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Hi! The brushes I've been working on are done and up (for free) over on Patreon: the Antique Ornaments Brush Pack!

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i love to draw. [draw one line] we have to go back in time and kill grug the cavepainter with a rock

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To myself: “It’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art it’s ok to make bad art”

*the art is bad*

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Tumblr boop the first moment of Peace and love on planet earth since that first week of Pokemon Go

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Give ya boy some boops

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need to become a guy who exclusively does evil commissions. like this

WILL DRAW ✓ mecha ✓ gore ✓ furry ✓ nsfw

WILL NOT DRAW X ocs X fanart X simple backgrounds

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This is an illustration I created for @horizonfanzine "Focus Network", a Horizon Forbidden West themed fanzine that launched last year! They're currently having a leftover sale, so check them out if you'd like a last minute copy! Featuring lots of artwork, stories, and cool merch!

#my art #horizon #horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west

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Today we learned that legendary manga artist and creator of Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama, has passed away at age 68. I wanted to take a moment to share a bit about how his work has influenced me.

The first time I came across manga, I must have been around 8, I went to my friend's place and he was reading this little comic book called Dragon Ball, tome 26. I was fascinated by how much was condensed into this compact little book. I went through the pages and was instantly captivated by the artstyle, the cool action and characters. It was so creative, full of drama, comedy, it was violent, bloody, intense, in a way that no other comic books I was reading at the time (like Garfield or the Smurfs) had been. It captured my imagination and I was instantly hooked.

I was already drawing a lot back then, (a lot of Megaman, Sonic, and other video game stuff) but from that moment, all I would draw is Dragon Ball. I would try to recreate specific panels that I loved, try to emulate the art style, I created characters of my own that would fit the universe, I would make up new battles and stories. I begged my friend to let me borrow more books. I would ask my parents to take me to Walmart so I could sit on the ground in the book section (in which DB was the only manga at the time) and just read every tome they had available. Thankfully my friend eventually got every early tome so I was able to read the story from the start, and then we would eagerly wait for new releases. "Luk did you know? Tome 31 just came out at walmart!" "MOM!! Can we go to walmart???" until years later, the final 42nd tome came out (with shiny lettering! so you knew it was important) An incredible story from start to finish, that I loved reading and discussing for years.

While my interest eventually shifted to drawing other things and being inspired by new artists, Dragon Ball's impact on my style was noticeable for years and years. When I started going online and sharing art with others, I quickly realized my story was not unique and that countless other artists had also been influenced and motivated to start drawing by Toriyama's work and stories. Dragon Ball was the first introduction to japanese content for so many of us, and the culture has continued to influence our art and our lives ever since. And when you consider that so many other manga artists and games were themselves inspired by Toriyama, you start to realize just how much he changed the world. His art resonates through every sphere of media and is still felt in countless franchises today.

Nowadays, even though they're still coming out with new shows, games and movies, Dragon Ball feels like more of a childhood memory for me. It's something a lot of us "grew past" and moved on from, but I can still notice small bits of its influence in my own art. Even though at the time, I was most captivated by the stories, now that I look back on his work with the knowledge and perspective of an older artist, I'm truly impressed and amazed by the quality of Toriyama's illustrations, his technique, his eye for detail, the incredible creativity, the imagination. There's still so much to learn from him. It's as good now as it ever was.

I was shocked to hear of his passing, because Toriyama feels like such an everlasting giant and mainstay of the industry. I think we always took him for granted because his work has been a part of our world for as long as we can remember, even now his influence can be felt in every sphere of media. It's like he's always been there, and forever would be (and in a sense, he will) With the untimely passing of the man behind the creation, maybe now we can take time to really appreciate the magnitude of his achievements. I certainly would not be the artist I am today without him.

Thank you for everything Akira Toriyama, RIP to a true legend

#akira toriyama #dragon ball #i dont usually do posts like this but he truly was my greatest inspiration

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I'd encourage you not to feel bad about posting art because of AI. If people repost your art- they could already do that. If people make their own art in your style- they could already do that. Reposting and straight ripoffs were shitty things to do then and still are, but AI didn't really change anything.

Making good AI art, like making any good art, takes a good idea of _what to make art of_ and _what makes it look good._ you're very good at those things and you make great art! so nobody can just replace you with AI. whether an AI learns from your stuff only matters as much as whether other humans learn from your stuff.

This is truly very kind of you and I do find it encouraging to hear, don't get me wrong, but I wanna clarify that this is less about me feeling down about potentially having my art style be trained on and honestly more about just like... lamenting the general shittiness of the late-stage capitalism of the internet in 2024. I've shared my art online since the early 2000s, I've seen every previously safe space for artists get restructured in order to satisfy partners and investors who don't actually give two shits about creatives.

And I also wanna note that I don't think you can't really compare reposts/ripoffs with AI. Scraping content for datasets is theft on a massive scale. The turn-around time for generating AI images is lightning fast, that's why it's flooding the internet so rapidly right now. Even if the majority still holds the opinion that AI images can't compare to human-made art, enough people and corporations out there are soooooo eager to cut corners and sooooo ready to tell artists that it's an inevitable evolution and we should all just ignore the unethical practice this shit was built on.

So, it's just mostly venting. I have nothing to add that hasn't already been said. I'm just tired.

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Recent commission for an OC portrait in the Persona 5 style, this was fun to do!

#my art #I don't wanna just do style emulation all the time but every now and then it's a fun exercise #persona 5

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also we fucked up as a society the moment we started telling teens and aspiring artists to conflate being an artist with building a brand as if the two things are inextricable. the name of the game if you want to share your art is to work a job and sell yourself as aesthetizied content. back in my day we could just POST SHIT. to deviantart! what the fuck!

#it's too late for most of us #but hopefully there's still time for some

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shoutout to the slow artists. the artists with hardly any time for art. the artists who reach the end of the day with no energy for art. you got this i believe in you and you are no less valued than anyone else

#me

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wishing all artists a very sincere "get weirder with it" this coming year

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Charlie got a comfy sweater for Christmas, what about you?

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**Winter in Auldnoir**

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A long overdue Gravity Rush commission for @grvalis This was quite the challenge! Don’t usually do backgrounds but it was fun