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KettLs🌿
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Putting the 'me' in mediocre✨
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kettls.bsky.social
Can you split the difference and make it slightly longer at the front and back (to avoid Whole Ass) vs the sides that can be a bit shorter in comparison?

It does look better imo (and more like Henry's) at a shorter length; but I totally get the practicalities you wanna retain...
October 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
kettls.bsky.social
Awh man I forgot these too
September 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
kettls.bsky.social
If you see this, show off them mouths

(Thanks to KCD, I haven't painted any women this year yet. Need to rectify that!)
Digitally painted mouth and chin of Tom McKay, lightly smiling on a blue background Cropped in digital painting of Hans from Kingdom Come Deliverance, looking over his bare shoulder and lightly pouting as is his way Digitally painted side on view of Andy Farrant's Oxventure character Corazón Digitally painted mouth of Mike Channel's Oxventure Wyrdwood character, Lug. He has blue skin and a thick brown beard.
September 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Painted this in just over 4hrs; 1hr of which was getting my dumb brain around the dice. I’ve kept score for #KCD Tom McKay during an IRL game of #Farkle (!!) - so I’ve looked his Farkle Demon right in the eyes as it stared out through those glorious baby blues. He’s smiling, but he’ll destroy you.
A digital oil portrait of actor Tom McKay on a painted blue background on brown paper, surrounded by 12 grey dice, used in the medieval dice game Farkle that appears in the video game Kingdom Come Deliverance.
September 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Hey, artist! Quote with your fanart!✨
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It's the most ambitious portrait I've ever done - two full bodies WITH A LI'L BONUS STILL LIFE, for funsies. Learned a lot doing it - and long may that continue. The KCD fandom is WILDLY talented (inc Madeleine!) and I just wanna soak it ALL up!!
A painting done in the style of Classical painting - a two-figure portrait with swooping lush curtains and a basket of food beside them on a small table, filled with a pretzel, cascading red grapes, apple, carrot and cabbage. An ornate jug of presumably wine sits alongside. Hans Capon stands as if to walk past Henry, who is sitting on the edge of a bed and has his arm tenderly caught around Hans' to stop him leaving. They are both nearly nude, Hans in braies; Henry with Hans' iconic red chaperon draped over his pelvis, fabric gripped loosely by Hans as if he were to drop it and let it fall off. A little wooden carving of a duck sits on the floor peeking out from the bedding that is pooling on the rough floor. They both stare tenderly into one another's eyes.
September 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
kettls.bsky.social
Oh my god I’ve done MORE ART before the month’s even out. Unheard of. #Hansry have a LOT to answer for.

Drawn in #Procreate with the DigitalArtJunky oil pastel and charcoal brushes.

#kcd | #kingdomcomedeliverance | #HansCapon | #HenryofSkalitz | #kcd2
Two men, Hans and Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, embrace, topless, with tears in their eyes. Hans is at the front, wearing a laurel headdress and a wedding ring, embraced tenderly from behind by Henry, who lightly touches Hans’ cheek and lip as if to turn him round. Hans softly grips Henry’s forearm. Henry looks directly down the lens while Hans averts his eyes. There is a signature in the bottom right - JK’25 and KettLs.
August 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
kettls.bsky.social
www.tumblr.com/kettls/79158...

It's Day 1 of #Hansry Week over on Tumblr - Prompt was Touches/Looks - luckily my verrrrry late Pride Month piece fit that quite nicely 😅🫶🏳️‍🌈

"Something... More Private" - Done in Procreate using MaxPacks Oils.

🚫Absolutely no GenAI🚫

#HansryWeek25
A painting done in the style of Classical painting - a two-figure portrait with swooping lush curtains and a basket of food, filled with a pretzel, cascading red grapes, apple, carrot and cabbage. An ornate jug of presumably wine sits alongside. Hans Capon stands as if to walk past Henry, who is sitting and has his arm tenderly caught around Hans' to stop him leaving. They are both nearly nude, Hans in braies; Henry with Hans' iconic red chaperon draped over his pelvis, fabric gripped loosely by Hans as if he were to drop it and let it fall off. A little wooden carving of a duck sits on the floor peeking out from the bedding that is pooling on the rough floor. They both stare into one another's eyes.
August 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
kettls.bsky.social
You can't make it up... An honest to goodness literal paper magazine to teach potential Sloppers how to Slop. Also probably 'written' entirely in Slop.

Was a bit sick in my mouth seeing this.

#FuckAI #ChatGPT #AISlop #FuckGenAI
A magazine on a shelf called "The Ultimate Guide to ChatGPT" - it promises "132 pages of expert advice" to (verbatim) start a business, build your family tree, generate amazing AI images, get apps written for you, become an Excel spreadsheet genius, your own 24/7 personal assistant and create your own chat bots. There is a deceptively friendly looking robot friend on the cover amidst all these empty soulless promises, noticeably scraped from Disney's Wall-E and spat back out with all the artistry of clip-art.
August 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Trivial Pursuit Baby-Boomer Edition

Included for £3: a three-bedroom semi-detached home and £100k in additional assets.

Not included: link to a PDF copy of the rules
Battered old box of Trivial Pursuit Baby Boomer Edition on a charity shop shelf. It has a price tag of £3.
August 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
kettls.bsky.social
39 hours of over-thinking & over-rendering in #Procreate... and now I need to put the Apple Pencil down.

Need to chuck the finished classical-style romantic portrait of #Hansry through Glaze + Nightshade before I share the whole thing; but I was particularly proud of this bit, ngl. #cabbageforhans
A cropped oil painting style still life of a jug and a basket full of fruit and vegetables sat on a wooden table. A cabbage and red grapes peek out from the basket. The jug is sort of half-glazed terracotta/amphora style.
July 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Bought a couple of pies from Cairn Lodge yesterday.

Will this pic survive the UK Online Safety Act without my having to input my ruddy blood type and retina scans into BlueSky?
July 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
kettls.bsky.social
#WIP. Been attempting more painterly digital oil figurative art. Pleased with stomach; don't know how cloth works. Shat it & put braes on exposed cheeks 🍑. Need to fix knuckles etc.

Panicking about surround & background cos it's a proper two-person, full body portrait. Eek. #hansry #kcd #Procreate
Cropped section of a digital oil-style illustration of a man (Henry of Skalitz) sitting topless, draped across the lap with the loose red, gold-embroidered liripipe of Hans Capon, standing above him, holding it loosely as if to let it fall. It is tightly cropped (a photo of a screen, so not great quality) of half a torso, a knee and some hands. Hans is standing out of shot, wearing loose fitting braes.
July 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
kettls.bsky.social
I love Bluesky.

Preemptive strike!! HAVE AT YOU!
Screengrab of JD Vance's new BlueSky profile. It is showing as 'User blocked by "Basket of Deplorables"'
June 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Me at my computer right now

DAMN YOU BRILCRIST IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL BUT I AM IN SO MUCH PAAAAAIIIIINNNNNN
June 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
kettls.bsky.social
❤️❤️❤️
June 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Not a bad hand tbf. #Balatro

These are gorgeous @localthunk.com. I would NOT SAY NO to blind bags of more Jokers if you were in the market to make more, cos these are loooovely quality.
Official Balatro Playing Cards laid out with four jokers on top and a hand of Ace of Spades, King of Hearts, Queen of Clubs, Jack of Clubs, 10 of Diamonds, 5 of Clubs and 2 of Hearts below. They are laid out on a green velvetty background.
May 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
kettls.bsky.social
As expected, tastes like one would imagine chemical toilets and disappointment. (And makes my chest vibrate involuntarily because of close proximity to it)
May 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
kettls.bsky.social
The #Duolingo CEO cementing the enshittification/slopping process with his "AI-first" bullshit lined up pretty sweetly with my hitting a 1k day streak. Time to pop that final nail in the Owl.

All those days - literal years - and I've learned so very little.

#fuckAI #Duo #boycottduolingo
May 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Seems like a good day to knock #Duolingo on the head forever. They can just get bots to use it instead of real human beings.

#fuckAI #DuolingoAI
May 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
kettls.bsky.social
No cheating ❗❕post the last photo of your pet

#Caturday

The boys really encourage their dad's arty photo projects. Meanwhile I turn around after a meeting WFH to this:
A black kitten, centre frame, is sat like a wee human guy on a bed, both legs out in front and in the air. The kitten is staring at the camera, toe beans splayed. A window shines bright light behind him past some yellow curtains. He is majestic.
March 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
kettls.bsky.social
So gorgeous!! She's so like my wee Brodie (right, pictured here with his li'l brother, Bear, left).

Brodie has the wee white flash on his chest too, and the chiseled, sleek face. Black cats are the bloody best.
Two young black cats cuddling on their owner's lap, heads pressed together at the cheek and looking at the camera like they're posing deliberately.
February 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Everyone say "THANK YOU, JAX" for making this mod available via the official #BG3 mod manager.

Modders doing the laaaawd's work, as ever.

Soft Gale forever 😍
February 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
kettls.bsky.social
That's the anti-donation petition at 100k!!! Mon yersel Glasgow and the Central Belt, ya wee dancers.
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
kettls.bsky.social
Keeping X around but just being inactive since 2021 isn't enough now. That's 15ish years of little bits of me gone forever. If the nazi salute won't convince you to cut ties and remove yourself from Elon Musk's grim veil of success, that's terrifying. #GoodbyeTwitter #GoodbyeX #FuckMusk #FuckNazis
January 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
kettls.bsky.social
I don't doubt it for a second!! What a year.

I shall be doing as my kittens do: lounging and eating; preferably at the same time.
December 31, 2024 at 9:55 PM