Jackie

Digital illustration of 3 leaf bugs over a light green background with a thin white border and a light leaf pattern underneath. Top left leaf bug is green with pink accents and a small heart hidden into its upper thorax. Top right is a smaller leaf bug with a more aphid-like tear drop shape. Tiny hear worked into it's forehead. The last leaf bug at the bottom is a large brown one with serrated leaf edges and a heart also worked into its forhead. The top left and bottom leaf bugs are viewed as if from a higher angle. There is also an @discobeetle artist credit baked into the bottom left corner of the image.

Drawing leaf bugs is lowkey addicting lol. I may have to do some more!

sketchbook page showing a pencil sketch of a standing dove with it's head looking down/ tucked in towards it's breast. Next to it are smaller thumbnails of a nesting dove, and a flying dove, and a little square sketch of possible arrangements of a dove print on a bandana.

sketchbook page of pencil sketches showing two small squares and one large rectangle underneath. The small square on the top left contains a sketch of a scarab beetle, surrounded by a border with dots and flowers in the corners, the one on the right is a flower motif with a more nouveau style decorative border. The rectangle underneath is a pencil sketch of a dove with its wings open and an olive branch in it's mouth. Bordered by a dark frame embellished with dots and breaks in teh corners filled with flowers (similar to the beetle's border).

was working on some sketches for linocut prints! I'd love to get into tessellation, but that math can come later lmao. For now its beetles and cute doves!

digital illustration in a square format of 7 stylized beetles. Top left is a lady beetle, top right is a green iridescent leaf beetle. Middle left is another iridescent leaf beetle with the roundness of a tortoise beetle, true middle is a large rainbow scarab beetle with wings extended, middle right is a purple and green iridescent scarab beetle curled in on itself. Bottom left is a black scarab/dung beetle rolling a disco ball, and bottom right is a bright red rhinoceros beetle. Background is dark blue with a light blue hatch texture, and a bright green border with white accents. light blue @disco beetle for artist credit baked into the bottom of the image.

Beetles! I love the iridescence on leaf and scarab beetles, they're just so gorgeous!

Digital artwork of a fawn with spots made of clover leafs

lucky fawn 🍀

Digital artwork of three fat pigeons with fawn pattern

fawn pigeon

Messing around in boats

A shirt design/illustration of a glass cup of green liquid. The ice cubes floating in the drink have little skull & crossbones on them. There are putrid looking spirits emanating from the the drink like fume ghosts. The fume ghosts have sick, sad, tortured expressions on their faces. Large text to the right reads "ICE IS POISON" in green, dripping letters. The background is black.

A screenshot of the shirt design on a black tie dye shirt.

Made a few more shirt designs! Proceeds from this shirt go directly to Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee www.miracmn.com Be sure to check out all the shirt options, tie dye looks particularly lit imo www.bonfire.com/ice-is-poison

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

Photo of my new glittery sticker sheets

Yayyy new sticker sheets are coming soon :)

I made a neurodivergent artists starter pack a while ago! Check out some cool folks here:
go.bsky.app/R6LZWyb

#adhd #autism #neurodivergentArtists

This is such great deal, highly recommend (and not just cause @helveticablanc.bsky.social is a friend, but they are a skilled artist making very cool stuff you won’t see anywhere else!)

thinking I might include a little interactive portion in this zine …

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

I met some of the folks running this study/survey at LBX. they came to my table and we talked a bit about this stuff. good people doing good research

currently being crushed by insomnia and rising cc debt so a reminder !! pre show comms for eccc will be open until Feb 20!! the earlier you sign up the better chance of me being able to have more time to work on your piece 🫡🫡🫡

“Oh I only used AI for placeholders or idea starters” does not make it better! If you are using it for any part of the creative process then you’re no longer doing the process!

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.

"I can't afford a visual artist"

So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?

Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

An executive threatened me with legal action because I shared my own drawings of characters from an original show they canned!!

The thing I struggle with most as a digital artist is so much software is made and marketed to artists without regard for how artists work or what they need. A lot of storyboarding software is made for people who don't draw, which is why SB Pro became the industry standard bcuz it's for ARTISTS.

inside you there are two wolves etc

This is a very divided vote. It means we've been encouraging dissent. It now goes to the full committee. Please keep calling and urging your reps to reject it

You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries “Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

Hey! If you’ve ever liked my voice, now, before the end of the year, would be a really good time to hire me for any SAG-approved projects!

Asking as someone who loves VO, and also really loves having halfway decent health insurance

Packing the shop up for @dublincomicarts.bsky.social tomorrow!

DCAF is a masked event! We’ll have free masks available but it’s good to have your own this holiday season! Because none of us want to miss out on the festivities due to illness or worse!

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out

comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background

comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights

comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

A sticker of three cats walking

A sticker of a fat tuxedo cat sitting

A sticker of a black cat in a dino costume that reads “I Bite”

A sticker of a small tuxedo cat sitting on a tube of yellow paint

It’s Black Cat Friday in the shop - get a free black cat sticker with ALL purchases through Monday 🐈‍⬛ shop.artbytuna.com

Illustration of a black woman with green glasses and sweater, next to a black and white dog peeking up from the bottom of the page, advertising a Black Friday sale that reads: SUPPORT A SMALL BUSINeSS THIS BLACK FRIDAY palaceofposey.etsy.com 25% OFf SToReWIDe! Hello!

Page showing items for sale: prints, stickers, charms from IWTV, KPDH, BG3, and OFMD

Also, it’s not Black Friday anymore, but I’m running a sale in my shop until Dec 2nd! Featuring new art I keep forgetting to post here!

palaceofposey.etsy.com

the before times

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao