iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

commissions I completed the past while!

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

the thing I spent the past few months on is finally live yaaayyy Grian's twitch/second yt channel banner -w-b

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Jagal @jagalart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Form > docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Examples for each style > jagal.weebly.com/huevember-20... As promised, here's the only occassion this year to get a regular commission from me!

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So I uh, started a thing and made a website for it idk where this is going but I hope it will be cool deckedout3.carrd.co artbook based on hermitcraft decked out 3 game woooo

deckedout3.carrd.co

Decked Out 3 Artbook

An artbook project in the making dedicated to Decked Out 3

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Athanaca @athanaca.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Who let the night heron online✨💿 #illustration #digitalart #nightheron #weirdart #oldinternet

Night heron art with 2000s internet core

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

been working on my version of pantheonsmp pearl lately

roughly coloured sketch mockup of pantheon pearl

work in progress linework for pantheon pearl illustration

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

some still life studies I did recently to get back into it a lil and it went better than expected

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

was reminded I hadn’t drawn for myself in months so I finished an abandoned sketch

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

artfight attacks I completed today that were pretty dope

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

first batch of animated emotes for grian mostly complete! want to adjust the timing a bit still as someone who doesn’t really animate I’m pretty happy how these turned out XD

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

brain died and uterus impalement started but the banner draft is mostly complete and the mans likes it

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

never thought I would ever be commissioned to draw a roblox character but here we are

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

the emote concept art bonanza for grian’s twitch channel second batch was when I started making them based off his favourite gifs

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm being hired to draw grian's twitch & second channel stuff soooo wish me luck 💥 (I'm also gonna stream the process so come hang out on twitch sometimes I guess XD)

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

squints natural landscape is not my forte...

work in progress illustration of hermitcraft pearlescentmoon fanart - a fire boat coasting down a river

big reference image board of forested rivers, eucalyptus trees, minecraft screenshots, and NSW fire boats

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Seren🌷 @ieafy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Hornet in Romanian + Moldovan inspired outfits

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

doing some reference hunting and it's fun when you end up side questing a different composition idea while looking for stuff (the batch of images on the left)

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

better late than never 💃💥 I contributed to this zine and it was sooo fun :D totally didn't realise until after I finished scizor that I'd ended up drawing two pokemon next to each other in the dex XD

qwilfish & their gijinka sitting in a laundry bunker, plotting

scizor & their gijinka equivalent lookin cool

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I found a tiny pair of sunglasses on my walk yesterday while playing pikmin bloom so I did the next best thing

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I've been playing hytale and made a thingo to show a friend what my base was XD truly just been totally zoned into exploring ngl

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I hadn’t dreamed of an interesting concept in a long time and somehow mecha house appeared it’s kinda fun XD this looks super loose cuz I was trying to at least capture the idea silhouette before I forgot

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

walking my fish

gouache painting of a man in a white Kimono, holding a staff and walking beside his school of fish, as if he's herding them.

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Jagal @jagalart.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

HUE 24

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Pegushi 🔜 SacAnime Summer AA153 @pegushi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Shop open from Nov. 20th to Dec. 6th!!!!!! ✨ The new Ghost Pokemon prints, Large Ticket posters are all in shop now! ✨ Also offering bundles that offer $70+ worth of merch for less than half the price ✨ If you love my work and would like to support , 'tis the season! [ #nightmarket #merch ]

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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

⭐🌟 searching by starlight 🌟⭐

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

updated my commission page examples a little~ ko-fi.com/cysketch/com... If you're unsure of pricing or have a more complicated request, send a DM on ko-fi or an email (in bio) with your refs! Left: base style Right: ballpoint style

A sky cotl kid opening their cape and havin a good time

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I started playing on a Minecraft realm my friend's on and man the lag spikes that show up once an hour only to rollback progress several minutes isn't fun

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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

lingering #art

Forget me nots, grow from the person
like a persisting memory

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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

hey #portfolioday - here's a couple of my old favourites!

a drawing of a bunny lying down in the woods, holding a 4 leaf lucky clover.

a drawing of a cat drifting down a river by sunset, surrounded by coral.

a drawing of a cat, running across a fallen tree in front of a waterfall during the night.

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

upon drawing this I realised how long it had been since I last actually drew for myself but also intentionally drew a cute thing and it healed me but also i’m obsessed with pikmin bloom

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

drew a friend's pikmin for a lil draw swap 💃

a hairband wearing rock pikmin holds a white pikmin that's wearing a 3 leaf clover

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Plive 🐊 @plive.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

yveltal spotted in bzh chat!!

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maru @koyamori.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

arowana #art

an arowana and its human
in hues of blue
the only light emanates from the arowana's eye

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Went to the Hong Kong palace museum today with my mom, hit up the islamic exhibitions and omg they're so prettyyyyyy Also the internal realisation I had of how much I'm a bg coded person because the things I liked the most were the floor tiles 😂

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

small bump~ If you'd like to commission your scrimblo to be drawn by me, you can check out here! ko-fi.com/cysketch/com... For past completed comms, check em out here: ko-fi.com/cysketch/gal... and if unsure of pricing, just send a DM on ko-fi or an email (in bio) with your refs!

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Cheryl's Commissions

Commissions Open! Click to see Cheryl's commission menu.

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

this is the longest time I've spent on a single piece of art my sanity is slipping I'm being held together by pikmin bloom and lego batman

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Cheryl || comms open~~ @cysketch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

lowkey after playing lego games for a while, I'm kind of tempted to get mario odyssey...... jumping around to get stuff uwu

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