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Tracking the Best Black Friday Deals for Digital Artists

I’m tracking the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for artists, illustrators, and creatives. Please note that this is a developing (not final) article – as I discover great deals on illustration software, art supplies, and other products of creative interest, I add them here.

Gift Ideas for Artists

If you have a creative person in your life that you want to spoil, this is a collection of Christmas gift ideas (or birthday gift ideas) that would appeal to artists.

Art Reference Directory

This is a supplemental post for my video on popular and unusual places to find great art reference.

Tools to Protect Your Art from AI

I recently watched the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on AI and copyright, where Ben Brooks (Stability AI) said that they “respect robots.txt wishes”, implying that you can prevent your work/content from being scraped by setting a ‘donottrain’ directive in your website’s robots.txt file.

New PC for Art

My husband’s streaming community got together behind our backs and organized a gofundme so that I could upgrade my 10 year old PC.

4 ArtStation Alternatives

For years, Artstation.com has pretty much been the industry standard for professional art portfolios, but artists are now quite frankly…tired of their bullshit.

Discord for Artists and Art Lovers

This month I set up a Discord server, primarily as an easier way to offer benefits to my patrons, but it’s open to the public, whether you are an artist or simply an art lover.

NFTs = Digital Money Laundering

In 2021 I launched an OpenSea profile so I could explore the world of minting and selling NFTs. I learned the hard way that NFT markets are just for money laundering criminals, and of no use to 99.9% of actual artists.