur better watching the whole thing#and the national theatre play#they’re both just Very good adaptations and the monster is terrifying in them 😭#my art#this is very much inspired by/based on a statue by Jean-Baptiste carpaeux#‘ugolino and his sons’#and the carvings of Satan by Gustave Dore
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wind breaker time! Bofurin first years !!
#wind breaker#wind breaker fanart#sakura haruka#suo hayato#nirei akihiko#kiryu mitsuki#kyotaro sugishita#taiga tsugeura#bofurin#im so hooked already you guys have no idea#i saw sugishita and my baji braincells flew aliveeeee#but kiryu?????? GOT ME GOOD THAT MAN GOT ME GOOD#im sorry i see a man with piercings and i go googoo gaga#but also nirei sakura and suo dynamics???? IM ALWAYS FOR THE TRIOS GUYS YOU DONT EVEN KNOWWWW#anyway bofurin first years so dear to me#found family AND fighting it’s like wind breaker is dangling a bait in front of me and im just a pea brained fish going YESSSSSSSSS#FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKIN FOOD#mint archives ; art
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Mother's Call. Look what they took from me you.
#sephiroth#ff7#ffvii#final fantasy#art#illustration#my art#it's the weekend so i can finish a bunch of stuff#sorry for posting a lot ;;#i need some coffee#holding his head in my hands while he weeps#it's okay seph#sidenote: new woman is so fuckin good???
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i just can’t get you out of my head 🎵
#doctor who#dw spoilers#fifteenth doctor#fifteen#rogue#my art#fanart#two versions bc i couldn’t decide which one i liked more#anyway finally some good fuckin food#thank u mr russell thee davies#now can we have some sapphics too pls
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Y’all should watch The Edge of Sleep…
#fanart for a piece of media ive loved for about 3.5 years now#The Edge Of Sleep show is finally out and all of yall should consider watching it!#It’s on Amazon Prime and if you love horror#you’ll love this#it started as a podcast then became a book and now it’s a show!#if you watch it and like it tell your friends about it!#its really good guys trust#anyways have some art for it#it’s been fuckin years since I’ve drawn mark#but I think this came out good enough#the edge of sleep#the edge of sleep fanart#the edge of sleep on prime#markiplier#QCODE#mark fischbach#markiplier fanart#not starcanpulpwrecked#sorryyyy#don’t worry tho- I’ve got more stuff on the way#just took a break from it to do this#my art
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citrus trees are odd. like why are they allowed to happen?? wild
#vash the stampede#trimax spoilers#trigun#this is the companion tree to that knives one i posted earlier :D yk with the fuckin snake#this was my first time working with gold leaf!! and my last time drawing a fucking tree <3 (/j)#trigun spoilers#trigun maximum#drawing#artists on tumblr#my art#illustration#comic#manga#fanart#traditional art#ink drawing#gave vash a bigger patchworked tree. and im glad the gold blends more#you did good vash. i like to think that after everything eventually you'll get some rest#i think he more than earned a soft end#it definitely looks better finished but! like the knives piece it also definitely looks much better in person#well. what can you do lol
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man... i was going through my 15 year old deviantart account and i actually really really miss that site. like tumblr is fun and insta is.. insta... but i dont think since then there's been such an art-focused community with so many people talking to each other and commenting on each others work quite like deviantart
(ofc massive disclaimer that i probably have some rose-tinted vision and the site was full of creeps and pedos... so if we could just have the good parts of it back LMAO)
#i was obsessed with it as a teen and definitely posted some risky stuff that adult me would be like do NOT SHARE THAT ON THE INTERNET#but also it was so nice to have a selection of online art friends#it felt like a proper community which i didnt have irl#nowadays posting art online feels more.. idk? like ur presenting something to an algorithm to make the number go up#i dont care about engagement nearly as much as i used to but its hard not to get pulled in when every fuckin site is like this#deviantart felt more intimate and like youre sharing your art with friends and talking about it#..except there's that one friend who REALLY wants you to draw some feet#s text#anyway a few of you guys still follow me from the deviantart days and just let it be known i remember u and love u and hope life is good <3
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jordan tweeted about the rats in his walls and i thought for a second he was teasing that he was in rats smp s2 so?? holy moley character leak???
#rats smp#captainsparklez#(not canon just speculation)#gkm arts#lafakiwi draws#mcyt fanart#mcyt#captainsparklez fanart#jordan captainsparklez#i imagine his whole fuckin rat base is made outta foam insulation#illustration#artists on tumblr#art#digital art#hes made an ianite statue out of foam#hes that lunatic who keeps talking about some goddess and its the woman who works in the cafe of the walls hes in#who leaves cheese for him#he'll eat it sometimes but its not as good as the abestoes#rats smp 2
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Hunger and Satisfaction
the hunger of a hunter and the satisfaction of a well-made meal
#gamble the queue#art#my art#digital art#artists on tumblr#drawing#fan art#fanart#rain world#illustration#rw hunter#rw gourmand#rw slugcat#hunter slugcat#gourmand slugcat#these guys would be friends#its a win win situation!! hunters getting some good fuckin food and gourm has someone to share and appreciate food with!!
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minecraft hk double post for whimsy and autism venn diagram overlap
#guarden/art#hollow knight fanart#hornet hk#cloth hk#ghost hk#charm lover salubra#<- put some respect on my girls name i fuckin love salubra#minecraft#good enuff
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lies of p beloved 🦋
#my art#sketch/doodle#lies of p#lies of p fanart#I HAVE EARLY ACCESS HEHEHE#im only caught up with the demo so far tho shsbsv but i am SO good at the game now#20 hours of fuckin around in the demo made me READY#felt like drawing all the legion arms it was so fun i had the official youtube up and just skimming through the showcases#god!! im just!!!! so excited to keep playing#this is gonna be a like 3 parter cuz i drew him a lot 🥰 also i might come back to some of these namely the coffin one#also like dhdhdj how do u tag for this game i was gonna use pinocchio (lies) or (lop) or something but?? idk!!#ok bye!!!
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If I drew them looking at me I would’ve died
#pea art#digital art#oc Asher#oc Hallow#oc Ero#oc Needy#oc Nick#oc Rory#oc Dawn#oc Steve#my art#my ocs#ocs#oc#my oc#my characters#original character#original characters#character design#humanized oc#I’m. hurts#some of them look good. others aren’t human for a reason#this is where we learn Ero has fuckin. frosted tips or highlights or whatever#please. pls reblog…… I’m pain
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We’ve heard of werewolf Curt- but what about vampire Owen?
#(ft. werewolf curt)#I had the thought the other night and needed to draw it so bad#and I’ve been told that someone has written this already?#so pumped to read that#might draw vampire Owen and werewolf curt some more bc I’m a sucker for that kind of stuff#I love vampires tho#I think there’s hella potential with this perchance#but that might just be me#I fuckin love doing doodle pages like this#they are my favorite#been trying to draw Owen more too because I’m kinda lacking in that department#anyways I’ve said it before and I will say it again:#Saf AUs my beloved#alright fun fact time#fun fact: the upper front top part of a shoe is called a “vamp#I thought that was a good one bc uhhh… vamp heheh#spies are forever#tin can bros#spies are forever au#owen carvour#Joey richter#agent curt mega#Curt mega#my art
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I wanted to draw my own take on ART-as-a-presence-in-the-feed but struggled with what path to take for A While bc all I had was that I was adamant about a winding, serpentine body, too large to take in at once and So Good at piling upon your shoulders with weight that's either overwhelming or comforting, take your pick
And then I brought in the hexagons and everything just worked
(They let me give it a face without an actual face, make for a good shorthand to show that it's talking/present in potential future art, and as a bonus serve as an homage to JWST bc hey, science!)
Partially brought to you by a whole lot of listening to Satellite by Starset
#ive hit the 'i just wanna stop looking at it' phase tho so here. take it#digital art#fanart#murderbot#the murderbot diaries#asshole research transport#character design#somehow this is what taught me how to make custom brushes in krita (it was for the face hexagons)#okay i am fuckin Tired but im still reeling from Network Effect and i care these two dipshits so much#i picked orange for ART to contrast Murderbots blue#but unfortunately also bc its been stuck in my brain as orange-aligned from the moment it appeared#bc my first impression was 'oh youre like simaris but not fuckin infuriating'#which is a Very unfair comparison btw bc i cant fuckin stand simaris but i love ART dearly#also a million other reasons but yeah. sorry bud you got assigned orange at introduction#at some point during the desing process it also had a whole bunch of hands since its controlling so many things at once with ease#but i had no way to make that look good and keep with the original vision of 'annoying long weighted blanket'
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