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jodyvanb
@jodyvanb.bsky.social
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Watercolour Artist/Illustrator. Nerd. Night Owl. She/Her
Shop: jodyvanb.etsy.com
Email: edwardsjody@hotmail.com
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jodyvanb @jodyvanb.bsky.social · 11d
In case you need some love on your timeline.
A painting of Gonzo holding a big red heart. He is looking at he viewer. He is wearing brown pants, a white dress shirt and a sweater vest.
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Tiger swallowtail detail 💛

Currently available on my website: www.nataliejunewernimoon.com

#painting #butterfly #entomology #lepidoptera #sciart #insects #bugs #butterflies #paintings #art
Realistic painting of a tiger swallowtail in a frame sitting on a distressed white tabletop. There are hints of wood tone showing throughout the white surface, which you can also see behind the butterfly. This helps to indicate that the insect has been painted on a clear glass surface, and looks like it is floating in the middle of the frame. Photo is taken at an angle with most of frame cropped out, and there is a soft reflection of light (as well as the artist's hands/phone taking picture) visible in the glass surface the butterfly is painted on.
January 19, 2026 at 4:36 PM
jodyvanb.bsky.social
We had another fresh snowfall early this morning. When I went to bed at 2:30am those big,fluffy flakes were softly falling, illuminated by the streetlights.
There are so many awful things in the world right now. I’m thankful for snow and how it transforms everything. It’s so sparkly & bright today.
January 19, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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Mokey Fraggle watercolour work-in-progress.
A small watercolour illustration of Mokey Fraggle amongst some trillium flowers. Just basic washes of colour over a pencil drawing at the moment .
January 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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Scraping snow off of the end of the driveway and a neighbour pauses on their walk past.
Neighbour: “Oh, I was hoping to see some of your sidewalk chalk art on my walk!”
*looks around at the snow covering EVERYTHING after our first big snow of the year*
Me: “Uhhh..heh…maybe after things dry out?!”
January 19, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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wendyxu.bsky.social
it's my birthday today. i ask that you please make a shitty little drawing in a journal without posting it and revel in your human heart. maybe write a nasty curse against an ai bro in the same journal. 😌
January 17, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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amuzi.blacksky.app
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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A close up of a watercolour illustrationGobo Fraggle in a garden
January 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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Out for a night-time walk to admire the snow and took an Album Cover photo by accident.
A dark blue night sky takes up the top 2/3 of the photo, the back of three yellow portables and a snowy yard are illuminated by warm streetlights. A black pole cuts through 1/6 of the photo vertically on the right hand side and creates cast shadows of night sky-blue across the snow.
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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blambot.bsky.social
Do you have the most comprehensive guide to modern comic lettering ever written? It's just $13.34 on Amazon, and it's still got 4.8 stars! 256 pages, full color! Written by Nate Piekos, Introduction by Tom Orzechowski, and published by Image!

AMAZON: buff.ly/3SJCQjy
March 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
jodyvanb.bsky.social
Just learned that Snuffy’s first name is Aloysius.
A pvc figure of Mr. Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street. A Muppet from Sesame Street that looks like a large brown, hairy elephant with no ears. This figure is about 4 inches in length and is wearing a red scarf and a blue toque with a green pom-pom. It is photographed in snow.
January 16, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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r1zmy.bsky.social
Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.
molly.wiki Molly White @molly.wiki · 4d
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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jonathanhoefler.bsky.social
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
January 15, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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This chocolate-dipped donut watercolour is up in the shop! www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...
A watercolour study of a chocolate-dipped donut. It looks like it is sitting on the paper. It has a shadow painted beneath it and the artist's hand is holding a paintbrush right above the donut painting
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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Out for a night-time walk to admire the snow and took an Album Cover photo by accident.
A dark blue night sky takes up the top 2/3 of the photo, the back of three yellow portables and a snowy yard are illuminated by warm streetlights. A black pole cuts through 1/6 of the photo vertically on the right hand side and creates cast shadows of night sky-blue across the snow.
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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Poké Ball Battlers, anyone? (I bought a small bag of toys at the local thrift shop for a vintage TMNT figure and these were inside.)
January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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loreandordure.com
Quite. Everyone panicking about the Wikipedia “AI deal”: this is just making the AI bros pay for what they’ve been stealing until now (and presumably hammering the Wikipedia servers in the process).
molly.wiki Molly White @molly.wiki · 4d
With “Wikimedia Enterprise”, AI companies have to use (and pay for) dedicated APIs to scrape data, which helps to limit the strain on Wikimedia servers. (See eg arstechnica.com/information-...) This is a good thing for Wikimedia and for its readers.
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
arstechnica.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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We’re getting snow, today! You can’t even see the pond at the moment. (Just looking through my photos to see what the garden looks like when it’s awake, for comparison.)
A snow-covered garden in a small city yard, enclosed by a small building on one side and fences on the other two. Snow has built up, inches deep on everything. Small branches and plants look like they’re covered in icing sugar. A photo of a garden taken in June. There are tall towers of pink foxglove in full bloom, lots of different plants and bushes and green, growing things.
January 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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aubryjoi.bsky.social
Some scribbly lil cats 🐱✏️

[ #cuteart #traditionalart #artshop ]
A photo of 10 small doodle originals of cats. Each one is very scribbly and colorful and shows a unique, stylized cat in a different position. The colors are all very bright and springy.
January 15, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Comic-Con should be a celebration of illustrators, comic artists, writers and so on. Elevating the actual craftsmen and women who make the works that fans love!

Instead it opens the door to slop that can only exist due to the stolen work of those same creatives, to then displace creatives. Gross!
Screenshot of the artshow page on the comicon website. Specifically here (3) Material produced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be placed in the show, but only as Not-for-Sale (NFS). It must be clearly marked as Al-produced, not simply listed as a print. If one of the parameters in its creation was something similar to "Done in the style of ‹specific artist›," that information must be added to the description. If there are questions, the Art Show Coordinator will be the sole judge of acceptability.
January 14, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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joeyesposito.bsky.social
re: SDCC allowing GenAI into their art show. SDCC costs creators *thousands* of dollars to attend and they think this is ok?

Readers, attendees, and creators alike need to let them know there’s no place for GenAI in the arts, period.

here’s their contact page www.comic-con.org/contact/
January 14, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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The trick to not eating the donut you’re using for a reference is to eat another donut, instead.
A plate with a chocolate dipped donut on it with a harsh light above, a messy paint palette and a watercolour painting of a donut in progress, with the artist’s hand hovering with a paint brush above.
January 14, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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aplante.com
Heyoooo #PortfolioDay!

I’m Alex, a Canadian illustrator/cartoonist on the prairies. Mostly focusing on tabling/print sales and taking on mural work at this time while I finish my first graphic novel!! #art

🌱 aplante.com/portfolio

aplante.com/shop (🇨🇦)
www.inprnt.com/gallery/apla... (elsewhere)
a stylized illustration of the clock tower in the middle of Mont Tremblant, QC with the ski hill in the background and a couple of people carrying a snowboard and skis trudging through the snow. my hand holding a sticker that looks like a brightly-coloured "no parking anytime" sign vandalized to read "NO AI ANYTIME" instead a bright, simple illustration of a winter snow-covered field in the prairies. The sky is a bright blue with big fluffy clouds on the horizon. Tufts of dead brown grass poke through the snow, and a crescent moon sit up high in the sky. A long freight train with brightly coloured cars snakes its way about two thirds of the way across the horizon, far in the distance power lines going down a back lane, silhouetted against a pink and purple twilight sky. the trees and houses along the lane are all cast in blue shadow. the colours are laid out in a way that suggests the bi flag. very bisexual lighting. a street lamp glows, and some birds flying in the distance.
January 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
jodyvanb.bsky.social
The trick to not eating the donut you’re using for a reference is to eat another donut, instead.
A plate with a chocolate dipped donut on it with a harsh light above, a messy paint palette and a watercolour painting of a donut in progress, with the artist’s hand hovering with a paint brush above.
January 14, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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elainemwill.bsky.social
Hey #PortfolioDay, I'm an award-winning Canadian cartoonist & illustrator - I'd love to draw your comic cover, album cover, or any of your other strange and wonderful ideas!

🌎https://www.cuckoosnestpress.com/
✉️elaine@cuckoosnestpress.com
🛒https://ko-fi.com/elainemwill/shop
A page from my graphic novel The Last Band On Earth, depicting two characters, Nat and Rick, on a rooftop in a windstorm, battling an evil eldritch being that resembles a biblically accurate angel, but with bat wings instead of feathery angel wings, and several long strands of sinew stretching out from its midsection in all directions. Rick is hooking his phone up to a guitar amplifier with a dongle and searching through his files to find something loud to play through the amplifier. Yup! A bust shot of Nat from The Last Band On Earth, but she's melting from both ends as though in a lava lamp. Her eyes are completely blank circles, also melting from the top. A digital pencil and watercolour illustration of two unsettling trick-or-treaters, who may or may not be human, standing in a doorway. One wears a paper bag over their head with tiny pinprick eyeholes and carries a paper sack stained with something red. The other wears a pumpkin mask with tall slits from eyeholes. Several other silhouetted trick-or-treaters can be seen on the street in the background. Digital illustration of a hollowed-out old car, an Austin Mini, with several ghosts drifting out of it. The colour palette is monochrome red.
January 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM