Jess Soleigh

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post!
#pixelart

i deleted fb and related stuff about 8 or 9 years ago, i have no idea why folks still hold out for it, it boggled my mind

(rhetorical question because ive heard the reasons)

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

“My idea of heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast,

and spend the rest of the day drawing."

Peter Falk #BOTD

Remember, they hate trans joy, they hate gay joy, they hate Black joy, they hate Native joy, etc. they hate when we can laugh and love and live our lives in our own skin. They hate that we can find our way without their rigid rules. To find joy and thrive is a great act of resistance too.

this movie is unironically a masterpiece and i'm so happy every time someone get's to see it for the first time!

seriously it's like caramelizing onions. recipe times are always bullshit, it takes SO long

A tall and perky chocolate bundt cake freshly turned out of the pan onto a plain white plate to cool on top of my stove.

cake done. damn near perfect bouncy, spongy texture. switching to actual cake flour really does make it.

i may not have drawn more than 3 things in the last 5 months but boy howdy, i be bakin'

baking a bigass chocolate cake :)

i had *zero* drive to do any art my one trip, but watching cartoons? heavenly. just constantly thinking in general astonishment "wow man, wow. can you believe this shit? who wouldve thought. amazing." but like, i had completely forgot i was also an animator lmao.

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

i love it when someone learns about thus one!

we gotta get movies to do more weird shit like this again, we have lost our way 😔

any argument against gen ai needs to still go right at their throats because they will just continue to improve how good it looks without giving a damn at any other attrocities. we cant let them distance it from the rotten stench it's fundamentally built upon.

the text/chat ones are a bit different because that bad output can be HORRIFICALLY damaging, of course

but i'm just tired of anyone still doing "haha look how funny the ai made this person look isnt that bad", it's so soft

i dont want ai devs thinking "oh well we just need to make it look and act better then, then it'll be accepted"

no! i want it destroyed forever! i want everyone who supported it and destroyed lives and our planet marked by it forever!

i've felt like this for a while already but still: i'm honestly tired of so many arguments against gen ai imagery using "haha it looks bad"

gen ai is still bad because of it's worst parts: pollution, energy overuse, costs, property theft, and robbing people of livelihoods.

Halloween starts tomorrow and all of you shut the hell up

I'm looking for animation work! Here's some of my work, if interested contact me at:
imogen_scoppie@hotmail.co.uk 📨
#animation #showreel #portfolio

do i have to draw sexy watto too

omg @voicesbyzane.bsky.social did you see this one

ah wait ah shit we cant have it happen yet, i still gotta run and go get some champagne to pop for the occation or or doesnt count!

A distressingly buff and glistening Watto, flexing as he flies through the air. On the bottom left corner, an absolutely distraught Anakin. Beside him, a pit droid takes a curious peek up at the monstrosity 'pon the air.

*sobs uncontrollably*

on the smartphone thing: i have had to draw this in so, so many commercial storyboarding jobs for live action...so...many...phonehands...

on horses: i want to like it! but my GOD they are so SPECIFIC and i feel like i never get it right!

love:

hands (sorry!)
big shoulder muscles
trees and grass
anyone doing a lil goblin pose
lil architectural details

hate:

also cars!
anything round *and* in perspective
someone holding a smartphone
handguns (harder than rifles for me)
horses (sorry!)

rewatched Memories last night, the problem with the arts nowadays is that nobody is throwing loads of money at animation directors to get them to make a gorgeously animated short film about "what if a guy got so stinky that everyone died"

my shoulder and back pain got bad enough to also resist my stretching and workouts. then i started slapping on icyhot patches and tiger balm. instant relief from a LOT of those micro knots in my muscles that just werent going away. also epsom salt bath soaks more regularly.

JUDGEMENT DAY is about a masked astronaut sent to a planet of sentient robots to determine if they can join a Galactic Federation. The astronaut rejects their bid after observing they've built a hierarchy solely around which color they're painted. We only see the astronauts face in the final panel.

it is so, so hard anymore but every time i think to myself "yeah well, imagine they win completely and erase all the good in the world you contributed to: all the art, the craft knowledge, niche history and stories, the hope..." and i get fired up all over again to support it and share with others

if you don't know what you fight for--the good things--your soul will inevitably rot.

so yes, post about the joy.