Latest Posts by maxshortt - Page 2
i love rearranging and cleaning all my furniture in my room every 3-5 months cuz it's cheaper than therapy and brings me back energy;
i have a big-ass robirthmark in the form of circle on my forehead and it's usually hidden with my hair, so when people seein' it ocassionally, they be like "why is it so huge :0"
Uhh I also have scoleciphobia, yep it's creepy
fuck, I have nobody to @ so uhmm wait a minute
@bloodflwrzart @olive-garden-hoe @dejf-rzeczny @mint-buni @animaritides
it's so weird to me that everyone on this website is a human person outside of their weird internet niche so rb this with a random bit of your lore
Tumblr and TF2 are kindred spirits because they're both programs that have lasted far longer than they have any right to, primarily because of their communities willingness to commit to useless bits for their own amusement, and because theres a bunch of gay furries
sketch dump of my newest hyperfixiation :'D TF2 in the year of our lord 2025 I know I know also I'm way more active on the former bird app regarding art @/Vanjestic_ART
Heavy and Medic are definitely my favs (wow who could've guessed)
I'm very late to this, but this image showed up in my dream so I had to. ( Used a base)
May I request some art of my crabs? You can pick any of them to draw
sure! Lemme just uhm- borrow them for reference! I’ll take good care of them trustttt 🙏
Currently taking Kat Tsai's color and light class and am learning SOOO MUCH!!!! Here's my hw from week 2 🫶
the spy is so happy to see his homeland again. he should say "merci" to me
In highlight of recent Sandvich Saga instalment bc we are so back (check Robin's twitter)
Low tier Medic is not in my bingo this year 💀
The chicken jockey: A gigantic, hyper-aggressive beast of a chicken with a lightweight rider controlling it, typically a baby zombie. It becomes docile once the jockey is removed, but this is difficult to accomplish because at this point you're basically fighting a knife-wielding dinosaur.
(Yes I got inspired to draw this because of the movie meme)
Week One hundred seventy-one, The Mercs As ...
COFFEE DRINKS
(Suggestion credit: anonymous)
OMG YUONMADE IT YORU PROFILE PIC
Oohhhh yes, YES Thank you once again for your gorgeous work, this was the best gift to see for me at this morning! 🔥
ALL BELOW - This is the big rant message about importance of real art and AI problems I originally wrote for a raffle on scrap.tf some time ago, but I decided to leave it here as well, for the history. Don't know how to hide the text in formatting to it not go a long line down, so there's just big text wall all below yk.
ROTATING SHARK FOR TEXT SEPARATION
ROTATING SHARK FOR TEXT SEPARATION
The Message to People about Art and AI.
Listen to St. Chroma by Tyler, the Creator. Look at "The Last Day of Pompeii" by Karl Bryullov for a one minute. Check out the pottery and sculptures that the local masters in your town make. Go to your local popular cafe and just watch the passion, soul n'effort with which the cooks and chefs prepare the food there for you. I don't care if anyone disagrees with this, but ART is what makes us humans. It is the single most important thing that separates us from any other species on this tiny, puny planet in a vast monotony of space void.
People like to consume art. No, they LOVE sm doing it on a daily basis - music on Spotify (or YouTube), movies, shows, sitcoms, a lot of videos on the same YouTube, art-comms on Internet, paintings n' photos on the walls of our houses, fountains and statues in the city centers, clothes, the design of your mouse pad, whatever else. But let's face it - artists have never been recognized. Never valued. Their efforts and skills have always been humiliated and belittled, fed the term "starving artist" to justify low wages, they were expelled from countries, imprisoned for undesirable works for political regimes all throughout history. Even killed. It works the other way around only sometimes, because look how powerful art can be for propaganda. Society hates artists, let's face it now. I will give you an answer - art has power. Governments (usually authocratic) are afraid of creators cuz those know how to tell the truth and the inside story about these political regimes to humiliate them in that way.
Today, nothing has changed, only the tools. Labels pay pennies to musicians, corporations use AI instead of paying real artists for their work & laiding them off, despite the fact that they also need to pay bills and feed families. Although, about AI... As Hayao Miyazaki put it "An insult to life itself". I will be blunt - AI "art" is not art at all. It's garbage, slop, pictures w/out the most important component that builds the very concept of art - human empathy. The greatest disrespect for the essence of humanity that could ever appear. As a final product within the frames of business - it's perfect, minimum investment and quick result. But from the point of view of being a person, a creator - no. Do you know what I, myself, personally love in art? The process. Emotions. The feeling of the pencil moving on paper. Seeing how my picture looks like I wanted from the start. The result is secondary for me (unless we're talking about when art is a job, which is important as well !). AI takes all of the necessity to take a pencil in our hands and learn all by ourselves. It uses data of human artists' artworks to learn and practically steals the work of a many decades to give a result without any soul nor purpose for existing. Quite handy to rule people who never bothered to bring their ideas in life by themselves, who can't think on how to image smth from the head and not with AI.
Real art, however, makes people go against tyranny, brings the power and sparks the soul for change, causes tears and joy, builds memories and relationships, connects people, makes us who we are truly - living beings with emotions, feelings, ideas. Creativity. Being an artist is a two-sided curse, I can say, but this is what makes me, us, humans. And I even like it tbh...
If you'll look at the Ancient Greece, you won't look for their financial systems or rules of etiquette in the first place - you will look at the culture. The music, paintings, mosaics, clothes. No art = No culture = No humanity. No us.
Everyone, at least many people, underestimating the real situation's state. I can guess why and you might think the same. Well, that's your life, I'm only a person from the Internet that ain't propagating anything in here.
So, for fellow artists - keep creating. Get a pencil/stylus/needle/any other your tool in your hand and go create. Keep being humans with personalities. For others - think about my message twice. As long as I'm making art, I'm staying human.
And remember! - no matter what "shameful" type of stuff you're doin', a silly doodle or a mediocre song, like anything you like - anything else made by AI in an attempt to repeat the output of human soul will always be much more shameful by definition.
the shimp got too much attention and now there are transphobes in my notes, this is a transgender blog run by a transgender dyke. fuckers.
how you get that paper-y texture/filter on your artworks???
It is prolly the effect of smoothly-applied grain on pictures and, with that, the tool that helps me to get that look is Glow Action by Studio 2am for Photoshop (i hate adobe, dont get me wrong!!)
I'm usually putting Lighten or Soft Light overlay mode for this "glow" layer to lay smooth and get that "Polaroid photo" effect, but always depends on context of the poster I'm editing! Plus, before the Glow action im fixing colors (especially midtones) with Camera Raw filter.
If needed - I'm adding another layer full of noise and setting it on Soft Light overlay mode, for 2%-8% opacity. However, it's not what I'm doin' often since it's gains image's size and I'm always going for <=5 MB (bc of Steam's restriction), but anyway.
"Limerence" was the first artwork where I've used this thingie, which was quite recently, but that got me to the point how my arts look like rn.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT GOOD DEAR HEAVENS SO COOL, MAJESTIC WORK
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!1!
How's your drawing style is so neat and eye-catching 🦐
also I drew you :3
I dont really fw the fact that Heavy frequently portrayed in community as a communist or just if he loves USSR
His entire family was literally dispossessed by the Soviet authorities before the events of TF2 began, and he and they had to go live in the eternally snowy mountains of Siberia, away from repressions and the danger of ending up in the Soviet gulag. It's not only goes for art, but even community cosmetics and his whole picture, as if Misha loves the politics of the country that made his family end up living in wild snows and hunting for bears. PLUS, would he even end up go work for Mann. Co to feed the family if he would actually love USSR so much?
Minecraft if it was awesome
