“How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.”

― Juliet Marillier, Heart's Blood

Um reconto de A Bela e a Fera, A Montanha das Feras (do original Heart’s Blood) é uma mistura perfeita para os amantes de romance com fantasia, onde acompanharemos a história de Caitrin e Anluan. Neste encontro de duas almas trincadas e cerceadas por uma antiga maldição, floresce o sentimento mais poderoso de todos: a esperança.

Da mesma autora de A Dança da Floresta, em A Montanha das Feras teremos a oportunidade de conhecer a escrita de Juliet Marillier voltada para o público adulto.

Campanha aberta no Catarse. ♡

Drink da Lua ☽

Recipe: water, moonlight and dreams. Personal work, 2023.

Portfolio, ig, stores, and more: janainaart.carrd.co

Cocteau Twins: Treasure (1985)

“Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”

― Juliet Marillier, Heart’s Blood

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.”

Illustration made for A Dança da Floresta (Wildwood Dancing) by Juliet Marillier. Hardcover book edition by Editora Wish. 2021.

Illustration made for A Dança da Floresta (Wildwood Dancing) by Juliet Marillier. Hardcover book edition by Editora Wish. 2021.

Reimagining Eros, the divinity of love. ➳ ♡

Ink, watercolor and gold leaf on 300g paper, 5"x7". Art created for the P.S. Postcard Show by Nucleus Portland. The exhibition will run from November 3-26, held at the Nucleus House Gallery, Portland, OR.

Original for sale at Nucleus Portland.

Shooting Star

The star that travels across the sky ✫ ･ ｡ ✧

Material: Ink, watercolor, gouache, gold paint marker, and colored pencils on paper. Size: 19,6 x 20 cm.

Original for sale at Every Day Original

Odette

This art will be featured in The Mystic Glade: Fantasy Art & Tutorial Book, a Limited Edition art book celebrating nature-based fantasy with illustrations and tutorials from 40 international artists.

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

'...Made myself mythical

Tried to be real

Saw the future in the face of a

Daffodil'

'Daffodil' by Florence & The Machine - Art Journal Spread

A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.