ColossalHello, May! 🌱 Get a jump on this month's fresh list of opportunities for creatives:
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/05/may-2025-artist-funding/
🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥For artists looking for actual real animal reference images:
https://bsky.app/profile/animalphotorefs.bsky.social/post/3lgpnrqcii22m
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository (@animalphotorefs.bsky.social)
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use. https://www.animal-photo-references.com/
E M WillI love paper textures and I'm always looking for new ones to use - SO, I decided to pay it forward and make my own paper texture pack! Free/PWYW from my Ko-Fi shop, right here: https://ko-fi.com/s/6b35649dac
Use them for anything you want, tell me if you feel like it - ENJOY!!! 
#papertexture #designresources #artistresources #ArtistsOnMastodon
in game spouseJust spreading the word here since there is a NSFW/ "lewd" artist crowd here on fedi. There is a website (linked below) that connects SWers with freelancers who are open and accepting of SWers. It is owned and operated by a SW woman, not a big company.
[Link below goes to the SW rolodex website]
https://swrolodex.com/
#SWork #freelance #freelanceartist #artistresources #freelanceresources #SWresources #artists
Hollow Gaming@Akien@twitter.com:
"I really love small, use case focused indie #gamedev tools. Apps that let you do one thing (painting, modelling, audio, etc.), do it well, and make it fun!
I'll link a few, share the ones you're having fun with it :)
Bonus karma for #FOSS but proprietary+affordable is also cool."
Source: https://twitter.com/Akien/status/1364858117725556736
#GameDev #GameDevelopment #GameArt #3DModelling #FreeSoftware #PixelArt #ArtSoftware #GameDevResources #ArtistResources #ArtResources #IndieGames #IndieDev
Rémi Verschelde on Twitter
“I really love small, use case focused indie #gamedev tools. Apps that let you do one thing (painting, modelling, audio, etc.), do it well, and make it fun! I'll link a few, share the ones you're having fun with it :) Bonus karma for #FOSS but proprietary+affordable is also cool.”
AshleyProbably gonna go quiet about the Patreon stuff for a while because honestly I don't have the energy and I'd rather be making stuff
BUT here are some resources I've found!
Possible alternatives or places to diversify your income: https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5446
and a post about how to make your own micro-subscription service, ye old webcomic site style: https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=f800aacd1af2ef4021b18909bb6b22f0&topic=5449