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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath

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scifi, fantasy, & horror artist, illustrator, & poet multi-genre print-on-demand artist, designer, & photographer My PoD shops: https://tee.pub/lic/sp_YC96pfhI https://www.redbubble.com/people/RHFay/shop?asc=u https://www.zazzle.com/store/richardfay

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · May 1

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 9h

>"Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore."<

Said by a children's book illustrator who saw work completely dry up due to AI.

I'm so glad I established my print-on-demand stores years ago, while I was still doing art and illustrations for various small-press publications.

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck AI! Fuck AI bros who support this sh*t!

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/artists-ar...

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 10h

Seeing some companies who used to use imagery created by real human artists switch to using AI generated imagery angers me, as both a fellow artist and a consumer.

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 11h

Human creatives...
We WILL endure!
We WILL survive!
We WILL overcome!
We WILL prevail!

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 11h

What we human creatives should keep singing 'cause we ARE champions:
"We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end
We are the champions
We are the champions
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions
Of the world."
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Queen - We Are The Champions (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Queen Official

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 11h

You're welcome!

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks!
If you think my visual art is spooky, you should check out some of my spooky/dark poetry!
I've been sharing some examples of my dark poetry each day this month.

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

You're welcome!

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Bonus poem number 2 for day 9 of "31 Days of Spooky/Dark/Horror Poetry": "Gathering of the Dead".
This is one of my Halloween poems. In this work, I drew inspiration from the tale "November Eve" shared by Lady Wilde in Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland.

Gathering of the Dead

by Richard H. Fay

Never gaze upon the rath
On a cool November's Eve,
For there wandering souls meet
Beneath a bright Hunter's Moon.
Grey wraiths gather amongst stones
Marking ancient pagan graves
While wan spirits dart about
Glimmering a corpse-light glow.
Murmured voices chant strange words
Forgotten by living men.

Never set foot upon grass
Barely bent by ghostly feet,
For fey gasts hate intrusions
Into their phantasmal fete.
Free from prying mortal eyes,
Tattered lads reel hand-in-hand
With filmy spectral lasses
While impish harpers play tunes
Sweet as lost love remembered,
Soft as a doomed man's last breath.

Never enter that fell dance,
Though seduced by glamour’s charms,
For embittered shades steal life
Deftly drawn into their midst.
Ice cold hands bruise naked flesh,
Spreading fatal corruption.
Dusty kiss chokes plaintive cry
As soul parts from withered corpse
And gathers with fellow dead
On a chill All Hallows’ Eve.

(Originally published in Tales from the Moonlit Path, Halloween Issue, October 2009)

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Yo, artists!
It's a spooky art share!
Share your fantastically spooky creations in the quote-posted thread.

Coldrose @coldrose.bsky.social · 14h

🎃Art Share!!👻
Let's Spread positivity

-Post your art
-repost other artist's
-optional invite friends
-No AI No Nfts keep it sfw please

I will Repost art throughout the day 🎉

#artshare #artistsupport

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

You're welcome!

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Inviting
@sjm777thelibra.bsky.social
@yhk13.bsky.social
@tdzartist.bsky.social
@hobbyfantast.bsky.social
@pigeonker.bsky.social

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Cool stuff by @emberssbm.bsky.social! Love critters, cute or otherwise.

Ember @emberssbm.bsky.social · 13h

Ty for hosting!! Happy Autumn >:D

Hellooo I'm Ember, a digital painter and comic artist who loves making atmospheric pieces with cute little (or sometimes not so little) critters in them 😌 I also do a weekly comic called "I don't mind." every Friday :D

A digital painting of Hornet and the Bellbeast, from Hollow Knight: Silksong, walking down a foggy road past a ragged dead tree. The road is lined by purple bushes, and mountains fade into the background under a full moon that shines through the fog and night

Signed: EmberSSBM <3

A digital painting of a dense forest of silver trees with purple leaves, the shadows behind which have the glowing red eyes of various creatures. The ground and trees are covered in lightly glowing foliage and mushrooms. There are many characters throughout, from left to right:

A brown-headed mushroom friend leaning back in the crevice of a tree with a sack full of goods beside them.

Two little mushrooms happily and wondrously interacting with each other, the right most having a red head, and the left having a glowing mint head.

A tired goblin walking out of their house and checking out what the commotion is.

A femme person walking with a map in their hands and looking up into the trees. They have mushroom earrings and are wearing a yellow sweater over a maroon skirt and brown boots. Beside them is a one-eyed purplish-black cat.

Two mushroom friends peeking out from behind tree trunks, one of which has a glowing green top and the other a brown top.

A purple-headed mushroom peeking out from behind a tree.

On a stump, a round frog and a corvid.

Signed: EmberSSBM <3

A digital painting of the Pokemon Regigigas walking in the distance of Snowpoint Temple (from Pokemon), leaving large footprints behind it. The temple is perched at the top of a mountain peak in the foreground, its entrance following a set of stairs and a path from the nearby Lake Acuity. Evergreen trees are scattered about the snowy mountain, and across the distant land.

A large ravine is open in the distance, separating lanes of mountains. The sky is dark and cloudy, which reflects onto the surface of the lake clearly.

At the base of the pathway stand Cynthia and her Garchomp (from the Sinnoh region in Pokemon) looking out at the Regigigas)

Signed: EmberSSBM <3

A stormy ocean scene in which a small ship, captained by Mr. Briney and his pet Wingull Peeko (Pokemon), are fighting to stay afloat amidst the waves.

The lights of the ship are a small reflection in the monstrous eye of Kyogre (big ol scary whale pokemon), its golden eye piercing through the fog, its teeth and features fading into the fog and waves

Signed: EmberSSBM <3

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Cool stuff! Love critters, cute or otherwise.

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Really freaky and weird art by @fonscordi.bsky.social!

FonsCordi Art @fonscordi.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you for hosting! I'm Grace, a traditional and digital artist (mostly digital atm) and I like to paint horror and fanarts 🦇🎃👻 ✨️

"The old forest god"
"And in the stillness of the woods, the Old Forest God returned to reclaim his dominion..."
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A horror creature is coming out of a bright portal in the middle of the woods, his upper body looks humanoid, his lower body beast like. There's a gape in his belly and a tentacle is coming out of it. His head is crown with antlers and a bright red halo.

"The colours of horror: turquoise"
Turquoise, but not like the calm sea water. Turquoise like the chemically filled pool water, like the artificial light above your head, like the deafening silence of the creature staring at you.
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An emancipated inhuman creature is starting in the middle of a shallow pool, it has tentacles dangling instead of arms, its rib cage 3 times longer than the average human. The face is a black mass with two glowing dots for eyes. A halo of white light crowns its head, while a void with detached eyes opens behind him.

"Cryptid Eldrich horror Batman"
A Batman figure is crouched on top of a crane in the middle of the city at night. His face has no eye just a round mouth full of teeth. Intead of cape he has 6 demon wings.

"Be the Queen the world deserves"
Head of a xenomorph queen on a red background

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Really freaky and weird art!

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Fantastic landscapes by @shiftypumpkin.com!

ShiftyPumpkin @shiftypumpkin.com · 12h

Thanks for sharing! I make oil paintings of natural & fantasy landscapes #art #tradart #oilpainting

perceptivepumpkin.com/gallery/
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“Haunted Swamp”, an 18”x24” oil painting of a swamp in several colors of green, grey, black, blue and purple. Glowing mushrooms and hanging moss dot the landscape.

18”x24” oil painting of a graveyard in autumn among a hilly landscape. The sky has yellows, reds, oranges and purples of sunset. A pumpkin sits against a large, bare tree, with gravestones dotting the landscape and into the distance. Grey fog creeps along parts of the ground.

Oil painting of old graveyard at sunset in autumn, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. Orange and red sky, with bare trees, green grass, headstones, and some spooky elements in blue and green.

“Obsidian Peaks”, an 18”x24” oil painting showing a dark foreboding sky and black-blue mountains. A brief opening in the clouds shows the blue sky above, shining down on a valley teeming with forests.

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Fantastic landscapes!

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Love these works by @solidpawn.bsky.social, especially the white on black works.

Solid Pawn @solidpawn.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for hosting!
I’m Solid Pawn, a dorky hobbyist the messes with mediums! Here is some art and fantastic artists!
@dashasalty.bsky.social owns Salty, pic 4
@dwill93.bsky.social
@helin-and-kosshi.bsky.social
@md2004.bsky.social
@corutaniconnolly.bsky.social
@trackingxp.bsky.social

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Love these, especially the white on black works.

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Creepy spooky stuff by @elleylie.elderscrolls.social!

Elleylie @elleylie.elderscrolls.social · 13h

Hi! I'm an amateur artist who draws sometimes and tries not to get stuck in an artblock c:

Thank you for the artshare! 💫✨

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Creepy spooky stuff!

Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

Spooky art share?
Is this a spooky art share?
Yes, I've spooky art to share.

I'm Richard, a published sci-fi, fantasy, and horror artist and illustrator and accomplished multi-genre print-on-demand artist and designer.

Here's some of my spooky art:

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

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Richard H Fay - Artist/Illustrator/Poet/Polymath @azurelionprod.bsky.social · 12h

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