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@old-version-alwaysart-inprogress
Shop links:
If you like any of my art pieces, consider checking out the below stores where you can get prints, t-shirts, mugs, tech cases, and more!
Redbubble (all designs and photos)
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Or consider supporting me on Ko-fi!
Update:
Unless/until this blog is unshadowbanned, I'll be using a new one (https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ainprogressv2) instead, as well as my BlueSky account
Of fucking course, as soon as I get the other blog switched over this one gets unshadowbanned! For fuck's sake!
I think I'm still going to switch to the ainprogressV2 from now on. Maybe edit the name of this one to reflect that it's no longer active.
Update:
Unless/until this blog is unshadowbanned, I'll be using a new one (https://www.tumblr.com/blog/ainprogressv2) instead, as well as my BlueSky account
Blog Update
Since I'm still not sure if this blog is working or not, I've pretty much switched over to BlueSky for my original art and crochet (https://bsky.app/profile/a-inprogress.bsky.social). I might post updates and new pieces here occasionally, but the lack of response from Tumblr support, combined with slightly more engagement over on BlueSky, means I'll be posting more over there. At least for now.
Alright, I know the lighting's pretty bad, but here's the next crochet pattern/ amigurumi I'm working on - frogs!
Some more amigurumi on my ko-fi shop! The pattern for both of these guys is also available.
New Work - White-headed Buffalo Weaver
This little one chirped at me as I was walking past its enclosure on my way out one day and sat pretty while I took a bunch of photos (none manged to get a good view of its feet, however, so I moved the leaves closer when I did the outline ^^;).
You can find this design on Redbubble and Teepublic. Or consider supporting me on ko-fi!
In-progress screen-shots below the cut:
Trying something a little different with this one and the black background.
Painted an aquarium dress to go with the terrarium dress~ 🐟🐚🌊
Gonna paint a planetarium dress next ahahaha
Here's a short timelapse. The full hours long video recording, HD Image, and PSD file will be DMed on my Patreon on Feb 5th
the aforementioned terrarium dress
No one:
Still no one:
Me: What if leaf tailed gecko, but the leaf is carnivorous?
"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity
Oh gee, you're right! Why didn't the people who can't even move their arms think of just making a painting? /s
And before anyone starts spouting some "art is more than just painting" spiel, you don't know what kind of art someone might need to make in order to express their vision. An artist may have a very specific idea in mind to create the perfect piece of graphic art, and using music, performance, etc. just won't cut it for them. AI is a tool that can help the disabled in so many ways. Not even just with art. Get off your high horse and accept that disabled people have different needs and, guess what, ABILITIES than you do. Fuck you, asshole.
you are a tar pit.
and you are ableist.
you're fighting against a tool that makes art more accessible, and actively dismissing the notion that it could even possibly be doing that. this IS ableist. YOU are the tar pit in this situation.
L+Ratio+It doesn't+i slept w your mom
Hi I’m disabled I’m crippled I have a disorder that makes my fingers suddenly dislocate while I’m holding my pencil I have a spinal issue that makes it hard for me to bend over a desk half of the time I have leg issues that make it difficult for me to get around etc etc etc. I also have a bunch of other issues I don’t want to tell you about.
I’m also in art college. And even if I wasn’t, I’ve been doing art for almost a decade now. I’ve been disabled the whole bloody time.
AI, isn’t art.
There are many disabled artists and we have adapted our own ways of dealing with how we create. Fuck you, we have been doing this forever.
Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet.
Paul Smith had a severe case of cerebral palsy and created art using typewriters.
Peter Longstaff has no arms due to Thalidomide, and paints with his feet.
Frida Kahlo not only had polio that disabled her as a child, but of course as we all know was injured in a bus accident at the age of 18, which caused her lifelong pain and medical problems.
Fuck, you want a personal annecdote? I knew a girl (we have lost touch since) who was paralysed from the neck down and she painted with her mouth and there are other artists who do so too! And with eye tracking technology I’m sure disabled artists will be getting more and more tools as the years pass. But we do NOT condone AI art. All that does is put us, real disabled artists, who exist and need support, out of jobs and commissions.
Fuck you.
hi, another disabled person here for more personal anecdotes! here is an art piece i made entirely with my non dominant hand 1 week before my most recent shoulder surgery on that same arm. i also wear splint rings to keep my fingers from dislocating while painting (or playing bass guitar cause i do that too). i make most of my income off hand painted art despite having hand tremors, frequent wrist dislocations/subluxations, and migraines.
my friend and her wife also make their incomes off wig making, leatherwork, and digital collage prints. both have chronic pain as well.
our lines arent perfect because we have shaky hands but thats ok, make it a feature not a flaw in your art. fuck AI.
Anyone who thinks physically disabled people need to use art stealing AI to make our own art is the ableist, actually.
Mine isn't as drastic (yet) but I've been having to wear wrist braces and finger splints since childhood off and on because using my hands in a repetitive motions causes them to be in pretty excruciating pain.
What is my art medium of choice? Knitting. You know, that thing where you have to do a repetitive motion over and over again. I hold my needles a bit strange, I knit through the pain, I sometimes have to give up working on it for weeks at a time. But I will not stop because it's what makes my heart sing.
Disabled artists don't need your pity, we've been getting by, doing what makes us happy despite the pain and hardships for thousands of years, probably longer, I bet there were neolithic disabled artists.
No actual real artist wants or uses AI, including disabled artists. AI is for losers who are scared of the extremely important phase in art where you suck and want to skip it by stealing and not even in a cool "I'm emulating your style because I wanna learn from it" way.
Go suck at art for a couple years like the rest of us and stop talking over disabled artists.
Can I just add
Chuck Close
Chuck Close was a painter and photographer who specialized in ENORMOUS portraiture. If you've never been in the same room as one of his works, try to remedy that if you can, because it is an awesome experience. Close had a number of mental and physical conditions as a child, but in 1988, in his 40s and already a celebrated artist, he suffered a blood clot that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After intensive physical therapy, he was able to regain enough control to move his arms (more his upper arms than forearms), enabling him to paint with a brush strapped to his wrist. He adapted his painting style for his disability... and he continued painting enormous, hyper realistic portraits.
Close with self-portraits before (left) and after (right) his paralysis:
yeah top guy who said ai art is ‘accessible’ fuck you.
Humans adapt, as we have for years. Theft will not stop humanity.
Humans adapt, as
we have for years. Theft will not
stop humanity.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
New work: Frog on a Log
I underestimated how hard the frog's body would be to get the color and pattern right, but I think it turned out in the end. (Species is an Amazon Milk Frog/ Mission Golden-Eyed Tree Frog.)
If you like this design, you can find it on Redbubble and TeePublic! Or consider supporting me on Ko-fi!
Drafts/ stages under the cut
ghost skrimp
YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU.
This is actually info I didn’t know
Seriously folks review my books! Review everyone’s books!
It’s the difference between Amazon giving a damn about you verses pushing your book to the bottom of the food chain.
a) everything the graphic says is true! b) would love some love from Amazon. c) people are much more likely to review when they don’t like something, so it is lovely to have nice reviews to offset the ‘1 star, ripped off Star Wars.’
I’d like to personally tag @inkskinned because she definitely deserves lots of love on the Amazon comments and reviews section too! <3
Amazon is picky about reviews if they suspect you are friends with the author. Don’t disclose and subvert the system!
Alright, fuck it. I've already put this on my BlueSky so might as well post it here too.
I self-published a book about my late Beardie (and general Bearded Dragon research) about a year and a half ago, 'A Link Between Us: Life with a Bearded Dragon,' and it's currently 25% off on SmashWords as part of their 'Read an Ebook Week' sale:
With a reputation as being sweet, mild-natured lizards, Bearded Dragons are a widespread exotic pet. However, the reality of living with and
Please consider checking it out if you're interested! Reblogs are super appreciated.
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Had a dream that I drew this dragon and felt disappointed when I woke up that it wasn't real so I drew it all over again.
