Maria Koval
@mkoval.bsky.social
In an open relationship with office work and drawing | Secret horse girl
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At midnight today, it will have been 2016 for the past decade.
December 31, 2025 at 5:20 AM
At midnight today, it will have been 2016 for the past decade.
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Grinning it up with grandpappy pumpkin. Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Grinning it up with grandpappy pumpkin. Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇
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i think its good that bluesky is boring and you dont want to scroll through it too much because you're not supposed to waste your day away scrolling on social media when you could be using the computer to play & draw & learn before the corporations destroy the rest of the internet. tick tock
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
i think its good that bluesky is boring and you dont want to scroll through it too much because you're not supposed to waste your day away scrolling on social media when you could be using the computer to play & draw & learn before the corporations destroy the rest of the internet. tick tock
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Welp
The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Welp
The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
The dead internet theory is feeling pretty smug right now
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I was not built for deliverables and asset files I was built to have a wealthy patron who pays me to paint their prized show horses on their sprawling estate.
September 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I was not built for deliverables and asset files I was built to have a wealthy patron who pays me to paint their prized show horses on their sprawling estate.
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I love Louie Zong’s digital paintings. They’re like pastoral encartacore.
August 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I love Louie Zong’s digital paintings. They’re like pastoral encartacore.
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Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.
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Trying some slow comics for Patreon. Black gel pen in a sketchbook.
August 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Trying some slow comics for Patreon. Black gel pen in a sketchbook.
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if you are a concept artist currently using Vizcom and believing that it's "just a tool", all you are doing is making absolutely certain you will shortly cease to be a concept artist
July 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
if you are a concept artist currently using Vizcom and believing that it's "just a tool", all you are doing is making absolutely certain you will shortly cease to be a concept artist
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Background paintings by Sylvia Liu for The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (2015–2017), DreamWorks Animation Television
July 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Background paintings by Sylvia Liu for The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (2015–2017), DreamWorks Animation Television
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when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus
July 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus
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I dont know who needs to hear this but your full body commissions are worth more than $20
June 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I dont know who needs to hear this but your full body commissions are worth more than $20
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i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything
May 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything
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I don’t know what the answer is, but requiring folks to move to the most expensive places in the country for work, not paying them enough to own homes or save, and then laying them off ain’t it
May 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I don’t know what the answer is, but requiring folks to move to the most expensive places in the country for work, not paying them enough to own homes or save, and then laying them off ain’t it
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Personally, I think "We're embracing AI!" is the smoke that billows from the "management fundamentally misunderstands the value of what they have and what their community wants" fire
April 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Personally, I think "We're embracing AI!" is the smoke that billows from the "management fundamentally misunderstands the value of what they have and what their community wants" fire
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Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently.
I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.
I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.
March 28, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Zelda Williams (the daughter of the great Robin Williams) sure had a lot to say about the “Studio Ghibli style” AI images that have been trending recently.
I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.
I think those people should read these posts and really think about what they’re doing.
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I dont even mean like we have a war between principled starving artists and people who want to make broadly appealing commercial art, it's now like a war between basic visual coherence and finance guys just saying words
March 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I dont even mean like we have a war between principled starving artists and people who want to make broadly appealing commercial art, it's now like a war between basic visual coherence and finance guys just saying words
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did you enjoy creating it? did you have fun? does it make you happy thinking about it and sharing it? then that's it. you did it. you found the secret sauce. "was that a waste of time?" of course not, fuckface. expressing yourself creatively is always worthwhile. you're doing great
March 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
did you enjoy creating it? did you have fun? does it make you happy thinking about it and sharing it? then that's it. you did it. you found the secret sauce. "was that a waste of time?" of course not, fuckface. expressing yourself creatively is always worthwhile. you're doing great