iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

MEAT! @draculas.dog · 21/06/2026

i'm so happy with where his design has ended up. i need to figure out a way to distinguish his powers from just being knockoff Count Vertigo, though...

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 21/06/2026

jackrunner if it was good

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 19/06/2026

a heaping helping! of character designs from the last year or so

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Mrs. Reach / Mrs. Curio @reachartwork.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

chum fanart of Captain Jersey Devil by @draculas.dog! you should read chum at chumstory.wordpress.com

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 26/08/2025

@draculas.dog's Doctor Phantasmagorie (this is not his good side)

an illustration of a superhero, Doctor Phantasmagorie, waving his hands around mystically. Beside him is a quote: "Please get my good side", attributed to "Mister Phantasmagorie". His good side was not got.

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Commander Cello @commandercello.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Happy impenetrable birthday in-joke to @draculas.dog!

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a withdrawal from the hank-bank @hankmodular.inkvein.com · 15/07/2025

im fascinated with the structure of a 24-page comic issue which is so incredibly sad because i think it's possibly one of the more obsolete ones in the modern day

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

handbasket salesman: (eyeing my bucket) surely you're not going to hell in that old piece of junk?

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boocanan « COMMISSIONS OPEN!!! » @boocanan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

me at gdq: so what ive done is i've held down the b-button so mario runs faster. i think we have some time to read off donations

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Journeyman Torturer Reaction Video @tabloidsores.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Last night we let Joe Pera talk

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Is it too late to become known as "The Hawk Tuah Girl"

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 05/07/2025

ive gotten into the habit of taking photos of heavy duty vehicles when i see them while walking which has been great for building up a reference journal but has the unfortunate effect of making me feel like a slackjawed moron when i do it while people are around

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Pan @endless-summer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

i got people offering me thousands of dollars for tips and secrets

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 28/06/2025

they're calling him snackrunner on account of how he is so small

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 24/06/2025

and now set your eyes upon this dope-ass drawing of him by the fantastic @chaseburns.art!

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 20/06/2025

This isn't canon as Hedorah doesn't have a jawline, nor even a jaw to mew and mog with. But we can still dream. #godzilla #hedorah

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 24/06/2025

man, i have been away for a hot minute huh. check it out--a new guy has hit the jackrunner scene! and there should be a new jackrunner comic coming out some time soon, but dont let hank know i told you that. Rafi won't be in it, anyways.

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 24/06/2025

many many days late but peep the TCAF haul. i <3 toronto

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Dylan Horrocks @dylanhorrocks.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Forgive me, but the other day I saw a talk that had some AI-generated illustrations and I ended up staring at them for ages, trying to study them *as art*: their mark-making, aesthetics, surface qualities, etc. Curious to know if my observations match yours? (Sorry I don't have the images to share).

The other day I was watching a talk and the slides were illustrated using generative AI images (one that looked like a painting, the other like a drawing). These slides were on the screen for 20 minutes or more and so I found myself studying the illustrations closely (the first time I've examined an individual AI image for so long!). It was fascinating to try and work out what it was that made them recognisably AI-generated and to examine their visual aesthetics (how they actually look, regardless of how they've been made).
At a glance, they were quite attractive and it’s possible many casual viewers wouldn’t realise they were AI-generated—although it was instantly obvious to me and others in the audience; they just had that look. But what is that look? What are those stylistic quirks that told me this was made by a machine?
The longer I studied them, the more I felt there was something really tentative and noncommittal about the mark-making, as though the artist was constantly bluffing, trying to make it look just convincing enough—pixel by pixel—in contrast to the intentional mark-making of a human who knows what they're trying to draw or paint (even if they’re not nailing it all the time). There were whole areas that could have been anything: notably dark, smudgy, or unclear, as if to cover up that the artist has no fucking idea what to put there.

Also, there was no sense of focused attention: for a human artist, parts of an image are more important and meaningful, and their mark-making is (intuitively) organised around those. Elements and details are foregrounded, rendered with care and conviction; while others provide them with support, or recede—even disappear—altogether. The AI has no real sense of what matters in the image (because there's no awareness of meaning at all) and so it's loathe to leave space empty and tends to fill every square centimetre with something, and every detail is rendered with the same level (or lack) of attention.
It made me think of a (fake) mind-reader or psychic, who puts out a flurry of vague statements, watching to see which ones get a positive reaction, adjusting what they're saying based on our reactions, bluffing that they know what they're talking about even though they're really only filling a blank space with an illusion of meaning, just convincing enough to get away with it.
The end result can be visually compelling and persuasive, but I'm struck by that underlying lack of conviction and awareness: the tentativeness, the sense of bluff, illusion, fakery. It's in the very surface and texture of the image.
Of course, who knows what AI art will look like in a few years (I'm guessing some of the output will be better at hiding the bluff, while a lot will look even more soulless and fake—but really, who the hell knows!).

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Chase | Commissions... Open!! @chaseburns.art · 19/06/2025

Requiem For Our Youth (pages 1-5 / 37)

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 16/04/2025

FUCK!!!!! YES!!!!!!

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a withdrawal from the hank-bank @hankmodular.inkvein.com · 24/03/2025

old digital art... a character i designed with @meatmanuel.bsky.social

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 18/02/2025

you know its bad when you hit the GagaOOLala zone

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Commander Cello @commandercello.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Some design concepts I tried making for @meatmanuel.bsky.social's superhero, the Come-Back Kid. I like some of the elements in here (especially ICBK, who unfortunately probably won't live on as apparently Come-Back Kid gets abbreviated to "CK" and not "CBK.")

A superhero dressed in yellow and blue turns to face a robot flying at him in the air. Above him is text reading "CBK meets his greatest foe yet..." and the superhero is saying, "Oh no! Soviet super-scientists have invented and sent a robotic facsimile after me—the one known as ICBK!"

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

New study casts doubt on theory that we should meet up over drinks sometime

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Gart 🍅 @grumpisimo.nicefriends.online · 19/10/2024

hopelessly addicted to yummy snacks and delicious treats

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 18/10/2024

Be sure to keep it lit 🕯️ My piece for the upcoming "Over the Garden Wall" show at Gallery Nucleus 🍂

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stack of scares @stackofbears.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

Hey, can you heat the iron up? I was thinking of striking

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Berwyn Choobs @sabatonfan69.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

First date with goth girl) Me: Dare I say that you look “devilish” tonight? (I pause for 30 seconds holding my breath then exhale really loud) STUPid! (hitting myself on the head) Erm Sorry… (nervous chuckle) so do you like porn? AAAIIII FUCK!! (I start hitting myself) stupid! stupid!stupid!

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J. E. Tremulant (LAST PATROL DEMO NOW ON STEAM) @jetremulant.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Hey Bluesky, Meet our new (in progress) games!

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Chumpodile @chumpodile.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

i still haven't ever done real commissions I've only done shit like this

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 17/10/2024

they should not let me make jackrunner merchandise

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 17/10/2024

christ. people really are making a jump this time, huh

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Luke Baker @spacemacchiato.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

“𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥”

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Thayle @e-t-lee.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

urban photography

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

social media in a post-twitter world is much easier to compartmentalize. When you are posting some art or humor you do it on Bluesky and when you are posting something which would be helped by 6 angry and pedantic Germans nitpicking you, you do it on Mastodon

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dracun @dracunbloom.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Cone Cultist

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 28/01/2024

woah! posting again! unheard of! jackrunner's car is back, and this time it looks dumber

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

every food is a form of "chip" and only some of them have "dip". we must discover dips for all the undipped chips. you may be thinking "what about soup" that's a dip. soup is a dip with no chip. that is why it is a holy food

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MEAT! @draculas.dog · 19/09/2023

RON MOJO crosses paths with the elusive JACKRUNNER once again!

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Colin Broadmoor @colinbroadmoor.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Thought Wes Anderson was really holding this shot in Asteroid City, then I realized I'd accidentally hit pause while adjusting the blanket. Watched the still image for approximately three minutes before I thought something was off.

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