Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Yes, I’m that person who tells whoever will listen what my cat did that day, with full-body acting of his part and insistence that he really did say all the lines I attributed to him. Nevermind that he mostly just stares at me, the talking goes on in here 🧠 010
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I think I will draw some Boss soon-ish. I love to talk about my son and there are things he does that need images to accompany them, as I can’t act them out for my internet friends the same way I do for my family irl. 110
Reposted by JulieRJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 24/12/2025For no reason in particular you should share some of my artist starter packs to help out refugees escaping hell go.bsky.app/79aS32C 5533189
Reposted by JulieRJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 24/12/2025Hey new folks, here's a collection of top tier artists you can follow. Concept Artists: go.bsky.app/TyNJQ99 Creature Designers: go.bsky.app/SBCxqoa Pro Illustrators 1: go.bsky.app/79aS32C Pro Illustrators 2: go.bsky.app/D3T5kF Good Paleoartists: go.bsky.app/RYwJUEK 441704587
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 25/12/2025I originally copied my Twitter’s following list and hastily followed a bunch of folk who were recommended to me by the app at the time, but looking at my feed now I realize I actually don’t recognize many or even like their art. 🫣 Best wishes to them but that’s a whoops on my part lol. 010
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Going to have to rebuild my following list here, as I haven’t touched it in over a year. Was originally following 300-ish ppl but I’m sure it’s going to drop to less than 50, I’m still pruning it. 120
Reposted by JulieJoaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 24/12/2025🦋 Welcome to Buesky! 🦋 It's long past time to leave the Nazi bar, and you'll have a much better time here. I updated this guide due to the influx of users fleeing Grok's new AI bullshit. Share widely for all the newcomers! 7270724199
Reposted by Julieverti @verti.blue · 24/12/2025If you switch to bsky it will be vitally important to not use the Discover feed and instead pin this one 12770563105
Reposted by JulieAimee Steinberger @aimeekitty.bsky.social · 24/12/2025I think people should make an effort to sincerely tell people who improve their life what they mean to them. Have a boss that really supported you? Tell them that repeatedly. Have a best friend who you love? Tell them in detail how you appreciate them. Love an artist? Tell them why. Life is hard. 🏴☠️ 010038
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Because the truth is I just want to like drawing again. I miss it. 000
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Trying to decouple the two has been a trying process. It's necessary to a point, as it's not healthy. But I think there is a truth in there somewhere that I am meant to be a creative and I always will be. I just need to figure out how to be one in a healthy way, and survive in this world. 110
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 24/12/2025But when faced with needing to "put up or shut up" and make money and a career happen, I suddenly hated art and myself because I wasn't good enough to make money. My art wasn't good enough to make money. I couldn't survive as an artist, I wasn't wanted as an artist. My identity *was* art. 110
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 24/12/2025I feel like I made progress (?) when I realized last week that I felt happiest drawing and drew the most when I was in K-12 and "being an artist" wasn't my main mission, graduating school was. Same for my first try at college when I thought I'd be a creative artist after it. 110
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 24/12/2025I was looking online for help regarding the fear of and perfectionism with drawing I developed, and found "Art & Fear" recommended in an old Reddit thread. It arrived recently and I hope to start reading it soon. Capitalism + commodity culture has done a number on me. 110
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Some feral cats I met this past weekend in South Texas. (thread) #cats #photography 191
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 10/07/2025I’ve never attempted to paint, sew, etc. for anyone except myself, and it feels great. 120
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 10/07/2025But as an adult attempting to become a professional, I realized simply liking to draw without internal motivation wasn’t enough. I started to hate it. Now I connect with art in other mediums and it feels much better. 100
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Even before social media, I drew daily for a friend. I drew comics and illustrations every day at school to give to my friend with the hope she’d like them or even respond with her own drawings. So graduating to social media attention felt natural. 100
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 10/07/2025In retrospect most of my art production was for others and at the expectation of others. When I tried to find an identity in college for a portfolio, I struggled immensely. I didn’t know who I was outside of what other people wanted from me. 100
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 10/07/2025I’ve spent most of my life being “the girl who draws,” then went to college to get an animation/illustration degree. I never got a professional art job and instead I got really burnt out from drawing. As I shifted careers and focus on job hunting again, I’m re-examining my relationship with art. 100
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 10/07/2025There’s a lot I would like to re-do, as I’ve never drawn a plane before & it was a learning experience in a time crunch (I learned really late what was a thing he’s hype about, he’s pretty reserved about his interests). But I’m flattered he liked it so much that he framed it. 🥹 000
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Still on a drawing hiatus, though I’ve been making other kinds of art. It’s been nice. Recently drew this P-51 Mustang for my step-dad for Father’s Day. He loves that model plane and I appreciate how much he’s stepped up as a parent in my life when he didn’t have to. 140
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 08/04/2025My mom’s birthday is today so I colored/painted this shot of a video she took during her recent vacation to Hawaii. She really enjoyed this view in particular. 0135
Reposted by Juliebun! 🌱 @bunneypawbs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025A comic about how I’ve been out of work for two years in the animation industry: 9445681212
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I made a simple button-clasp cloak for my Riolu. 😊 #sewing #dollclothes 030
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Help, the wink is so precious My cat did it too here here 010
Reposted by JulieJulie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Len Append Power? In my 2024? It's more likely than you think! #vocaloid #art #kagaminelen 2214
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Len Append Power? In my 2024? It's more likely than you think! #vocaloid #art #kagaminelen 2214
Julie @prairiesfire.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Please be patient with me. I'm deciding whether or not I want to repost old art here or just start fresh. Probably the latter. I also want to make a new icon and banner soon. Anyway, nice to be here! 030