Your AI Looks Like Shit
RESOURCE GUIDE—Here are a collection of some of my favorite resources to allow you to not use AI. You are a creator! (also if you use AI for promotions, your graphics will look like shit.)
Canva.com
You can have a free account with access to tons of photos, templates for easy plug and play, and a vast amount of tutorials on how to use the program so you can learn as you go.
AdobeStock.com
Not free, but a trial period comes with ten free images, and it’s about $3/image after that depending on the plan you buy. (all of the pooping photos on the image above came from there!)
Gimp / Inkscape / Scribus
I have not tried these myself, but heard they are great, free alternatives forAdobe Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign respectively.
Unsplash
“Over 6 million free high-resolution photos and illustrations brought to you by the world’s most generous community of contributors.”
Free Coloring Pages for Hard Times
For all of those fighting hard for your neighbors, feeling afraid, or just generally needing a moment of calm in the fascist nightmare we’re living in, here’s some free coloring pages. “Pintame Halagado” is a four coloring pages in Spanish (more to come—thanks to my friend Rojo Perez for translations!), the Color Me Flattered big print pack is my regular bundle, and if something upbeat isn’t the right vibe for you right now, the grief coloring page is a little more of a meditation on heartbreak. So much love to everyone who is dealing with the rampant white supremacy that is terrorizing our country. Please feel free to spread these around anywhere as needed, send them to folks, do anything you can if it will boost morale.
New Color Me Flattered: Nature Edition just dropped!
What do a rollerblading rabbit, tumbling tardigrades, and a flower-sniffing sloth all have in common? They are all part of this morale-boosting coloring book!
Inside are twenty-three full page colorable compliments, each paired with a fun fact. From a sparky electric eel to a weightlifting kitten, every character is lovingly drawn by Laura Sanders with an encouraging compliment for you to internalize and enjoy.
Other rewarding ways to interact with me below:
“A heart that hurts is a heart that works” -Juliana Hatfield
Click on the image to download a printable PDF.
A free printable grief coloring page for anyone who needs it (just click on the image to download).
That’s My Time: Stories from Surly Girl Saloon.
Shared in loving memory of Sean Somerville.