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mostly oingo boingo and rdr

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my FAVS!! I love them with all my heart

my son and my favorite wet cat cowboy

version w/o hat

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I haven’t even drawn them together but soul and so-lo are so cute. strange mosaic man and his stone partner

My Soul is pretty much a genderless being, though they tend to present very masculine so society doesn’t treat them so harshly

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some sketches of soul that I do not particularly enjoy (sans the third one. I like that one)

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my strange son

I am not the biggest fan of the colored drawing but it’s okay cause I found my Apple Pencil so now I can make digital references for the guys

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look at them.. they have house 🥹

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So-Lo lore pt. 1

I figured I should put part of this out now, so here ya go! It’s janky but it’s a good base line

So-Lo was once considered quite the catch among his peers, and he knew it. Rich, handsome, funny! He’d go out with any girl that asked him, which was just about everyone in his small town California  high-school. But thwre was always one girl that he couldn’t resist— Louise. She was horrible for him, and he knew this deep down, but didnt really care. She used him in every way possible, and affected him mentally. She was manipulative but he just didn’t care! Without her he’d cease to exist. 

He was considered “tough as nails” and this gave him a facade to hide behind. Truthfully, he was struggling with anxiety and OCD, but he kind of just thought he was going crazy. 

After graduation, with no one to validate him or smother him with praise, he was lost. He moved to the city (not cool city, just LA), but not without Louise trying her very hardest to keep him in his tiny hometown, where he knew he’d end up just like everyone else: drunk and alone, and tried to keep up his confident, tough image. 

Shortly after moving, his “accident” happened. One night, walking home from the bar in the rain he was struck by a bolt of lightning. Obviously he blacked out, being very drunk and also in immense pain, and he was found by a Good Samaritan and brought to the ER. When he woke up he was distraught. This image he had of himself, this unbreakable character, where was it now? You could say the bolt knocked some sense into him, but he really saw it as the exact opposite. It really had changed his perspective though. He had to get out of this city, it was driving him insane! He can’t really get that far though, so he ends up in a small suburban apartment. 

At this point he is constantly paranoid and avoids people almost completely. He cannot stand being in crowds of any sort. Everywhere he went, he saw her— Louise. Though now he didn’t remember her name, or even really her face. He just knew she was hiding somewhere, ready to pull him back into her clutches. 

I have it mostly finished now but I need to sleep!!

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just got a botched perm oh my goodnessss

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Some other so-lo doodles while I procrastinate finishing his lore

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hello all

I’m making a boingoverse and here is my current design for so-lo! I also have sort of one for Jonny and Soul but those will come later because there is no coloured version for either of them yet. So-Lo’s lore is still in the works but I’ll post it soon enough. I’m very excited about these guys they’re so fun

I was inspired to do this by @gracestellaerie and @bytelezz’s boingoverse cause it’s just so interesting (and I obviously love the band lmao)

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wow I’m back and I’ve brought John Marston

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collab with the wonderful @ghostlystarfish10!! the tall one on the left is my oc Finch, and the shirt brown haired fellow is her character River! Very fun to draw

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I have a question for you, but first I'm going to give you context:

I have a English class project, and the topic is our opinions on AI, now obviously I hate AI, but I want to go above and beyond for this project because I'm passionate about it, I was wondering if I could get a quote from you on your stance on AI.

I know you dont support it (I checked you FAQ), but I was hoping to get a quote with some reasoning behind it.

(I feel really awkward for asking, you do not need to answer if you don't want to, I just wanted to ask because I respect your art)

One of the greatest joys of the human experiences is creating. Visual art, written words, experiences that come to exist only through the time and efforts of a person who walks this earth.

Sharing one’s creations invites curiosity, connects us, and inspires us. The awe that comes from observing a human-made painting or reading an eloquent novel is knowing that it was made with care by an individual dedicated to their craft.

Now, we live in a world where an artist who spent decades perfecting their unique style can have their gallery fed into a machine which spits out subpar images for public praise and bandwagoning (Ghibli). A world where patient and curious readers would rather talk to chatbots of fictional characters than wait for the author’s next chapter. 

Craft fairs are now festering with AI slop. Every creative space now presents the viewer with a mandatory task to root out the garbage instead of enjoying a genuine experience facilitated by those who made their art wholeheartedly.

What’s more, AI is harming the environment through devastating amounts of energy and water consumption. It's sewing skepticism and doubt in spaces where human artists share their most earnest work.

It's dangerously spreading false information with photo and video generation that's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from reality. Saddest of all, it has tricked the human race into believing creativity is a chore instead of our greatest pleasure.

More and more people are willingly surrendering their own creativity and willingness to think to bots that make all their decisions for them. They're tossing aside the very creators who unwillingly fed their plagiarism machines in favor of the soulless replicas it produces.

There are spaces AI can exist, in strict partnership with human professionals, for the betterment of our world, medically and analytically. But it has absolutely no place in the world of art. 

I don’t want to see "art" made by anything that can’t relate to the human experience.

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THIS!! thank you for such a well worded anti AI post. I appreciate you 💜

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why did you give Finch a buldge in his pants

I’m going to have you detained

[astraldemise]

bigweld

bigweld

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you guys reblog this every wednesday every wednesday i wake up and wonder what day it is and i see bigweld in my tumblr notifications and im like ah its wednesday again bigweld wednesday just like last wednesday its wednesday its bigweld wednesday

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guess how i found out today is wednesday

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I tweened Danny Elfman for my first try at tweening Isn’t he so silly

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since spooky season has basically (in my book) begun, I decided to draw a character that I’ve been meaning to draw for a while; Lock! This design belongs to the lovely, talented @crystallizedtwilight. I’ll probably draw lock, barrel, and calliope as well!

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Apple trend with my freaks…