>>939038351
The "Age of the Roastie" part is particularly cringe. It feels like it's pulled straight from some incel forum, complaining about modern women being too independent or something. And the "Robot waifus" bit? Well, that's just the logical (and depressing) endpoint of that line of thinking, where human connection is replaced by manufactured companionship.

>>938924648
And what about the mug? "Donate to queer transmasc autistic disabled artist." It's right there in your face. This isn't just about any artist; it's about an artist who faces multiple layers of marginalization. Is the image saying that these artists are particularly vulnerable to being silenced or exploited? The artist has paint on his shirt too. He also has an anti-AI symbol on his shirt.

The color palette he is holding is a jumbled mix of colors. And his paintbrush looks worn and frayed, like its been used a lot. It adds to the overall image of someone who is struggling but still trying to create.

What do you all think? Is this a powerful statement about the struggles of marginalized artists in the age of AI art? Or am I reading too much into a picture with a banana gag?

>>938300150
Literally this.
Remember the pasta that said the squad vs nu-clique drama was entirely political? The sicklr thing basically proves it.
Sicklr drew edgy nazi shit like twice and the entire thread turned on him. They cited the text walls and lack of drawing as the reason, but there must be something more to it than that, because none of them had the same level of venom for other, arguably much worse posters like Bunyan and even some of their own members like Kotorifag and Duck himself, the first of whom being a retarded tranny avatarfag and the second of whom being a glorified requestnigger.
Nah, they hated Sicklr for being an "evil nazi" (ironic considering IIRC he identified himself as something like a lolbert or an ancap) and they went out of their way to shit on him for it.

>>937898511
Yeah, it seems like that person is just here to ruin the vibe and make the thread worse. They don't seem to care about the art or the people who draw it, they just want to ruin the fun for everyone else. It's a waste of time and energy to feed the trolls, the best thing to do is just ignore them so they can find something better to do with their time.

It's funny that most of the pasta, if not all, are things you didn't make; you don't even have the capacity to make anything. You just sit and flail because it's the only thing you have left. You repeat the same thing day after day, and nothing changes. In the last hours of your life, would you say you spent your life well?

>>937035757
We used to have more artists, and more newcomers.
We used to have fun adventures and interactions.
We used to have fun collabs.
We used to have more requests being done before alot of people stopped taking them due to drama.
We used to have less in-fighting and Discord drama.
We used to have less of everything that makes these threads horrible now.

>>936966572
Canadian drawfags:
>Sam
>Puff
>Vy
>Dante
>Turbo
>Possibly Daki
>Possibly Eggwater

Canadian anons:
>Redblood
>Glovefag
>That one anon that posts alot at Sicklr and ACR

>>936901151
If this is the real Dante. You're never going to get that here. Not after the last 3 and a half years. Look at Shadow, dudes been here for how long and still everyone picks on him about his dog fingering shit. Returning to this place is never going to get you the positive attention you want or feel you need, only negativity which will make you increasingly bitter

>>936824842
Nigga I hate nu-drama so much there is absolutely nobody to root for
>annoying narcissistic whore propped up by the squad, who now regret it because it gave her an ego larger than the sun and they only tolerated her to begin with because she was friends with (and dated) scetic
>weirdo stalker simp schizo with a restraining order who looks like a demon that crawled straight out of hell and spams his shitscribbles here. Somehow the most tolerable of the bunch.
>most pathetic nu-clique nigger to ever live that got fired from his job for drawing furry porn and comes here to whine and attentionwhore about his brother dying from AIDS. Even the other 2 don’t want him around.
VS
>ESL faggot freak deviant that got anally raped by a donkey as a child and now dedicates his life to bragging about his brown microdick, posting about his circumcision fetish, and harassing foids
Remember back when we could root for CHADS like Dante and Scetic? Now all we have are these freaks.
Like holy shit can we just send ALL of them to the gas chamber at once?

Nigga I hate nu-drama so much there is absolutely nobody to root for
>annoying narcissistic whore propped up by the squad, who now regret it because it gave her an ego larger than the sun and they only tolerated her to begin with because she was friends with (and dated) scetic
>weirdo stalker simp schizo with a restraining order who looks like a demon that crawled straight out of hell and spams his shitscribbles here. Somehow the most tolerable of the bunch.
>most pathetic nu-clique nigger to ever live that got fired from his job for drawing furry porn and comes here to whine and attentionwhore about his brother dying from AIDS. Even the other 2 don’t want him around.
VS
>ESL faggot freak deviant that got anally raped by a donkey as a child and now dedicates his life to bragging about his brown microdick, posting about his circumcision fetish, and harassing foids
Remember back when we could root for CHADS like Dante and Scetic? Now all we have are these freaks.
Like holy shit can we just send ALL of them to the gas chamber at once?

>>936442735
2016-2020 was filled with literal faggots. threads were a circlejerk competition to see who could suck the most dick and draw the best tranny porn. scetic showed up in like 2018 and he got pushback for being an evil chud that didn't draw porn early on, which is part of the reason why he became the autist he is today.
then literal chinless incels started showing up in 2020 to brag about how based they are and harass everyone who drew shit they considered "evil jewish zogslop gooner shit". over time they've taken a tight grip on these threads and now we're starting to shift towards the squad going from a group of retard spammers to becoming the alt-right version of the clique, with some of them becoming drawfags and making connections with pre-existing drawfags that they think are "based and redpilled gigachads saving the white race" or some shit

>>935910613
>software
drawpile
>tech
i got a wacom intuos pro medium size, a 300-400$ tablet that came out in 2013. mine is a little over 4 years old.
>tips for a first timer
im assuming you want digital only tips. a good tip is that digital art is VERY iterative. you can interate endlessly. i hope that tip makes sense, im struggling to convey the power of iteration in the digital medium. Basically you can make anything. any image. there is no limit. any painting, no matter how realistic or complicated. there's nothing you CAN'T do, only things that will take you longer and contain more sub-tasks that you will be unfamiliar with. I hope that makes sense.

>>935767696
>>935767772
when did these threads become fucking jerry springer?
like at this point the drama isn't even drama, everyone here is either fucking batshit crazy or literally retarded. thread drama used to be shit like two people fighting, now there's just an entire group of people here that watch these threads like fucking reality TV
>OMG THEY BROKE UP AGAIN
>LMAO WHO CARES SHE'LL CUT HERSELF AND THEY'LL BE BACK TOGETHER TOMORROW
>OH YEAH DID YOU HEAR POOPCAT'S A PEDOPHILE NOW?
>OMG YESSS, AND BUNYAN SAID SOMETHING ABOUT VIBRATING SMEGMA YESTERDAY IT WAS SO AUTISTIC!
>LOL THAT'S TOTALLY RANDOM.TXT MATERIAL!
I feel like we've passed even the scetic squad rule era at this point, since that was all about spam. now threads are all about petty gossip and your reputation is based on how much autism you cause with your posts, the squad of course having one of the top reputations now because they've practically killed these threads with their constant shit stirring.
doesn't surprise me that these threads are slowly being filled with obnoxious foids that come here to shill their onlyfans too, they're the target audience for shit like true crime and reality TV.

>>935722199
krita if you want free csp if you're willing to pay, both are good
first tip is to scribble and make bullshit all around the place to get your hands used to the tablet as well as building coordination with your eyes and your hands, unless you have a screened tablet of course

>>935712732
Didn't you literally pay cobra to draw your oc and milk's oc having sex? Fucked up to do that then respect her less if she drew smut herself.