Art Country

comm prices on pinned post!!! ART TRADES OPEN -- COMMISSIONS OPEN

[art-skwad]

Howdy! I'm Jim. Or James. Or RJ. I'm a freelance artist, learning animator, and writer!

I draw fanart, original character art, and screenshot redraws.

I write mostly fanfiction, but have a novel I'm working on that is wholly original.

My commissions are open! You can see my prices on this file:

Commissions

COMMS ARE ON SALE RIGHT NOW FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!! BASE PRICES START AT $15 AND INCREASE WITH COMPLEXITY OF CHR.

You can also occasionally get art trades from me! Keep an eye open :]

DOs and DON'Ts of my page:

DO

- Initiate conversation! I love talking to people, especially about art

- Ask about my commissions if you don't understand something; I like being clear and concise so don't be afraid if you're confused. I don't bite. Too hard./silly

- Share my page!

- USE TONE TAGS. I am neurodivergent and mentally stunted, I struggle to read tone clearly so I genuinely might misinterpret a joke.

DON'T

- Stir up drama. I don't want to hear about someone I remind you of or how unprofessional I am or how I'm doing anything harmful.

- Discuss NSFW topics with me if you're under 18; or at all unless you're discussing commissions and I have ALREADY replied to your question about said commission. The likelihood I will draw adult content is SLIM.

- On that note please LIMIT interactions if you're under 18. I don't post or share mature content but I do NOT want to indirectly hurt a kid. Tailor your internet experience to your liking but please also be careful. I AM AN ADULT.

- Be an ass to me, my customers, or any moots I might get. If you're mean, it's an autoblock. I'm not even going to TRY reasoning with a jerk.

All that being said, welcome to my corner of internet hell. I have a page on Paper Demon Art as well as a tiktok, so if you want to see me elsewhere feel free to dm asking for my pages! <3

Any amusement, sadness, fear, or other emotions triggered by my content are not my responsibility, and I will not be offering compensation for you choosing to view my content. Thank you, and goodnight.

[art-skwad]

Fucking pathetic we have to start saving reciepts of our work progress so people don't accuse us of ai

[strangeacorn]

Trio Smurflings 🌟

Slouchy, Snappy & Natural (Nat)

I didn’t forget Sassette, it’s just the three of them for now

[ellipsus-writes]

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[weirdspacehobbit]

OR ART

#fuck ai

[art-skwad]

Well that's one way to start fresh. My flash drive corrupted 😭

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[therkalexander]

Anti-AI Hot tips:

If you’re looking something up and remember a page or article you saw one time that perfectly answered your questions before the internet was buried in AI slop:

Open Duck Duck Go

Enter your search term

In search tools, set the date range from 1993 to 2022

Bask in AI-free results and images

Another method for even briefer information searches, or ones that require data from the last three years:

Open Wikipedia and search there

Donate to Wikipedia

Donate again

Donate again because they are one of the last flickering candles in the misinformation darkness

Or go to your local library.

[wulfhalls]

I hate ai so much. what do u mean I have to question the material reality of every image now. this is no way to live wtf

[anyrava]

Saw my recent rock tutorial blow up a bit, wanted to also share this mountain painting tutorial I‘ve made!

You can find more tutorials on my Ko-Fi Shop if you've found this helpful and would like to support me in making more! 🫶🍃

[art-skwad]

7yo's snowman <3

[kazathealien]

Pinterest is pinning what was made by AI. We're making progress gang!!!! Wooooo!!! 🎉🥳 No more mistakingly taking AI as reference

[art-skwad]

Spread it like wildfire PLEASE this would change so many lives including my own and my qpr partners' lives.

[art-skwad]

👏STOP👏GIVING👏ME👏SPICY👏ADS👏

[feefal]

Stitch yourself together with thread of gold

If you’re familiar with my work you might recognize this piece, since it’s the cover illustration for my art book✨

[thecollectibles]

Art by Veikka Somerma