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MoveOn @moveon.org · 8h

They send soldiers. We send solidarity.

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Dinky @badgobbo.bsky.social · 8h

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · 6d

I love doing studies, and i really should do more. It always gives me those great lightbulb "a-ha" moments.

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · 6d

Gosh I love Gargoyles. Formative childhood show haha.

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Comrat / Comms Closed @boonekeller1.bsky.social · 18d

the shittiest art you DO make is always better than the perfect art you never make

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · 9d

I love scribbles! Its easier for me to visualize everything when i don't have to immediately commit, haha.

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Waltjan @waltjan9.bsky.social · 9d

Flare gun

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l_aciel @laciel.bsky.social · Feb 28

Legend

#soulstober #soulsborne #art #sketch

Artorias of the Abyss escaping Oolacile Township

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · 9d

Some beginning/construction sketches for upcoming character sheet commissions. I just want you all to witness how scribbly my stuff starts out haha.

A wip sketch of a muscular woman with horns, hooves, a long tail and dragon-like wings. It is a very rough sketch highlighting a lot of construction lines and alteration cuts.

A wip sketch of a man with a stubbly beard and shoulder-length hair. It is a very rough sketch highlighting a lot of construction lines and alteration cuts.

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Ki @ fulfilling orders ✨ @gawki.bsky.social · 15d

James C Mulligan is going after vids and people who call him out for selling AI images. He’s using copyright as an excuse to get them removed, which is so baffling considering he’s a serial tracer. He has claimed official Bambi background art as his own, but there’s so much more.

A long 🧵

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Evi 🌼 @evenlyevi.bsky.social · Jul 11

Lantanas (monochrome ver.) 🌿 #art #illustration

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Lyanna 🌙 comms open @lyannatropes.bsky.social · Sep 21

Apologies for making another post, but I'm still struggling to get work for October! Help sharing this post is appreciated 💕

You can contact [email protected] to book a slot! Please check lyannacomm.carrd.co for the ful TOS and info ✨

#supportartists #artshop #commissionopen #art

Image displaying commission prices. Simple drawing starts from 40€.

Image displaying commission prices. Regular Full Body starts from 120€.

Image displaying commission prices. Art Nouveau Illustration and Stylised Illustration both start from 200€.

Image displaying commission prices. Illustration starts from 300€.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 17d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Ursula Dorada @sulamoon.bsky.social · 18d

This is the real one

Inkgrid | Edel-Art @inkgrid.bsky.social · 18d

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meeshay - ko-fi open @meeshay.bsky.social · 22d

It my birthday, please enjoy my art and cats 💜

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Kireino @kireino.bsky.social · 25d

New art! It started as a study on a way to small canvas like way to many of my better and complete artworks do somehow 👀

#dragon #art #myart

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 25d

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Hyung @hyung7754.bsky.social · Oct 21

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · May 25

A recently finished commission! I had a lot of freedom on this one, so it was pretty fun to play around with concept designs and ideas.

An illustration of an elf, he has dark skin and his hair is gathered into several bundles of braids. A five o'clock shadow darkens his strong jaw and his expression seems weary or tolerating. His arms are lifted in a casual gesture, showing strange tattoos carved into his skin. Lastly, he is wearing a dirty and torn tunic with a simple belt around it.

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · 24d

It was certainly a fun little moment of

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · 24d

@morisdreadvale.bsky.social
Here we have a majestic looking fella, spotted in the wild.
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screenshot of another player's wow oc Moris

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Jasper 🐦‍⬛ TTRPG artist @jaspermillerart.com · 25d

Faungrk, recent commission!

[ #art #fantasyart #artcommission #dndart #emidraws ]

Illustration of Faungrk (half-orc, red hair, full plate armour with shield and spear). She is flying above a battlefield using wings of flamed feathers, half blue and half red

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 27d

If you're not an artist but you followed a nsfw artist over to bsky, use that feedback form to tell bsky that. Remind them they're opening a traffic and funding sinkhole that extends well beyond the "icky" creators they want to get rid of

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · 26d

Why. Why why why would I choose to listen to a lying machine when I can listen to a Real Person talk about their passions??? That's the point! Interested, impassioned, and we'll informed individuals focusing on their subject matter!!

Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · Sep 9

“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery
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5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan

Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...

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Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · 27d

Thinking about this again and how sometimes your art can regress in strange ways because you get so caught up one aspect of it (design, rendering, etc) that you forget other equally important ones (dynamics, exaggeration, etc).

Les Draws @lesathoart.bsky.social · May 31

Did this a few years back as an exercise in translating character design between genres but PBJ's design made for a pretty convincing orc.
Mildly disappointed in myself though, SWTOR version had more gesture and energy even though it was drawn earlier. Maybe time to redraw!

[ #art #swtor #wow #oc ]

A character illustration of PBJ in his original form as a SWTOR sith, striking the Gaston pose. His features are monstrous and spiky.

A character illustration of PBJ's design translated into a WoW Orc, with his natural spikes being replicated by armor, decorations and jewelry.

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