Beth Kirby

Visual artist, drawing cheerleader, life drawing tutor, powerful babe. She/Her.

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

@scribblercards a few years ago I came up with a valentines card design which is so incredibly genius that I make it and sell it every year. It’s time for it to reach a wider audience - how do I pitch it to you?

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

I wonder if anyone at @Meta has considered that simply copying your competition instead of focussing on your USP is like…the stupidest way to try and beat the competition? It’s so mad that nowadays even the pioneers end up clamouring at anything to get ahead 🫠

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

Pencil over airbrush WIPs 👀

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

@KwasiKwarteng if you want the poorer people in the country to be crushed under the weight of supporting the rich, so the rich need not experience an iota of discomfort, why don’t you just say so, instead of insulting us with this gossamer-thin pretence of “saving the economy”.

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

We need a Health Secretary who wants to improve access to abortion, not impose further restrictions.

Join me and sign this open letter to @theresecoffey

https://t.co/rQA4phCi1l

#abortionishealthcare

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

Always forget Twitter exists tbh but anyway, here’s me painting a really pissy wall with some giant heels 👠

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

@mosseri There’s already an app for entertainment, overbearing algorithms & trends. To view tiktok as your competition & then emulate it exactly is lazy - isn’t Meta supposed to be at the forefront of new thinking? You’ve set yourself up for failure by ignoring your USP and your users.

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

@mosseri You’ve weighted your entire algorithm towards throwaway entertainment in the hope it keeps ppl on the app longer, but it’s unsustainable. We want truly engaging, memorable content that means something to us regardless of format. We want variety & options to self-curate.

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

I forgot how much I love to spent time losing myself in a drawing and maybe this is a door back in to that.

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

I don’t know why but I’ve been drawn to photo-realism recently, after spending a life time refuting it as not art

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

To be realistic enough to pay homage to the reference whilst incorporating your art artistic flair is a balancing act. The work is tedious and slow and careful and I hate all these things, and yet I am enjoying the outcome so much

[Mrpenfold @penfoldstudio]

Little video of a wall I painted the other day. Big up @LowQui on the camera work❤️

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

Life drawing tonight is all about Egon Schiele! COME! https://t.co/T2iNMA2xPD

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

Actually, the making things is easy. It’s your stupid little dumb stupid brain making everything else absolutely terrible

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

Why is making things so fucking hard?

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

Lil mural flex from the weekend, trying to shake this horrible creative block/LITERAL CRISIS I’ve been having over the past month

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

Studio vibes always.

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

@Hyroglifics Raaah this is fancy af. Living in Bristol is like drinking out of someone else’s cider can and the someone else was drinking it 3 days ago.

[Beth Kirby @beth_cub]

@JosieGyasi Thank u Queen for a reminder to be grateful and give thanks for the positives whilst I am also SICK AS FUH