Melody Foster

If you follow me for art stuff, my comments are going to annoy you, because like 70% of them are on churchy/politcal things & another 20% are books & movies. If you follow me bc of my comments, my feed is going annoy you, because it's 90% art & 10% whatever on earth else. Apologies in advance.

Taking links off Instagram, adding them to bluesky. Don't make me regret this Bluesky.

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Tree House

New mini-print up in shop! First Leaves of Fall ko-fi.com/s/767af884a7 For anyone who wishes October could last just a little bit longer.

It's that time of year, where I'm served ads for "the perfect gift" and the gift is more than all of my monthly bills combined.

PSA. Chat gtp cannot accurately count the words you send it. You will still need to use the information bar at the bottom of Microsoft Word. - Sincerely, Your Graphic Designer Who Needs the Correct Word Count

Don't lose your head this weekend! 🎩👻

The Walmart photo studio. This is so long ago that they still used film, which had to be blindly wrestled into a protective container when you were done. A place I'd been turned down at 2 weeks before called to offer me a different job. It was 25 cents more an hour and I jumped at it.

This month’s sticker design for Patreon!

peachtober day 14: crayon #peachtober #peachtober26

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.

Sketch vs Color

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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's October 3rd. My neighbors are setting off fireworks to celebrate... upsetting everyone's dog?

Happy October #kidlitartpostcard 🍂 My name is Christine, a Filipino-American illustrator! I’m available for picture book and chapter book projects, I’d love to hear from you! 🍂 www.christinealmeda.com 🍂 Represented by Full Circle Literary

Hello October, it's #kidlitartpostcard day - again! (can you believe it?)

⋆⊱༻ Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! (and #peachtober) ༺⊰⋆ I'm Karla, a mexican illustrator looking for kidlit opportunities :•) 💻 More of my work at: karlaadamsillu.com 📖 Rep by @soyadriana.bsky.social Happy october! 👩‍🎨🐿️ #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebookart #kidlitillustration

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

something a bit more different from me but I got a lot to say and I’m not comfortable in front of a camera so… keep AI out of schools!!

Watching Toy Story 5. The best part so far is the Bambi call back, the music really sold it 😄

I hate for summer to end, but I'm somewhat consoled by apple season coming immediately after.

Abuse silences victims and renders them powerless. Listening makes room for their voice and honors their dignity. As a church leader, never forget that they have honored you by coming to you. You have been seen as safe—be safe.

Hey artists, share something! 💙

I've been doing a rewatch

New Art is up on my ko-fi ko-fi.com/melodyfoster...

Patchwork vibes!!! #art #illustration

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

I cannot understand the people who claim they are "making art" with generative AI. Simply having the idea does not make you a creator! Prompting ChatGPT to spit out a block of text doesn't make you a writer any more than a weird dream about eating a person makes you a cannibal.

Some lettering practice!

🍄🍄 #digitalcollage #illustration

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

Playing around with softer edges - but apparently unable to leave behind the purple-yellow color combo. Not sure why that has such a grip on me lately, but it's definitely a thing! What are your favorite colors right now?

lowered the price on these bird + plant sprig commissions to help fund my surgery! email katesheridanart@gmail.com with your bird, your plant, and any relevant reference

just some silly little produce 🍓🌶️🍅 #art #sketchbook #cuteart

It also feels gross like. Okay my labor is worthless but I should support your local coffee shop??? Because?????? You are small and need the money? Girl me too the fuck? Lmao

Post by Will Stenberg. #Writing #amwriting #indiauthor

ban them

If you're a small biz hiring. Please explain to me why YOU think someone NOT in your family, would want to work for you specifically BC your biz is family-owned. I see a lot of places thinking this is a selling point & I need you to know, it's something ppl may overlook, but it's not a perk.

Dying reading ‪Trung Le Nguyen's thread about their first re-through of Pride & Predjudice. Absolutely crying with laughter.

Trying to find cooked vegetable lunches is... harder than I thought. Everything is served with some fresh veg and I live too close to Michigan to keep rolling the dice on that.