Umburrough Pages 1-5
This is a webcomic I've been working on for sometime, and I'm finally posting it for the internet to see.
Updates are going to be sporadic and infrequent for the time being, but I will be mostly focusing on getting the Website up.
#webcomic#digitalart#comic
pros of being an artist:
-i can bring life to a concept that up to that point only existed in my head
-ppl wanna see me draw their fellas in my art style (flattering) (fulfilling)
cons of being an artist:
-when im Not making art i feel like im being boiled in oil
“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
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this is beautiful 🥲
Switching your main feed on here to an image only feed, like The 'Gram, is the absolute move.
People are so much less likely to share images of stuff they don't like/appreciate/etc.
People are so much more likely to write out angry/negative/drama posts.
Couple things I learned today:
- Seniors are extremely fired up about this
- "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now
- People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA
- We all we got, we all we need
Hey there Delilah
I ate those plums left in the icebox
If you wanted them breakfast
You should have purchased a few padlocks
For the treat
That you were hoping now to eat
So cold and sweet
thinking again about that twitter post that went like "if you can swap 'the homestuck fandom' into your grievance with 'the left' without changing anything else, you're not mad about politics, you're mad at the internet"
Some leftists were mean to me on the internet and that's basically at the root of why everything sucks is a very specific brand of douchebag bullshit. The level of self-absorption this entails is intellectually disqualifying.
artists support each other when systems will not. there's little safety net. it is resilience. artists are not your competitors. artists are your peers, mentors, and the ones who will defend the ability to create sustainably.
to those who struggle to continue drawing,
you are an artist.
The who IP vs AI debate is such a shitshow because it's really two different regimes of seizing and enclosing our collective creative commons. Disney's entire model is taking folklore and transforming it media that they and they alone control, OpenAI's model is just
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
I thought being a professional artist had radicalized me enough against AI shit, but now that I’m working in childcare and seeing the slop on kid’s YouTube, my hatred knows no bounds. There is no well or pit deep enough to throw the ghouls pushing this shit.
🧵 A THREAD: Birds and avian creatures (i.e. gryphons) art tutorials and resources!
Includes various tutorials for drawing wings, claws, feathers, etc. Mostly for my own reference but feel free to pin this thread too 📌
It's 2025 ok if you're posting about covfefe multiple times in a week we are going to do that thing the Klingons do where they cross their arms and turn their backs on you
fyi! Womp is a browser based alternative to Blender that is super user friendly. I use it a ton for my 2D illustration/comics reference beta.womp.com/discover
A new California bill is proposing a 35% subsidy for animated features, series, and shorts. The passage of the bill could encourage more animation production in the state.
it's april fools day again. as a jester, my japes are not your costume. you play the buffoon today but i play the buffoon all year. haha i'm kidding! i think i'm just anxious about my doctor's appointment later today. hope he can do something about my depression
One bright side to being forced to live in an AI slop tornado is now I see my artistic mistakes as incredibly endearing. The human machine of my body made that weird line. My worst day of drawing is completely untouchably better than anything AI will ever produce until the heat death of the universe
It remains absolutely fucking wild to me how many people seem to have radicalized themselves against the very concept of "judging a person morally by their words and actions".
Remember when we made fun of Doug Walker for summing up Pink Floy’d song about the abusive and pedophilic British school system with “lol, so school sucks, grow a pair of balls!”
Anyway here’s my post about how this guy on bluesky is a big whiney anarkiddy who just needs to grow up…
So it turns out the mere suggestion that the system by which we raise and educate our children in western capitalism might be irreparably broken turns even the most stalwart leftists on here into a bunch of asshole libs.
Artists have already been struggling because of AI. The loss of work has been very real and very tangible. And now we're heading into a recession with skyrocketing inflation
If you have the means, please support your favorite artists. Join their Patreons. Buy prints from their shop. We need it