Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Writing! Shaking off ArtBlock)

#jobmaxxing adjacent:

Something I'm kinda worried about: I use server-level rules to block AI scraping on both my personal site, and my portfolio, and now I'm afraid I've lost out on job opportunities for not allowing an AI Normie to ask ChatGPT whether or not they should hire me.

🧍💀

THAT SAID THE ART/ILLO SECTION OF MY PORTFOLIO…

SHALL STAY "here is the final file" FOR THE TIME BEING…

I don't think process yaps and case studies are really a thing in illo portfolios… last I checked. Unless the memo changed.

I will now make… mockups out the wazoo, haha

Tryna see how many case studies I can add retroactively cause I did document a lot of the process for things/remember the briefs and scenarios and stuff

Upon realizing how "here were the deliverables" a lot of the design section of my portfolio is

- I taught myself Blender 3D photomontage
- I taught myself how to use Blender's sculpt tools and cloth deformations to simulate types of paper.

#JobMaxxing <— tag for your muting pleasure, if you please

Vocal Synth for the YouTube doodle spotlight thing—that's rad. Imagine telling 2010!me that.

Cover to A Witch's Life in Mongol Volume 1

An ongoing interest in the history and cultures of the Mongolian steppes and Iran, as well as curiosity about the upcoming Science Saru anime adaptation led me to the manga A Witch's Life in Mongol. I'm enjoying it and I think it's worth your time.

~10 minute self portrait of myself!

trying to be more comfortable with how i look these days

Tragic how I have to use forks for both Chrome and Firefox now tho

Dev-Testing my portfolio 2.0 and I'm miffed that it runs faster in my Librewolf than in my UnGoogled Chromium. In Chromium, even with GPU acceleration on it's eating up my CPU?!

God forbid the Firefoxers be right—even indirectly /lh

If you gut out the social features, I suppose so!

blento create your own beautiful personal website, with your data being saved to your bluesky profile

I've been informed that there is a sort of AtProto Carrd(*) and it's sick... I wanna try later.
blento.app

Or, well, Stampede-Stargaze.

Just feels like Stampede 2 to me

Saying it on main for the first time but I hope Trigun Stampede is the Steven Universe AU where appeal-to-emotion works, bad guys get redeemed, and everyone(*) lives.

as a treat.

"I'm doing my part!"

Printed these to help with IRL plans, but a deep thanks to @thecongressman.bsky.social & @ferdon10.bsky.social yet again. Same for @knighthearts.bsky.social for the art.

Going to share on & offline, but if anyone wishes to help spread word, they can repost/upload these.

Related: think about how many artist alleys inquire as to your Instagram account or *require* that you have one to apply…

(Since my art is hobby-tier in the capitalism money-rankings, I still get free will over how I choose to distribute it.)

And like, we really tried, and tried, but we never really got the normie masses on here.

(This is not a prompt for you to follow me on Instagram btw my art one is still dead for now. I just made a more IRL adjacent one for design.)

Re: feeling forced to return to Instagram, I feel like I have to do that re: design, now.

I feel like what's wrong with me professionally (re: the skills of mine capitalism actually LIKES, not the art) is that I never really professionally networked back in college and it's biting me now.

*digs up that post for ya—if you're curious!*

www.screentonescast.com/view/114

None… 🤔

I'm on InMotionHosting; was recommended in a self-hosting for webcomics guide.

THE BILL THO… 💀

It's handy and supports like, email, and deploying little web-apps but YEESH WIZGSJDG hahaha

Tooth Tunes (Up, Down) (2007) commercial YouTube video by Richard Canipe

This is what they meant /j
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHL2...

A digital drawing of a cute girl with long sharp white hair, dark skin, gray eyes and glasses, and sharp cut white clothes with gray lines sketched onto them.

as a solo picture bc I’m bad at adhering to bluesky cropping

here is ms. paper lady again she is very cute, very bookwormy with an artistic side as well #OCsky

I WANNA DO THIS MORE TOO......

I do socmed-first-site-second even with yapping but what if I did the reverse…

…would it change the way I draw? What *things* I draw? Would the same be true of what I write?

#nicktoonsunite

And my account has always been more of a microblog than a content distro sooooo

Y'all are going on this adventure with me, unfortunately WARHARHAR unless you unfollow, of course.

So that's why I'm tryna LinkedIn-Maxx and Workshop-Maxx and Seminar-Maxx and Summit-Maxx and Mentorship-Maxx and Network-Maxx so I have the income to draw hella art and write hella story again.

Maybe this time with private health insurance. 🤨 #ReachForTheStars

Riffing off this again, and to disclaim, in MY case:

- posting/self-rt'ing art frequently
- posting/self-rt'ing shop posts frequently

to be ever-present with my Content™ on the fast-moving firehose…
…did not fill my belly.

The economy sucks, and the TL is for going "ooh nice" and scrolling away.

This, hard agree.

Social media is a fleeting distraction at best and a scam at worst. Bending yourself over backwards to produce “content“ which will be but a 2-second scroll of someone number 2’ing in a restroom doesn’t strike me as a sane strategy, not a sustainable one. 🧻

Reminder that pinning an image-only feed is peak.

People tend to say what annoys them, but show what they enjoy. So vibes are always better. It also makes interacting with art/cool things way easier.

And its helped me be online more without flooding my brain with the bad.

bsky.app/profile/why....

Morning update for #Arisan

Another video promo will be going up this month With a special guest voicing a role.

If we get to 25% funding I'll reveal who it is early.

Please consider backing the campaign or sharing the link if you would: www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...