RJ Palmer 🔜 Gen Con AS-90

Ivysaur painting practice

Friendship for artists in their 30s is just spinning the slot machine to see which one of us gets the depressive spiral this week

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Mixing arthropod style chitinous armor into dragons was quite a rarity in this era, even more so in the western art sphere. I’ve never seen this piece before but really cool to see how ahead of the game Wrightson was.

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social

“Knight and Dragon", by Bernie Wrightson, c.1987.

lol twitter continues to steal ideas from bluesky, you can now add different feeds to your timeline. As with most features they steal, its worse than here as you cannot have custom feeds.

It is nice to be able to just see art without bullshit though to keep up with artists that dont post elsewhere.

Not to get all reddit atheist but its a concerning parallel to religion the way people get funneled into adhering to nebulous dogma via social media. Its been said before but people like zuck get to effectively be mortal gods reshaping the world in their image. We need a social media iconoclasm.

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Oh yeah I have prints and playmats of this over here rjpalmerstore.com/search?q=lin...

So you know how at any given point there is like a million bugs flying in the sky above you that you cant see because they are too small and high up?

You ever think about how if pokemon world had the same animal density we do they would be living under a sea of bug flesh at all times?

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Do you ever stand outside and look into the distance and think about how many animals are in your field of view even if you cannot see them? Anyways I think we should make having non native plant lawns illegal

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Some less crispy, more raw to taste images for the less cultured

Tired as hell, anxiety through the roof, need to get this illustration I've been working on for 10 months done by the end of the weekend. Time to lock in!!! Wish me luck fellas!!! 🤠

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Thank you. I am so frustrated with the idea that OF work is somehow lesser or evil when its functionally no different than any other pursuit that involves selling your creative effort for money online.

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there's an overabundance of mammals in the replies here so try these on for size

Sandgroper
Hemiphractus helioi
Kinabalu Crested Dragon
Sadocus asperatus
Acanthogammarus victorii

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oh phew its not me this week, yay!

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It’s very common these days of course. Both final fantasy and yugioh would be doing this regularly in the 90s and obviously monster hunter would push the idea further in 2004. It was just way less common 40 years ago.

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In a very real way people are already being controlled by machines via algorithms, its just less obvious than the terminator future lol

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They announced changes to the algorithm this week because of how grok was only feeding you posts related to the last thing you interacted with. I gotta imagine these guys and musk were living in an extremely sheltered bubble that tricked their small minds into thinking it was actually going to flop.

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like this you mean?

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I really need to do more of these kinds of studies from life. Its such a different experience over working from photos. So many colors you can see with your real eyeballs in life that are lost in photography

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Honestly he does kinda look like the guy from Deadstream with his hair grown out huh

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Doctor Doom gonna make you bust as thy say

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You really are very skilled with a pencil

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They should hire you to design your own ponysona to include in the background of the show. What’s a good nick ponysona name, maybe Faithstachio?

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he didnt like it because he was jealous of your idea and bravery to execute on it