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Rainy Day

Animated sketch, drawn with Pencil2D.

Rain and stormy weather kind of serve as a memento mori for me...

The forces of nature invoke a sense of dissociative smallness, isolation, and fatalism within myself.

Lately, I have been weighed down by fatigue and frustrations due to the many limitations on my ability to solve problems and help others. Limits of time, funds, connections, and research capabilities. I guess all I can do is just keep trudging on, doing what I can where I can...

#digital art #digital drawing #pencil2d #2d animation #gif #rain #rainfall #rainy day #overcast #melancholy #avoiding burnout #feeling tired

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Naru and Sarii (fan art)

A quick sketch of Amber Midthunder's character from the 2022 movie Prey (plus her dog), that I did on a lazy Sunday night after binging a bunch of online content related to the Predator franchise.

It may be a prequel installment for an action-horror-scifi franchise, but Prey has some really darn good representation of Comanche culture, and I was particular enthralled by effort and attention-to-detail that was highlighted in interviews and behind-the-scenes videos I was consuming on YouTube. Producer Jhane Myers put a lot of creative work in to get things right, and I think it's great seeing that indigenous persons were for once exercising creative control of a movie about them.

Btw, I definitely dig Sarii the dog too :)

Speedpaint video:

#fanart #prey 2022 #predator franchise #yautja #naru #comanche #amber midthunder #krita artwork #digital sketch #digital drawing #native american #indigenous #women's history month #dog #rez dog #doggo #Youtube

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Since this April 1st is going to be a Monday, once I get home from work I'll be too busy doing this:

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April fool's day hasn't been fun in years.

reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing

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Don't mind me, just reblogging to spread mrpsychokiller's link.

in totally unrelated news, i happen to be an artist with my commissions open

if you're an artist, drop your commission info in a reblog! now's no time to panic; we've got to help each other more than ever!

#artists on tumblr #visual art #commission #reblog

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It ain't the first thing on my shit-list, but A.I. image-generators are definitely in the top 10 out of 1,000.

#fuck ai #dead internet theory #art reference #useful information

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ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

#very very disappointed in tumblr #so so tired of all the AI shit lately #artists on tumblr #ai #art protection #glaze #anti ai #nightshade

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THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. but you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

#data #data scraping #ai #information #blog #art #image #visual art

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Olive Sapling

Krita, March 2024

Those that survive may heal, grow, and flourish again.

#digital art #krita illustration #digital illustration #digital painting #krita artwork #olive tree #olive #sapling #illustration #visual art #falesteen #falestine #kufiya #potted plant

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reblog if you think

is better than

#body illustration #clothing #comic book art

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I cannot ignore what I know to be happening.

#marker sketch #marker drawing #late night post #stress #gaza #current events #palestine #rafah #rafah crossing #rafah border #isreal is basically a vassal state of US imperialist interests #we continue to supply them with the military aid to commit genocide #accountability must be held #Youtube

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"Escarpment" - Adobe Photoshop, 2024

I've personally divested myself from Adobe's Creative Programs ever since they switched to the subscription model, but I can cheat a little bit because the local library happens to have the Creative Cloud on their Maker Space computer :)

Personally, I think Krita is a superior program when it comes to meeting my needs as an artist, but I still like to dabble in the older program for nostalgia...

#digital art #doodle #digital illustration #adobe photoshop #digital painting #landscape #trees #ruins #cliffside #escarpment

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SORRY FOR THE VERY PERSONAL COMIC!!

This is my half of “Unhealthy”, an essay comic double header with the lovely and talented Sarah Winifred Searle. She and I both wrote about our personal experiences as overweight ladies with eating disorders, and her story is breathtaking! You can buy a physical copy of the book here: https://topatoco.com/collections/abby-howard/products/ah-unhealthy

Or buy a digital PDF here: https://abbyhoward.itch.io/unhealthy

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Souvenir!

I passed through New York City while on my way to DC earlier this January, and I could not help but notice certain aspects of urban design that I rather dislike, aspects that in real life are annoyingly resistant to being axe-kicked.

So I drew this comic starring a couple of my OCs.

#krita illustration #digital illustration #digital drawing #krita artwork #comic art #comic strip #sketching #webcomic #doodle #original character #urban landscape #hostile architecture #anti homeless architecture

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I might be living in it, but thanks to my myopia I sure can't see it!

Happy new year. Here’s Robert Tanenbaum’s 1975 poster art for the film “A Boy and His Dog”

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Currently working on building a new personal website.

I used to have a couple basic Wix.com sites that I used for my college portfolio, and after graduation served as my de-facto "main" site.

I had been meaning to retire it and replace it with something more polished for a while now (especially since taking some actual web design courses!). However, I was never motivated enough to take it down until I started looking into the BDS Movement and similar campaigns. It may not be as big a player as Hewlitt Packard, but it is still a notable company with headquarters in Tel Aviv.

So now I've finally deleted my crummy old site, and I'm setting up a new one for the new year.

I've been browsing through web-hosting services, seeing what's affordable. May install Wordpress at some point. In the meantime, I am also coding a dummy site from scratch (nothing fancy, just some html docs, a plain CSS stylesheet, and some Javascript), just so I can figure out how I want it to look.

#personal post #life update #web design #webdevelopment #artists on tumblr #digital art #html #html css #javascript #work in progress #upgrades people upgrades #i will probably delete my deviantart account too #after I archive everything #leve palestina #boycott divest sanction #wixwebsite #deleted

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Canadaga arctica

Commissioned illustration of a prehistoric bird described in 1999 from fossil remains excavated in Nunavut Canada.

Since it's only known from some vertebrae and its femurs, I based much of its anatomy off reconstructions of its better-known relative Hesperornis.

Coloration originally derived from that of a Murre or Guillemot, before I decided to add bars and striping like that of the Black-throated Loon.

Initial sketch

#krita illustration #digital illustration #digital art #paleoart #canadaga #hesperornis #bird art #dinosaur art #theropod #avian

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Homemade, last minute, DIY holiday card. Scanned a marker drawing and made a couple dozen copies at the library. Wrapped in the plastic I normally use for caricature portraits.

Inspired by a certain Welsh wassailing tradition.

Haven't had much energy to be creative this time of winter, but I managed to overcome it with the smoldering antipathy I hold towards corporate America and the commercialization of holidays (an antipathy that has recently been fueled by bullshit anti-boycott resolutions and legislation...also, it feels incredibly incongruous going through the motions of holiday participation when I know that there is so much suffering occurring elsewhere...honestly, I'm possibly only participating in gift-giving so I can segue my way into discussing DIY alternatives and more ethical consumer habits, stuff like that...)

Anyway, I will give these cards out to my relatives tomorrow (Christmas day) when we get together, and then I will drive the 3.5–4 hours back to my current residence so that I can at least try to get a decent night's rest before I go back to work on Tuesday.

Joy.

#christmas cards #holiday cards #christmas #xmas #anti capitalism #diy projects #last minute gifts #mari lwyd #marker drawing