Erin 🤍🖤
@childesballs.bsky.social
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Erin 🤍🖤
@childesballs.bsky.social
· Mar 18
Changing my preferred name has been a thought on my mind for *a while* and I'm finally making the push for real.
Preferred name is Erin. I won't be offended if someone still calls me Koko tho, I've been going by it for so long as is.
Preferred name is Erin. I won't be offended if someone still calls me Koko tho, I've been going by it for so long as is.
I keep forgetting this place exists. I should be on here more
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I keep forgetting this place exists. I should be on here more
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please gush, please comment, please ask questions, please know it means so much when people do! Things are so hard for a lot of us artists right now, this is such a perfect way to support us. And free!
I miss the old deviantart community-feeling & how some folks went absolutely over the top with long kind comments on art, we need to bring that energy back man, fuck cringe culture, be free & gush to ppl about how much you love their work
July 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
please gush, please comment, please ask questions, please know it means so much when people do! Things are so hard for a lot of us artists right now, this is such a perfect way to support us. And free!
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‘shipping ruins your ability to analyze this character' maybe for your little pea brain, but my massive, hulking cranium can house both character analysis and fanart of this guy getting spit roasted
July 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
‘shipping ruins your ability to analyze this character' maybe for your little pea brain, but my massive, hulking cranium can house both character analysis and fanart of this guy getting spit roasted
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To all the artists creating in these times: thank you. It’s not easy to make beauty, truth, or meaning when the world feels chaotic. Whether it helps you breathe or comforts others, your work matters.
Art doesn’t need to fix the world to be meaningful, sometimes it just needs to exist.
Art doesn’t need to fix the world to be meaningful, sometimes it just needs to exist.
July 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
To all the artists creating in these times: thank you. It’s not easy to make beauty, truth, or meaning when the world feels chaotic. Whether it helps you breathe or comforts others, your work matters.
Art doesn’t need to fix the world to be meaningful, sometimes it just needs to exist.
Art doesn’t need to fix the world to be meaningful, sometimes it just needs to exist.
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I'm sorry but you can't call yourself a socialist or, frankly, a decent person, if you think people should suffer untold tragedy, starvation, illness, terror, etc just because you don't like them. you can want to strip them of their power, absolutely. but you don't get to want their kids to drown
July 6, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I'm sorry but you can't call yourself a socialist or, frankly, a decent person, if you think people should suffer untold tragedy, starvation, illness, terror, etc just because you don't like them. you can want to strip them of their power, absolutely. but you don't get to want their kids to drown
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I keep thinking about a post last night that discussed the devaluation of art & craftsmanship and that a big part of that is absurd idea that being an artist is a "talent" that just happens rather than skills you work at and develop over a lifetime.
July 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I keep thinking about a post last night that discussed the devaluation of art & craftsmanship and that a big part of that is absurd idea that being an artist is a "talent" that just happens rather than skills you work at and develop over a lifetime.
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If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
June 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
If you use AI to create your art, your story, your whatever, I immediately know you don’t care about making things — you only care about selling them.
Been drawing a bunch lately, I might post wips here at some point, but I'm still self conscious af about my art being perceived beyond close friends so it's only on priv accs rn.
But eventually. Maybe (I'm also feeling bad that all I do is fanart)
But eventually. Maybe (I'm also feeling bad that all I do is fanart)
June 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Been drawing a bunch lately, I might post wips here at some point, but I'm still self conscious af about my art being perceived beyond close friends so it's only on priv accs rn.
But eventually. Maybe (I'm also feeling bad that all I do is fanart)
But eventually. Maybe (I'm also feeling bad that all I do is fanart)
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becoming more accepting of peoples stranger kinks and dubious interests is an interesting experience because i have never once felt threatened by anyone who jorked it to the weird shit, but i have felt very threatened by normies and vanillas who believe everything should be normy and vanilla.
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
becoming more accepting of peoples stranger kinks and dubious interests is an interesting experience because i have never once felt threatened by anyone who jorked it to the weird shit, but i have felt very threatened by normies and vanillas who believe everything should be normy and vanilla.
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remember that if you aren't being paid and it isn't for school or the point of the drawing exercise then there is nothing wrong with just tracing a model of a car or a detailed chandelier or a horse. it's okay. you are not being graded on how much effort you put in and god is not paying attention.
June 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
remember that if you aren't being paid and it isn't for school or the point of the drawing exercise then there is nothing wrong with just tracing a model of a car or a detailed chandelier or a horse. it's okay. you are not being graded on how much effort you put in and god is not paying attention.
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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
June 22, 2024 at 9:58 PM
It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits
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what having internet friends is like
April 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
what having internet friends is like
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I wasnt meant to work 40 hours per week I was meant to be some rich eccentric Renaissance art patron's gay slutty little live in pet artist that just wears a silk robe and cries all day while occasionally adding a brush stroke or two to the canvas
June 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I wasnt meant to work 40 hours per week I was meant to be some rich eccentric Renaissance art patron's gay slutty little live in pet artist that just wears a silk robe and cries all day while occasionally adding a brush stroke or two to the canvas
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Reposting with alt text since this is going around again!
June 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposting with alt text since this is going around again!
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I spent years being annoyed Clip Studio Paint doesn't have a burn or dodge tool before seeing this answer on how to make it yourself on the CSP forums
![CSP forums answer (user Elier) on how to create your own burn and dodge tool in Clip Studio Paint: "You can create your own highlight/burn tool by duplicating a brush (right click, duplicate sub tool).
Then click on the wrench icon on the bottom right of the Tool Property pallete to open Sub Tool Detail.
In the ink tab, go to Blending mode, and choose [Black burn] to burn, and [White burn] to highlight."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bv3ggheijh5rsi2zrcmmu4ij/bafkreid3awjcxwpkbkvdaoxrcroioak5bt4to7j4xftrojoilkwjiqiejm@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I spent years being annoyed Clip Studio Paint doesn't have a burn or dodge tool before seeing this answer on how to make it yourself on the CSP forums
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By the way, as a creative, it's completely valid and absolutely natural to be thinking both "I CREATE FOR MYSELF AND THE JOY OF IT ALL" and "... but please please please like it please I hope they like it" at the same time
June 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
By the way, as a creative, it's completely valid and absolutely natural to be thinking both "I CREATE FOR MYSELF AND THE JOY OF IT ALL" and "... but please please please like it please I hope they like it" at the same time
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I feel like every artist needs to have it said, once in a while, so listen, if the drawing looks good to you, then it looks good and it's good. That's it, call it a day and enjoy!
Life is too short to constantly worry about the correct anatomy and light source💃
Life is too short to constantly worry about the correct anatomy and light source💃
June 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I feel like every artist needs to have it said, once in a while, so listen, if the drawing looks good to you, then it looks good and it's good. That's it, call it a day and enjoy!
Life is too short to constantly worry about the correct anatomy and light source💃
Life is too short to constantly worry about the correct anatomy and light source💃
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So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating.
Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.
Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.
June 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating.
Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.
Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.
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