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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · 8d

August - Bullet

#patreon #digitalart #characterart #blazblue

A tan woman with platinum blonde poses to the camera, one arm reaching towards the viewer while the other is reared back for a punch. She has a scar across her nose and wears a high collared black jacket with gold trim which is open in the front, a white shirt beneath it zipped halfway, dark blue pants, and a leather belt which whips around her almost like a tail. On her arms is a pair of golden gauntlets and brown fingerless gloves. One fist is wreathed in flame, a spark emitting from the gauntlet, while the other only has a few flecks of fire coming off of it.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 8d

princess of the underworld

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

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Amity @ellybean.bsky.social · Aug 3

Doodled my hunters from mh wilds and rise.. I love them both very much..

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Kurt @kaatokunart.bsky.social · 18d

Numetal hand @amphypop.bsky.social

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · 20d

Words do not, can not, describe the flood of exhaustion and nausea that overcame me reading this. Genuinely horrifying. But I'm sure someone will call me a drama queen or something over saying so....

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

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.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

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.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 22d

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

‘Children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore.’
I've been out of work for a while now. I made children's book illustrations, stock art, and took various art commissions.

Now I have several maxed out credit cards and use a donation bin for food. I haven't had a steady contract in over a year. two weeks ago, when a client who has switched to AI found out about this he gave me $50 out of "a sense of guilt." Basically pity for the fact that Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 20d

This is the cost of casual legitimization of genai. The blood of this kind of suffering is on the hands of everyone who uses it for all the kind of stuff Giger has pointed out. Because you've been told for at least two years now what the cost of it is and to stop doing it.

GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 22d

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

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SplashZone @splashzone.bsky.social · Sep 6

Popular knight

Drawing of a short-haired knight in armor with a giggling princess on each of her arms.

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Tealst @tealst.bsky.social · Sep 1

(Jerma Voice)
Happy Birthday Miku!

Fighting Type Miku from the Pokemon Voltage collab with her Sirfetch'd and Farfetch'd

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Aug 30

July - Chaisai Darawan

#patreon #digitalart #characterdesign #characterart #gamedev #ManaTrigger

A buff man with reddish brown hair grins at the camera with one fist punching into his other hand. He wears a black and purple jacket with gold trim and fur cuffs(but is otherwise shirtless), martial artist's wraps around his fists, white pants, and a leather belt with a red sash tied to it. His eyes are bright red, and has has scars on his face.

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Aug 15

It may be a tad hypocritical of me considering how little I actually like speaking aloud (and how bad I am at replaying oof) but when there's no other way to talk I really do value when people leave comments on my work. Esp like detailed ones but even a simple "this is cool!" or smth makes me happy

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Scazrelet ~ Spooky Vibes Only @scazrelet.bsky.social · Aug 14

Non-artists: Oh man I do not know how to talk to artists, I don't know what to say, how to engage them, and those big accounts must already get bothered a lot...

Artists: Omg validate me. I don't care what you say. Tell me my art reminds you of bread pudding I don't care just say something please.

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thank you so much!

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Aug 13

REAL

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Aug 13

Done! I really love this design for Jam, excited to see her in Strive when she eventually releases. 💜

#digitalart #fanart #GuiltyGear #GGST #JamKuradoberi

Jam Kuradoberi, a shortish chinese woman with brown hair worn in a large hoop, poses in a martial arts stance. She has a red skirt which is slit along one side, a red crop top, and a white jacket with billowing red sleeves. She grins mischievously behind a pair of large circular glasses.

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Aug 12

hand needs a break and I need sleep, this is what I've got so far. Will finish tomorrow hopefully.

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Aug 11

I have been filled with extreme pettiness at some of the things I've seen people saying about the Jam strive design, so fuck it, I've never played this character but she looks cool so here we go.

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なす @danasu.bsky.social · Aug 1

梅喧

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maiqo @maiqo.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Rosemary ✨ Stained Glass Artist @breadsticc.art · Aug 1

it's one of those days I suppose

Three panel comic. First panel is a featureless cartoon person sitting it a desk with a drawing tablet, happily saying "time to draw". Second panel is of the same person leaning close into the tablet screen, with a clock behind them, the pen laying on their desk, and three dots next to their head. The third panel shows the person and tablet from behind, with a screenshot of an empty digital art canvas. He asks "time to draw?" and in parenthesis at the bottom it says it has been 6 hours. Comic by Breadsticc Art.

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Jul 31

June - Ceruledge

#patreon #digitalart #characterart #pokemon #fanart #ceruledge

Ceruledge from Pokemon (a black and blue creature with purple armor and pink/blue flame swords on its arms, raises one of its arms to the night sky, a pale blue moon glowing behind it.

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VynetteC | Commissions Closed (For now) @vynettec.bsky.social · Jul 28

Seriously considering trying to take a month or two completely off of social media and such (besides patreon work) to just focus on refreshing my fundamentals and refining parts of my art that I feel lacking in. Remove the pressure of everything having to be "work" so i can just focus on improvement

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Mar 27

two mario game princesses posed in smash bros game as if talking brown hair one (daisy) saying are you tired of (visibly edited) building character, don't you just want (visibly edited) some stuff to go well? as she gets up in the face of the blonde one (peach). This is an edit of an older meme that usually instead says Are You Tired of Being Nice?

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beck @ read BtG ☀️ @frogletcomics.bsky.social · Jul 25

What lurks beyond the bramble...

A sneak peek for Beneath The Grove 🍃 a comic by myself and @cirrostatus.bsky.social

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