Sketches & Such

A REPOSITORY FOR ODDS & ENDS

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Ribbed Pine Borer Larva, a digital painting experiment.

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hot new brain workout

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This game is both stressful and incredibly satisfying.

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How it's going!

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I'm having the time of my life.

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No time for formal cicada art yet, but here's a little pencil sketch to commemorate the spectacular emergence of Brood XIII!

[onenicebugperday]

Maybe this goes without saying, but DO NOT trust google’s AI results if you search something about bugs. Every single AI result I’ve seen about bugs so far has been wildly incorrect.

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I mean it’s also been incorrect about literally everything else but it’s easier to tell when you already know a lot about a subject

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Lotta people are apparently unaware of google forcing AI results onto you at the top of the results page? “Why would you ask AI anything?” I’m not lmao I’m asking google so I can sort through the results myself like a normal person but they’re blasting me in the face immediately with the world’s most inaccurate summary of whatever I googled

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Some sketches for a project that never happened--I may yet do something with them someday.

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Slowly compiling cookbook concept illustrations and testing out digital watercolor brushes while I'm at it!

These are two of my favorite go-to smoothies, broken down botanically. Recipes included, because I enjoy pushing the out-of-the-box vegetable agenda.

BEET & BLUEBERRY COCOA SMOOTHIE

3/4c. water + 1Tbsp hemp seeds, blended

1/2c. cold coffee or almond milk

3/4c. frozen blueberries

1/2c. beets, steamed & frozen

1/2c. cauliflower, steamed and frozen

4 Ice cubes

2-3 Tbsp. Dark unsweetened cocoa powder

1tsp vanilla

1 Tbsp almond butter

Tiny pinch of salt

Liquid stevia to taste

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COFFEE SMOOTHIE

3/4c. water + 1 Tbsp hemp seeds, blended 

1/2c. strong cold espresso or cold brew

4 cubes papaya (banana would probably work too)

4 ice cubes

3/4c. spaghetti squash, cooked and frozen

3/4c. zucchini, sliced steamed and frozen

1 Tbsp tahini

1tsp. vanilla

Handful of raw coffee beans 

1 tsp espresso powder (optional)

Tiny pinch of salt

Liquid stevia to taste

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Testing digital brushes for translucence--work in progress!

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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. 

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Quick digitally painted axolotl color study sketch thing.

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Very quick digital sketch of a pair of Collared Lizards from the Field Museum. This was my first time attempting Procreate, and an excuse to test out a brush or two. 

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Fiddling around with designs for a Zebra Pegacorn t-shirt for Ehlers Danlos & Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder awareness.

The zebra has become the mascot for EDS, HSD and other rare diseases because of the medical adage “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras!” Sometimes, though, it really is a zebra. And sometimes, symptoms are just so baffling that you feel like a truly rare specimen indeed! My physical therapist called me a zebra pegacorn once and thus, this design was born.

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Stonefly aquatic larva portrait.

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Field Museum specimens for the reconstructive fossil invertebrate project compiled into one plate. (Individual illustrations visible on my website.)

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Closeup of one of my recent faves, along with a sketch of its adult counterpart. 

The larvae of the diving water beetle is a creature of such grace, beauty and alien ferocity. I will never stop appreciating them.

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Caddisfly larvae build protective cases using materials found in their environment. Artist Hubert Duprat supplied them with gold leaf and precious stones. This is what they created.

via IFLS

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Absolutely gorgeous and amazing.