Remember to tell your friends! I understand its hard to give up a follower base, but ask yourself is it truly worth keeping your work on X

Its a stack of kitty pouches! I have a new scrap of cotton flannel to turn into pieces, then I can start hand sewing the bottoms shut. I might copy the button face design from the sewing pattern and just do some simple top stitching to hold the two body panels together, nothing special.

Oh, Grok can edit any image thats uploaded? No thanks. Goodbye Twitter. Im just deleting my accounts period

This Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and the day after, Im apparently putting in OT at the big boy job while trying to write up my class lesson plan for a whole year 🙃 I need a vacationnnnnn

Brain, why do a panic?? You have been into anime for damn near 30 years. You've been drawing it for 24 years. Putting together a class lesson plan is not as stressful as youre making it. Anxiety needs to shut up and take a back seat. YOU TAUGHT YOURSELF BASED ON ALL THE PROS- YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THIS

Zero tolerance is the ONLY and FITTING response to genAI being used in production of media. Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.

All them principles of animation... GO!...

Saw email notification from the school, realized I forgot to finish my paperwork last week and have yet to put together lesson plans 😩 This week will be spent on research & writing I guess. I need to make history lessons, activities, and my general "how to" lessons. Wtf happened to this past week?!

What really cracks me up about companies doing this is youre going to teach someone how to draw, but youre too lazy to draw it yourself? This shows you the status of 🇺🇲 and how dumb those at the top really are. Sadly, those idiots are running the show and hoard wealth.

Doing some late holiday shopping? These are cute, cheap, and make a thoughtful gift! The cutouts in the other photos are all I have at the moment. I use up scraps to make these so theres a limited number of each pouch! No custom orders.

Show me how your 2025 went . Honestly I dont even know how to describe it. Something good would happen, then the day job would tank. Thats the only real bad thing this year :/ Companies cant seem to keep it together in this state. For 2026 all I want is enough $ to survive until June then Im out

Annnnnd I ran out of thread. Oops. There was only two left on amazon so I out an order in for two. If they dont restock it, I get to have fun hunting it down elsewhere online 😡 Murica sucks. Our physical stores dont sell much any more and now Amazons falling behind. I hate this so much 😭

I was trying to do something stress free today but my machine had other ideas. I got it to stop fussing and actually sew smoothly now but this thing is really starting to hate anything thats not two pieces of cotton 😅

Im not going to have any new drawings before the end of the year, so have a photo I took a couple of months ago from Summit County of the Continental Divide. This was from my iast hike of the year/season. I now made a bsky for travel photos like my instagram! Please follow @sc-avventura.bsky.social

Another thing that really rustles my jimmies is how people have spent YEARS disparaging digital art as being "lazy" and equating it to just pushing a button for art. And now that there IS a button for "art" suddenly everyone thinks it's the greatest thing ever??? Hwat????????

Foxes are done! I'll have to finish the blanket this weekend. Waiting on thread

No blue thread? No problem! Just grab pink instead! I cant finish the blanket so I moved on to the other half of the baby gift set. One of my friends recently became a grandad so I was tasked with finding something cute for the girl. His youngest child got foxes so now grandbaby also gets foxes!

Funny how Walmart, Michaels, and Hobby Lobby took over for Joanns once it went out of business, yet NONE of them stock a decent selection of thread. I had to cave and find it on Amazon

Got my stupid sewing machine back today. It just got fussy over needing a full cleanout tune up. The technician did say its on its decline, though. Idc as long as that little bugger lasts me til summer. If it does after that, well, it had a nice 20 year run. 🫡

Same goes for movies, tv shows, or even ads for physical products! (Hint hint, a certain soda company's holiday ad)

I need a volunteer for my "how to draw" class! If youre following me and want more of a tutorial than redlines, I need an "example student" for my class into video that I have to submit to the school (I'm the instructor). If youre looking to level up your skills as a beginner artist, drop a comment🧡

Dear internet: If something is AI and I can tell its AI, Im not going to fucking argue with you as to whether or not its AI. You want to be "anti AI" but youre arguing that some big corporation's image "isnt" despite some red flags. GENERAL RULE- corporate 🇺🇲 is HAPPY to use AI bc 🇺🇲 is all about $

Did you know that you could print these and turn them into ornaments for the tree?? Grab some clear packing tape OR sticky laminate sheets, cut around it, then laminate & cut around again leaving a few mm around the outline plus a small tab sticking out that you can put your hook or string through!

**sewing projects are temporarily unavailable**

Coming soon! I have some free hours outside of days reserved for my IRL art instructor job, so I'm extending the offer to adults online (although parents could sign minors up for it if they wanted to). This goes beyond tutorials and gets you 1-on-1 attention for more in depth learning.

10 bottles of 91% isopropyl later... Whatever resin partially hardened is a lost cause. I'll have to buy replacements for those plushies that I was going to customize. The clear films for my button press were also added to the trash and one power cord. REMINDER DONT KEEP OLD RESIN/SILICONE JUGS!

Clean up on aisle 5... This is why we throw away old resin 🥲 I thankfully can save most of what got covered, but this bin is probably shot and theres a few things I cant save. RIP my little build a bear gopher friend 😭

The art world is not for gatekeeping. Still in shock, still kind of want to cry because I cant believe I get to teach the same techniques I learned from animators that inspired me as a kid 🥹 I just kept drawing. All the bullying thru the years never made me want to give up- I had a point to prove!

You will be visited by 3 spirits

Since the sewing machine broke, I have extra time to throw at drawings. Want something cheap? Something fast? I present to you the YCH lineup!

I cant do this with handmade stuff, only drawings! Handmade items cost ME money to buy the supplies. With art, I have everything on hand already.

How about some regular pupper art for once! All youve seen from me this year were chibis and anthros 🤣 75% discount! They can be characters you already have, new OCs you want made, pets, or they could just be your fav dog breeds 🤷‍♂️ Redraws of old art are cheap alts vs fully custom art 🧡

preemptively block people you see being unnecessarily rude to others as a treat

Most of us understand that drawing isn't a matter of inherent talent, but aquired skill. I also think a lot about how your success in learning to draw might have to do with how well you handle frustration, and how comfortable you are with making mistakes. The barrier i usually see--

Still making use of my paramedic degree and personal trainer certification: Friend had gastric bypass earlier this year and is finally ready to start adding exercise but is no longer in therapy so they said go to the gym. Cool. Most ppl dont know the proper mechanics etc. Lucky for friend, I do!

Probably time to suck it up and just buy the new model 🥲 cuz why not. I dont have the extra funds, but I also need this thing in order to make money so its down to try to get it fixed for cheap or else all sewing ys on hold until I can replace it 💔 I cant miss more car payments so this has to wait

Whoops. Forgot to turn Do Not Disturb off and missed an important call 😭 Hopefully they answer me back.

Pro Tip for anyone stuck at MFF with flight delays: There are two airports in Chicago. I UNDERSTAND that O'Hare is literally right next to the convention center in Rosemont (lived there and worked at ORD for years before they shipped me out west lol) HOWEVER, YOU CAN TAKE THAT TIN CAN TRAIN DOWN TO-

Shopping small is meaningful!

Post your blue art 💙

Without downloading any new pics, what's it like dating you?

A movie you’ve watched more than 6 times . I had to think. I watch a looooot of stuff more than 6x lmao Since its Xmas time, lets go withy fav version of Rudolph!

Fellow artists: Do NOT price bash people for having to discount/charge less to make sales in this economy. Being a price snob doesnt help anyone at that point. If you look down on someone for having cheaper prices and want that artist to get paid more, feel free to buy from them & pay them more!

Taking a break from illustration work to go back to sewing projects bc: 1) Illustrations are not selling & 2) The rest of what I was working on was free stuff I apologize but I need to spend time on things that have a higher chance of selling & I cant use all of my time on freebies 😅

Big company code for "We dont want to waste time on customer service, we just want money."