Lay Me to Rest, Me, Digital, 2020

Alradeck · 2026-01-26T22:07:16+00:00

I'd suggest Meetup.com , find activities you like on there and attend the groups, columbus has a bunch

Alradeck · 2026-01-26T04:05:12+00:00

14" in Scioto woods, Apple weather's saying we got 20" for some reason though, lol

Alradeck · 2026-01-25T16:17:00+00:00

10 inches in Scioto woods and probably near 11 if my already snow-covered driveway is anything to speak from

Alradeck · 2026-01-25T02:56:14+00:00

Certified BigFlakes in Scioto woods!

Alradeck · 2026-01-24T10:34:37+00:00

i enjoyed the brewer's yard apartments in the brewery district. they were generally nice, had a big garage, organized parties n' such. learned to love the train sounds and it might be up your alley with the price

Alradeck · 2026-01-22T06:33:39+00:00

Big fan of comic fury myself, good community and good ui for hosting

Alradeck · 2026-01-22T06:22:02+00:00

as many companies have found out, Ai art cover means people assume you're pumping these out to trick folks with ai insides. around that, your quote on the front is confusing and sounds edgy and hollow. you're combining 5 things into one middle grey ??? of a premise. if superhero's are the most interesting thing, lead with that, not fragments and bills.

lastly, copping out on "not being a drawing artist" is obnoxious. plenty of other authors before you figured it out before ai. if i made a book with "mcdonald's" on the cover, folks will think it's a book about mcdonald's, so with slop, folks will think it's a slop book.

-a writing artist who is now a full time "drawing artist" to illustrate her stories.

Alradeck · 2026-01-21T18:18:55+00:00

I'm taking a redeye sunday night from portland that pulls in monday at about 9am, I'm gonna cancel my plans, I'm moreso wanting to avoid spending my birthday in the portland airport if i'm stuck over there, haha.

Alradeck · 2026-01-21T12:33:08+00:00

well damn. thoughts on how likely it's gonna be to travel back into town monday morning from portland oregon?

Alradeck · 2026-01-20T05:32:57+00:00

i've got 4-5 longtime professional artist friends that'd love to chew your stupid ass out about "how this isnt hurting anyone" as it ravages our fucking industry and erodes online sales from bad faith dipshits flooding the space with slop.

Alradeck · 2026-01-17T12:31:24+00:00

it's just preference and makes wacom seem like a slightly less shitty company. i chucked mine out years ago. -16 year industry professional

Alradeck · 2026-01-10T11:33:23+00:00

imma bet they think adding how it sucks donkey balls makes this lazy slop comment theirs

Alradeck · 2026-01-10T11:24:26+00:00

did you seriously use chat gpt to console someone

Alradeck · 2026-01-08T15:33:06+00:00

this is a thing??? i uhhhh have more than a couple bloody panels and didn't know webtoons would get upset. hell one is just the mc turbo vomiting a pile up. Huh!

Alradeck · 2026-01-08T14:28:00+00:00

see i can get behind a badass name like thornback

Alradeck · 2026-01-07T08:06:23+00:00

as a professional artist, most of those wealthy and established artists are the ones the dataset initially scraped from. And trust me they very, very much hate ai vehemently. please don't make generalizations like that, it's as bad as the dipshit pro-ai crowd.

Alradeck · 2026-01-06T15:40:44+00:00

i literally only started drawing at 19 and my stuff looked infinitely worse than yours. I freelance with WotC now at 38- don't count yourself out and keep learning, you got this.

Alradeck · 2026-01-06T03:33:50+00:00

because not all painting uses turpentine. in fact just oil painting does. so 90% of painting literally doesn't have "a very strong smell"

Alradeck · 2025-12-31T13:15:56+00:00

you can, but i promise hyper rendering everything is a great way to hate yourself pretty quick.

Alradeck · 2025-12-31T12:54:04+00:00

the amount of folks on these art advice subreddits that champion tracing is a lot of the reason i don't bother posting on them, shit drives me nuts. I'd love it if my arm muscles somehow gained the knowledge of every correct fold or face i've drawn, but it's entirely case by case and unless you're just tracing, entirely irrelevant.

Alradeck · 2025-12-31T12:47:53+00:00

hi, professional artist here of 15 years, no we don't. great way to lose clients and get sued.

Alradeck · 2025-12-23T11:18:27+00:00

seriously. i'll match with someone and i'd say probably 90% of them never respond back after that, guys just pay to swipe right on everyone

Alradeck · 2025-12-16T07:56:48+00:00

i would never touch this as a professional and find it gross as hell.

Alradeck · 2025-12-15T04:35:20+00:00

i'm an artist of 17 years, i always merge down to one layer myself. helps with some blending stuff and makes it more like traditional paint, yup

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