Hey everyone, here's an illustration for this year's art contest organized by Festival Reflection of Terror. The theme was the theft from artists via generative AI. Even though these days I don't have a lot of free time, I really wanted to answer this year's call because it is definitely a sensitive topic and a force that is changing all of our lives, plus, something that made me question myself for pursuing the career and lifestyle of an artist and illustrator.

I hope you will like this illustration, swipe to see the painting process!

Trying to draw a creepy vibe in this portrait sketch. It was fun to revisit this old drawing. Any feedbacks appreciated :)

Edit: First image is redraw

The reference was a picture of him in his youth

I want to be one of those people who can draw a good face from memory, we'll get there one day!

"It's just that your wings are so much more beautiful than mine."

Swallowtail butterfly x Saturnia moth, as my gf and I. She is a superrrrr skinniiii trans woman with nice white totally smooth skin while Im this nasty fat brownish female with terrible bumpy ugly scarred hairy skin

my body dysmorphia makes the relationship marred by my intense jealousy.. (although her gender dysphoria does it back to me)

redrawn from (removed link just in case) by the phenomenal artist soot.700 , "silly goofy doomed yuri" from feb 4 2026

This is new for me. For years I've been frustrated attempting photo realism and failing. I was competent when I was younger; when I had ample time and focus to practice. But I'm a lot older now and that effort never seems to equal the output. So I've started spending an hour or two every night just putting pencil to paper instead of doom scrolling. Sometimes I'm happy with the results. Sometimes it's just lines. But I'm starting to enjoy the time spent making them.

A quick and effortless drawing from our tallest canid, the aguará guazú. Inktober. Gangly.

Liquid charcoal is a new material for me - usually I draw with General’s pencils - trying it now after gaining more experience in watercolor and oil, and I’m really enjoying the painterly handling of this Schminke brand liquid charcoal in a tube.

Inspired here by Sci-Fi magazine covers from the 70s and 80s - I wanted to try something more “commercial” than my usual surrealist imagery.

This is a one-armed, headless Terminator-style endoskeleton discovering a gigantic robotic head In a desert…I actually set up a still-life with a 3D printed head I have, so I could draw this from life as much as possible.

Enjoy and feedback & comments welcome!

It's not much, but I'm trying to learn something new.

First time looking into techniques, brushes and how to do digital too.

Any tips?