Schlady

Kelli | she/they | schlady.com | artist | cat friend | mountain creature | gen y | follow schlady-dice for my dice obsessions

[schlady]

Schlady ~✶~ art et cetera by Kelli Kohn

✶ Shop online: Schlady.com ✶ Shop in person: Events / Stockists ✶ Follow Schlady: Instagram / Tiktok / Tumblr / Facebook ✶ Become a stockist: Wholesale

Note: I do have a long-running Schlady shop on Etsy with higher prices (to help cover Etsy's fees) that I keep only out of convenience as a last resort.. but please, shop direct at Schlady.com whenever possible! Your purchase from my store & spreading the word about Schlady that way goes much further in supporting me & my art; thank you. 💜

✶ More quick links:

Acrylic Paintings Commissions & Custom Artwork * Art Prints Button Pins Holographic Stickers Magnets * Notecards LGBTQ+ Pride Buttons * LGBTQ+ Pride Stickers Pronoun Buttons *

Anything marked with an asterisk * is customizable! I make each button & magnet item to order, so if there's a background design/color or wording you want to change, leave a note for me on your order. 💜

✶ About Schlady

Hey there! I'm Kelli (they/she), artist & owner of my brand Schlady, which covers the whole spectrum of my colorful art & design work: original acrylic paintings, commissioned pet portraits, art prints, greeting cards, stickers, buttons, magnets, and more. I love vibrant colors, happy accidents, and carrying my "painty" side into my digital work. I care quite a bit about cats, landscapes, memes, and expressions of pride, and I love to make new & custom designs whenever I can.

I’m grateful for each & every reblog, customer, client, collector, and stockist that keeps my art dream going strong. Thank you! 🌈💜- Kelli

[schlady]

a work in progress... 🏞️🖼️

[schlady]

finished!

"Summer Rolling Through" by Kelli Kohn

14"w x 16"t hexagonal

acrylic painting on canvas

2025

[schlady]

This painting in progress is becoming my personal favorite 🌌🥹

[schlady]

First outdoor market of 2026! 💐🎨 The "card wall" is new this season and I'm super happy with it.

[a-book-of-creatures]

I see acrylic medium and my mind blanks out and I make irreponsible financial decisions

[clinical-space-podcast]

Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

[marsoid]

Ok, just wondering but honestly... what is the big deal to you that people are creating and using chat bots with your characters? It seems like almost all of them do give you proper credit.

I could see being upset if people were profiting from it (I'm more thinking the actual people and not the site, different issues, I can totally understand you having a problem with the site.) but you seem to be ok with people doing fanart and fanfics of your characters, so I don't really understand why your taking such a hard line with this and calling your fans who are using these bots "fucking ass dork losers" because they want to interact with your characters in a way that is a bit more responsive than just writing a fanfic.

Because I didn't give them permission to use my characters this way. And anyone who uses gen ai in any way is unfortunately, a fucking dork ass loser

[marsoid]

I am explicitly stating that I do not give permission for any of my characters, stories, or other IP, to be used to train AI art, writing, or otherwise. Generative AI is a pretty new thing, relatively speaking, and it is also different from regular video game AI btw, which has been around pretty much forever. They’re two different things

I am allowed to be angry at anything for any reason. It’s not unfair for me to feel any type of way, especially in response to people using my characters in a way I don’t approve of.

I didn’t say anyone who’s ever interacted with gen AI is awful, I said they’re Fucking Dork Ass Losers ™️ (scientifically accurate title).

It sounds like you’re confusing me being upset with me like. Hunting them down and hitting them with my car. That would be unfair and a tiny bit of an overreaction. Would be very funny tho

I know most people aren’t shot out the pussy knowing everything there is to know about everything (like i was) so assuming you’re actually interested in learning why normal people hate gen AI so much, here’s a few things to bring you up to speed:

Power Hungry: Why Data Centers Are Developing Their Own Energy Sources to Fuel AI

The spread of AI data centers is larger, more numerous, and faster-growing than anything that has come before to the electric utilities. The

Extracting Profits from the Public: How Utility Ratepayers Are Paying for Big Tech’s Power – Environmental and Energy Law Program

What Are the Environmental Impacts of Artificial Intelligence? 

A single AI-focused data center can use as much electricity as a small city and as much water as a large neighborhood. 

How generative AI is affecting people’s minds

Psychology experts have many concerns about the potential impact of AI on the human mind.

Op-Ed: AI art is art theft and should be a crime - The Eagle

As uncertainty around AI grows, artists need legal protections

(Also i just gotta point out the absurdity of trying to explain to somebody why you shouldn’t take someone else’s characters and feed them to an ai machine. Apologies to my followers who came for art and instead get. This LOL)

[jpherron]

FUCKING PREACH IT, MARS

Don't ever feed an artist's art to AI, kids. Don't fucking do it. And I want to add a part that Mars didn't even bring up here: AI is *not* """accurate""" character representation, whether it's generated fics or chatbots. AI algorithms are designed to be people-pleasing, to be addictive, to have you coming back for more, to get you hooked. That's why it's called slop. Slop means there *is NO driving emotional logic* behind an AI's responses, no matter how convincing it seems. There is no *artist* or *author* present who is making *emotionally-relevant* choices for dialogue or story. It will always just be a machine trying to make the sloppy crack that you like that will keep you coming back to it. This is not even you interacting with a Disney World version of Cinderella, where there's an actor behind the mask directing the choices; this is you dealing with a homunculus, a wraith version of the thing that brought you joy in the first place. It will appear so seductively fun and easy and Exactly What You Want It To Be that you'll get fucking hooked and never have to go outside and deal with *real fucking people* who you might have a chance of building real fucking relationships with.

I also want to be clear: I've worked in the tech industry for over a decade. I'm not using techy or academic language on purpose because I want you to understand what's going on, but you can easily google this shit. "AI psychosis" is a good place to start.

Get off AI, kids. Get off of it, I beg of you. For all of the environmental and cognitive health reasons, but also so that you can engage with the world-and fandom-in a way that will actually enrich your life. Don't destroy the very joy that the art brought you in the first place.

And if it wasn't fucking clear.... don't be a Fucking Dork Ass Loser about my art either. I want to clearly say that I do not give anyone permission to put my art or writing in any AI under any circumstances.

[itsc]

ai can’t deliver a painting to you with cat hair stuck in the paint strokes. but i can. and i will, every time. you don’t even have to ask.

[schlady]

Bookmarks!! Some are horizontal format which is a bit nontraditional but I'm loving them~

[schlady]

a work in progress... 🏞️🖼️

[schlady]

"Look Beyond The Orbit" ~ 22" x 28" acrylic painting on canvas, by Kelli Kohn @schlady

[traveling-gherkin]

Gherkin's sticker binder as of July 12 2025

Quite a few are from @shiftythrifting 's Sticker Junk Packs, as well as family and friends. Holographic hexagons by @schlady

[littlestpersimmon]

It's a bit silly that when you do art for a living, people think you don't do emotional labor, but man, I've drawn for a guy who was planning to gift his gf an anniversary gift and she passed away in the middle of me drawing it for them, I've drawn for a woman who wanted me to draw her daughters oc and she randomly dropped "It's my last gift for her because I've been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor". I've drawn rabbits, cats and dogs as memorial pieces for people and their beloved pete, I've drawn dnd group shots for sessions that lasted years that ended because the dm died. I don't know. It feels so, immense to be a part of people's lives like this. I have cried so many times because people were cruel to me over commissions, but I have cried harder because people were kind to me. I wonder if the art helped. Even a little. I hope it did.

[schlady]

Detail from "Waiting For The Meteors" - coming soon as sparkly 11x14 art prints!

I already have 8x10 prints available that show the painting in its full hexagonal shape here. Oh, and little postcards too! I guess I really like this one.

[tamarrud]

Israel cuts Gaza's final internet line, plunging it into total communication blackout.

Israel bombed the last main fibre route in Gaza, which means that as of June 12, all internet and fixed-line communication services are now completely cut off, further isolating Gaza amidst an ongoing genocide.

I am seeing more and more calls from inside of Gaza for help with eSims as that is currently the only way they can connect internally and with the outside world.

- Buy eSIMs here.

- If you can't afford it, you can donate any amount to this eSIM fund.

- Instructions on how to buy and share eSIMs.

[gothhabiba]

The route I would recommend for helping with esims at this point in time is Gaza Online. From their website:

Cash Donations (Preferred) The fastest and most impactful way to help is by donating cash. 100% of your donation goes directly towards purchasing renewable and limited eSIMs at wholesale prices. These are delivered directly to recipients through our secure digital systems—no middlemen, no delays. Why Do Cash Donations Make the Greatest Impact? Through bulk purchasing and direct supplier partnerships, we unlock lower rates and special features that enhance sustainability—like reclaiming unused data and extending subscriptions. Every dollar stretches further, maximizing efficiency and ensuring no resource goes to waste.

You can donate to Gaza Online here.

[androdragynous]

"what's the worst thing you can do as an artist" is not "shade with black" or "not use references" or whatever the worst thing you can do as an artist is hate yourself. and that includes the person you used to be

[androdragynous]

"look at how bad my old art is" "this was so cringe" "it's embarrassing to look at this" what are you gaining here? belatedly being your own bully? is it more acceptable to hate a kid if it's the kid you used to be? shut the fuck up. be kind to yourself or don't say anything at all. people are really not laughing with you when you mock yourself and if they are maybe consider hanging out with nicer people. imo.

[androdragynous]

this also goes for having your personal blog tags be like "nobody cares (name)" or "shut up (name)" or whatever. why are you being mean to yourself. its not preventing other people from being mean to you just because you get the first shot in it just means you get shot twice. how is that better. how is any of that better

[schlady]

Hey fellow cat friends, I want to make some cute peets 'n' beans stickers soon to complement my other cat designs! But I can't decide which drawing to go with (and eventually make lots of color variations)...

Which design should I make into stickers?

Thumb!

No thumb

Voting ended onApr 2, 2025

[schlady]

Yeah, the "no thumb" drawing became my favorite too. Thanks for voting, and hopefully the upcoming collection of my paw stickers will delight~~ I am aiming to have these ready in mid-April! 😽