Nero "Big Skeleton" O'Reilly @itsnero@mastodon.social

today's my day off, so i decided to make something truly cursed

If your solution to seeing too many samey white or white-coded characters in art is to just draw everyone as furries instead, maybe consider that there is a different solution that doesn't involve further erasing non-white viewers from your work.

Furries and monsters and aliens and things are FANTASTIC, but if you only consider "humanity" to mean "people who look like you and/or the Lowest Common Denominator advertising bracket" maybe that's worth, like, examining.

Me luring people to Mastodon.

"Intellectual property is theft" is all well and good, but I still need to fucking eat.

There are people who will howl about not getting paid a living wage who won't take steps to ensure the writers and artists whose work they enjoy can afford to eat.

I'm not a corporation. When I write, I retain ownership. My relationship to a publisher isn't employer / employee. So yeah, pirating my work steals food out of MY mouth. Not a corporation. Mine.

So fucking pay me.

My monthly sketchbook PDF is up for subscribers! 46 pages of hi-res inktober scans, plus the extra sketches/initial thumbnails for many of them. If you like my work, this is the easiest way to support me (and you don't need Patreon to subscribe)!

✨http://bit.ly/nerosketchblog ✨

( #mastoart #art #inktober )

Pulled from @fortunamedias@twitter.com:

"The second volume of Almost Real: A Speculative Biology Zine that's solely focused on Flight, is up on Kickstarter! Help us get to print, pay the contributors, and let imagination take flight!"

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/878734667/almost-real-a-speculative-biology-zine-vol-2-fligh

I drew some very cool big spider pals for this issue of Almost Real! Take a look!!

( #mastoart #art #specbio #kickstarter )