happy new year everyone! here's a snippet of the piece i'm working on for @taplingzines.bsky.social! it's heavily themed around traditional bulgarian textiles and fashion 🌹 #wip

i thought fireworks were more of an american obsession until i moved to spain and realized it's much worse here. yesterday people were setting off fireworks in my neighborhood all day and night and they use them for literally every occasion they can

a follow up disco angel from last year’s… hoping for a better 2026 to everyone ✨

girls, birds & pink flowers

1-page comic

i think non artists probably don't realize how much a brush changes the way u draw. i still haven't found one that allows me to draw the way i do on paper and all i want is to figure out how to combine my digital and traditional styles

Spotted this nasty bugger in my library the other night.

sometimes someone blocks me whose values seem to align with mine and i can't figure out why and i wonder if i've been added to one of those blocklists that tricks people into blocking types of ppl they like

rufous hummingbirds are known for migrating thousands of miles every year, from mexico all the way to alaska! #birds #birdart #printmaking #rufoushummingbird

my new years resolution is to start engaging with other people more beyond just reposting their stuff, ive always been a social media lurker but it doesnt serve me as an artist and i want to be an actual part of the community

omg this post made it to the tumblr radar? that's never happened to me even with my trans piece that has 18k notes

"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

#InverteFest is going on. Yee haw.

BEAR

it sucks that doing what ur good at isn't always enough to survive like why is my existence only justified if i do things that i suck at and hate

The Red Rider, from Vasilisa the Beautiful, by Ivan Bilibin, 1899.

Fell on my ass at the tavern trying to show off and now a bard is writing a song about me, fuck. He’s calling my ass my gratuitous rump. He’s saying I whinnied like a mule on the way down.

fairy cottage #pixelart #winterart #animation

Lots of people think they don't make art because they "lack talent". That's almost never the real reason, though. Most people stop because being a beginner hurts so bad. Embarrassment, shame and avoiding "cringe" stopped me for years. So most people wait to feel confident before they start. But...

"mankind, be vigilant. i love you." ✨📼 #DiscoElysium

The Embrace

xmas stuff for my family

Merry Christmas to all those celebrating. Happy Thursday to all those who are not. And I hope this day passes bearably and swiftly for anyone struggling today. Dragon with Christmas Gift, Edward Gorey.

going to the toy store as an adult feels so weird everything is so different than it was 20 years ago

I really don't like systems that force libraries to pay-per-use and I wish libraries themselves were more upfront with users about how much every movie you take out from Hoopla or Kanopy is costing the library.

a nice example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXb6...

i always put "no ai" in my youtube music searches for work music and people are clearly lying to get more views cause i keep discovering it is in fact ai when it's been a while and i realize i'm bored out of my mind

finally had some proper snow this morning!

Solstice honorable mention.

seeing a lot of rhetoric blaming "religion" as a whole for transphobia and all our other problems and i'm bored of it lol y'all have clearly never met religious queers

adhd + phones is so bad bc if i sit down to do smth at the computer and have to find info on my phone i'll immediately get distracted and start scrolling. and then i look at my laptop, see what i was about to do, pull out my phone, and get distracted again and before i know it it's been an hour

Day 21 for #ArtAdventCalendar "Screamer of the woods" Jay hand embroidered thread painting artwork www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p186/J... #embroidery #StunDay #birds #WildlifeArt

Snake-necked turtle 🐢

Day twenty of #ArtAdventCalendar Here’s a pair of miniature woodcock (made out of clay) reading all about themselves in my Observer’s Book of Birds.

You recognize the pondering the orb meme. The art's by Angus McBride, originally a cover for a MERP book. It's ALSO the cover for this choose your own adventure book where you play as Saruman's apprentice who doesn't wish to turn to the Shadow. It's my favorite Middle-earth Quest book.

idk if most people have seen prince of peoria since its a kids show and best viewed while stoned, but i will recommend it for those who like that kinda thing and especially their christmas special, magnus the christmas moose

. Strength . . the pet-parent's card #tarot #illustration #artsky

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

i love having a june birthday bc there's not many holidays around that time and it's halfway to xmas, really makes life feel balanced

aside from all the other shit, i can't believe everyone doesn't see ai use as unprofessional - its literally the tool for doing a half assed job at something u don't care to get good at

maybe it's coincidence but a few days after i posted this they started forcing their own youtube premium ads on me even with adblock lmao, is that new for everyone or am i being targeted for giving away my cheats

the meeze cave

can someone just make a "does the dog die" but for "did this movie/series/videogame/book use gen AI" so i can avoid them

hi pals! if you want anything from my shop before the holidays, you have until end of tomorrow! it won't make it for christmas if you're outside the uk, but i can give you a cute jpeg you can email your friends to say their gifts will arrive in january ❤️ ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop #artshop #cuteart

SEASON'S GREASONS

Freshling Friend 🌱