Victoria Ying

Extremely excited to see a more active bluesky! Hi 👋 I’m an author and illustrator doing graphic novels and concept art for games!

Scams & You is now available to watch for free on our YouTube channel! Stay informed and protect yourself and your work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etiy...

fam is it crazy to get a hobonichi weeks for the last 4 months of the year?? I have one for next year ready, but I want to plan with it now!

These people seem to think that the problem in the graphic novel industry is “not enough content” when already a huge portion of published novels by humans never get a readership 🤷‍♀️

Putting a call out for TTRPG artists! Doing an initial discovery for an artist to work on a new cyberpunk, body horror action game I'm designing. Please link your portfolio! NO AI.

Might I recommend Comicfury for those looking to move off Tapas? Here's how! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0M...

There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because its center is a sex cult started by a fan fiction author. If you want to be taken seriously you have to hide that.

I'm looking for this old political cartoon of a then vs. now two panel comic of a family around a piano singing and then the second panel is everyone listening passively to a record. Does anyone know who made it or where I can find it?

I am into the colors of the gloves and top, but the shapes are….???

The best compliment I get about my books is that they make people cry. I can’t imagine shying away from the truth of emotion as an author or a reader.

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

You know what nobody tells you about those trendy balloon pants? You trip over that shit all the time.

Super-sleuth Barbara Perez Marquez scopes out scams - Sep 9th! Barbara brings a bevy of scam samples for review so you can learn the tell-tale signs to avoid identity scammer tricks and traps. Art by @ghostlysleuth.bsky.social cartoonist.coop/calendar/

Picked up this old canvas and made something

Acrylic marker on panel

Sketches from my roadtrip to and from Montana! 38 hours in the car gives you a lot of time and also apparently might trigger shingles :(( Most of these were sketched in the car and finished with color later.

I did a watercolor workshop for my non-artist friends this weekend and look how cute they all came out! Everyone had such a different style!

Happy Birthday to an absolute joy of a co-worker! You inspire me so much every day!

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

It really pisses me off how many small businesses, food trucks, etc, get defensive around their AI posters and menus, saying they can't afford graphic designers or whatever. But where was this problem 2 years ago? It takes more time than just using a photo and writing a caption with marker pen?

I learned that I can draw in the car and now I’m gonna be unstoppable

Sketching at the honky tonks during my girls weekend in Nashville!

as a certified Citations Lover™️ i have to say that Walden's bibliography website that accompanies her graphic novel is a work of art in itself: www.charityandsylvia.com so cool

i know when i sneakily steal someone's book to create an unauthorized and uncredited adaptation i always make sure to write "It is not possible for me to overstate how important Rachel Hope Cleves’ book on the subject was" and point readers "towards our Holy Mother of knowledge Rachel Hope Cleves"

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

Hope everyone who said sumthin' reads this: buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

I finished East of Eden for the first time and learned that they're doing a Netflix adaptation. I don't really see what a filmed version can add to the story though?

bleedingcool.com/comics/victo... Anyways. I’ve got a book coming out (someday, sorry it’s going slow). I was worried that it wouldn’t be relative by the time it’s ready but sadly it’s EVERGREEN.

I'm sorry..... What?!

*cough cough* comicfury.com is aggressively anti-ai and indie run *cough cough* very customizable website & use your own domain

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

Dropout is legitimately one of the most inspiring media companies around rn

watching people you love and respect cutting corners to keep creative pace with an idiot machine, starve themselves to keep pace with a new, more impossible ideal, it is overwhelmingly sad some days and no one is truly immune to it

I think the AI bubble has proven that capital would have us all peeing in bottles if they could. The only reason creatives and tech professionals haven’t yet is simply because we were rarified enough.

I just hope the ai bubble pops while Trump is in office. Please please please.

Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.

Every time I start to think I might want to try and dip my toe back into making some kind of video content, I watch something or read some comments that drive me back into my little hide-y hole. No thanks crazy internet ppl!

Worth watching if you've never seen it, and worth a rewatch if you have!

think instead of using Loren Ipsum (traditional placeholder text for graphic designers) someone stupidly decided to use chat gpt instead. Someone with so little knowledge of graphic design to not even know what Loren Ipsum is

I haven't heard it mentioned anywhere else, but did anyone notice that the Trojan horse in the new Odyssey movie looks like Blucifer? The horse statue that killed it's maker at the Denver Airport?

I really do not understand celebrities who pursue money at all costs. Like, really? Do you need to shill for a sports betting app? The second I have enough to retire I would fuck right off.