“And of those not Taken by the tide not much is left but wary souls.”
I had this sequence in my mind for a long time and it ended up being the official kick off on a personal project that has been in my drawer for many years.

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bliss lane

pixel skylines
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Show & Tell

Kiana Khansmith
One Nice Bug Per Day
ojovivo
🩵 avery cochrane 🩵
Noah Kahan
EXPECTATIONS
Interview Vampire Daily
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NASA

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“And of those not Taken by the tide not much is left but wary souls.”
I had this sequence in my mind for a long time and it ended up being the official kick off on a personal project that has been in my drawer for many years.
Daily study
The Last of Us (2023)
Daily studies
True Detective (2014)
Daily study
The End of the F***ing World (2017)
Daily practice.
Movie Study. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Daily practice.
Movie still study. It Follows (2014)
Art by Jamie Williams
Porco Rosso (1992) | dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Art by JEFFRI HONESTA
Xena warrior princess! For my amazing discord server mod Courtney - we did a little secret santa gift exchange within the mod team ✨
Art by Jnn
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Esses são Hugo e Ronaldo, dois dos personagens principais do livro ilustrado que estou produzindo faz um tempo. Eu fiz essa pintura pra testar umas paradas novas que aprendi nos últimos meses. Conheci uma galera muito gente boa no caminho também!
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Recentemente andei pensando bastante sobre a minha relação com redes sociais, especialmente depois de toda aquela história de IA e tal. O Artstation era minha plataforma de arte preferida até eles se mostrarem totalmente coniventes com arte IA. Despubliquei todos os meus projetos de lá e provavelmente nem vou voltar. Também estou no Twitter por enquanto. Eu não tenho tantos seguidores assim ao ponto da minha sanidade evaporar, mas ao mesmo tempo eu sinto que não é um ambiente agradável pra artistas (nem pra ninguém) hoje em dia.
Eu gosto do Tumblr, sempre gostei. É um lugar meio nostálgico pra mim porque é onde eu estava quando comecei a pintar. Penso em fazer daqui a minha rede principal por enquanto. Penso também em fazer um site próprio, já passou da hora. Mas isso vai dar mais trabalho e vai levar um tempo.
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These are Hugo and Ronaldo, two of the main characters of the illustrated book I’ve been working on recently. I did this painting to try some new skills I've learned over the past few months. And I’ve met some really good people along the way!
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my relation with social media, specially with all that AI crap everywhere. Artstation was my favorite art platform until the recent events regarding IA stuff. I’ve unpublished all my artwork from there and I’m probably not coming back.
I’m on Twitter for now. I don’t have enough followers there to feel my sanity being drained away but at the same time I don’t feel it is a good environment for artists today. I like Tumblr, I’ve always done. It’s kind of a nostalgic place for me because I was here when I was a beginner and I think it will be my main platform for a while. I’m thinking of having my own website too, it’s time. But it will take some work.
There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.
Illustrations for a short tale called After the Arrival written by my friend Enrico Tuosto.
They are part of an illustrated book we are developing together.
brazilian streets
“Pray for the best, prepare for the worst.”
Prisoners (2013) dir. Denis Villeneuve
Concept Artist
this represents brazil more than soccer and samba