there she goes

illustration hobbyist | 30+ | main blog @stilinkiwi

[verusalka]

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[sumbier0]

I miss my ocs,,,I MISS MY OCS,,, <-can draw them at any time

[nikoisme]

Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

[nikoisme]

The only downside is that you have to do Everything around here

[romanceyourdemons]

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

[verusalka]

on thursday, april 9th, at around 1pm, i had to say goodbye to my best friend, my soulmate, my other half of 14 and a half years.

i knew it was coming. i managed to get another month and a half with you. not enough, but you made it to april, which in my book means you lived a long and prosperous 15 years. you have followed me through three homes. you were never the most empathetic or snuggly cat. you preferred to be close from a distance, and i was more than okay with that. when i got you, i named you selina, after catwoman. but selina also means moon, and you followed me around like a little moon everywhere. between rooms, down hallways, across three different homes. you were my little shadow, and you still are. every shadow in my home contains a trace of you. even though i don't see you anymore, i still say good morning, good night, be good to all these places.

i'm going to miss you sitting like a little statue in the middle of the room (you would always curl your tail around your front feet), or screaming at me from the kitchen doorway because you wanted shrimp, or greeting me with a wobbly meow as your trotted down the hall every time i came home.

i had to let you go before i was ready, but i was never going to be ready. when you left, you weren't in pain, or in distress, and that matters more to me than anything. just because i feel like i failed in some abstract, unexplainable way, i know that i didn't, but it's still hard to accept.

i'll miss you more than you'll ever know, my sweet little girl, my seleenie, my cranky old lady.

visit me often.

[hoaxghost]

holding on by a god damn thread

[awakefor48hours]

"You should create for yourself" and "it's okay to feel discouraged when creating your own original projects if no one interacts with them" are two sentences that should be able to co-exist with each other

[awakefor48hours]

On the one hand, you should kill that capitalist in your head that tells you to make art only for the enjoyment of other people. On the other hand, it's totally fine to be disappointed that you spent hours or even days on something that only got 4 notes. You can feel both ways.

[achillesinhighheels]

[boogerqueendraws]

I felt like coloring this one

[sexchangedotcom]

my beautiful baby who i'm naming untitled document

[boogerqueendraws]

a quick little lighting study with ruyi

[ohcaptains]

[verusalka]

seeing people lose their minds trying to dispute that something clearly drawn in pencil on paper is ai-generated is not where i thought we would be in the art community after crawling through the trenches of deviantart in the 00s

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[robcham]

DIY>AI

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[verusalka]

concerning all these gaming companies outing themselves on using AI in pre-dev stages... i don't think they understand that they're not saving time the way they think they're saving time. this thought persists not just in gaming but in marketing, in design.

the only thing this is doing is fundamentally destroying peoples' ability to research anything

i'm not claiming to know how larian tasks their junior concept artists or whatever with making shit for them but let's make an example.

they go "hey concept artist, make me 100 concepts of a samurai character from edo period japan with these parameters. we need to do this quick, so use AI and get them cracking"

and the junior artist produces those 100 images... how are they supposed to know that everything that was spit out was accurate at all? and the artist that is then handed over the final roughs? either they work on immediately bringing those ideas to life, or then have to take the extra steps to CROSS-REFERENCE the final chosen pieces with historically accurate imagery of edo period samurai

next level, let's assume they have both the time to generate and to research. at what point does the generating save time? they're going to find inconsistencies and either spend time marking them up or trying to generate them based on the source material, at which point... just use the source material????

i work with about 7 other designers who have all been put into positions of 'client is expecting this tomorrow and we're expecting several lavishly rendered concepts to really SELL them on the idea. use AI.'

and every single time we discover that generating an image for a CONCEPT (JUST A CONCEPT, NOT A FINAL) always takes at least twice as long as it would have taken us to just photobash the concept together in photoshop. i have been in situations where i wasn't even using AI and the conceptual moodboarding stage started creeping into 20+ hours because the imagery wasn't aligned with the strategy or wasn't aligning with the core message of the brand we were trying to pitch. and these were lead creative directors i was presenting to who knew EXACTLY what they wanted to see. as a byproduct, i was so deep in the research hole that i eventually knew exactly what it was that i was supposed to be looking for and how to arrange it.

and at the end of the day, if you go and say that only real artists were used in bringing all these concepts to life, you are actively wiping out junior level positions whose job it is to do the grunt work like this and learn from it?????? like..... where are we saving time here???