sorry to ride the criticism train, but this site is really giving stock social media site with inkblot's name slapped on it, it's honestly creeping me out a little what bothers me mostly is how it doesn't at all feel focused on art anymore - you're encouraged to say "what's on your mind" with attachments as an afterthought. the wording of "photos" over "art"? reactions? (genuine question: do people like emoji reaction systems? they're fun on discord, but it feels... odd here (and to state the obvious, very facebook)) and why do profile galleries come after FOLLOWERS? what's the point of an art website where it feels that people's galleries are being hidden away? with all due respect, the redesign has a lot of things that just feel wrong about it

New Version Number who dis? I'm lowkey just waiting for *any* deviantArt-like: (Inkblot, Artfol, SheezyArt, Cara) to make artists STOP *ONLY* posting onto general-purpose, timeline-only sites. It's harder to go through and consume a lot of art on those. Not used to the Facebook-y UI of Inkblot 2.0, as… I've been a chronic and intentional Facebook avoider all my life, but we'll see.

I've been thinking about this for a bit, but many of the design choices that came with this 2.0 update are... baffling, to say the least? The site is actually usable now (it barely worked for me before), but it feels like another Facebook/Twitter clone, rather than an art site. I'll continue to observe how things develop but I'm not sure I'm convinced yet. I also wanted to test uploading art here but I quite literally can't, I get an error every time.

NGL after 4 years it looks like a combination of Twitter and Facebook. I thought it was gonna be like old DA and more suited for artists? There’s no gallery, just a photo page like Facebook. The more I explore this site the more I’m turned off by it. What happened and why? I liked the other layout better. For comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWg1_XEEOK4

Oh god... What even happened here? We went from an art site to a facebook clone? All my artwork is out of order, my page doesn't even feel like an art site gallery, the front page is just another scrolling timeline where everything is massive and built with only mobile users in mind... I have to scroll endlessly to see any new artwork, hidden among people's status posts... No way to browse just artwork outside of tags. No way to see a tile of recently uploaded artwork. At least as far as I can tell. Clicking on trending tags brings me to yet another timeline scroll, which isn't even centered on desktop. It's aligned to the left with a lot of dead space on the right that is just... empty. Yeah no. This website is not for me. This isn't an art site. ("Photos" instead of "Gallery"???) It's yet another generic social media clone. Sorry, but that's not what I'm interested in. I don't know why there's such a push for every new site having a mobile-centric UI, even on desktop, designed to keep you scrolling forever on your phone. It is *so clunky* to use on desktop. It's so easy to miss new art uploads, because you can't view thumbnails on a grid. Discoverability becomes tied to how often people share your pieces around. I'm just tired, man. Maybe I'm just getting old and exhausted from trying out so many new "art sites". The way artwork is displayed and discovered is one of the most important things to me. I want to be able to open the front page, and see a grid of new artwork, where I can select multiple tabs to open and browse at my leisure. I want my profile to have my art be the focus. I don't need everything to try to function like bluesky or twitter, and if this is the direction inkblot is going to go, then well... I don't think I'll be giving it another chance. So if anyone who happened to follow me here (I can see my follower count got wiped anyway) wants to see what sort of art I'm doing now, please check out any of my other social links here: https://runicillusionist.carrd.co/ I hope for those of you who do intend on staying that this site serves your needs better than mine. But for me, I'm out. - Rune 🐇 EDIT: WHY IS THE WEBSITE CARD LINK SO BIG!???

made these w my left hand [ID: First image: A page of traditional drawings made with the artist's non-dominant hand. The lines are all squiggly, but confident nonetheless. Two of these doodles portray a person without a face, and in one of them they are pulling on a string hung from the ceiling with force. There's also another drawing, but this time it's of a big bell. Second image: A traditional sketch made with the artist's non-dominant hand. There are two drawings, one of a person with their face covered looking over their shoulder, and another of an arm holding a thin pen. The person's bony back is visible, and their right arm is obscured by their torso. Third image: A traditional sketch in red ink, which was made with the artist's non-dominant hand. There are three squiggly drawings of a faceless person, their face hidden behind a geometrical shape. The drawings depict them down on the floor, avoiding eye contact, and throwing their hands in the air to make unknown signs respectively. Final image: A traditional sketch in red ink made with the artist's non-dominant hand. It depicts a person without a face doing a peace sign close to the viewer. There's text behind them that reads: Share your beautiful unemployed soul to the world and let it change the color of the seas. End ID] #traditionalart #traditional #sketch #sketches #sketchbook #ballpointpen

A new year, a new book, a new look. I didn’t take this as far as I had hoped or wanted to but I did have fun reopening a new chapter to my sketchbook. This one features an Ocelot and some facts there about and a few thoughts. ***Like what you see? Consider donating me a coffee and I’ll write down your suggestion for the next couple pages :)***

Sketch of an old Disney character from the travel books. I'm going to draw him in something eventually.

Never was any good at playing him, but he’s still cool in my book!

with my screaming in your itching ears ID: an anthro red and white belgian shepherd/siberian husky, sasha, lying on the floor in a room filled with various media. there is a spiral notebook opened to a page with the word "hello" written repeatedly, a pencil with a business card underneath it, and a paper where the only readable words are "danger to self" and "danger to others", checked off. one of the books is open by sasha's face. sasha is longhaired with a snow nose, atrophied muscles, lopsided eyebrow dots, orange eyes, freckles, and one eye closed. they are wearing a white hospital gown, green scrub pants, and 3 hospital bracelets, 2 psychiatric on one wrist and 1 medical on the other. they have red, orange, and yellow bandaids in places where you would put an IV. the room is dark, the floor deep purple red, and all screens are lit hot pink. the laptop screen is open to google and in the search bar are the words "hello? are you ali". the computer with the tower is open to a livejournal page. on the old TV is a simple drawing of sasha holding an ax. they look distressed. half of their face is shadowed, and they have multiple eyes. on the lit side, the eyes are of "good" alters, and on the dark side, "bad" ones. all of the red wires on the floor lead behind the TV, where there is a big, tangled cluster of red and orange wires. end

30 minute sketch, drawn in Sketchbook on my Galaxy Note.

This is some art I did for Jeffrey Alan Woods on Facebook of their oc, Ugne