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sloane

@sloanesloane

Cartoonist, artist & writer. Author of A MAP TO THE SUN, PRISM STALKER, & more 📚 Co-founder of @cartoonistcoop 🖊️ Narrative Game Designer @wizards_magic

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Joined March 2009

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sloane
@sloanesloane
Jan 4, 2022
Aloha! I'm Sloane, I make comics, illustrate, & write fiction. My work explores the visceral & psychic parallels between the biological & the cosmic through a throbbing neon lens! Portfolio: sloanesloane.com Support: patreon.com/sloane Blog: sloaneleong.com
sloane
@sloanesloane
Sep 12, 2021
clearing out my phone and this still makes me die LOL
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@sloanesloane
Mar 5, 2022
I think right now the dominant trend I’ve noticed in creative work, especially mainstream fiction/comics/etc, is artists creating from a place hyperdefensive social paranoia (see: preempting any ‘problematic reads’ by addressing directly in story or in the commentary around)
sloane
@sloanesloane
Jun 17, 2019
to abide in the stillness of a harvest, reaping the cut and the fallen
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@sloanesloane
Jan 12, 2022
cartoonists, please.... cartoon lol. caricature and stylize stuff more. use shorthand. draw things 'badly' or vaguely or not at all when they're not the focus of the panel! realism for realism's sake does nothing for your art 🥲
sloane
@sloanesloane
Aug 20, 2020
whatever you're working on right now: lean into it. don't shy away from your weird ideas, from randomness and absurdity, from ugliness or whimsy. GO THERE.
sloane
@sloanesloane
Mar 5, 2022
Replying to @sloanesloane
dont make your work for your most bad faith, cruel and stupid reader! make it for someone who's coming to you with their head and heart open, with as much intelligence and respect you're giving the work. you never know which you'll get so might as well aim high lol
sloane
@sloanesloane
Mar 3, 2020
Yoshitaka Amano 👀
sloane
@sloanesloane
Dec 16, 2021
terrifying haha Woman at a Window, Waving at a Girl by Jacobus Vrel
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@sloanesloane
Oct 5, 2024
9 hours of surgery later and I’m doing great!! I even walked today. Cancer who? Where?? CANCER FREE
sloane
@sloanesloane
May 12, 2023
I keep seeing discussion about how ""AI"" image/text generators won't ever be as good as humans but one thing im not seeing discussed is how that doesn't even need to happen for it to kill off entire creative industries bc the majority of ppl have NO arts/media education/literacy
sloane
@sloanesloane
Jul 1, 2021
art doesn't transmit ideas, you catalyze it and form your own
sloane
@sloanesloane
Dec 6, 2022
it’s funny seeing all these authors who are anti-piracy (and often anti-library!?) just going hogwild using AI to do their book covers and interior illustrations 🤭 not that they weren’t already screwing over the poor Fiverr artists they ‘hired’ before
sloane
@sloanesloane
Mar 5, 2022
Replying to @sloanesloane
beyond storytelling styles or grim/hopeful tones, that sort of anxiety in the creative process manifests in a really unappealing way in art. it brings down stories to the level of fable, flattening difficult subjects n themes and maybe unintentionally condescending to the reader