Puffbird Studio

@puffbirdstudio.bsky.social

Maker, musician, reader of books, and most importantly, artist. Commissions open: http://puffbirdstudio.com/commissions/ Ko-fi: http://ko-fi.com/puffbirdstudio

My YouTube feed just pushed a video where a curator at the British Museum talks about a cuneiform tablet in the collection and the curator’s name is Irving Finkel and he looks exactly like his name sounds and he’s so excited about cuneiform tablets that I could listen to him for hours…

A cartoon drawing of a dapper balding man in round wire-rim glasses and a three-piece suit and a giant fluffy white beard, holding a rectangular tablet in one hand and gesturing excitedly with his other hand.

The Auction is TOMORROW! Check out the auction’s Bluesky feed for links and bid to tell me to draw something Final Fantasy! Creatures and beasties, Warriors of Light and Scourge Abominations… and all funds go to support Doctors Without Borders!

FF Charity Art Auction & Raffle 2025@charityartauction.bsky.social · last yr.

✨2025 AUCTION✨ Introducing... Puffbird! tumblr: puffbirdstudio Bids start on the night at $25 for a digital sketch or cartoon! Don't forget to tune in on the event to bid, all proceeds go to MSF Please see Discord for Participant's T&Cs

I called in sick to work today because I’m still hacking up a lung even though I’m feeling a little better—but because I’m feeling a little better, my brain is telling me “hey! since we’re home, we should Get Stuff Done around the house!” Please help me tell it to Shut Up

Day one of art show prep: Inventory. What do I have? What’s finished, what’s not? Of the finished stuff, what’s appropriate to the show’s theme? Of the unfinished stuff, what will work and what won’t? What materials do I have and what can be repurposed?

A butcher-block table with a bunch of painting canvases and boards laid out on it—all in various sizes and various stages of completion, from still wrapped in shrink wrap to finished.

The thing about being an artist is that you have to recognize when your art isn’t earning enough for you to live, and then do something about it—but that doesn’t make you any less an artist. There’s no shame in a day job. You can always revisit that decision when your art earns its keep.

I managed to land a job a week after I decided I needed one. In this economy. Not sure how to advise people on how to duplicate my success; pretty much every job I’ve gotten, I heard about from friends/neighbors and therefore had someone to vouch for me before I interviewed.

As someone whose family was on Medicaid during my husband’s bout of unemployment, I can tell you that the asset requirements were already brutal and encouraged perpetual poverty, and the documentation requirements were designed to get people to give up so they could be dropped from the program.