Alzamon | Middle Grade Comics & Artwork

Hi #portfolioDay followers! 🎨 I make original comics stories and characters for kids. Currently developing my first self-published series coming soon. Open for related work opps too! More about me and my work 👉 alzamon.com Contact 👉 beto-at-alzamon.com #kidscomics #kidlitgn #middlegrade

We’re already there but many in charge are still turning a blind eye to the facts… still lured by shiny promises of smoke and mirrors, while the livelihoods of many keep getting screwed. 🥲

🇧🇷 Bora parabéns a minha galera brasileira do Bluesky: @mushisan.bsky.social @ericoassis.bsky.social @westrips.bsky.social @ryot.bsky.social @caioyo.bsky.social - tó feliz de vocês ficarem felizes ✌️ 🥹 Tá na hora 🥂 🍾

My, how the mighty have fallen. 😔 Although to be fair Art is already at that "f*** everything, I've paid my dues" stage allright. But, but...

Apologies for the radio silence of the last few days. It's been a while since I last made a full fledged poster-sized illustration and I always forget these take me forever to finish. But it will hopefully be worth it for the spooky holidays. Hence, a sneak peek 👻 🎃

Cost of linking your sites on Meta: $ Your soul and then some Cost of linking them on Bluesky: Zero, nada, zilch You tell me which is a better deal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Imagine marketing a book to an audience who doesn't read 🙃

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution through materializing via thoughtful, patient, hard work is what gives them value. And no, prompting them to a slop machine unable to elaborate on the “why” of its processes isn’t it.

Think it's about time to add a "slop surcharge" when a client sends you that stuff as reference material, because come on. Do you agree? 🤔

Finally, a post clearly summing it up. The growth through learning that only comes with putting yourself through the process - they don't get it. They see it as a burden. But it is precisely in that burden where mastery is forged.

Just gotta say I got to know way too many Oscars in my corporate life.

My big hot take about all this social media buzz as an artist right now is that you guys need to go outside a bit more and build your reputation and communities in the real world. You have no idea what you'd be able to do if you don't say hello to your fellow neighbors.

My Instagram account happened to be a ”business” one. As I have barely used the perks associated with business account status, demoting it to personal was a no-brainer. Least I can do. Still, how I’d wish people weren’t that attached to FB or Instagram - one less headache for me to deal with.

I want to believe bears can be more appreciative of libraries than humans are 🥲🐻

Does this all read like a "okay, we give up" statement or what? Having a tech background, I can and do understand how AI has rewritten the parameters of many tech workflows for good. But concerning work where human craft and emotions is what matters first and foremost, I see no place for it.

The Cartoon Network leak revealed that the team actually wrote fake interviews for the Powerpuff Girls in-house so that the writers could understand them better and honestly this is incredibly useful for learning how to characterize your characters holy shit

So yeah, about all those NDAs that kept animation artists from using their OWN work for their portfolios… 🫠

As Gen Xer, my artistic influences and references are already from another era, but I know Gen Zers today are either into anime or The Loud House. So I thought "what if my OCs were in TLH?" and... well, here you go. Now I'm liking these versions more than my own, lol.

Just in case someone's wondering: I barely felt anything and nothing broke or fell over. Some peers say they felt like they were on a swaying boat. 😳⛴️

Here's an excerpt from "Kid Beowulf Odyssey" in which Beowulf and Hama arrive in the land of the Lotus Eaters. Read the rest on my patreon, kidbeowulf.com, or webtoon!

Satoshi Hashimoto

I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender.

Today in “fck Adobe” (and any other greedmaxxing software maker). I can see this well replacing most of the tools we use on a regular basis, not tomorrow but... in a bunch of years, eventually? 🤔

Next we know they may be evicted, if they have not been already. 😑

Page 9 of my kid's book. The one where they play soccer... Finished! --- En Proceso: La página 9 de mi libro de cuentos. Es en la que juegan fútbol... Terminado! === #kidlit #childrensbooks #illustration #humanartist

hey #coloring folks of bluesky! I've got a new #coloringbook out. It is 100% Human Made, #noai ever ever ever (I LOVE DRAWING why would I want a bot to do it for me??) and #witchy as heck. Medium detail so crayons and big markers will be fun. Get it direct from me! www.etsy.com/listing/4580...

I understand the impetus to have Ai do your work for you but I don't understand the impetus to have Ai do your pleasure for you

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Dan Mora Holiday variant for Superman #45

Ask me again why I'm not currently thinking on GN stories beyond 100-150 pages at this point 🥹

Crowdfunding a la Kickstarter et al sadly isn't a thing in my country yet so financing creative projects is extremely hard as is unless you get lucky to win a state grant or pony up the moolah yourself. Therefore Matt's "experiment" is of special interest to me and I'm glad he's succeeding at it.

Dang yall, thanks so much for the support 😭 Usually I ignore the random AI accusations but I wanted to take the chance to talk about how important it is to do your research in times like these. Didn't expect to get soooo many kind comments though! We gotta stick together, my beloved art community ♥️

#kidlitartpostcard day! I am Dolo Okecki, an 🇦🇷 artist who has mainly illustrated middle-grade books, textbooks and comics/GN. And love picture books with animals. Repped by Astound in the US., UK and most regions, contact details and samples at www.dolokecki.com Available in 2027 but times flies.

When some comics became intangible online, paper became *visible* to artists again, leading to beautiful new paper comics. Now, when some "art" becomes inhuman, *we* become visible to ourselves again. What beautiful new *human* art might be the result?

Have been thinking about this (it was bound to happen sometime anyway) but what I think it will happen is younger artists having harder than ever to prove their work isn't deceitful slop. At least I still have some old, horrible amateurish sketchbooks from the 90s to provide as evidence. :P

Gotta love White Sox Pope being based AF in regards to AI only for someone to follow up with “what about the Minions” 🍌

You can read the first four chapters right here! For FREE! Free is good, right? Everybody likes free.

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¡Viva las bibliotecas! ¡Viva los libros! ¡Viva al Cultura, las historias y las personas! Os dejo, en petit comité, una propuesta ilustrada que no salió adelante para un proyecto de @squidandpig.bsky.social. Nunca lo habíamos publicado ni compartido. Ositos lectores que se parten de risa ;) #art

The same could be said from picture books, GNs and the like. Even if AI´s sources were finally ethically correct and all that to produce them, they would still suck in the sense that creative art and writing are intimate exchanges between *human* minds and worlds, not fabricated hallucinations. 📚

Remember, fellow artists: it’s okay for your sketchbooks to be messy. That’s kind of the point. It doesn’t have to be fancy like those sketchbook tours on Instagram. Funny thing is I gotta remind myself that sometimes too. lol

Team Cascão desde o berço ✊

So I'm here trying to finish a piece for tomorrow but... let's just say everything's incredibly hard when you feel like rowing through molasses all the time. 😪

Another concept piece as I try to figure out how to improve my backgrounds

Apparently I don’t know what gray is?