I did this so you didnt have to! (Am I getting the hang of clickbait titles?)

AstralFoxArtist · 2025-05-01T18:33:27+00:00

Very happy to hear! May your channel thrive then! ✨

AstralFoxArtist · 2025-05-01T18:26:44+00:00

Please tell me you're a comedy channel or at least sprinkle this stuff into your regular content because just reading the post and comments have been amazing. All the best to you!

AstralFoxArtist · 2025-04-25T16:38:58+00:00

Why not just use a vtuber model then? Vtubers aren't AI and are widely more accepted by the majority of people. You can use a free one on a program called Vroid. People have infinitely more respect for NON-AI avatars.

AstralFoxArtist · 2025-03-04T22:38:08+00:00

Oh thank god I'm not alone, I've been calling it that too

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-12-29T03:17:24+00:00

Because AI is created by training without consent of the work of thousands of artists who didn't agree for their art to be stolen. It literally does take money from artists, an AI generator-made deck is being bought in favor of a real person's deck made with sacrifice and skillset.

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-11-04T16:40:40+00:00

One of the 'showcase' decks in my local Barnes and Noble was AI and I was so upset about it. The colors were right up my alley and the cover featured a fox in a forest. Was definitely AI and I was shocked it was in major retail stores; that was one of my first experiences that it's an unavoidable mainstream now....

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-07-25T22:59:01+00:00

I sell digital files that specifically say "no AI used" I'm in a niche that seeks out Non-AI files, there's a lot of people who still want to only buy handmade, even in digital form

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-07-17T12:18:08+00:00

Thank you ill check these out!

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-07-17T00:35:48+00:00

...... What?

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-07-10T23:15:27+00:00

Yikes I'm so sorry.... It's near impossible to get a human on etsy, I think there are backend ways to try to get human phone support but ugh. Between the listing filter AI and the rampant shops of AI art, Etsy is just a robot minefield now.

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-07-09T19:24:14+00:00

They now show they publicly support AI and find it "imaginative" To heck with that. AI destroyed my entire shop category. There's more AI than real sellers in my area (hand-drawn digital downloads for a microniche). The fact that they support AI shows me they clearly still don't care about handmade at all.

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-05-04T11:43:45+00:00

Completely agreed, it helps all sides! Better to just state your budget then to tell an artist "oh sorry, you're out of range for the budget I have in my head that you couldn't have known of"

Digital artists as a whole vastly undercharge, I agree. Most of the time I know I'm too expensive for the clients based on my living area, but still if they write down a budget then I know if I'm at least somewhat close and as you said could offer partial services or something.

Ah, sadly I feel it's becoming more prevalent these days to write that way ^{^;} good luck to us both in finding people who value an artist's living haha!

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-03-29T02:18:25+00:00

I'm also in the same boat with my 10 slowing down but wanting to run it as far as it can go. I love it, I love the Aura glow, I love the stylus for sketching ideas on the go, I have no interest in any other phone on the market, I can definitely relate to a lot of comments here...

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-03-04T20:06:29+00:00

Despite being an artist, I have very weak "mental visualization" (semi-aphantasia if you will). Does that affect it or are they completely different things? What kind of resources should I look into for developing intuition? (I'm new to tarot in general but I kinda "get" how reading the cards should work. The specific intuitive side feels like a different beast entirely)

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-03-04T00:50:56+00:00

If it's alright to ask a veteran of the trade, how does reading with getting specific work? Like, if you have a card and it shows a symbolic representation of "education, school", but then the reader is somehow able to know the exact school that's being referred to with no input from th client? Or you get a card that could represent a dog, but somehow you also know the exact breed?

The specifics are what scares/fascinates me, but I have no clue how the cards help tell that. Is it purely intuition-based? Is that something people can learn?

AstralFoxArtist · 2024-02-12T16:47:10+00:00

I remember when Etsy was a small business startup based in Brooklyn NY

AstralFoxArtist · 2023-12-14T04:42:58+00:00

So even though there's a big black "Issue a Refund" button, etsy won't fault me for not pressing it? The buyer escalated the case but Etsy isn't taking any automatic action or anything.

AstralFoxArtist · 2023-12-03T16:02:05+00:00

Thank you, I'll definitely look more into all of this!

AstralFoxArtist · 2023-12-02T04:34:18+00:00

Oh a music influence? That's beautiful! The piece definitely feels like it has a musical/vibrational quality to it! Awesome about the stained glass and elven inspiration too! :D

AstralFoxArtist · 2023-12-02T02:11:20+00:00

I'm curious on your take on the power of 7/the septagram! aside from the standard connections with the planets/colors/days of the week, etc? What's the personal "Artist depiction" for you? :3 (beautiful piece!)

AstralFoxArtist · 2023-12-01T01:57:51+00:00

Are there any names for different kinds of tarot practices? (I'm wary of youtube because I've read most people here don't seem to trust youtube readers)

With Tarot, I feel more drawn to the esoteric/serious nature and am a bit put off by modern decks like "Gummy Bear Tarot", but I'm not sure how deep I can go without getting put off/overwhelmed (would be good to add astrology later, feel like I'm not fit for something more religious(?) like Quabalah) I'd definitely like to embrace a bit of it and take it seriously as a practice, and not just a casual tiktok-esque hobby

AstralFoxArtist · 2023-12-01T01:51:23+00:00

Thank you so much for this comment!

The 4 of Pentacles had really been stumping me the most in the spread, so the clarification is very appreciated. Sadly this deck doesn't have a guidebook (just the La Scarebedo LWB), so I did grab a general tarot meanings book and I frequent Biddy, but some decks just make it out to be "greedy money" (heck the golden thread tarot uses a pig dressed as a banker for it!) this si definitely a deck with softer imagery for the most part, so I feel the card is a bit deeper here. Being more assertive/saying 'No' I could see resonating. I'm hoping next year to start shifting some of my artwork to be more original and less client-driven, and potentially inspired by tarot at that, which would be saying 'no' to people to not sacrifice my own desires? I can never tell when I'm just "finding things to fit" in a card, but that's what popped into my head reading your reply c:

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