Char
@charlesvalsechi.bsky.social
Artist | Game Designer | Professor | 🏳️🌈 He/They | Mail(at) Charlesvalsechi(dot)com | Co-Founder Hyphae Studios & Solarpunk Conference
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Char
@charlesvalsechi.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Hey Everyone,
Here is a glimpse at my works. I am the director of illustration at CU Denver, an artist, professor & game developer.
Here is a glimpse at my works. I am the director of illustration at CU Denver, an artist, professor & game developer.
Eventually its not just going to be other people paying the price for unrestricted access to guns. You wanted this world, you reap the consequences of it 🤷♀️
September 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Eventually its not just going to be other people paying the price for unrestricted access to guns. You wanted this world, you reap the consequences of it 🤷♀️
@alfiekohn.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy Would you happen to know if there is research on rewards and specifically adhd or autistic children?
May 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@alfiekohn.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy Would you happen to know if there is research on rewards and specifically adhd or autistic children?
#zeldamovie should be animated in a princess Mononoke like style. #nintendo
March 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
#zeldamovie should be animated in a princess Mononoke like style. #nintendo
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Intimate Worldbuilding: a Solarpunk Workshop. Watch the full video on YouTube to experience this wonderful addition to the 2024 conference.
Interested in being part of a workshop like this? Submissions are still open for the 2025 conference!🌱⭐
#SolarpunkConference2025 ##solarpunkconference2024
Interested in being part of a workshop like this? Submissions are still open for the 2025 conference!🌱⭐
#SolarpunkConference2025 ##solarpunkconference2024
Intimate Worldbuilding: Poetry Workshop
YouTube video by Solarpunk Conference
youtu.be
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Intimate Worldbuilding: a Solarpunk Workshop. Watch the full video on YouTube to experience this wonderful addition to the 2024 conference.
Interested in being part of a workshop like this? Submissions are still open for the 2025 conference!🌱⭐
#SolarpunkConference2025 ##solarpunkconference2024
Interested in being part of a workshop like this? Submissions are still open for the 2025 conference!🌱⭐
#SolarpunkConference2025 ##solarpunkconference2024
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Like other forms of control, the use of punishment often enrages whoever is on the receiving end. What history teaches us about nations is echoed by what psychology teaches us about individuals: Given a chance, those who are made to feel like victims may eventually become victimizers.
February 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Like other forms of control, the use of punishment often enrages whoever is on the receiving end. What history teaches us about nations is echoed by what psychology teaches us about individuals: Given a chance, those who are made to feel like victims may eventually become victimizers.
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Save the date! The Solar Punk Conference returns on June 21st, 2025!
Keep an eye out for more information on submissions and key details about the conference!
#SolarpunkConference2025 #SustainableLiving #RenewableEnergy #RegenerativePractices #EmbraceChange #CreateTheFuture #HarmonyWithNature
Keep an eye out for more information on submissions and key details about the conference!
#SolarpunkConference2025 #SustainableLiving #RenewableEnergy #RegenerativePractices #EmbraceChange #CreateTheFuture #HarmonyWithNature
January 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Save the date! The Solar Punk Conference returns on June 21st, 2025!
Keep an eye out for more information on submissions and key details about the conference!
#SolarpunkConference2025 #SustainableLiving #RenewableEnergy #RegenerativePractices #EmbraceChange #CreateTheFuture #HarmonyWithNature
Keep an eye out for more information on submissions and key details about the conference!
#SolarpunkConference2025 #SustainableLiving #RenewableEnergy #RegenerativePractices #EmbraceChange #CreateTheFuture #HarmonyWithNature
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Submissions are open for the 2025 Conference!
Interested in sharing your ideas through a workshop, presentation, or panel? Fill out the form (link below and in bio) to be considered. Let's see what we can create and share together!
forms.gle/Y11VzaFwBQD6...
#solarpunk #solarpunkconference
Interested in sharing your ideas through a workshop, presentation, or panel? Fill out the form (link below and in bio) to be considered. Let's see what we can create and share together!
forms.gle/Y11VzaFwBQD6...
#solarpunk #solarpunkconference
January 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Submissions are open for the 2025 Conference!
Interested in sharing your ideas through a workshop, presentation, or panel? Fill out the form (link below and in bio) to be considered. Let's see what we can create and share together!
forms.gle/Y11VzaFwBQD6...
#solarpunk #solarpunkconference
Interested in sharing your ideas through a workshop, presentation, or panel? Fill out the form (link below and in bio) to be considered. Let's see what we can create and share together!
forms.gle/Y11VzaFwBQD6...
#solarpunk #solarpunkconference
Make America anti nazi.
January 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Make America anti nazi.
December 25, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Hey Illustrators & Artists around Denver,
I am looking to add a few names to my list for potential Illustration/Drawing/Painting Adjunct Faculty members. Please shoot me a message with your portfolio & resume. (Likely wouldn't happen until Fall 2025.)
I am looking to add a few names to my list for potential Illustration/Drawing/Painting Adjunct Faculty members. Please shoot me a message with your portfolio & resume. (Likely wouldn't happen until Fall 2025.)
December 14, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Hey Illustrators & Artists around Denver,
I am looking to add a few names to my list for potential Illustration/Drawing/Painting Adjunct Faculty members. Please shoot me a message with your portfolio & resume. (Likely wouldn't happen until Fall 2025.)
I am looking to add a few names to my list for potential Illustration/Drawing/Painting Adjunct Faculty members. Please shoot me a message with your portfolio & resume. (Likely wouldn't happen until Fall 2025.)
Illustration Work.
I am looking to hire someone who can create animation backgrounds or similar illustration styles. We plan to use this image as a poster for our 2025 conference. (solarpunkconference.com) This is a paid gig.
Apply here: forms.gle/d9cbKSdisiCA...
#illustration #animation
I am looking to hire someone who can create animation backgrounds or similar illustration styles. We plan to use this image as a poster for our 2025 conference. (solarpunkconference.com) This is a paid gig.
Apply here: forms.gle/d9cbKSdisiCA...
#illustration #animation
Solarpunk Conference
solarpunkconference.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Illustration Work.
I am looking to hire someone who can create animation backgrounds or similar illustration styles. We plan to use this image as a poster for our 2025 conference. (solarpunkconference.com) This is a paid gig.
Apply here: forms.gle/d9cbKSdisiCA...
#illustration #animation
I am looking to hire someone who can create animation backgrounds or similar illustration styles. We plan to use this image as a poster for our 2025 conference. (solarpunkconference.com) This is a paid gig.
Apply here: forms.gle/d9cbKSdisiCA...
#illustration #animation
Does anyone know why Across the Spiderverse had different directors from Into the Spiderverse?
#spiderverse #marvel #sony #spiderman
#spiderverse #marvel #sony #spiderman
December 6, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Does anyone know why Across the Spiderverse had different directors from Into the Spiderverse?
#spiderverse #marvel #sony #spiderman
#spiderverse #marvel #sony #spiderman
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#ThrowbackThursday to a window full of lamps to light up your day! 💡 Thanks for looking, and you can catch the process video here: youtu.be/on3-FJvXJUc
December 5, 2024 at 10:32 PM
#ThrowbackThursday to a window full of lamps to light up your day! 💡 Thanks for looking, and you can catch the process video here: youtu.be/on3-FJvXJUc
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Storyboard Artist: Well depending on the shot angle and focal length it really could be either, but half full fits the plot better.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Storyboard Artist: Well depending on the shot angle and focal length it really could be either, but half full fits the plot better.
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Concept artist: Here’s five different styles of cups please pick one
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Concept artist: Here’s five different styles of cups please pick one
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Character artist: Get the fuck outta here with your prop modeling Jira task.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Character artist: Get the fuck outta here with your prop modeling Jira task.
November 24, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Storyboard Artist: Well depending on the shot angle and focal length it really could be either, but half full fits the plot better.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Storyboard Artist: Well depending on the shot angle and focal length it really could be either, but half full fits the plot better.
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Yes yes yes. I have run a 24/7, 365 operation since I got elected. I have a permanent campaign HQ that rotates between off-year and on-year organizing.
People thought it was nuts when I first set it up. I said you’re setting yourself up for disaster if you only show up 6 mos before an election.
People thought it was nuts when I first set it up. I said you’re setting yourself up for disaster if you only show up 6 mos before an election.
We also treat “the campaign” as if it’s something that occurs June-November. What the right knows and excels at is that the campaign exists every day, all year around. Dems need to do a better job of touting their legislative wins and bashing the gop for opposing popular bills that help real people.
The ironic thing about post election chatter is that a lot of the time it’s candidates who lost, underperformed, or underworked who have endless time to go on TV and share their blame story.
And for their part, journalists rarely EVER ask if that person actually ran a functionally solid campaign
And for their part, journalists rarely EVER ask if that person actually ran a functionally solid campaign
November 12, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Yes yes yes. I have run a 24/7, 365 operation since I got elected. I have a permanent campaign HQ that rotates between off-year and on-year organizing.
People thought it was nuts when I first set it up. I said you’re setting yourself up for disaster if you only show up 6 mos before an election.
People thought it was nuts when I first set it up. I said you’re setting yourself up for disaster if you only show up 6 mos before an election.
Give yourself the space you need to grieve the election. When you are ready focus on the actions you can take to build a better world.
Food not bombs. Walking or riding your bike to work. Donating your time and expertise to people in need. Organizing with your community.
#election #solarpunk
Food not bombs. Walking or riding your bike to work. Donating your time and expertise to people in need. Organizing with your community.
#election #solarpunk
November 12, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Give yourself the space you need to grieve the election. When you are ready focus on the actions you can take to build a better world.
Food not bombs. Walking or riding your bike to work. Donating your time and expertise to people in need. Organizing with your community.
#election #solarpunk
Food not bombs. Walking or riding your bike to work. Donating your time and expertise to people in need. Organizing with your community.
#election #solarpunk
Hey Butterfly,
Im Charles, I am a professor and director of an illustration program.
I cofounded Hyphae Studios (hyphaestudios.com) doing 2d art and sharing game design work.
I cofounded the Solarpunk
Conference (solarpunkconference.com) working to imagine and realize positive futures.
Im Charles, I am a professor and director of an illustration program.
I cofounded Hyphae Studios (hyphaestudios.com) doing 2d art and sharing game design work.
I cofounded the Solarpunk
Conference (solarpunkconference.com) working to imagine and realize positive futures.
November 12, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Hey Butterfly,
Im Charles, I am a professor and director of an illustration program.
I cofounded Hyphae Studios (hyphaestudios.com) doing 2d art and sharing game design work.
I cofounded the Solarpunk
Conference (solarpunkconference.com) working to imagine and realize positive futures.
Im Charles, I am a professor and director of an illustration program.
I cofounded Hyphae Studios (hyphaestudios.com) doing 2d art and sharing game design work.
I cofounded the Solarpunk
Conference (solarpunkconference.com) working to imagine and realize positive futures.
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Just going to second this.
Prioritize your mental and physical wellbeing, your employer probably won’t.
Prioritize your mental and physical wellbeing, your employer probably won’t.
November 12, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Just going to second this.
Prioritize your mental and physical wellbeing, your employer probably won’t.
Prioritize your mental and physical wellbeing, your employer probably won’t.
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Drawing comics, especially at the rate required to make a living from it, is an enormously damaging way to live. It sucks! It also sucks that the vast majority of ergonomic design is for how a body sits when typing, not drawing.
Just remembered our old physiotherapist telling us the only people in a worse state than us were the damaged rugby players he treated, to give you an idea of how good for your body comics art is
November 11, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Drawing comics, especially at the rate required to make a living from it, is an enormously damaging way to live. It sucks! It also sucks that the vast majority of ergonomic design is for how a body sits when typing, not drawing.
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I say this a lot but at the end of the day, the people who hire artists need to think of them as athletes or voice actors. Even only 6-7 hours a day of drawing is pushing the upper bound for most people IMO and risking shortened career through RSI or back injury.
Drawing comics, especially at the rate required to make a living from it, is an enormously damaging way to live. It sucks! It also sucks that the vast majority of ergonomic design is for how a body sits when typing, not drawing.
Just remembered our old physiotherapist telling us the only people in a worse state than us were the damaged rugby players he treated, to give you an idea of how good for your body comics art is
November 11, 2024 at 3:16 PM
I say this a lot but at the end of the day, the people who hire artists need to think of them as athletes or voice actors. Even only 6-7 hours a day of drawing is pushing the upper bound for most people IMO and risking shortened career through RSI or back injury.