AI has made product work feel weirdly cheap in the middle and expensive at the edges. Another screen, prototype, or feature is easier to produce than it used to be. The harder work is deciding what…

would they tell you how happy they are the friends they've made the grass they ate moo moo moo would they sing the farmer's praise for relieving their breasts of too much milk and bringing them new…

Hello and welcome back to another exciting tutorial! In part 1 we built a symmetrical mandala with smoothing, speed-based thickness, and Tweakpane.Today we're leveling up that same foundation…

Rob Matthews’s Entopic Graphomania series, connecting the use of a single letter across a page, produces related variants.

Brand identity is too often treated as a police manual: approved logo, approved colors, approved layouts, end of story. In an excerpt from Taschen's The Elements of Brand Design in It's Nice…

A 2008 essay collection of artists discussing the merits of digital tools, including Jael, John Berkey, Jill Bauman, Tom Kidd, Frank Wu, and more.

I've sold lots of graphic novel manuscripts. Much like a picture book manuscript, if you sell ms-only, the publisher will hire an illustrator. You just have to learn to write a graphic novel script.…

Wow, this Erbaut guy sure did design a lot of buildings.

UI execution is being outsourced, teams are shrinking. The industry is more of a mess than it looks. In uncertain times, shrinking the team and increasing efficiency through AI is precisely what will…

A few more random worldbuilding ideas that are free for the taking if someone wants to flesh them out or incorporate them into their worlds! Intended to be quick and encourage me (and you!) to…

It is gentle in its caress. It tells me that it is a friend, and has been with me for many years. It is gentle in its caress. It whispers to me, and asks me to let in its cold. It is gentle in its…

This July there are four dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range from $100,000 to publication. None charge entry fees. Some of these…

Van Gogh (composed by Virginio Aiello)

Successful Fiction Writing = Organizing + Creating + Marketing I blog weekly on one of the above three topics, alternating between them. This week, I’m blogging on Creating. My topic today is: the…

Panel One - With Chance looking over Piper who is waving at Chance Piper: Eyes front Magellan! Panel Two - Chance looking at Piper Chance: Oh, I’m sorry, Ma’am, have you seen this rabbit? shows Piper…

Surreal representations of familiar locations Strangely stretched scenery sprawling into infinity Echoing expanses of accustomed accoutrements Voices of varying volumes vehemently vacate And…

If you have a terrible idea or if you have a lovely idea that you cannot put it beautifully today, just write it anyway. Write it and you'll have the chance to re-write it. Can't you do a great…

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After a long social media break and deleting most of my online presence, it was time to make a change again. After a very nice and fulfilling talk with someone last week, I realized that I am missing…

Finally! after a lot of bargaining with myself, I've got back into a zine-making routine. I actually prefer using Photopea over Photoshop or Affinity.

Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3-1 / Chapter 3-2 / Chapter 3-3 He walked along a dirt track through a forest. A frown scarred his face. His leg ached with each step, an old injury from the battle…

i have a love-hate relationship with writing any sort of fiction, but especially fanfic. it's probably just due to inexperience writing, but something about my brain wants to go past all the learning…

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Hand-painted Ghanaian poster art from Accra for John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, and BLAG 04.

The local herbalist chapter was open to the public until five, around the clock for members. The man at the front desk looked up when the heavy door closed behind Sorrel. Almost like he was expecting…

Mourning Hall, Westhausen Cemetery, Frankfurt. Architect: Günter Bock. Photo: Matthias Heiderich

In the 19th century, a most curious thing happened in both England and France—though unremarked upon at the time by the peoples of either—itself a curious thing given their intense rivalry in all…

I mean it couldn’t hurt right?? Read more about MATCD here.

it was really rainy yesterday and it reminded me of something that happened to me in the summer of 2015. Entire interaction back to front: bad. also bc i finished this at 1 am last night it counts…

There is this Universal Stigma, that if you are not making a full living as an artist, you are not really "a true artist". Since when the term "artist" heavily linked towards monetary gain? When…

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A design note on Lightener Studio: when curve editing controls real lights during preview, the room becomes part of the interface.

Content warning: This poem is about the ongoing heat in Europe. I strike an optimistic tone toward the end, but if you would prefer not to read about the heat, I offer you one of the Scottish poems I…

bluesky | mastodon | stickers | commissionsI took a picture of the No Skateboarding sign at Ueno Park a few years ago, and I discovered it again while looking through my hard drive. Then I thought,…

As an adult, it's a miracle that a piece of art gets done at all

postcrossing! i love postcrossing! made for Make a Terrible Comic Day 2026

there's a new track on the music section! go check it out :D

Another sad but true tale of la vie de la bohème by Dan Leo Illustrations and additional dialogue by rhoda penmarq , exclusively for quinnmartinmarq™ productions This episode brought to you by the…

This year’s Make a Terrible Comic Day comic, something that’s been on my mind a lot lately. OOPS!

"The quality or quirk you most wish you could wash away is exactly the thing that's going to make someone fall in love with you," she said, admiring insects no one else could see. He caught one and…

Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1155/adventure-calls-clearly

Surprising when but not what Will emerge in your head On their own schedule Unpublished unsaid Folding mayo in tuna, Today it's rhyme form -- fragments and flashes, buttered steak in a dorm You make…

Hey, you!I have newly-published stories:Thank You For Calling the Thoughts and Prayers Hotline is up at FlashFlood."The Bird Husband" is in Volume 6 of If There's Anyone Left."Thumbing to Sugar Daddy…

Teacher Jin sat in the corner of the library. He stared at the secondhand laptop. On the screen was the newly released disclaimer for The Seven Poisons Lab. The phrase "the literal one" was stuck in…

Here, beloved, at this very moment, let me present to you, MY BEING! … there. Oh, read it to me— The inaudible, the interval. It has a timbre like a column of light, yet if you call it a colour— it…

Visual Album for Baduizm(s) commissioned by Erykah Badu Description: Part videographic love letter, part psychedelic tour diary, part alien transmission intercepting the branchial graph of the…

Memorial and Cultural Center, Kolašin, Montenegro. Architect: Marko Mušič. Photo: Matthias Heiderich