KikiDoodle & Purrmaids
Professional artist and cornish rex cat owner/breeder. Created Purrmaids (purrmaids.com) and art & illustration(KikiDoodle.com)
Am I a cat lady who draws, or an art lady who cats?
I go by Kiki! She/her
KikiDoodleArt@gmail.com for inquiries
- I am so incredibly exhausted today. I have to get a TON done before I fly out to help my mom for a couple weeks, and the emotional exhaustion is catching up. I pretty much have to finish all of my eccc prep by Friday.
- We are also watching Panko for a few days while his people finish moving into their new place. He was getting incredibly stressed out, and I told them to just let him hang out here in the guest room for a few days, timing be damned. (Cats don't understand "good timing.")
- Id really have liked to fly out tomorrow, but realistically if I don't do several important tasks I wouldn't be able to stay as long as I think I'll be needed.
- So, I recently texted my mentor (who lives by my parent's) about figuring out a future date to bring sekhmet down to repeat the Uhtred pairing. This is... not the event I wanted, but I'm going to fly down with Sekhmet and maybe we'll have some kittens in a few months I can tell my mom to visit. 🥺
- Getting my dad to take his health seriously had been an uphill battle for us. It turns out he had self-recorded his blood pressure that morning and he decided not to tell my mom that it was dangerously sky high, probably because he knew she'd rush him to the hospital and he didn't want to go. :<
- My dad just died. .... I had 10 days to go until the anniversary of my worst year date to date, so at least February being the worst month is consistent.
- We had a complex relationship. It had become rocky in the last few years, and with hard work we had found a neutral path with prospects of a positive relationship in the future. I'm glad we got that. He was excited about my future Nugget, and wanted to see kittens. 💔 I'll miss you dad.
- When you see an artist working with a NON ARTISTIC club or organization that is using AI work, please reconsider commenting solutions you *think* should happen unless you plan to actually take the time to email the actual organization your idea. Otherwise it just puts us on eggshells.
- I say this with kindness, but part of why I'm having to offer to FREELY LICENSE HUNDREDS OF PIECES OF MY WORK is because I'm frankly exhausted at everyone loudly asking ~>me<~ why an organization, run by offline folks on tight budgets with no idea artistic folk hate AI, isnt doing X Y Z differently.
- If it helps to put it into perspective, oftentimes organizations are made up of hundreds of small splinter local clubs that make all of their own internal decisions. And each of those groups has internal politics. I'd rather draw than figure all of that out. It's another full-time JOB otherwise😅
- The more we talk about and encourage people in our online communities to get involved with local politics, the more stuff like this will come up. I'm just working with cat shows, but I'm sure the local ____ union may be making AI posters, and it's PROBLEMATIC, but also a low priority fight.
- Oh, and for everyone who has ever brought it up, I was able to speak with some people in my cat club about freely licensing my cat art push my local cat clubs away from using AI artwork. Please don't complain to me, personally, when you see it being used. I'm trying to lose money to stop it.👍
- This might seem like a weird post, but every single time I've said I'm at a cat show and share the often AI generated info posters I have zero creative involvement in, I get talked down to as if I have never been incredibly vocal against AI usage. It's a difficult fight amongst non-artists.
- Pulling aside the folk who run these shows as their weird hobby and yelling at them about AI use sure won't fix it. They don't really have the budgets to pay actual creatives 90% of the time, so, instead, I'm going to freely give some of my work away for indefinite use. Hope it doesn't backfire 🤷♀️
- I don't think the lack of budget is a good excuse to use AI, but I point it out to say "don't do this" isn't helpful without offering an alternative. I've been thinking about what a good alternative is, and it's just making sure they have access to art. I have a lot of art. 🤷♀️
- V has been redoing his office so I can fit a drafting table down there. He paints Warhammer figurines, so downstairs is FULL of painting supplies, and it dawned on me that we can combine my supplies with his. Anyway, I just realized I can DOORDASH a drafting table, which amuses me greatly.
- I would like Bebop to stop walking me up by 6:40am because she gets really excited when I use the bathroom. This is a new development, and it's the highlight of her stupid cat brain to wake me up just enough that I need to pee, granting her the chance to sit on my lap. Why are cats goblins?
- Bebop is my stupidest cat, and stupid animals are prone to becoming obsessed with rituals, and this one isn't my favorite.
