And to open it properly here is a manekineko-haunting bakeneko ghost!
(And since I'm a big softie for furry critter, it is just watching over baby kittens instead of horribly dismembering people)
(just… don't hurt the kittens and the horribly dismembering may still happen anyway)
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Que la saison des frissons commence !
Et pour bien la commencer, voici un fantôme de bakeneko, hantant un manekineko de pierre !
(Et comme je suis une grosse chochotte et amoureuse des petits machins velus, il se contente de veiller sur les chatons au lieu de démembrer les gens de façon horrifique)
(ceci dit, ne faites pas de mal aux chatons, ou il ne promet rien niveau démembrement horrifique.)
This is my one of my kittens, Flint, wearing a tiny hat and sleeping happily on a PlayStation controller. He's a good luck cat, and seeing him negates any bad luck from not sharing silly chain posts. Nothing bad will happen if you don't share this. I hope he made you smile. ❤️
hi any advice for a person who's trying to become a professional artist? everywhere I look in any art adjacent industry people are losing their jobs left and right,being underpaid or are freelancing while working a side job,I swear the only ppl doing well are the ai art bitches…I feel like I'm aboard a sinking ship 🥲🫠
I applied to multiple postings yesterday and honestly I don't know anymore 🫠
The illustrator + 2D generalist + concept artist hiring pools are pretty full right now with all the layoffs
Without connections or an insane online following idk how students and entry-level folks are supposed to make it anymore
Recommendations through positive word-of-mouth from my previous clients has been keeping me afloat so far + commissions + patreon, and I'm blessed with a super supportive parent; if I didn't have those things — and if I was able or willing to do a 9-to-5 office job— I would not be in a position to handle this
And honestly AI is a huge issue, don't get me wrong, but it plays a small part of why these creative industries are collapsing.
It's the unforgiving hours, the low pay, the burnout, the layoffs disrupting entire chains of communication, sudden project cancellations due to trend-chasing and investor expectations and internal politics, the looming uncertainty of the future. The unsustainable profit-first infrastructure is just finally buckling I fear.
Possible workaround: pop off as a fan artist and build a following large enough to subsist on subscriptions. Make a new draw-with-me tiktok every other day and/or stream for five to eight hours a day three times a week. I am in no way joking about this. It's a lot of work to get there but at least it yields consistent results. 🧍🏾♀️