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Chris Shehan 🏳️‍🌈 ✨
@ChrisShehanArt
Comic Artist. I post more on Bluesky lately, follow me there. ___________________👇
Austin, TX
Joined May 2009
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    Whoever got you this as a kid LOVED you. There are adults telling kids to not pursue art and to get a “real job”. The person that got you this believed in you. I’m where I am now because of the people who saw enough of a spark in me to think of something like this as a gift.
    PSA: If you’re doing shopping for artsy kids this holiday season, avoid these art sets. Every artist I know got these as a kid and LOATHED them, because the quality sucks. Instead, find out what medium the kid likes and get nice versions of that specific thing.
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    Artists aren’t blessed, born with talent. We’re cursed. Born with nothing but an obsession with creating. An addiction. We’re cursed to climb an impossible mountain with no peak until we die.
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    These outspoken Gen Z kids that publicly drag their conservative parents give me so much inspiration honestly.
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    There’s more to trans people than what you see on the surface. I just found out one of the farmers I buy vegetables from is trans. Trans farmers, more than meets the eye.
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    “AI art wouldn’t exist without someone telling it what to make. So the person telling it what to make is the artist of the work.” This is the most common argument I’ve seen trying to validate AI “artists”. When I tell a waiter at a restaurant what I want to eat, am I the chef?
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    Some introverts want to be invited to everything. We don’t want to go. But we still want to be treated as if we might go. And we MIGHT go. But probably not. We still love you though.
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    Hey, if you’re young and you have this idea that drawing from imagination and using reference are completely separate ideas, they’re not. Most artists use reference, especially to draw stuff from imagination. “Imagination” doesn’t mean it was completely informed by nothing.
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    Drawing comics is neat because you gotta learn anatomy, perspective, acting, cinematography, character design, creature design, costume design, graphic design, technical drawing, basic architecture, set dressing, color theory (sometimes), and prop design.
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    Replying to @GenelJumalon
    Let’s pretend AI art didn’t exist for a second. Someone sends an artist a bunch of prompts, the artist does art and sends it back to the person who write the prompts. That person then enters the art into a contest under their own name and wins. That’s unethical.
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    Replying to @ChrisShehanArt and @GenelJumalon
    The AI is not a person, but the person who generated it by typing words into the AI is not an artist. They created nothing. At best, they collaborated. A collaboration they can take credit for because there’s no human on the other end. This should not be allowed. It’s terrible.
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    Artists: create a contract specifically for private commissions. Only allow clients to make revisions at the sketch phase. Charge for any and all revisions after finished art. Take half your rate up front (non refundable) before you start, half + fees when you’re done.
    Pro tip to working with artists. Don’t fucking do this shit
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    I think it’s funny when people get mad when characters who were “canonically straight” get “retconned” as LGBTQ. I was “canonically straight” for 25 years. It’s not unrealistic for fictional characters to change their sexuality or gender later in life, regular people do.
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    My new favorite genre of art is real art that mocks ai art. Real artists remain untouched and unmatched by these ai dorks at every corner :).
    wait what do you mEAN shes not real
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    Replying to @ChrisShehanArt
    For everyone saying this makes her a catch, she was a catch when she had no money and no job and she was just following a dream. Support and love your partner unconditionally and stuff like this is just a bonus you can enjoy together. ❤️