Based on the pushback I'm seeing, I believe there is going to be a HUGE market for those products, platforms, and artists that choose not to use AI technology at all.

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You change your mind all the time because you have multiple priorities - which means you have none.

This is why I often find myself saying too much. When there is work to be done at home, focus on that. Don’t be too distracted by what you have no control over. Also, avoid that which will hinder your ability to speak the truth when it’s needed. Focused energy.

We have reached a point where our most popular political candidates are less intelligent than the average person on the street. Meanwhile, candidates who offer more nuanced perspectives are silenced by the noise generated by conflicts over these incredibly stupid candidates.

This guy who just walked in off the couch is the real badass.

Is the situation actually complicated or is it really quite straightforward, but you're making it complicated because it requires a lot of courage to make the straightforward decision?

Middle-grade cover artists have a license for fun, and I want in! (Snippet)

The innocence in children's publishing is like a breath of fresh air, helping little human beings be good and have fun. It's so disheartening to see so many use it as an avenue for their activism when they themselves are so evidently under-read.

Breakdance at the Olympics is a bit strange isn’t it.

When I was young I used to collect all of the children's books with the little lady bird on them. I couldn't even read them, but they always had pictures to look at. I hope to bring this full circle one day and illustrate a Ladybird book myself.

No excuses. Practice every day. Make the barrier to entry small. One hour? Thirty minutes? Ten minutes? It doesn’t matter. Every day.

All the apps in the worlds and still nothing really beats writing it down on a sticky note.

There are moments in your life when someone has been kind to you, and those moments stay with you - you never forget them. There are no small acts of kindness.

Watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dutifully fight to make his country and the world a better place is immensely inspiring.

I have been reading and learning about Indian Hindu gurus, their stories, and religious philosophy. I find that I have a natural affinity for its rejection of material desires that feed the ego and blind us to greater truths. I hope to incorporate this wisdom into my art.

To lay aside what you have in your head - selfish desires and ambitions. To bestow freely what you have in your hand, and never to flinch from the blows of adversity.

If you practice drawing each day, focusing only on what can be improved, you will enter a continual loop of improvement. Where all previously produced work will never be as good as what you can do now, and what you produce today won't be as good as what you create tomorrow.

When my business is large enough, I will inform every customer at checkout that they will NOT be added to an email list... This is what a lifetime of spam has done to me.