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🌵 Sean Thurlow
@seanthurlow.bsky.social
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• Layout/Visual Development Artist
• Tucson/Arizona
• Contact : [email protected]
• Tags- #art
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🌵 Sean Thurlow @seanthurlow.bsky.social · Apr 16
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Hey everyone! My name is Sean Thurlow. I live in the desert of Tucson Arizona. I draw and paint a bit of everything but focus on Background Art and Visual development. Right now available for hire for new projects. Contact at [email protected] for any inquires or questions.
A collage of multiple paintings of landscapes both fantastical and from life.
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aimeekitty.bsky.social
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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aplante.com
won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.

#art
an illustrated sticker design in bright colours a "no parking anytime" sign, but half the letters have faded away to read "NO AI ANYTIME" and the no parking symbol has been spray painted to with a dripping red circle crossing out black dripping AI letters
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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tyleraking.com
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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cosimog.bsky.social
The well
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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animalphotorefs.bsky.social
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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anyrava.bsky.social
Rock compilation because I love painting them :D
November 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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allisonperryart.bsky.social
#ThrowbackThursday to a nighttime gas station - who doesn't love painting gas stations? I feel like every painter I know has painted at least one, ha ha! Thanks for looking, and you can catch the process here: youtu.be/3kIaaNVxG1k
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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axl99.bsky.social
if you're a working artist don't forget to warm up with loose sketches and scribbles before getting started

ugly circles and spirals are good for loosening up the wrists while you're waiting for your morning coffee/tea
November 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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davis.social
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
cinema_nasties 1d Al defenders are so embarrassing j.paulmonter 2h All you are saying is that you want to gatekeep creativity. That's not good. drachelbarr & 20h • •• Neuroscientist here... creativity is a process. A process. A FUCKING PROCESS. Not an output. Nobody is gatekeeping the process - Al simply invites you to skip to the end, to the output. Which, as mentioned, is not creativity. Nobody cares if the output is aesthetically pleasing, because the process, the act itself, the limitation of a single human mind and the resulting creations that capture that one single inimitable human experience... is what makes a creation worth paying attention
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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annahollinrake.com
Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane

Support Blender today!!!
makkon.bsky.social Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 8d
Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk.
please donate if you can!
fund.blender.org
Blender Development Fund
Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
fund.blender.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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theghostegg.bsky.social
“This isn’t so bad,” thought the ghost. “Being dead.” 👻🪽
Digital illustration of a sky at dusk with a crescent moon and pink clouds. A sheet ghost with a halo is staring at the moon. The are two telephone pones connected by wires. The ghost is hovering above a grassy hill and stairs.
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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davis.social
ngl, I like that some shows still release on a weekly schedule instead of all-at-once. It's nice to have something to look forward to on a particular day and take some time to process an episode, theorize, and so on.
November 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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aplante.com
like 15 min into this movie and this shit is already the most winnipeg sense of humour i’ve ever seen in my life i’m dying
poster for Universal Language
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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guydavisart.bsky.social
The Cadaver’s Tale~ Some concept designs I did for the animated cadaver & props/keyframe from @realgdt.bsky.social incredible FRANKENSTEIN! Also collaborating with Mike Hill who sculpted and made the puppet (and puppeteered it to life) with the final screen performance digitally augmented by MRXFX!
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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asmeesh.bsky.social
Lovely day 1 with @bifanoland.bsky.social 's Warrior Art Class. Learning the Notan method.
photo of a sketchbook and computer monitor, both showing black and white sketches of landscapes. Digital drawings in greyscale. The top depicts a snowy river with three levels of fidelity, getting simpler and simpler. The bottom is of a seaside landscape, following the same method of simplification.
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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adamatomic.bsky.social
time for a rest
in a megastructure wasteland of containers and conduit, the robot sits on a canister facing his best friend (pig), lost in thought (but hopefully not actually lost)
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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danhawk333.bsky.social
Enough for tonight
11x17 pen and paper #wip
#surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #GrimDark
Work in progress pen drawing of strange figures crab walking with thin limbs in front of alien looking technology
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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bettyjiang.bsky.social
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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rachaeltalibart.bsky.social
A simple scene from a remote black sand beach in Iceland.
A portrait-format, black and white photo of a pool of water on a black sand beach. The light catches the edge of the sand in a line that leads towards distant mountains reflected in the water.
November 15, 2025 at 8:13 AM
seanthurlow.bsky.social
Shopping at Sprouts today and the only thing I could think is how jealous I am of Carol from #pluribus getting a whole freaking sprouts store to herself last episode 😱

also #pluribus is freaking amazing👌
November 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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devinplatts.bsky.social
A small painting of one of the goats
Oil on paper 21 x 30 cm
November 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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allantadams.bsky.social
A work in progress reminder from 2022 on FB: Monk Bar, York. The Bar was the city's most ornate gate, with a stone vault & other pretty features. A former coaching inn just inside the walls on Goodramgate.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
Work in progress on a pencil drawing of historic buildings including a four-storey gatehouse. A mechanical pencil can be seen in the illustrator's hand, resting on a piece of paper to keep the drawing surface clean. A pencil shown at rest on an incomplete drawing of historic buildings and a city gateway.
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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jaws-stone.bsky.social
All the times I've showed @kim-hu.com how much I love her. Because I do not love this man.

(These aren't even half of the pieces I've done of him).
A drawing of a comic book character wearing a skull mask and a hood A highly drawing of a comic book character wearing a skull mask and a hood, laying on the ground looking cute A drawing of two comic book characters, one wearing a skull mask and a hood, the other being a big alien with his tongue sticking out A drawing of two comic book characters, one wearing a skull mask and a hood while taking a selfie. The other wears tight spandex and looks annoyed
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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xavierck.com
I daresay I've found the environment artist Bat Signal
presentcorrect.bsky.social Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 13d
Fifty patterns you can make with a standard brick www.architekwiki.com/wiki/masonry...
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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amyrichesart.bsky.social
The experience of seeing a glacier is something else! Here are some studies I did on location over the summer. I’d been trying to paint from this vista all week but it was constantly covered in cloud... until the last day! 😅 Hooray!

#iceland #landscape #scape #art #pleinair #oilpainting Photo
Photograph oil painting on location in Iceland. In the foreground is my sketchbook on my easel and in the background you can see Geitlandsjokull and Þórisjökull looming in the distance.
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM