GenAI is a fraud and it needs to start being treated like a fraud.


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'Block City'


A mixed-media drawing of Hamtaro, Bijou, and Penelope playing in Mega Bloks laid out like a 'city' of sorts.

This was drawn using Crayola markers and Arteza brush pens, with watercolors also layered onto the characters and for Hamtaro and Bijou's eye reflections, and was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f4.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it, and I added a Polachrome sim filter to it.

#cute #cuteart #hamtaro #bijouhamtaro #penelopehamtaro #hamtaroart #crayola #arteza #crayolamarkers #artezabrushpens #watercolors #mixedmediaart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #polachrome #polachromesim #vintagelenses

Gardner Bryant - Valve's endgame


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This is actually kinda sad to think about.


So, this just came up in my mind, but this is kinda sad to think about; as of 2021, when Embracer bought out Dark Horse, out of all the major comic houses in the US, the only one left who's still independent is Image, as DC is owned by WB/Netflix, Marvel is owned by Disney, and as of 2021, Dark Horse is owned by Embracer.

If any industry needs more indie publishing houses like Image, it's the Western comic industry.

'Snowball Fight'


A mixed-media painting of a pair of squirrels engaged in a snowball fight with a third just chilling next to a tree.

There are a couple snowmen in the scene too.

This was painted with watercolor and then I layered crayons on top of that, including glitter crayons in attempt to simulate shimmer from sunlight reflecting on snow, and I went with a purple sky because I thought it was cuter than a gray sky.

This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens and it had a Polachrome sim filter applied to it.

#cute #cuteart #cuteanimals #squirrels #squirrelart #watercolors #crayons #mixedmediaart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #polachrome #polachromesim #vintagelenses

'Snowing in Lawton'


It started snowing here in Lawton. This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens and I applied a Polaroid 590 5++ film sim filter to it.

#eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #polaroidsim #snow

'Gingerbread Playhouse'


A marker and watercolor crayon drawing of Hamtaro and Bijou playing around a cardboard gingerbread playhouse.

This was drawn in Arteza brush pens and Crayola Signature watercolor crayons, and photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.

#cute #cuteart #hamtaro #bijou #hamtaroandbijou #hamtaroart #markers #markerart #arteza #artezabrushpens #watercolorcrayons #watercolorcrayonart #crayola #crayolasignature #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses

'Holiday Craft Time'


A crayon drawing of a pair of pet mice playing on a craft table during a holiday-themed craft night with their caretakers. Scattered across the table are various craft projects that kids did, ranging from a pair of paper tree decorations; one decorated with glitter for tinsel and ornaments, and the other decorated with handprints and glitter for ornaments, a paper circle ornament decorated with glitter, a paper reindeer with blue handprint antlers, and a pinecone tree, as well as various art supplies and random glitter spills.

This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.

#cute #cuteanimals #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #vivitarseries1 #canonfd #vintagelenses

Friendica is great so far.


So, I'm really liking Friendica so far, apart from the occasional instability on the instance I'm using; it's straight-up like Facebook if it were an actually sane platform, on top of all the benefits of the rest of the Fediverse, being an open, decentralized platform running on an open protocol.

'Festive Art Time with Pichu and Raichu'


A marker and watercolor crayon drawing of Pichu and Raichu making a winter-themed collage collab featuring themselves engaged in a snowball fight in their playroom. They're surrounded by assorted colors of construction paper that have all had shapes cut out of them, and there's also two pairs of scissors and a couple bottles of glue next to them, both of them having been spilled out on the floor.

I also gave my new watercolor crayons a try for this one, in addition to using my Crayola markers.

This was drawn with a combination of Crayola markers and watercolor crayons, and it was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19.35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount lens mounted to it.

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #raichu #watercolorcrayons #watercolorcrayonart #markers #crayolamarkers #markerart #crayola #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses

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Hello!! This is my #introduction post i suppose. I'm Lavali, I do art, focusing on naturalist illustration and I love drawing birds! I'm pretty new to socials so I'm still figuring out how to do stuff. I was on instagram, but stopped for a while, and when I came back it sucked so :/ Here's some #art

#ornithology #botany #lepidopterology #birds #rhinocerosauklet #cerorhincamonocerata #nightshade #tigerswallowtail #swallowtail #glossyibis

You know what the particularly sad part about this is? Our trucks weren't always this big.


I'm going to keep saying this, but screw AI, or more specifically, screw generative AI.


I'm aware things like autofocus on modern cameras or fractal generators are technically a form of AI, but the difference between those and generative AI ala Midjourney, is autofocus augments the thing it's attached to instead of trying to destroy it, and fractal generators always make unique artwork by design, while generative AI is both actively out to destroy everything it touches and also blatantly and openly plagiarizes everyone.

Not to mention it can be used for more sinister, fascist use cases such as rigging elections on top of actively destroying everything it touches and committing blatant and open plagiarism.

I hate generative AI and everything it stands for.


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'Fun with the Ornaments'


An oil pastel drawing of a pair of pet mice playing with ball ornaments that fell on the floor as the tree is being trimmed.

This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.

#cute #cuteanimals #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #oilpastels #oilpastelart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses

'Trimming the Tree'


A crayon drawing of a pair of pet mice playing in a tree as it's being trimmed. The brown mouse is playing in the tree while the white mouse is giggling at him in the foreground.

In the background are varying colors of tinsel and varying artworks that the mice's caretakers made over time.

There are also some ball ornaments of varying colors strewn about the scene.

This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount lens attached to it, and I fired the flash for this one in an attempt to get the glitter crayons I used to show up in the shot.

#cute #cuteanimals #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses

'Holding paws under a tree in the snow.'


A chalk drawing of Pikachu and Buneary holding paws under a tree in the snow. There are snowmen strewn about the scene.

This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 lens mounted to it.

Next time I make any more chalk art, I'm photographing it before fixing it down with hairspray.


#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pikachu #buneary #chalkart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses

'Family Craft Night' + 'Plushie Playtime'


A marker drawing of a brown pet mouse and a white pet mouse holding paws during a family craft night with their caretakers + an oil pastel drawing of a white pet mouse playing on a desk surrounded by plushies.


#cute #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #markers #markerart #oilpastel #oilpastelart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses

'Art Time with a Pair of Mice'


A chalk drawing of a pair of mice making art; the brown mouse is fingerpainting and is smudged with the paint colors he's using, and the white mouse is drawing a sunny field picture with crayons.

They're in a playroom with various other artwork on the wall.

#cute #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart

'Watercolor Mouse'


A watercolor painting of a mouse chilling on a desk next to some letter and number blocks.

This was painted on cardboard, mostly by laying the paint on super thick and blending it directly on the substrate.

#cute #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #watercolor #watercolorart #traditionalart

'Chalk Hamtaro'


A chalk drawing of Hamtaro chilling on a desk, surrounded by Tinker Toys. I missed playing with this medium, but now finally have the chance to since I have hairspray coming in to use as fixative.

Also, apparently sidewalk chalk works really well on cardboard as that's what I used for the foreground and background and some linework.



#cute #cuteart #hamtaro #hamtaroart #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart

'Glitter Pineco'


A crayon drawing of Pichu dressing Pineco up like a giant, living glitter pinecone ornament, as a cute take on Pineco being a pinecone. Also, the green glitter on and surrounding Pineco and that is on Pichu's paws from throwing it onto Pineco, was actually colored in using a glitter crayon.

The dialogue translates to:

- 'Pichuu!' (Tadaa!)
- 'Pineco! ^^' (I'm a giant glitter pinecone now! ^^)

#cute #cuteart #pokemonart #pichu #pineco #crayonart #crayons #traditionalart

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This one was murder lmao. But it's done! Another #washiween piece for this year 😀 ✨

Bottle ref: ko-fi.com/s/35a0a09cdb

#washiween2025 #mixedmedia #traditionalart #art #drawtober #mastoart #fediart #sketchbook

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These photos are from last weekend. I provided a free Clay Play table for an event at the local skatepark. My husband’s a skateboarder & skatepark designer so I got linked in through his network. It was so sweet, fun and, best of all, relaxing. A few kids got hooked and stayed at the table for the entire four hours I was there. It’s incredible how #clay can captures kids’ attention in that way. #kidsart #pottery #ceramics

'Luvdisc Love'


A crayon drawing of a pair of Luvdisc kissing, and also the first drawing where I learned to completely ditch linework when drawing in favor of just shading in solid shapes.

#cute #cuteart #pokemonart #luvdisc #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart

So, here's a chill artist talk stream from Osa.


Pretty much as the post title describes, here's a nice art talk stream from Osa, also, as I commented on the video itself, digging up clay for pottery sounds really fun and gives off a lot of 'playing in a back yard mud puddle as a kid' vibes in the best way.

I actually kinda wanna do something like this one day.

'Pikachu and Buneary art collab'


A marker drawing of Pikachu and Buneary doing a fingerpainting collab that I drew as a late entry into octillerink2025's 'Paintress' category, with Buneary being the 'Paintress' in this scene despite a collab being depicted.

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pikachu #buneary #crayola #crayolamarkers #colpart #markers #octillerink2025 #traditionalart

'Making a Giant Paper Mache Egg' + April Showers.....'


A crayon drawing of Pichu and Togepi making a giant paper mache egg + a crayon drawing of Pikachu, Buneary, Pichu, and Togepi going puddle stomping during a rain shower.

Also, this is what the dialog translates to for the first drawing:

- 'Piichuuu.... Pichu-pi! >w< (Oooohhh, slimy.... This is fun! >w<)'
- 'Toki-tokiii! ^v^ (Hiii! ^v^)'

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #pikachu #buneary #togepi #crayonart #crayons

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Dear media of the world,
When an autocrat admiring the aggressor sits with the aggressor and together they write up the terms on which the victim should surrender, it's not a peace plan/proposal, much less a peace deal.
Stop parroting the autocrat!

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'Caught off guard'


A crayon drawing of Froakie getting caught off guard by an Azurill hitting him with a Watergun attack. I'm currently using this as my desktop wallpaper.

#pokemon #pokemonart #froakie #azurill #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart

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#pokemon #gluedex #MastoArt

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wish cave in mystery dungeon dx was so so hard until i finally looked online for strats and in one of them you just use haunter and haunt through the walls and run away. but then you finally see jirachi and the 2d art in the chat box is so cute. and i have this tiny little plushie of jirachi looks just like this. anyway i love i adore thank you
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@hipsterelectron That's such a fun story! I really enjoy the neat details in Mystery Dungeon like ghosts being able to walk through walls. I remember attempting Wish Cave in the original PMD a few times, but I was a kid and didn't look up strategy guides (or at least not good ones), so I never got super far in these challenge dungeons
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Print of my autumn forest illustration 😀 it’s the perfect time of the year to appreciate this artwork again 🍂 have you already met some mushrooms in the woods this season? 🍁#autumn #illustration #cuteart #mushrooms #art

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