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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele

@frazzle.bsky.social

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2D animator, illustrator, balloon (un-)decorator from Berlin, Germany. —— 2D Animator, Illustrator, Texter und Ballondekorateur. Exil-Bochumer in Berlin. Zeichnet öfter mal echt freche Füchsinnen. Unbezahlte Werbung durch Nennung (ja nee, is klar..)

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jul 25

Hi, I'm Chris. 2D animator/illustrator & balloon decorator, Berlin/GER. Born late 70ies, Generation X. I draw bad fuzzy cartoon girls and break balloons for a living. Welcome to this feed!
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Hi, ich bin Chris, Exil-Bochumer in Berlin. Trickfilmzeichner, Ballondekorateur, GenX-Pottblag. Willkommen!

Collage with two photos showing the artist Frazzle from Germany, and a drawing of an anthropomorphic rat sitting at a digital art workstation, chugging down a can of an energizing lemonade while holding a stylus. #introduction #furry #furryart #furries #art

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · 13d

Oh neat, is this Gloucester? Have a great time there!

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · 25d

And another birthday present for a good friend in Canada, who is going through a rough time. Sometimes, you just need the Trout of Vengeance. It helps. Happy Birthday, Nancy, and hang in there! 💪💪💪
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#zeichnung #art #drawing #rat #ratte #furry #furryart #sketch #skizze #illustration #cartoon #toon

Drawing of a cartoon rat, holding up a dead smelly trout, as a birthday present

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 28d

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing.

These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · 27d

This is why I sit & draw/sell toony stuff at Furry conventions since such a long time. Artists, fans, friends from all over the world, like Brazil, Israel, Malaysia, Australia... Beign a "tour guide" through Berlin at times for folks visiting for a con, too. In times like these, this is healing.

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · 29d

A little present for my nephew, who has a soft spot for tornados.
Text says "Hey Kalle, hard to get those things wrapped up into a package, but... happy birthday!"
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Kleines Geburtstagsgeschenk für meinen Neffen, der ein Herz für Tornados hat.

#art #artwork #furryart #rat #ratte #tornado

Drawing of a cartoon rat, holding an open birthday package with a miniatur tornado whirling around in it.

'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Aug 16

You can have a pizza IN the movie theatre, watching 90s TNMT?

You, sir, have found perfection. It is hard to come by, but you have mastered it!

Have fun! 😄

'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Aug 14

Das mit dem Verdampfen und als Herbstgewitter wiederkommen klingt vielversprechend, das sollte ich vielleicht mal antesten. Danke für den Tipp!

'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Aug 3

Hey Portzebie, just wanted to take the opportunity to say how happy I am to see you being around, creative and strong, rocking those cons. Seems like a lifetime ago that I saw your drawings for the first time, and they haven't stopped making me smile eversince. Hope you have great sales, cheers!

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Aug 1

I remember when AIDS came up as topic in Germany back in the 80s, a sinister threat looming on the horizon. It later became a normal part of (sex) life, always present in the back of the head - always use protection. That I live to see this in my lifetime, the dawn and potential end of this... wow!

'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jul 25

P.S. letters to bases throughout Europe, not throughout Germany. If I remember correctly, one sent to a hub in Belgium must have found its way over to Jacksonville. The reply came in 1996. Feels like on a whole different planet. But a good reminder.

'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jul 25

I was grown-up, in the Army myself, when the answer came - if I still wanted those. They even had an older machine that had that vintage debossed look. I wear them since, as a reminder what you can achieve if you hang in there long enough, even today. They came from Jacksonville. Cheers!

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jul 25

Back in the 80s, as a "TopGun"/jets-fascinated kiddo, I wanted nothing more than a pair of dog tags. Without internet, no shops for that in Germany, I sent letters to USAF bases, throughout Germany, with the help of my dad. Years later, one letter reached a Naval Aviator base in Jacksonville. -->

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jul 20

📌😇

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jul 10

And they say Alpaca herds are so nice! Guess still waters run deep. 😅

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The Big Pool Cat @thebigpoolcat.bsky.social · Jul 4

Since it's that time of year again... enjoy some art from the most American non-American I know, @frazzle.bsky.social!

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is probably the best illustration of what being an illustrator these days feels like. For depicting being a 2D animator though, the little guy would probably have to be on fire, while someone is playing "Last Christmas" for ten hours straight. In Chinese. At twice the regular speed. Backwards.

'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 22

Bei uns die selbe Strategie, mit nur einer Abweichung: Wir haben die Geschmacksrichtung Erdbeere, nicht Himbeere. 😁
Halte durch!

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 16

-- Even if it is hard, or better, especially as it is hard: Hang in there. You are a wonderful and talented person, and you have friends all around the globe who listen, and who are rooting for you. You got this. Let's hang in there together, all of us. Better days will come. They must. 💪💪💪

'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 16

-- just in a different kind of "bad bush", in a situation we haven't picked, but that we have been dropt into, relentlessly. Yes, there may be a monster under the bed. We can't ignore it, so we can as well turn on the light and check. And even if we find there is one, we at least can react. --

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 16

-- with a plane in a remote area. Think from the inside out. Prioritize, as if your life depends on it - because at the end of the day, it does most literally. Work on the 10 inches in front of your nose, then the 10 ft, then the 10 yards. Fight for every positive thought and feeling. We are --

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 16

Same here. Feels like wading through a swamp. Every step feels like a whole journey. And you spend too much energy on just keeping one haunting question out of your head: "Why even keep moving?".

It makes more sense if you apply a survival mindset to this, like you would apply f.ex. when crashed--

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Mr. Edtropolis @edtropolis.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thoroughly Modern Marian... @foxpopvli.bsky.social continues to be such an influencer hehe... 🦊👀

#art #artwork

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thanks for being some of the good ones, both of you. ❤️‍
I am glad about anyone who wants to keep creating, rather than giving this process away to the robots, for quick & cheap reactions.

Sketch of a cartoon rat holding up a giant heart, saying thanks

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 3

"Where deadlines meet existential dreads,
we're working quite late,
Drink up, me hearties, yo ho.

We design perfect logos by daytime,
by night draw foxes who fornicate,
Drink up, me hearties, yo ho.

Yo ho, Yo ho, an artist's life for me!"

🍻

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'Frazzle' - Chris Hefele @frazzle.bsky.social · Jun 3

"We draw and we model,
we ink and we paint,
Drink up, me hearties, yo ho.

We see the world in cubes, spheres and cylinders,
and with both computers and pencil we animate,
Drink up, me hearties, yo ho."

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