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ninjamonkey.bsky.social
The_Z
@ninjamonkey.bsky.social
630 followers 210 following 2.7K posts
Comic artist/illustrator in KCMO area.
🧑‍🎨Commissions: inquire via DM
💵Support/Shop/Commish: https://ko-fi.com/TheDashZ , patreon.com/NinjaMonkey
🛒PoD Smerch: redbubble.com/people/NinjaMonkeyZ
🏠Home: www.ninja-monkey.com
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The_Z @ninjamonkey.bsky.social · Aug 13
Simplified my commish sheet and got to do some guache of my OC Orange in the process. Win win.

With monthly support, you can get free sketches or a commission discount. Links in profile.

#artistsupport #artistforhire #NoAI #digitalart #analogart #characterportrait
A commission price sheet featuring four styles of commission (sketch, lineart, digital color, and analog color) each with a price next to them ( $30 / 50 / $80 / $160 ). The character portraits feature a young woman with orange hair in a yellow outfit. She's poised on one foot with a staff above her head. Her tail swishes behind in an "s" shape. Above the portraits is the headline "Choose your commission style!" and below is additional information that reads: Above are starting prices for single character commissions with no or simple background. Complicated details (armor, intracate or patterned clothing, unusual anatomy) may cost extra. More characters and backgrounds may be added for an additional charge. Most subjects are accepted, but no loli, shota, gore, vore, hate or harmful subjects directed toward racial, religious, or sexual minorities. NO HARRY POTTER. Contact the artist (The-Z) for additional info and a more accurate price quote. Physical art may be purchased for an additional fee (often comes with gifts).
ninjamonkey.bsky.social
Patron request that I upgraded to a colored sketch as holiday gift. Herlock Sholmes from the Ace Attorney series!
Support my art = get monthly sketch request*:
🫟 Patreon.com/NinjaMonkey
🫙 ko-fi.com/TheDashZ
#AceAttorney #digitalart #capcom #characterportrait #artistonbsky
*at qualifying tiers
A digital character illustration featuring a man in a brownish gray vest and pants over a button down white shirt . The collar of the shirt is secured with a reddish purple bow. From his black belt hang holsters of beakers containing colored liquids in cyan, magenta, and yellow secured by two short chains. In his open arms he has a violin braced against one hip and its bow in the other. The man has ash-blonde, wavy hair cut in a short style. His skin, like his blue-gray eyes, are pale. The man stands against a grayish blue background.
December 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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lithiumreflections.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar

Commissioned memorial piece; her name was Star.
Digital painting of a Staffordshire Terrier Mix, a golden brindle with four white socks, a white tipped tail, and a large white bib. She is laying down and looking up to the left into the sky. The background is a purple and blue abstract starscape.
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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zitronenkaffee.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar day 8

Martha
Round canvas with acrylic painting of an old woman looking lovingly at a sleeping black kitten
December 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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woolbotherer.bsky.social
I wasn't sure about posting these but in the end the hashtags for art today were too perfect so here's your #ArtAdventCalendar for today, you can buy these as stickers in my shop, will even ship to America if you are nice #blueSkyMonday #mountainMonday #PinkMon #colorADay #XtraXmas #MilkingMaids
A group of street pigeons with long noodly arms worshipping their goddess a giant wood pigeon with massive tits A pigeon with bouncy tits next to a pigeon with a male chest A pigeon with gorgeous saggy breasts
December 8, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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cjaw.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar day 8. Boris Andrianov plays the Schumann cello concert with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. Painted from the second row on a tiny sketckbook.
A live watercolour sketch of a cellist performing Schumanns cello concerto with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
December 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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sonjamaria.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar #kleinekunstklasse #wattiskunst
Dies kleine Ölbild ist nicht mehr in meinem Besitz weil verschenkt. Aber zeigen darf ich es.

Titel "Vergebene Liebesmüh"
Landscape in Erdtönen. 2 Zypressen rechts spiegeln sich in einem See. Links oben eine rote Sonne. Unten links grünes Gras.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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sepdet.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar Day7 Only trouble with art class is it's all about capturing what I see. I almost never draw from imagination. When I do, it's usually clumsy, because of an odd quirk: I struggle to hold images in my mind's eye (Maybe bc I was a nearsighted baby?) I just have to let my pen wander:
procreate drawing of a big lump of a green dragon with ludicrously small purple wings clutching the string of a small purple balloon in its left forepaw. The dragon has yellow half-lidded eyes with lashes and is looking back under them somewhat coyly, a large jutting jaw resting on the ground with protruding yellow snaggly teeth, a back that slopes up steeply like a scaly mountain and then falls off to a thick green tail snaking back and forth on the ground with a tiny purple bow on the end, and four croc-like stumpy legs ending in yellow nails tucked against the dragon's stout sides. It's more comical-looking than dangerous, apart from its bulk.
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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sculptedreef.com
🌬️ Zephyr the Larger Pacific Striped Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨

#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
A hand sculpted octopus depicting the species Larger Pacific Striped Octopus. An iconic white and dark brown octopus, with dark brown stripes over a white mantle and white spots over their dark brown arms and arm web.
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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himmapaan.bsky.social
Blue Betta. Watercolour, approximately 115 × 110 mm. From 2019.

#ArtAdventCalendar
Watercolour painting of an ornamental blue Betta splendens, with especially long, flowing fins resembling underwater drapery.
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
ninjamonkey.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar #Day7
Shy lil guy.
This is our state reptile in Missouri! Where I grew up near the rivers we often encountered turtles and my favorite were these box turtles. They were so patient with us kids. I hope we didn’t traumatize them too much.
#natureart #reptile #turtle #missouri
A photo of a painting of a three toed box turtle withdrawn into its shell. Its face is a brilliant red orange and there are bright yellow and orange scales on its legs. He sits surrounded by some green vegetation. Acrylic on canvas, 7” x 7”
December 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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ajikdo.one
odin sphere gwendolyn
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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fimbry.bsky.social
Sahn, the wind goddess

She knows all your spoken secrets, and when on the wind her loose scales sound like wind chimes.

Prints available: www.etsy.com/listing/4419...
A golden Asian dragon posed fiercely. She has sparse purple scales tipped in gold, and red ribbon-like eyelashes swirling the length of her body.
December 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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charliestickney.bsky.social
White Ash Comics is looking for a few human comic book COVER ARTISTS for 2026. If you want to be considered, reply with samples and/or a link to your portfolio. I will repost all legit responses.
December 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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twarda.bsky.social
There are still good people out there doing a good job fighting the AI disease with science
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
ninjamonkey.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar #Day6
Her shoes. Inspired by a social media post that seemed like an innocuous fit check but the light under the doorway in her photo creeped me out. When I painted it, I wanted it to seem ambiguous, odd, and surreal like a half-remembered dream.
#art #acrylicpainting
A photo if an acrylic painting in which a figure in a green and blue striped dress is holding up a pair of dark blue shoes. There are a number of odd details in the painting like it appears there are two left shoes and the doorknob is placed strangely— everything seems like it’s from s child’s point of view, and a light is creeping under the closed door.
December 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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littlebrisby.bsky.social
✨ eating is the sole privilege of the living ✨

#dungeonmeshi #tragonesymazmorras #fanart
September 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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mrlovenstein.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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xxyxxy.com
I added this little gingerbread astronaut necklace to my shop this morning, and have a handful more I'll be adding over the next few days! Check it out at xxyxxy.com

#ceramic #gingerbread #astronaut #necklace
A gold masked ceramic astronaut pendant in terra cotta made to look like it is made of gingerbread with little white frosting details.
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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vashperado.bsky.social
damn, making me think about the friends i made and lost from devart and tumblr over the years, those people you connect with for an era of your life and then drift away, hope they are doing well and happy
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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sonnyross.bsky.social
Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience

www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
A naive floral illustration with a severed hand that was already all fucked up because it was made by a slopper. With the text “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser”
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
ninjamonkey.bsky.social
Hey, artists! QRP with your red art! 🐦‍🔥
#art #watercolor #trans #love
A photo of a watercolor illustration of an adult tenderly hugging the silhouette of a child. The adult has gray hair, cut short and dyed purple on top, dark-rimmed glasses, hoop earrings, a black jacket over a blue shirt, and tears at the edges of their closed eyes. The child in the embrace is filled in with bands of white, pink, and pastel blue. With the heart-shaped frame, “You are loved.” is written on a red background. Sorry the propaganda machine settled on trans people— especially children, as their political pawns. Republicans played several different cards before they found one that resonated well enough. The adults that used these vulnerable children this way should be ashamed. Pity those adults can reason their way to absolution. As long as they can feel they’re in control, they don’t care whom they endanger. It’s sickening. Any of my fellow Christians who have invoked their version of god to justify excluding these children or families, know you will be judged for your hatefulness (even if you dressed it up as love). I condemn you.
December 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
ninjamonkey.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar #Day5
Christmas Carousel horse. Marker on bristol.
#art #markerart #christmas #holiday #carouselhorse
A photo of an illustration of a carousel horse with a holiday theme featuring a white horse surrounded by green, yellow, red, and white decorations such as bows, bells, candies, holly, and poinsettias. It is framed in a light blue circle.
December 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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santaclausalaska.bsky.social
A REMINDER:

"Until 1973, health insurance companies were non-profit. Republicans changed the law; now, they profit $25 billion a year off your health.”
(mascbyjeffchastain)

+ $35 billion in annual fossil fuel subsidies.

+ $2.4 trillion in annual Pentagon contracts with private firms.

😡NO MORE!
A green-hued cartoon of a nurse, stethoscope over her shoulder, pen in hand, and a hospital bed and doors off to her sides. She says, “Reminder: Until 1973, health insurance companies were non-profit. Republicans changed the law — now they profit $25 billion a year off your health.” @mascbyjeffchastain
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
ninjamonkey.bsky.social
QRP with something with horns 😈

What better than a cat with horns inspired by Darkness from Legend?
#catart #ink #art #cats #legend
A photo of a desktop with ink and brushes and a small piece of artwork on paper that depicts a black cat with long whiskers and thick curving horns on its head.
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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nightlinez.bsky.social
I'm always super thankful and over the moon whenever I get shop sales, home a painting, or get a commission inquiry! From the bottom of my heart thank y'all!

Being a freelance illustrator is my sole income and passion💖. Every dollar is treasured and often goes straight into ✨e x i s t i n g✨
December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM