"Psychonaut"
Luke Pellen, Digital 2024
Ipad & stylus.

I think I'm up for a reading holiday over the festive period.
There's nothing better for the soul than books.

"Megalopolis"...
Wow... 🤔kinda like Terry Gilliam got together with Wes Anderson and took way too little acid.

I'm the Juror for the 16th Annual International Contemporary Drawing Exhibition at UNC @ Asheville, Jan17- Feb4, 2025. My Juror's Lecture is at 5:00-6:00 PM on Jan.17th, and open to the public. The EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION is at 6:00-8:00 PM, Tucker Cooke Gallery, UNC Asheville Campus.

"Paranoia by Moonlight", 2021, AI & Photoshop.

AI produced much more abstract results. There were many scripts and a ton of parameters, it took a lot of effort to rein in a desired image.

Most of my work was image to image generation based on old stock photography or my own original art work.

"The Shaman's Ritual"
Luke Pellen, Digital 2024

Don't grumble, give a whistle!...
I'm off to see Eric Idle tonight.
🎼🎵🎶🎹🎸🎙️

"Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. Chris Langan joins the show to discuss his theory of everything - God - psychedelic drugs - and aliens in this special 2-hour conversation."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9miV...

artists 🎨

stop apologizing for not posting, for taking breaks, for being slow, for drawing the same character, for posting only sketches, for gushing over OCs, for being a beginner, for raising your prices, for trying a new medium—

start doing whatever you heckin want

Luke Pellen - Digital, 2024.

Worth the listen.

"...Born of our engagement with these new technologies, we can't agree who is lying most of the time, and who is in possession of only half the story. The greatest question we face as a society is what to do next."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAU...

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My first post:

Hi, I'm on BlueSky,
Here's a picture I did make -