ok im about to think about the Character!! im so Excited 😊😊

i couldn't get a picture of the eclipse that looked just the way i saw it, so i made some quick drawings that came pretty close. i wasn't supposed to be looking without glasses at the moment when the sun started to peek out, but it was beautiful :)

this would pull me too because i’ve been really into hot salsas lately and i need to talk to someone about it

if you're struggling to introduce color to your black and white paintings and the usual advice doesn't work for you, the last few years i've been doing my silly little version of

new normal layer

49% opacity

paint colors with a soft airbrush

tinkering of colors/details is inevitable (as it is with all grayscale to color methods), but it's very fast and easy. "why 49% and not 50%" because i've got artist brain

Robert Wun Spring 2024 Haute Couture

Go watch it!

Edit: It isn't a rickroll guys 😭 idk why some of you think that 😭

EDIT 2: THE YOUTUBE VIDEO WILL ONLY BE UP FOR A WEEK! WATCH IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN!

They’re not allowed to get interviewed anymore

unfortunately I think it is lost to time 😭 i forgot to save a lot of middle school files before they deleted my google drive lol. but i remember the prompt called for 2 pages total and i wrote 8.... thirteen year old me could not be contained lol

I have never and will never read anything by Sarah J. Maas, but I often fondly remember an absolutely scathing book report @silima wrote about Throne of Glass in middle school

*bee voice* i would like to apologize for being a sasuke hater. i was wrong for thinking that he’s a pussy ass bitch. he is indeed sexy, smart, and was in the right for wanting to destroy konoha.

Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

I know you have all probably seen the esims for gaza posts circulating. Some of you have probably looked at them and thought maybe you should help out, but have weighed up the daunting process of signing up for something you're unfamiliar with vs. the gut-wrenching scale of the things people are going through on the ground right now, and you've put it off or questioned whether it will make enough of a difference vs. some other future kind of activism you could put that $6+ towards. I'm not calling you out or scolding you, it is natural to feel conflicted and ambivalent about the multiple calls for aid that you are seeing on social media.

but consider this: what would you do if you suddenly had to leave your home? how would you cope? how would you begin to plan where to go next, or figure out what to do to take care of yourself? most likely you would reach reflexively for your phone.

telecoms access is not a petty luxury in 2024. a loaded esim means the ability to call family members and find out where they are and whether they're safe, and whether they need anything you can provide for them. it means access to maps and regular updates on the situation unfolding around you. it means you can look up whether it's safe to drink rain water, or how to tie a type of knot you've never had to think about before, or how to treat an injury without medical supplies. it means the ability to tell people outside the situation what you are seeing, what you are feeling, what you are thinking. it is an absolutely crucial resource. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.

many many people have observed that internet access is changing the way the world understands genocide. internet access is life or death, and it is shaping modern history in front of you. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.

please, please visit gazaesims.com and spend 5 minutes and $6 to change the way this plays out for everyone.

"Actually in the REAL mythology [Ovid retelling; not canon to the actual religion or pantheon in any way, not what ancient Greek people believed and just a reimagining, literally poems written by a dude who intentionally put different spins on the God's narratives, not story of the real fucking myth]" SHUT UP!!!!!!!!

part in the book where percy starts to realise something is Wrong about the casino because a guy he's talking to says "groovy" you will always be famous to me

TO BE CLEAR @mynameismad only signed up to illustrate our new graphic novel, not go on my quixotic campaign against the student debt crisis in America

okay besties everyone put in their tags what theyre majoring or what they majored in im so curious