Coming Soon! This Is A Project Four Years In The Making!!

Uploading some of my favorite photography I’ve done from the past couple years https://www.instagram.com/p/BvfRwJLge1k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12xdz1n3e8bba

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For just $30.00 Art from my 10-page comic “It’s Too Early, I Don’t Want to Wake Up!“ Read for free here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dOaAJX - Printed via DTG on 100% cotton。 - Produced in Miami, FL。 - Designed by Luke Stuart。 - Photography by Luke Stuart。

My Friend Jeffrey :: My Friend Jeffrey (one shot/short story) | Tapas

Follows Otto and his imaginary friend, Jeffrey, in the struggle of accepting an imaginary friend well into adolescence.

Hi all,  I’ve gone ahead and (finally) uploaded last year’s one-shot comic “My Friend Jeffrey” to Tapastic (comics reader).  If I’m honest, I’m incredibly proud of myself for being able to pump out these 23 pages in basically a month and a half. The art surely isn’t my best, and there is notably more photograph splicing in this comic than in my more recent works I’ve yet to release. Though, despite my personal feelings of a lack in visual quality in this work, I don’t think I’ve felt so energized since drawing this one. With college continuing and my PBS (painful bladder syndrome) not having improved much at all, I feel lethargic and stagnant more and more, no matter how hard I work. My PBS truly does make exerting myself so difficult, but… let’s not go into my health status much currently. I try to not complain or make mentions of my health much lately because of the vast amount of criticism I’ve received from others about being “complaning,” “too much,” or “needy.”  nbsp; I share this comic in hopes of it bringing on some sort of ironic joy, though any reaction at all is more than I’d ask for. A bunch of you guys on Instagram and here are really awesome, so thanks for being there. Hope all is well.   - Luke 

朝の弱い雨がふる間に

Swipe left for original photo reference from Kinoko Teikoku’s most recent music video https://www.instagram.com/p/BpOMJb6F0cq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8gusiov7725r

Swipe right for another preview of the one-shot manga I’m working on currently (￣O￣;) Gonna cash some 💤s into the bank rn,,,,, 、、、 https://www.instagram.com/p/BoWBKrdlMxk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=14cia1sd9dgyk

Thank you to everyone at #animenyc2018 who stopped by the booth and took some time to look at my comics/manga! A few people were very shocked at the subject matter as opposed to how “cute” my clothing designs are, so I sort of had to disclaim people after day 1 of AnimeNYC lol 🙏🏻 Showing my comics to people has always been sort of nerve wracking, so seeing people shocked or disgusted at certain parts of my stories was really nerve wracking,,,,, Note: don’t watch people read your own manga so save your own life!

#animenyc#animenyc2018#manga#comics#art#ink https://www.instagram.com/p/BqXbQ4vARiq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11d6k4554fkq

Ganbatte - Do Your Best!

For just $3.00 がんばって (ganbatte) in Japanese means to exert yourself or to "give it your all," and we hope that you always are! This item is a pre-order! We will…

For just $3.00 がんばって (ganbatte) in Japanese means to exert yourself or to “give it your all,” and we hope that you always are! This item is a pre-order! We will be attending AnimeNYC from November 16-18th, henceforth orders will be fulfilled in the couple of weeks following the event。

[2016] - Scumgirl illustration used for @_jammo_ for a while! I sold a whole lot of sweatshirts with this design on it, honestly surprising how many ppl liked it at conventions @.@

#drawing #art #illustration #comics #manga #art #漫画 #漫画家 #アート #らくがき #イラスト https://www.instagram.com/p/BtQyeI5gQzo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u8laxlycjn2r

...With Gettyimages and Adobe; two of the most scummy companies in their fields; bringing out their own paywalled AI trained on "ethical data," (IE, officially licensed from the mountains they own) I hope we can use this opportunity to step back and stop talking about the AI art debate in terms of copyright and "theft" and more in terms of corporate exploitation and labor rights.

Because, like, the results will be the same with regards to jobs if megacorps end up using Adobe's or Getty's model in the way they'd use; say; Stablediffusion and Midjourney; without a labor pushback they'd still use it to kill jobs.

And even with the "compensation system" they talk about, which they'll conveniently use as an excuse to keep it paywalled and closed-source, I bet you my bottom dollar they're talking about a Spotify-type model. Which, if you're familiar with the music industry, you do not want a Spotify-type model.

The difference is, if Stablediffusion gets sued out of existence, you won't be able to access the tool without a paywall. And both Adobe and Getty Images have very high paywalls.

Whereas Stablediffusion, by contrast, is very much open-source and free. A lot of people run it independently online for anyone to use and if you have a PC that can run it, you can use it offline; no strings attached. Which means you can do it and tweak it as you wish, doubly so if you already have art skills.

And it's awfully suspicious in this state that Getty is in a lawsuit to try and kill SD over the "stealing" claims in a way that would leave their product as a paywalled monopoly at their whims with no Open Source alternatives.

Like... at the very least don't get played by their talk of "ethics," because even if they're licensed, in my eyes they're far less ethical than SD I'd assert, due to creating a precedent for putting this technology behind a corporate walled garden in a way that keeps other creators from using it while still killing traditional artist jobs dead if we don't push back as a collective labor force.