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graphic design is my sisyphean mandate
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Hello! I am opening emergency commissions to cover bills this month. Let me help you with zine or document layout, pixelart portraits, digital character painting, or graphic design! #art #pixelart #design #graphicdesign
a book called "Brenda Turner's Legacy" laid out on a wooden table with candles, tomes, and wax covered potions. The book's cover, my own design, has immigration documents in the background and shows a continent with a journey plotted across the ocean. a very strangle little goblin sat inside a bar, regarding you with his hands on his hips judgementally. Digital paint mixel drawing of a desert sunset. Mixels are different resolution pixels in one design. a frog smoking a cigar. pixelart.
June 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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i gotchu
Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Will To Power" edited to say "The Will To Stancil"
April 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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picture of a novelty t-shirt with a sinful amount of various fonts. Text reads: "I Was Telling My Son About LOUIS ARMSTRONG [trumpet image] And He Said 'What's his Website?' Kids These Day Will NEVER Understand that LOUIS ARMSTRONG does not have a WEBSITE"
April 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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not to brag but my monitor covers 100% of the sRGB and adobe RGB spectra
screenshot of the Datacolor SpyderX Elite post-calibration report. I've highlighted the AdobeRGB color space, of which my monitor (post-calibration) scores 100% on.
April 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Article by David Aldridge in The Athletic. Title: We have lost the impact of shame in our society.
April 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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today we bullied adobe so hard they deleted their entire account. god bless, great work everyone
First post from the now deleted @adobe.com account: "Hey, we're Adobe! We're here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life. What's fueling your creativity right now? Drop a reply, tag a creator, or share your latest work- we'd love to see what inspires you!" First reply is their stock price in the red, down $150. There's 1.6k comments, 1k quotes, and only 50 likes.
April 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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THE MORTALS TELL ME IT IS PORTFOLIO DAY.

BEHOLD.
A book is staged with dramatic lighting on a weathered wood panel floor. The book is called Listening for Candor: Building Trust in Relationships that Matter, by Peter Yaholkovsky MD. It has a plain beige cover with some dark grey accents and modern typography. A strange and beguiling illustration of a fantastical character. It wears a pinstripe suit and a tall tophat with matching stripes, and offers you a cup of, something, you can't tell from this angle. It's eyes are glowing green, and in the steam rising from the mug, written ominously, is the word: tea?... A rough pastel drawing of a human woman, crouched among a desert plant. She wears hand wraps and athletic clothing made with natural materials, with a decorative braided top over it all. She appears focused and ready to do something, looking off frame. A photo of Fruitbelt Tart Sparkling Tonic, a brand I designed this package for. Fruitbelt is a tonic juice. This label we made is mostly green, with halftone images of workers making up the background. The flavor is called "Pressed Apple Marigold Tonic". It's staged among a bush of marigolds.
April 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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we used to use twitter to bully brands. I think we should start doing it on linkedin
linkedin post where I (Robin Beelow: Chief Brand Designer | Graphics, Motion, Web, UI/UX) post "really makes you think!" while linking a Business Insider article discussing Adobe's HR chief rolling back DEI. I comment and tag adobe directly and say "what's the deal here champ"
April 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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reddit post from user [deleted]: From urban dictionary: «A word used when you agree with something; or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e. courageous and unique or not caring what others think. Especially common in online political slang. The opposite of cringe, some times the opposite of biased.»
April 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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hahahaha oh my god I didn't know it worked so well on desktop. let's go
screenshot of me replying to balenciaga mcdonalds using the cursed text generator. The characters spill vertically above and below the confines of my post's UI allotment. underneath the satanic glyphs, barely decipherable, is written "benihana moronalds"
April 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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process (16x - 4x - 1x)
April 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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more #mixels #pixelart #art
a pixel art rendering of a woman among some leaves. it's extremely close cut on her face. The piece uses a technique called "mixels", which includes (in this case) 1x, 4x, and 16x sized pixels in the final image. This piece uses the DB32 palette.
April 7, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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how this makes me feel
a monkey with a hat that says "I heart wieners". He has chili fries with corn dogs in there. She looks resoundingly joyful.
April 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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#pixelart #art #mixels
Pixel art using a technique called Mixels, where you upscale the art in stages to achieve a blocky, strange effect. This image has a large black frame to get proper scaling on mobile. It's labeled "THE MIXEL GIANT", and a towering, purplish figure blots out the sun above you. Whispy lens flare like effects shine out, and swirling grey clouds frame the blue sky and sun. The figure is somewhat grotesque and trollish, but perhaps its just the technique making it look that way.
April 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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an image of a bearded person with a barbed crown on their head backlit by the sunset, attempting to look like White Jesus. A speech bubble was added to make it look like the quoted post is being said by him
April 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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#pixelart #music #art I MADE THIS. NOW YOU WILL LISTEN
March 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Test for a stream overlay!
Twitch stream overlay of mine. Swirling, smokey shadows take up the lower third; Grundleween the wizard looks toward the content (presently a filler image of a house in the woods). A scary tree occupies the left margin. The bottom left has a title that reads "Balatro"
March 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Final pass!
Final update on this project. CRT scanlines have been cheated onto the overall image, as well as a subtle bloat effect and tweaked bloom algorithm.
March 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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updates
same as the last image, but the burning eye-fire is now more blobby and cartooinsh, and the lens blur methodology and levels have changed. In a word: finishing touches
March 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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wizard cowboy
a tall and thin pixelart drawing of a wizard cowboy. It reminds one of early computer educational point and click adventure game art, which relied on jagged pixelated illustrations otherwise made with great care.
March 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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BIG NEWS EVERYONE HES BACK
screenshot of the original Anoney Snufftan liking my quoted animatic
March 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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screenshot from Avatar the Last Airbender. A pleasant content looking man scratches his belly surrounded by boats and wearing only simple underwear fashioned from leaves. Subtitle that says "Pants are an illusion and so is death."
March 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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poster for the Will Smith movie i, ROBOT edited to the title says Im ROBOT?
March 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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captain ahab with a speech bubble containing the post im replying to
March 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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ballerina in a white tutu taking a bow
March 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM