Jacqui Davis - Newsletter now up!

Hello #portfolioday!❤️🧡💛💜 I'm Jacqui, a freelance illustrator in the UK. I work mainly in board games, but looking to try my hand at TCGs, TTRPGs and book covers Spend an obscene amount of time world-building and writing #Sulbook with @kovah.bsky.social 💼 jacquidavis.com ✉️ logicgairy@gmail.com

It is a totally unjust transfer of wealth and opportunity from artists, writers, musicians & other creatives to a tiny tech elite. I hope it is remembered as such. (this quote is from a document he wrote that was unsealed in Bartz v. Anthropic)

In other words, this IPO will be built off the backs of the world’s creatives - who will get nothing out of it except obsolescence.

Some work on this over the weekend

Why do the Wokes keep bringing me, a humble small business entrepreneur, down (forcing me to tell people about the sawdust i put in my bread)

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

PHEW OKAY! good + good-eventually news! If today is any indication, we are most likely going to sell out of all 3 books by end of day tomorrow 😳 If Jellybots, the bestiary sketchbook, or especially the mural field guide were must haves for your LightBox, come early tomorrow and we’ll have em!

Fun art Friday with art by Jacqui Davis! Meet the Vintner, Dentist, Pilot, and Mechanic from Mr. Oswald’s Puzzle Society! The Mechanic is in the core game, while the other three are Kickstarter backer bonuses! Click the link below to be “Notified on Launch!” -TV

here it is: the biggest single piece of art I’ve ever made 😳 Inspired by eyewitness book ecosystem cutaways, it’s sort of uh a psychological ecosystem of metaphorfish as one does

Godzilla!

Armand ("Interview with the Vampire" TV-series).

it'll be a little while till I can mass-print the first volume of the monkzine but until then I made a special little coptic bound version on some fancy inkjet paper

Showing off the bits I can share publicly at the moment of my new character design portfolio! If anyone got some character design work need doing, hit me up!

Oh, you don’t like AI cause isn’t ethical or cheap or safe? Well, have you considered that it’s supported by all the most annoying and evil people on earth?

WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK IS THIS. This AI slop account just *made up* an incorrect picture of this game's box and contents. It took me 5 seconds to find a good publicity photo of the actual game. Humans work really hard to make games. Have some fucking respect. (Tideward by @connievdc.bsky.social)

Want me to give your OC a spooky Halloween make over? Now’s the time! #halloween #spookyseason

Fat Horse No. 25 It’s the year of the horse and I’ve always been a horse girl at heart, so I’m taking advantage of the excuse to fill the world with fat little horses! These felted friends are about the size and shape of an apple, and if you have any apples to share I’m sure they’d help you out!

I could not be happier with how it turned out...feeling Big Feelings seeing it on my desk after all this time. And it's only one (the chunkiest) of 3 books I'm debuting at the expo this year

If you see this, post a skeleton 💀

some angels

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

If you see this, post a skeleton 💀

Quiet you!

My work place has totally screwed me over beyond belief now and I could really do with filling two of these so I can pay my internet bill! 😭

caught in the rain

Little late to the party but happy #portfolioday ! I’m Matt Garbutt a cartoonist working in animation! Looking for work! #artshare

Bedtime boost

Hi #portfolio day I'm Katy an Illustrator from the UK. I love to paint anything fantasy and have worked on a number of ttrpg books, boardgames and book covers. You can find my portfolio here - www.kovah.co.uk I've also co-authored a book with @logicfairy.bsky.social - www.sulbook.com

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Prosper, an illustrator and concept artist based in France. I specialize in history and fantasy! 🌱🗡️ 🌐 linktr.ee/prospertipaldi ✉️ prospertipaldi@gmail.com

Hi #PortfolioDay 🎇 I'm Christina, a freelance fantasy artist from Germany who loves to paint light and magical things. I'm currently an artist mainly for Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone and book covers.🥰 🌎https://christinakraus-art.com ✉️christina@christinakraus-art.com

Hello #portfolioday! I’m Stephen, a full time fine artist, Convention Vendor, and Furry Veteran! Playing with color and light and bringing fun creatures and characters to life is what I love. Portfolio/Shop/Commission info is all on my website 🎨 www.blindcoyote.com ✉️ contact@blindcoyote.com

Hi, I'm Katy an Illustrator from the UK. I love to paint anything fantasy - especially dragons and have worked on a number of ttrpg books, boardgames and book covers. You can find my portfolio here - www.kovah.co.uk I've also co-authored a book - www.sulbook.com

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Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Madeleine, an illustrator and concept artist from Sweden. I love to paint anything historical and fantasy with pretty light. Would love to make book covers!✨ 🌐 madeleinefjall.com ✉️ madeleinefjallart@gmail.com

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

More @kalapaint.bsky.social quick little studies, figuring stuff out

It’s spooky season so my Halloween skin commissions are back!

An incredibly tough read. We flagged concerns about the effect the redundancies would have on projects during our own consultations, it’s bitterly disappointing to see this. I sincerly hope that those backers get their games, we were working hard to deliver them before being let go.

Like… it’s so sad…

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

I'm just a soul, who's intentions are good, Oh Lord, please, let me look for renference of a foot.

Someone broke into my storage locker and stole all of my paintings and all of my merch. It’s all gone. 💔💔💔💔💔

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

“It is highly unusual that an end-product threatens the economic foundations of its essential suppliers, but that is the situation we have created for our LLM business with respect to its ‘content supply chain.'” Yes. Because the usual thing is to PAY YOUR ESSENTIAL SUPPLIERS, NOT STEAL FROM THEM.