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The sky and river were awash with a array of colourful creatures; scales and feathers, webbed fins and wings, soaring and swimming their path through the city. Onlookers were in awe, this seemed a larger migration than usual for this time of year...

Final time: 4.5 hours

A blazing inferno of countless suns, surroundings disintegrating away into an ivory void. A multitude of wings emerge from the translucence, unfolding about a halo of endless eyes and concentric rings. Deep within the recesses, a fiery being stares back.

Final time: 4 hours

I keep running out of ideas for drawings already. God dammit, me. 😅
To that end, I will now be taking suggestions for ideas I could do for my art project for this year.
Pop 'em in the replies, maybe i'll like 'em enough to give it a go. :3

My new price lists for 2024 onwards, now in USD. ^_^

The cavern was so immense that the shimmering magic energy barely managed to illuminate anything beyond a few metres. The caster powered up the spell to reveal the shimmering ruby scales of the great beast staring down at them, its large wings outstretched...

Final time: 3 hours

Hi, it's me! Your artist friend. Well, one of your artist friends, as I imagine you have a number of artists in your life. And if you know these people well enough, you'll have watched their careers grow from humble art school beginnings to whatever awesome stuff they're doing in the present. Those careers are now under real threat of being replaced, and I'm here to tell you why.

Artwork-generating apps operate on a vast library filled with thousands upon thousands of art pieces that have been ripped from the internet. You can enter a few prompts, and the app will churn out a fully finished piece that took all of an afternoon to make. Yes, they often look really fake and are full of mistakes (eg: the hands), but these apps are getting smarter and more intuitive every day. Eventually, you won't be able to tell the difference between the above illustration and something that came out of one of these apps. And there are even app users who are now branding themselves as artists, and taking commissions from clients. Selling illustrations cobbled together from stolen art.

These days, I'm seeing endless AI images on my feed, and they're often followed by likes, shares and ooh-ing and ahh-ing in the comments. And a lot of these app users/fans don't understand that the art they're seeing was made possible by countless artists whose work was taken from them without consent, without credit and without pay. We have to compete against the algorithms of social media as it is. AI apps have made our fight exponentially harder.

I made this illustration over the course of the last two weeks, in between my shifts as a professional designer. It shows tired eyes, greying hair and the ever-present wrist braces that alleviate work-related pain. It's full of flaws, but they're MY flaws, not glitches caused by artificial generation. It took hours to make from scratch, and from my own creative mind. And if someone asked me to make one for them, you can bet your b***y I'd charge a good chunk of change for it. Artists charge for this stuff because it's how we survive. And it's worth the money. It's worth it because a real, living, breathing person created something like this from the depths of their soul. From years of painstaking education. From late hours and sore hands. And it's a glorious original piece that you can cherish forever (or you can like, re-gift it if you hate it, whatever. As long as we get paid.)

I've been told by my lovely friends (who I'm lucky to have) that AI will never replace me. Sadly, that just isn't the case, as my services have indeed been replaced by AI apps on more than one occasion. I have lost clients because of this. If you can't afford to pay someone to make artwork for you, save your money until you can. If you're not going to hire me to draw for you, that's totally cool. But PLEASE hire another artist. Don't replace me with any of these plagiarizing apps. It doesn't just hurt me. It hurts all artists.

Or hey, learn a few tricks yourself. Making art is really challenging, but it's also fulfilling, and dare I say (GASP) fun.

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He could barely remember his name at this point, let alone how he got to be in this bind. His mind was fuzzy and swirling, staring intently at the smoky eyes of the Absol before him; grinning fangs looming over, and claws clasped lightly about his muzzle...

The Paranoia seeded here,
There's nothing left but war and fear.
"From the River to the Sea",
All we wish is to be free.


Final time: 3 hours

🎵Just say, "Please, stay, look my way~"🎶
Poor Stolas, he deserves so much better than his current lot in life; they're both so traumatized by their pasts.
A lot of time went into the cape and background of this one with all the stars and sparkles.

Final time: 3.5 hours

This submission was finished 17/01, but I could not think of anything to say about it until now. :P
This is a beta design of a male sibling for Asher the Absol; I might tweak his details, and I'm unsure of a name, but I like how I've done his mane and gem. :3

Final time: 2 hours

🎵You can't take me, I'm free🎶
I thought the idea of using colour for the 'natural' aspects and greyscale for the settlers was a strong symbolic composition choice. It has no colour, therefore there is nothing natural about their presence in this land. 😁

Final time: 4 hours

For the first traditional piece in a while, along with using new pencils and markers, I think this came out quite well. :3 It's not perfect, by any means, but not much that can't be fixed with more practice and a better white paint pen. 😅
So yeah, Entei. 🤩
Final time: 2.5 hours

It's been a heck of a year for my "1 hr a day" project, I barely managed to catch up.
So, this year I will be doing 30 mins a day with traditionally drawn art. I'm content with my improvement in digital, time to give traditional a kick up the arse... XD

2023 in conclusion by AD-FelineFineArtshop 2023 was one heck of a year for my personal artwork, i feel like I went in with good intentions but I quickly fell behind on my own plan ...

🎵They say, "Just grow up",
But they don't know us,
We don't give a f**k,
And we're never gonna change...
When the sun's going down, we'll be raisin' our cups,
Singing, "Here's to never growing up"🎶

Final time: 8 hours

(template by Tigeroa46)
I've not been very consistent with my artworks, but I've been doing an hour a day for the whole year and I've selected my favourites here. 😁
My new art plan for this coming year to do 30 minutes a day on a traditional piece, to help develop my skills there now too. 😺

As I type this, I only have 8 hours left to go on my "hour a day" backlog, including the hours yet to come. Despite everything, I'm nearly, finally, caught up. 🤩
Anyway, this was an experimental character draft: meet Timber (he/him) the shire deer. 😁
Timber is primarily Deer in anatomy, with a cervine nose, antlers, and cloven hooves, though bares the roman muzzle, feathers, and musculature of a shire horse. His appearance isn't 100% final, but i'm happy with how he looks in this moment.

Final time: 10 hours

🎵 If I lay here,
If I just lay here,
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
All that I am,
All that I ever was,
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see 🎶

Final time: 16 hours

🎵 I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface.
Everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart, right in front of you...
I'm becoming this, all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you.🎶

Final time: 20 hours

🎵So you think you've got friends in high places
With the power to put us on the run?
Well, forgive us these smiles on our faces,
You'll know what power is when we are done.
By the might of Horus,
You will kneel before us,
Kneel to our splendorous power.🎶

Final time: 21.5 hours

🎵 My vision blurs,
I've got to clear my mind
Before a change can occur.
The cold is getting hard to shake.
This mess is more than I can take.
It's a last stand,
So take my hand,
And here we go. 🎶

Final time: 15.5 hours

🎵 Go ahead, bury me,
I will not stay dead.
Hold me down, take my breath,
I will thrivе instead.
Cheat the gamе, break my stride,
You'll see me again.
Like the plague I will spread,
'CAUSE I WON'T STAY DEAD. 🎶

This artwork was done as fanart for the LARP group steamweave in honour of their October winter session.

Final time: 10 hours

🎵There's Gangle, and Zooble, and Kinger, too.
Ragatha, Jax, and there's Pomni (woo-hoo).
Day, after day, after day, after day, after day, we fly,
As the moon, and the sun, and we don't know why!🎶

Final time: 9.5 hours

🎵Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would fly away with you🎶

Final time: 5 hours

I have come up with this character named 'Snowbird', and I'm offering him as an adopt for 🇬🇧20🪙 for a limited time! My next piece will feature him as a character, at which point I will increase his price, so if you want him while he's cheap, now's the time!

Final time: 10 hours

🎵One time for the ladies,
One time for the men,
One time for everyone in-between, yes you gotta love them! (come on, come on)
Give it to me, (Oh right)
Come on baby give it to me!🎶

Final time: 11 hours

[Un-cropped NSFW on Furaffinity - membership needed]

🎵Oh, the misery.
Everybody wants to be my enemy.
Spare the sympathy.
Everybody wants to be my enemy.
They say "pray it away",
I swear, I'll never be a saint, no way.🎶

Final time: 2 hours