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artschoolcopout.bsky.social
devon whalen
@artschoolcopout.bsky.social
140 followers 750 following 56 posts
she/her. animator, cartoonist, puppet maker, distractable artist. we're killing the part of us that cringes, lads.
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uniondrip.bsky.social
Reminder that when you post that Studio Ghibli AI slop that former union organizer Hayao Miyazaki thinks it is "an insult to life itself."
Black and white photo of a young Hayao Miyazaki organizing as chief secretary of Toei's labor union in 1964. he has a bullhorn over his shoulder and there are a number of people in the background.
March 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
pssst do you guys wanna see the puppet short that @heyy-mcfly.bsky.social and I put out today :)

youtu.be/3Mf6_J2wdcE
Some Kind of Encounter
YouTube video by Sugar Ghost Studios
youtu.be
March 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social
wednesday
but captainaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
March 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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catsuka.bsky.social
"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡
March 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
honestly i think this should be illegal
February 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
My setups from the last two weeks! Pretty proud of all my little puppet friends.
A table full of many different characters and colors of fleece puppets (about 21 of them) with a fabric banner in colorful letters spelling out “starling puppets” on the front. User artschoolcopout sits behind the table. She is a white woman with brown hair, wearing a yellow sweater. There is blue light coming from the left of the photo, and a warmer orange coming from the right, and a city intersection at night through the large windows behind the table. A table at a craft fair, showing puppets of many characters (including aliens, bats, clowns, and frogs) in various colors. Behind the table is a set of grey curtains and a colorful sewn banner with the words “starling puppets”.
December 10, 2024 at 7:19 AM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
I really don’t know if all my new random followers are gonna be interested in all my puppet nonsense. Hi hope you read my bio because I’m usually drawing and making puppets! 😅
A pink puppet with a big pink puffball nose poses in front of some houseplants. She has purple half-closed eyelids, pale pink fingernails,a sparkly bracelet on each wrist and a sparkly pink and silver striped dress with white teardrop shaped gems on the neckline. She has messy pink, purple and blue hair and has earrings of teardrop gems which match the ones on her dress.
December 5, 2024 at 11:17 PM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
It’s been a while since I was an active member of the My Chemical Romance fandom, but I find it a little disturbing how many people I see posting some extreme statements about someone who seemed pretty clearly mentally unwell with not a lot of support for that.
December 4, 2024 at 10:32 PM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
There’s something so satisfying about seeing these characters come together.
A turquoise fleece puppet with black runny eyeliner, black eyelashes, and purple eyelids. She has black fingernails and a big purple puffball nose. She’s holding her hand in front of her mouth like she’s laughing but trying to hide it. She has messy dark purple yarn hair.
December 4, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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pianta.bsky.social
dilf (drawing i’d like to finish)
September 22, 2023 at 7:47 PM
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jasoncopland.bsky.social
A FULL TILT inktober from a few(?) years ago.
December 2, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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rj-palmer.com
Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.
November 26, 2024 at 5:18 AM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
I always forget to use Letterboxd so out of all the movies I’ve watched since I made one, these are the only ones I have reviews of 😂
A Letterboxd profile by user artschoolcopout, featuring only three movie reviews: one of Gladiator 2, one of Bad Boys Ride or Die, and one of The Sound of Music
November 26, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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artschoolcopout.bsky.social
Last of the y2k toy set :) #art
A digital drawing in the style of pixeled early 2000’s point and click computer games. Two toys, similar to Polly Pocket and GI Joe, look down from the top left onto an elaborate tiny town of houses in the style of original 90’s Bluebird Polly Pocket sets. There are two of the tiny Polly dolls at the bottom with their towel and boombox on a beach. The various houses have a pink brick sidewalk that runs through them, and there are green mountains in the background. A digital drawing done in the style of early 2000’s pixeled point and click computer games. A Bratz-like doll sits behind the counter of a soda shop, with a cash register and glass counter display showing candy. There are bottles of soda in various shapes and sizes and colors on a shelf to the right. She has a speech bubble above her head to the left, with squiggled for speech. On the bottom of the image is a bar with arrow buttons on the left, and empty inventory spaces on the right, as if you were playing the computer game.
September 14, 2023 at 5:46 PM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
you guys wanna see the creepiest puppet making stage
several in-progress fleece puppets with blank white eyes with no pupils, they are hanging on a rack so their mouths are wide open An array of puppet eyes with different colored eyelids but no pupils. They have not been attached to any puppets yet. There are several in progress fleece puppets with their mouths wide open in the background several in-progress fleece puppets, some with no eyes and some with blank white eyes with no pupils, they are all hanging on a rack so their mouths are wide open
November 16, 2024 at 12:13 AM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
thinking about how salty all the professors were senior year of art school bc so many of my peers including “catharsis” and “art therapy” as part of their thesis practice. then thinking about how it was 2 years into a Trump presidency and how incredibly unfair that saltiness was
November 12, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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pixelneighbor.bsky.social
PS2 controller #lowpoly #pixelart
November 10, 2024 at 2:10 PM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
belated halloween animation post
November 12, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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veryimportant.lawyer
joe biden needs to spend every second of his lame duck presidency working to pack the white house with increasingly violent dogs
November 12, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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artschoolcopout.bsky.social
If I tag #art will these go on the art feed? Here’s two more of my y2k toys :)
Party Bear, a Beanie-Baby-style bear with a confetti pattern, and Lettie, a Betty-Spagetty-style doll with dark skin, purple hair and purple and black crop top and skirt, run away from a giant rolling bouncey ball down a bright orange hot wheels track. Party Bear carries his tag like a shield, and has a plastic cocktail sword at his hip. Lettie carries a dress-up princess wand that is the size of her body. Behind them is a blue volcano with more bright orange hot wheel tracks, and a sea of bouncey balls around them. Four characters, based on various toys (Polly Pocket, GI Joe, Betty Spagetty, and a Beanie Baby Bear) in a pixel-y, point and click computer game style. They are returning a Tamagotchi with an egg image on it to a quilted nest with three other Tamagotchis.
September 13, 2023 at 8:14 PM
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pauljholden.com
A comic about making comics (the alt text took longer to write than the comic did to draw * I drew this a few years ago)
A 14 panel comic, a top tier of five panels shows a drawing of me, and in each of the subsequent panels the drawing of me gets simpler and simpler, with a cartoony drawing, a crude cartoon, then a stick man, then a smily face then a simple blob. Each time I'm saying "Hi" Tier two, panel one, the smiley face is sad and saying "PJ! I can't draw!" "How can I make comics" Panel 2, me as a simple cartoon "Oh that's ok, comics work..." panel 3, me as a very crudely drawn figiure my head tilted at a funny angle and Im saying "No matter your skill level" Panel 4 more simplistic drawing of me holding a ruler "As long as you can (sorta) draw a straight line " "(I use a ruler)" Panel 5 even more simple drawing "And a bubble" next (final) tier Panel 1 A simple circle with two dots for eyes and a small line for a mouth and a balloon coming from his mouth saying "People can be quite forgiving about the artwork" Panel 2 the round simple face meets a spikey simple face, spikey says "I'm not - I like GOOD artwork" me - "Oh" Panel 3 me (still a smiley face, but straight line mouth ) I have two stick arms raised up with little stick fingers and I'm saying "...Sorry..." Spike says "Bah" Panel 4 (last panel) Me, slightly better drawn (but only just) "OK - not everyone is quite forgiving about art" "BUT I AM" "Good luck!"
November 8, 2024 at 8:01 PM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
I really have gone puppet mad tbh. Gearing up for my next craft fair by looking at some of the ones from the last fair! #puppets
a rack of six fleece arm rod puppets, in a pseudo muppet style. Two aliens with three eyes and antennae, a turquoise character with bushy white eyebrows, a pale purple one with pink yarn hair, a green one with black wavy yarn hair, and a pink punk rocker with a rainbow mohawk, black tee shirt, studded bracelets and a nose ring a rack of seven fleece arm rod puppets, in a pseudo muppet style. A yellow frog, two green frogs, a blue and yellow cat with leopard spots, two brown bats with wing webbing attached under their arms, and a pink clown with rainbow yarn pigtails and a little ruff around her neck.
November 8, 2024 at 2:43 AM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
I’ve had like, no voice for five days and that’s crazy to me.

I’ve never lost my voice for this long before.
November 8, 2024 at 12:01 AM
artschoolcopout.bsky.social
Decided my strategy with this app is to post whatever nonsense I’ve got and try not to overthink it.

So here is a space goose I drew.
A little acrylic painting of a goose in space with a helmet on
November 8, 2024 at 12:00 AM
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artschoolcopout.bsky.social
Time to repost the y2k toy rpg I think. Would still like to animate some of this eventually, I think.
Pixelated cartoon, early 2000’s point and click game artwork of four figures standing on one side of a brightly colored bar, meant to look like GI Joe, Betty Spagetty, Polly Pocket and a Beanie Baby Bear. They are speaking to the bartender, who is meant to look like a What’s Her Face doll. There are inflatable purple chairs and other furnishings based on Barbie dollhouses from circa 1998-2000 Pixelated cartoon, early 2000’s point and click game artwork of a living room with a big window showing a skyline and purple sunset. Two forgives nap on a zebra striped couch in the center - one a Beanie Baby-style bear and the other similar to Betty Spagetty. To the right is a plastic egg chair in which a Polly Pocket lookalike is also napping. There are two wall-length pink lava lamps on the back wall, framing the window, a fuzzy pink rug and a second egg chair, partially seen at the left corner. All the characters have left out plates and cups on side tables, as well as a cocktail sword, a shield that looks like a “ty” tag, small bags and shoes, and a Hit Clip backpack.
September 12, 2023 at 5:22 PM