Pick Up Pencil
@pickuppencil.bsky.social
Learning how to draw different people, places, and objects.
I believe the best art comes from someone learning rather than a ML model or what is mathematically meant to be the perfect image.
Practicing NSFW too
Banner: Louis Wain
reddit: /u/pickuppencil
I believe the best art comes from someone learning rather than a ML model or what is mathematically meant to be the perfect image.
Practicing NSFW too
Banner: Louis Wain
reddit: /u/pickuppencil
Pinned
I have a memory of a gnat, so writing ideas to come back to
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Should I start using rss feeds
December 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Should I start using rss feeds
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stop reposting ha-ha AI images, they're as funny as text autocorrect screenshots from 2011
AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year.
It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study.
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study.
www.theverge.com/news/845831/...
AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025
It’s guzzling up even more water than expected.
www.theverge.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
stop reposting ha-ha AI images, they're as funny as text autocorrect screenshots from 2011
Do you think the US President removed the East Wing because Trevor Moore showed a diagram years ago and he thought, in his infinite wisdom, a comedian was onto something?
December 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Do you think the US President removed the East Wing because Trevor Moore showed a diagram years ago and he thought, in his infinite wisdom, a comedian was onto something?
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The Best Of The Outbursts Of Everett True By A.D. Condo
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The Best Of The Outbursts Of Everett True By A.D. Condo
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The Brooklyn Citizen
November 19,1918
November 19,1918
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The Brooklyn Citizen
November 19,1918
November 19,1918
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why do these things sell out so fast?
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
why do these things sell out so fast?
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Girl, bully that mega-corp
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Girl, bully that mega-corp
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Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓
December 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓
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"Academics should use their knowledge to make the world a better place... If not, what is the point of us? To paraphrase Toni Morrison, in the face of global injustice, climate catastrophe, and the heat of racial injustice, THIS is precisely the time when we must go to work."
One of the arguments I make here is that Black women academics, especially, often have our academic credentials disregarded (implicitly and explicitly) if we mention, even in the slightest way, how our discipline reproduces inequality – structurally or conceptually.
folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...
folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...
Activist or Academic or Both? The Quandary of Scholactivism for the Minoritised in the Ivory Tower
What makes a scholar an activist, & can an activist be a “proper” scholar?
folukeafrica.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Academics should use their knowledge to make the world a better place... If not, what is the point of us? To paraphrase Toni Morrison, in the face of global injustice, climate catastrophe, and the heat of racial injustice, THIS is precisely the time when we must go to work."
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May 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Twas the night before Pride Month,
And all in the night,
Every person was calling,
For LGBT Rights.
And all in the night,
Every person was calling,
For LGBT Rights.
May 31, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Twas the night before Pride Month,
And all in the night,
Every person was calling,
For LGBT Rights.
And all in the night,
Every person was calling,
For LGBT Rights.
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May 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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[ #chronoscrappers ]
Charley!!! :33333
Charley!!! :33333
December 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
[ #chronoscrappers ]
Charley!!! :33333
Charley!!! :33333
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Roland found some 80s shoulder pads and a haircut.
June 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Roland found some 80s shoulder pads and a haircut.
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Fuck censorship, quite your NSFW!
Find Baker and more @tiktikkobold.bsky.social
Snowwoman based on design by @witchetyslug.bsky.social
Find Baker and more @tiktikkobold.bsky.social
Snowwoman based on design by @witchetyslug.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Fuck censorship, quite your NSFW!
Find Baker and more @tiktikkobold.bsky.social
Snowwoman based on design by @witchetyslug.bsky.social
Find Baker and more @tiktikkobold.bsky.social
Snowwoman based on design by @witchetyslug.bsky.social
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Baker's going to bed.
He has the Sleepy Black Forest Cake Cap.
Goodnight.
#dnd #fanart #OCart
Go check out @tiktikkobold.bsky.social for some great DND writing
He has the Sleepy Black Forest Cake Cap.
Goodnight.
#dnd #fanart #OCart
Go check out @tiktikkobold.bsky.social for some great DND writing
August 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Baker's going to bed.
He has the Sleepy Black Forest Cake Cap.
Goodnight.
#dnd #fanart #OCart
Go check out @tiktikkobold.bsky.social for some great DND writing
He has the Sleepy Black Forest Cake Cap.
Goodnight.
#dnd #fanart #OCart
Go check out @tiktikkobold.bsky.social for some great DND writing
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Well, I need to!
Gotta give Sara that single snowflake.
Also smug Luz face felt right.
Gotta give Sara that single snowflake.
Also smug Luz face felt right.
August 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Well, I need to!
Gotta give Sara that single snowflake.
Also smug Luz face felt right.
Gotta give Sara that single snowflake.
Also smug Luz face felt right.
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Hello!
I'm pickuppencil, Pick if you want, and I'm a CS major who's learning how to draw with a pencil and printer paper.
I'm currently drawing people's OCs as it gives me practice and people tend to enjoy them.
Sara: @lianmilanesa.bsky.social
Cody: Dross
Baker: @tiktikkobold.bsky.social
I'm pickuppencil, Pick if you want, and I'm a CS major who's learning how to draw with a pencil and printer paper.
I'm currently drawing people's OCs as it gives me practice and people tend to enjoy them.
Sara: @lianmilanesa.bsky.social
Cody: Dross
Baker: @tiktikkobold.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hello!
I'm pickuppencil, Pick if you want, and I'm a CS major who's learning how to draw with a pencil and printer paper.
I'm currently drawing people's OCs as it gives me practice and people tend to enjoy them.
Sara: @lianmilanesa.bsky.social
Cody: Dross
Baker: @tiktikkobold.bsky.social
I'm pickuppencil, Pick if you want, and I'm a CS major who's learning how to draw with a pencil and printer paper.
I'm currently drawing people's OCs as it gives me practice and people tend to enjoy them.
Sara: @lianmilanesa.bsky.social
Cody: Dross
Baker: @tiktikkobold.bsky.social
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Playboy lighters and their logos falling in love.
She doesn't know how to smoke and just wants to be closer.
She doesn't know how to smoke and just wants to be closer.
September 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Playboy lighters and their logos falling in love.
She doesn't know how to smoke and just wants to be closer.
She doesn't know how to smoke and just wants to be closer.
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What flavor is your OC?
This is Baker, the cake construct.
This is Baker, the cake construct.
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
What flavor is your OC?
This is Baker, the cake construct.
This is Baker, the cake construct.
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strongly feel that a lot of issues impacting artists (and a lot of others too) right now (mergers, genAI, whatever) are merely symptoms of corporate greed. the animation industry's job bleed was kicked off long before covid by mergers and has been allowed to snowball ever since
December 17, 2025 at 4:35 AM
strongly feel that a lot of issues impacting artists (and a lot of others too) right now (mergers, genAI, whatever) are merely symptoms of corporate greed. the animation industry's job bleed was kicked off long before covid by mergers and has been allowed to snowball ever since
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EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
EVERYONE GET MORE PASSIONATE AND SELF INDULGENT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BEING HUMAN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To all the new folks following,
Hello. I'm learning to draw.
Work, but slowing going through OCs given to me for fanart.
Hello. I'm learning to draw.
Work, but slowing going through OCs given to me for fanart.
December 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
To all the new folks following,
Hello. I'm learning to draw.
Work, but slowing going through OCs given to me for fanart.
Hello. I'm learning to draw.
Work, but slowing going through OCs given to me for fanart.