Julie Dillon

@juliedillon.bsky.social

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Artist in the PNW. She/Her. Previous clients: WotC, Simon & Schuster, Tor.com, Macmillan Publishers, Llewellyn Worldwide, Dark Horse Comics
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Rakan for ✨July✨ I enjoy how simple his life is. I wanted him to be more pew pew magic but maybe that’s all behind him. He just wanna fish 🐟

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New piece! I struggled with this one a lot back when I started it a year or two ago, but it finally came together nice and easy when I went back and took a second look at it. 😊

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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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I'm starting to get comments on Twitter on this thread. Comments like "But why is using genA/I so bad/harmful?" It's plagiarism and based on exploitation. The tech also consumes massive amounts of energy & is environmentally destructive. It also accelerates the spread of dangerous disinformation.

If you commission art, please refrain from using genAI to generate ref images. Because at the end of the day, any usage of exploitative AI directly supports the plagiaristic AI companies and their exploitation/theft of creative labor. There are so many ethical options you can use to create refs.

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I'm offering up a book cover illustration commission for self-published (or small press) authors in this auction! I haven't had scheduling availability for self-pub lately, so this is a good opportunity if you are interested. There's lots of other amazing items as well, and for an important cause!

Join us for a silent auction benefiting two initiatives in Gaza! We have ~90 items from prints to tattoos to our tarot cards! Bidding starts on Friday at noon EDT going thru July 12 at noon. 32auctions.com/novaandmali Please note: some items don't have photos yet but they'll be ready by Friday <3

One of my Bloomburrow MtG cards was revealed! 😊 This is one of my first cards where I attempted to paint it in traditional media (watercolor, gouache and color pencil, with a little digital touchup). "Pearl of Wisdom" AD: Sam Padilla

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attn scholarly organizations, this is now considered best practice

I started this a few years ago and finally got around to finishing it up 🥳

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A novella! Now out by debut trans author @theelaineg.bsky.social Unexploded Remnants, from Tor in all the places. "Action, adventure, a trans main character, and inspirations from Stargate to Indiana Jones" Sounds rather relevant to my interests.

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DnD Character Commission - Katha for Anne Marie Thank you 💜

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And here's the kobo link. I'm looking forward to this. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

Trans author here - I have a book released today - Unexploded Remnants by Elaine Gallagher. amzn.eu/d/07S4eqUp Also on Amazon.com and on Kobo

Unexploded Remnants eBook : Gallagher, Elaine: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Storeamzn.eu Unexploded Remnants eBook : Gallagher, Elaine: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Unexploded Remnants ebook by Elaine Gallagher - Rakuten Kobowww.kobo.com Read "Unexploded Remnants" by Elaine Gallagher available from Rakuten Kobo. An A.I. wages war on a future it doesn't understand. Alice is the last human. Street-smart and bad-ass. After discoverin...

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Cover Illustration I did for @theelaineg.bsky.social 's debut novella "Unexploded Remnants," available 6-25-24! 😊 torpublishinggroup.com/unexploded-r...

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I'm in BEATING HEARTS & BATTLE-AXES w/ some incredible authors. Sword and Sorcery w/ romance (lower R, cuz that's important): My story is about a gay, married mercenary couple having to decide if defending their homophobic hometown from a dark god is worth the trouble and bringing up old wounds.

Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes anthology spotlight: welcome Brent Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social, SFF author extraordinaire! Visit Brent’s website www.brentclambert.com and back Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes here: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... 💓🪓

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What's your favorite creature from folklore? I want to learn about some more Weird Little Guys

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Since it's Pride, here is the caveman BL universe I've been working on 🌟

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There's a "Jobs" tab on Cara. Art directors, editors, anyone looking to hire artists, you need to get on there and post what you're looking for because it's where a ton of us are looking right now! If you're an artist looking for work, get on Cara and check it out yourself!

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Payment processors are the reason a lot of sites don't allow erotic art (and nudity in general). It was super quick to sign this.

The ACLU is gonna take action against Mastercard for their anti-porn stance. Please consider signing.

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy.action.aclu.org Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

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The current AI models are like if someone set fire to 2 rainforests to make a cake that tasted like rotten eggs and then wanted a culinary prize for it

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If art directors and independent authors (really anyone who may need some art) out there want to find artists they can be 100% sure are human made, I’d encourage you to go to Cara.app , it’s exploded in # of artists recently and is completely wall to wall human made art

Cara | Artist Social & Portfolio Platformcara.app Cara is a social and portfolio platform for the entertainment art industry.

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I like how every day I wake up and publishing says "books are worthless, you're worthless, we're putting all manuscripts into a shredder and firing our staff" and my brain scabs over and I go "time to write :)"

If you see this, post a wolf. 🐺

If you see this, post a wolf. #Art #DarkArt

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Like imagine all the insane talent out there we will never get to see because our current capitalist hellscape of an entertainment industry literally sees regular human beings as a liability. And how must that background understanding affect our psyches

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"The Temptation of Sir Gawain" So happy I can finally share this one!! It was quite out of my comfort zone, but my god, did I have fun with it! Done for Gallant & True Zine. Process post coming soon to Patreon! #Illustration #Romance #ArthurianLit

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Good morning, bluesky. My new collection of enamel pins just launched on Backerkit and it's already 69% funded! NICE!! You can get 'em here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... Shares and RTs very very appreciated! <3

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It's not even that stuff is flagged incorrectly, it's that it's a stupid fucking scale to begin with.