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Huckleberry
@huckleberrydaemon.bsky.social
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Post art school grad clawing back the joy of art thru making comics about life integrating in a new country. Anti-AI.

If I could, I would hoard huckleberries like a dragon and protect the plants and make sure they are safe and healthy.
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calamondin.is.eepy.now
Are you 🫵 a twitter refugee? Are you 🫵 an OC artist? Unsure how to switch over to bsky?

Some quickfire tips from a bsky user who didn't use it much when I first joined, and then started using it properly about a year ago!

#oc #ocsky #ocart #OriginalCharacter #artistsupport
December 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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hexlix.art
this feels like a universal thing i experience all the time lol
A silly drawing of two faceless people. They have their hands in front of their mouths and have hearts near their heads. Their faces look anguished. The entire drawing is captioned "The Artist Experience (to me anyway)" The person on the left is labeled "People who piant everything" and they say "I wish I could do clean lines like you." The person on the right is labeled "People who have beautiful inks and cel shading" and they say "I wish I could paint like you."
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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gearlis.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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berensreverie.bsky.social
what do they gain from this
December 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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olthwaiteeric.bsky.social
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.

Be weird.
A social media post recounts a story about helping an older lady with limited English, reflecting on how having pink hair signaled trustworthiness and individuality.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
huckleberrydaemon.bsky.social
That moment when you want to revisit an OC idea from college but you can't find what their original design looked like so you have to restart....
December 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
One of the central tenets of AI artists is that their refining prompts makes them equal (or even superior) to any artist, analog or digital.

They are so, so close to a breakthrough but they always U-turn just in time to avoid it.
arif.bsky.social Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 8d
It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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smoothdunk2.bsky.social
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
Three panel comic: 1st panel: Two crudely drawn stick men: Stick man 1: to make art that is popular you have to be really good at drawing 2nd panel: stick man 2: but if that’s true 3rd panel: both characters are looking at a spot beneath the comic (where the likes are) Stick man 2: why does this comic have thousands of likes?
August 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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heirakka.bsky.social
EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
huckleberrydaemon.bsky.social
Honestly when learning a second language it's hard to have self confidence in my level of understanding and use of the language. Then something happens and I'm like... I should have more self confidence that I understand Finnish more than I think...
December 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
the only comic discourse I care about
A comic titled "How to Draw Comics," in which a serene looking being is stood before a table, on which is a single sheet of paper and a pencil. The being is staring at us. They then peek down at the sheet of paper, and the POV switches to that of the being, so we can see what is on the page. A single word is written there: "Don't" The POV switches back, but is closer on the being's strangely serene face as they continues staring at the page. They then stare directly at us, the serene face implying the opposite.
February 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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surkea.bsky.social
don't read them, burn them🔥

any author who uses genAI for cover art, instead of hiring another creative for the job, is a traitor
#fuckAI#antiAI#againstAI#ArtistsAgainstAI
July 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
create

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bonus comics:
patreon.com/nhoj
4 panel comic P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw" P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it. P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within. P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"
November 8, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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arielries.bsky.social
So my first tip for this is just Read a Lot of Comics. have comics in your bookshelf (real or virtual) that you can flip through for inspiration and see how other artists are working and what/how they fit visuals into a panel. I read a lot of manga on my phone, and every time i see a page that--
pearlsplatoon.bsky.social el @pearlsplatoon.bsky.social · 21d
Do you have any general tips on how to improve comic layouts/paneling? I want to start making proper comics but paneling is something I really struggle with (especially when it comes to making sure my sketch compilations fit the panel size while still being effective/showing everything I want)
December 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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careydraws.bsky.social
'tis the season
in a comic originally made in december 2022, the author drags her metaphorical into a chair to continue working. gesturing to a dark window, she protests that she can't work after midnight!! rebuttal: IT'S FOUR P.M.
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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nataliebsketching.bsky.social
Support us dry dry humans
A two-panel comic drawing. The first panel says “why use water-hungry AI…”, accompanied by an abstract drawing of a dark cloud extending fingers into Earth or water. The second panel says “when you can support dehydrated artists?”. The image is of a skull next to a paintbrush and a palette. The skull says “we’re very low impact”.
December 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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jametc.bsky.social
so many cool, inventive and interesting animated projects none of you even knew were being made for the past few years just got shitcanned because of this netflix/wb merger

When you're like "geez there's no animation jobs" "geez there's like no new shows anymore", this is why
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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cartoonist.coop
if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors.

allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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gwillow.me
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · Nov 24
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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javidecastro.bsky.social
If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’

Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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kurohshiro.bsky.social
Always chasing the next "trendy" idea for your art is so exhausting. Always thinking "What could I draw next which will be even more creative and engaging?" is draining every joy of creating. Just ignore all of this. Do what you want to do right now.
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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darrylayo.bsky.social
“Poor people have a right to art!”

They sure do. So get to it.
Eminem tosses you a pack of crayolas
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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downwithdan.bsky.social
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
SUNO r/SunoAl Jo 6h ago Join ThrowRA1234567788777 Sick of having to come up with prompts Discussion ... Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM