One week until my carbon dust course starts. There are still some spots available. This technique combines drawing and ‘painting’ using a dry brush to apply layers of ground dust to achieve realistic 3D illustrations. #SciArt, #NaturalScienceIllustration #CarbonDust
Zillah
@zillahsmith.bsky.social
I do art, mostly science-y and nature-y stuff. I used to do tattoos. Lexington, KY. I hate AI. I love science and critters and motorcycles and you. I co-host an insect podcast called There Will Be Bugs. (They/them) www.zillahsmith.com
Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people
Hi come to costumed figure drawing in beautiful Lexington Kentucky! 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, 6-8pm. (I used @trueref.bsky.social for reference :)
Important: today my cat did a 10/10 perfect loaf and followed it up with a little shrimp pose. 🍤
I did the wildlife one :) you could channel your righteous anger about, you know, everything, into purchasing some nice art with important messaging. If you want. I’m not your boss.
Hi I know we're all talking about something else at this particular momennnttt, but can I interest any of you in educational posters? I've got 'em in a pack & seasonal lightning bugs too! It helps support SaS and makes it easy for you to spread important messages in your community! SquidFacts.net
As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us. Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects! Get some to hang in your neighborhood! Squidfacts.net
Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
Hey so uh, dozens of countries refusing to ship anything to the US, that’s pretty bad right? Like not in a consumerism way but in a no-contact-with-the-outside-world way? At the same time he’s occupying cities? And Internet ID laws? That’s all pretty bad, right? Right?
I finally had a chance to hatewatch the Ice Cube vehicle War of the Worlds and it is hypnotically bad. Amazon product placement? Bad. Out of date references? Bad. Written when they assumed NASA would still exist and women would work there? Bad. Just terrible all around. A must watch.
We're definitely entering an era where the Internet is so hollowed out, so untrustworthy and compromised, that real world interactions, things identifiably done by human beings, will take on greater value and purpose.
We've got 35 sets of these posters left. This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms. Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc! squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...
when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe
I’m terrified of the city and I need a robot to write my emails for me. I’m the strongest toughest little conservative soldier there ever was
I literally can’t look at a seal without thinking of that arrested development bit where buster looses his hand.
i think straight men can get laid if they have like a lot of pictures of bugs maybe? like in their wallet
I don’t care if it’s the South Park guys making fun of Trump, generative AI still sucks and I won’t applaud it. The funnier bits are the collage-animation anyway. #NoAI
Every now and then I’ll open this app to find a bunch of new notifications when I haven’t posted in a while and it always makes me nervous. But it’s usually people being real nice to me. ❤️
I got to make some cover art for your new favorite podcast!
We're ready to reveal the new cover art for Best Quality Vacuum, our show that starting on August 2 will be covering Better Call Saul episode by episode. The art is by the wonderful @zillahsmith.bsky.social and we really love it.
Some speakers would go “boop boopbedoop boopdedoop doo doooo” before your cell phone rang.
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign? Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight. Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
I’m teaching an intro to Procreate class! It’s aimed sci artists, but all kinds of artists at all skill levels are welcome. We’ll work together to discover how digital art can fit into the art practice you already have - or start a new practice. Please join me! #sciart
Online Class – Introduction to Procreate for iPad – Lyme Art Association
lymeartassociation.org
The right hates bodily autonomy because it wants your body to be a curse. To a fascist the body is just a big bag of things that they can use to sort you into one of the two categories: “person who matters” and “prey”. If you take power over the accident of your birth, they’re fucked.