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  • Bad@jlai.luOPtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldTransitive reasoning
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    4 days ago

    No political compass no, I just like pastel colors because they make me happy (really that’s the entire reasoning).

    I tend to make conservatives orange these days due to the orange president, but it’s not always the case, just a mood of the moment thing. I like the other commenter’s reply, art is in the eye of the beholder, the colors are whatever you see in them - I probably unconsciously saw something in them when I was making the comic in the first place, you never truly randomly choose things after all.



  • I’ve started recording my drawing process when I work on serious pieces. It affects concentration and skill to feel recorded, but if I don’t do it I get hit with those accusations, that can turn into serious witch hunts and (let’s be honest) are very hurtful when you’ve put lots of work into something.

    It’s beyond annoying.




















  • Much appreciated ❤️

    But I’m definitely not there yet (for ex. the head shape and hands in the left panel, I just gave up on both).

    I’ll still be sharing mostly stickmen for a while, until daily practice gets me where I want to be, long road ahead.

    As for art I draw for games / commercial use… I have to record the entire sketching and drawing process from start to finish, which feels intrusive and affects the creative process, because otherwise you always run into those types who think they can tell the difference but always get it wrong, and nothing short of a full recording will satisfy them. Yay learning to draw in the 2020s!


  • Thanks, much appreciated.

    Main issue is whenever I tryhard, I often end up getting told that my art looks AI generated (that’s why I leave the paint bucket fills instead of smoothing them out…).

    It’s disheartening when it happens, so I tend to share stickmen online, and keep my more serious pieces to myself.

    Grinding daily though, hopefully I’m getting better, and one day I’ll escape this vortex.

    Today’s piece, reworked/improved a piece of art for a card game:




  • Bad@jlai.luOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldTerms of criticism violation
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    1 month ago

    The mythical reading comprehender.

    Notice how in the meme, the character looks happy when they meet someone calling out israeli crimes.

    Of all the places/platforms I shared this, most of which are far leftist and staunchly antizionist, you are the one and only person that lacked the reading comprehension skills required to see that this meme addresses the issue of people conflating antisemitism with antizionism, makes it abundantly clear that the meme is about a small subset of people.

    I’m allowed to vent about conspiratorial antisemitism still being a pervasive issue in western society. Even in the context of an ongoing genocide, the topic is not off limits, as long as it’s presented in a clear antizionist context. And you’re allowed to go eat shit and maybe some glass shards too. Just something you’re allowed to do. For fun. If you ever want to. Have a good time.



  • Bad@jlai.luOPtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldTerms of criticism violation
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    Out of my dozen of comics and memes unambiguously criticizing Israel, this is the only one doing what you are complaining about.

    If anything, my content is doing the opposite, calling out people who weaponize antisemitism as a way to deflect antizionism.

    However, there are some people whose criticism of Israel enters the realm of conspiracy theories about jews controlling the world, some of them occasionally showing up in spaces I frequent. Being jewish myself, I made this one meme to vent out about it, literally just one among the rest of my content, just one small meme in years of making content. Although you don’t know me and my work so couldn’t know what I stand for, it’s a very disheartening reply to get on this one piece of content, which is, imo, perfectly legitimate, perfectly clear, and undeserving of this callout since it clearly singles out people who call themselves conspiracy theorists.

    Had do a lot of zen gardening in my head while writing this or it’d have contained some extremely harsh words.