Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Leni Kauffman

@lenikauffman.bsky.social

2.6K followers 500 following 200 posts

🇯🇵🇬🇧🇺🇸Illustrator • Based in Lisbon • She/Her • I draw a lot of book covers 📚 No NFTs or AI https://www.lenikauffman.com/

www.lenikauffman.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · Nov 7

Well hello new followers! 👋🏼 Nice to meet you all! I’m Leni, I’m an illustrator and I mostly draw a lot of book covers. Here’s some of my work!

17 10 89

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · 18h

Thank YOU Olivia! I always love working with you on covers but this one might be my favourite 😆💛

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

15 170 840

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Jaws Stone - indefinite hiatus @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 7d

Apologies for this post, but I've more or less hit rock bottom. I am emotionally exhausted and burnt out. I've not drawn for weeks and by now it does not feel like an easy fix. If you have any desire to support me, it'd mean more than ever as I physically can't work atm.
www.patreon.com/only_jaws

Get more from Jaws on Patreon

Patreon is empowering a new generation of creators. Support and engage with artists and creators as they live out their passions!

www.patreon.com

16 340 400

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh thank you very much! It was so fun to draw! ☺️

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · 1d

This was so much fun to work on with @oliviawrites.bsky.social 💛 Preorder now! Go go go! 🏃‍♀️

Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 1d

🎇 PREORDER BONUS ALERT! 🎇

If you order SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE from @lovessweetarrow.bsky.social by 11/15, you'll receive a dust jacket inspired by old-school romances, with gorgeous new artwork by @lenikauffman.bsky.social and lots more '80s-inspired fun!

shop.lovessweetarrow.com/product/seco...

The graphic has a peachy-pink background and shows the dust jacket for Olivia Dade's SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE. The dust jacket features a naked, hot, fat man on one knee embracing a pretty fat woman, whose hair flows out behind hair and whose suit jacket is falling off her shoulder.

1 14

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
20m
From Create Mode
••
Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

81 7K 16K

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · 2d

Hi Davis! Thank you, glad you like them! 😊

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters.
He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

33 2.1K 6K

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

There were two paths for America and Lilith Fair was one of them. Sadly it chose the other | Emma Brockes

The all-female music festival from the 90s was a counterpoint to that era’s misogyny. Trump’s US could do with some of that hope and promise today, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

www.theguardian.com

3 19 87

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · 7d

Picking up more books at the flea market because autumn will always be back-to-school season 🍂📚

Woman looking through books at a flea market stall

8 46

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23d

UwU

“Oh did I see you posting A.I?

Instant unfollow

Are you trying to argue with me about it?

Instant block”

There is a small cartoon portrait of myself, a round-faced Asian guy with round glasses and short hair, saying, “I’m just not that patient.”

8 1.9K 6.3K

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24d

This regime is determined to make all our friends and allies turn away from us.

500 3.2K 10K

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you! 🙏😊

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · Sep 8

A little Chappell Roan study for your Monday! ✨❤️‍🔥

Illustration of Chappell Roan, she is backlit by a white light

1 27 130

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.

Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

410 2.3K 4.8K

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Windy City Print Shop @windycityprintshop.bsky.social · Sep 6

Word to Chicago protesters: going “floppy” is a tactic that annoys police, wastes their resources, and makes them look bad.

Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · Sep 5

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.

Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.

House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”

Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
Read more
House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

27 1K 2.2K

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Sep 6

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial

: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

www.theregister.com

70 2.7K 6.4K

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Tracy Nishimura Bishop ✨Illustrator @tracybishopart.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy September #kidlitartpostcard day!
I'm Tracy and I illustrate children’s books! It’s back to school time for our kiddos. I hope they all have a fantastic school year 💕

I am repp'd by MB Artists.
Find my work at www.tracybishop.com

Illustration of a girl in front of her elementary school

1 10 59

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · Aug 17

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

Three panel comic:

1st panel: Two crudely drawn stick men:
Stick man 1: to make art that is popular you have to be really good at drawing

2nd panel:
stick man 2: but if that’s true

3rd panel: both characters are looking at a spot beneath the comic (where the likes are)
Stick man 2: why does this comic have thousands of likes?

88 3.7K 16K

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · Aug 16

A4 prints, edition of 100 signed and numbered
All proceeds go toward me trying to hire Morpheus to help us sort all this out

www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks

A floral arrangement illustration with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed, cursed hand with too many fingers

5 280 990

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · Aug 17

I draw branch!!!

#art #illustration

A digital drawing of a very vibrantly coloured oak branch, featuring little acorns and yellow leaves.

12 180 1K

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

🩸 morteraphan 🗝️ @morteraphan.bsky.social · Aug 14

I had to make a list of 32 (!) of my pictures that were traced and at some point I felt like I was going fucking crazy. A person who literally for several years traced my pictures and gave them out for comms, adopts, gifts, trades... how empty must your soul be to do this 💀

12 21 360

Leni Kauffman @lenikauffman.bsky.social · Aug 14

Whoopsie, she got a little sunburnt at the beach! Can you help her rub lotion into her back? 😉🍑🌞🧴

A nude vintage style illustrated pin-up girl with a sunburn, with her back to us, holding a bottle of lotion

3 22

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

Labubu Tha Fool @ohheydj.bsky.social · Aug 5

These AI generated sketchers ads I’m seeing in the BART stations are GARBAGE.

49 43 530

Reposted by Leni Kauffman

✨ Hamish Steele ✨ Buy Go-Man! @hamishsteele.bsky.social · Jul 22

Absolutely INCREDIBLE character design resource my god!

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 18

Really like this project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. Titled Exactitudes, it's a series of portraits stretching back 20 years that shows how people style themselves to signal they're part of a group and unique individuals within that group.

exactitudes.com

3 180 510