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cowlick
@cowlickmeadow.bsky.social
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cartoonist, story artist, urban sketcher. my art diary (they/them)
#art #sketchbook #comic
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cowlick @cowlickmeadow.bsky.social · Nov 18
we're soooo back SketchCrawl! Bay Area folks, we're doing an urban sketching event once a month. Join the discord for updates! discord.gg/qAr3emQG #sketchbook #sketchcrawl #gouache #lifedrawing
title "SketchCrawl Lake Merritt" next to pen drawings of a guy standing with a bike and another guy holding a sign with "Sketchcrawl" on it. b&w sketches in lake Merritt, including the pergola and pedestrians sketches of foliage and trees, and a guy with a belt that reads "nonviolent violent champion" sketches in ink and gouache of a bandstand, a dog, and a some artists drawing
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The Stork in Oakland.
February 7, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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cartoonist.coop
The Hiveworks Artist Guild has released a public statement alleging years of labor abuses, financial mismanagement, and misconduct at Hiveworks at the hands of Xellette “Xel” Velamist and Isabelle “Isa” Melançon. Read their full statement at:

cartoonist.coop/hiveworks-gu...
Hiveworks Guild logo. Two bees sitting on a bee hive holding hands.
January 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...
Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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madeleinevasaly.com
Minneapolis.
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
January 8, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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admooosa.bsky.social
hello, I'm open for more commissions!! form link here;

forms.gle/W8RbKVJSvnw7...

the form has been updated, and is now a little bit shorter... If you'd like something else, feel free to ask in the form!!
October 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
cowlickmeadow.bsky.social
Faces. Places.
Ink and wax pastel drawings of various asian people ink and wax pastel drawings of restaurant patrons ink and wax pastel drawings of patrons.
October 21, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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smoke break
wax pastel drawing of two chinese men smoking on a cold night, faces illuminated in the front by a store.
October 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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artfight 2025
digital illustration. golden hour sun spills into a carpenter's workspace. a woman with two leg prosthetics sits as a craftsman, squatting to her left tinkers with them.
September 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Rockridge, Oakland #art #sketchbook #lifedrawing #oakland
top left: "TGUY DOG PERSON: harness, tattoos, working breed dog, bandana". Right: a woman wearing a colorful jacket, green skirt, purple pants, and green heels. Bottom. the words "ROCKRIDGE" above "Chocolate Dragon Cafe" interior drawing, where a customer orders a drink from the barista. Behind them is the trans flag. Two women in colorful loose garments stare above at the menu of Chocolate Dragon Cafe. Below: people staring at their phones
September 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Dolores Park Sketchcrawl #art #sketchbook #lifedrawing #sanfrancisco
ink and wax pastel drawings of people walking and wrangling dogs at dolores park. one man says "pepper! pepper! come here!" to a comically small dog. sketchbook. kids at the playground. one cries in his father's arms, another asks where his father is to his mother, who looks especially french. the playground at dolores park. mission high school viewed from dolores park hill. below, people chill in the tennis courts
September 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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conheads at thanksgiving #art #sketchbook #lifedrawing
ink and watercolor sketch. Nighttime, people watch and gather as they are lit by the fireplace in the middle. people give emphatic speeches. a guy in an assassins creed outfit holds up the speaker above his head. pencil, ink, and watercolor sketches of the partiers. karaoke, dancing, chatting, lounging two people sitting next to each other. girl: "let's hang out sometime". boy "yeah!"
September 21, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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restaurants 1 #art #sketchbook #lifedrawing
Pen, Ink, and Watercolor sketches of restaurant-goers sitting together and eating food. Watercolor sketch of storefront windows at night Pen Ink and wash sketch of workers at a taquiera bagging up orders. pen and pastel sketch of a worker pressing dough in a noodle machine.
September 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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snippets #art #lifedrawing #sketchbook
Ink and wax pastel sketch: Tall grass and trash can Pencil and wax pastel sketch: Two men from behind sitting at in and out Ink and wax pastel sketch: Woman dragging tubby dog left to right while two security guards in the back admire his size. Ink and wax pastel sketch: DJ at a play party
September 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Excited for Folsom 2025! One in anticipation, here's some sketches from last year :D
Sketchbook watercolor, pen & ink of attendees at folsom street fair 2024. Bottom right corner red sticker "I support sexual liberation folsom street" I donated sticker. Sketchbook watercolor, pen & ink of someone reclining in a bdsm pup mask while stroking their penis. Sketchbook watercolor, pen & ink. Two drawings of two men having intercourse while standing up. In the first drawing, the man penetrating snaps a selfie of himself while receiving oral. The second drawing is of him plowing the other man.
September 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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anjalikdayal.bsky.social
I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile
January 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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sara.pizza
for folks who didn’t know, ive spent hours and hours compiling 10+ years of my manga lettering knowledge and putting it up for free on my github 👇
jmitsu.bsky.social Jan Mitsuko Cash @jmitsu.bsky.social · Jul 24
Free lettering tutorials with practice: github.com/saraoswald/l...
Udemy lettering course: www.udemy.com/course/manga...
July 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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zachrabiroff.com
Silver Sprocket, under owner Avi Ehrlich, made a name for itself as an artist-friendly comics publisher. Now it finds itself $300,000 in debt, embroiled in disputes, and teetering toward an uncertain future. What went wrong?

A new report at @comicsjournal.bsky.social.

www.tcj.com/high-debts-h...
High debts, high rents and miscommunication: What happened to Silver Sprocket - The Comics Journal
Silver Sprocket, the San Francisco-based publisher and retailer, currently finds itself hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt that is personally held by owner Avi Ehrlich, the Comics Journal has le...
www.tcj.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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saint-vagrant.bsky.social
i'm not a "silly little artist/writer" "just trying to make my silly little art" and i don't think you are either. my art isn't frivolous bullshit. it has a place in the world and the world affects it. i'm not just glancing sheepishly at a distant burning house— i live inside it. don't you?
June 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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it rubs me the wrong way when i see some artists repackaging historically free/low cost art events as thousand dollar experiences. community building shouldn't come with a prohibitively expensive price tag!
June 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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twiggies-draws.bsky.social
More on this btw. Potential way to kick it from your servers.

The ID is
1153984868804468756

Remember, never believe an AI bot's claims that they won't train your stuff without permission. They will.

#Discord
Discord recently partnered with a Generative AI called DomoAI and apparently they’re in every server but sneakily don't show up in the member list. However they still use the art/images sent in the server to train their AI. To bypass this, people have found the AI’s ID so we can ban them. The AI has already been banned in this server, but for anyone here who has a server or is in another art/creative space, please use this advice and ban the following ID using the /ban command. 1153984868804468756 It may also be smart to start watermarking your pieces.
May 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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s/o to my grandma on mother's day bc my storyboards about her abusing my family got me my industry job that's sustaining my livelihood. Yas queen serve that domestic violence! + bonus from my comic.
concept art about a personal story about 3 generations of trauma. anthropomorphic cat which is my grandma smashing and throwing things at my anthropomorphic cat mom.
May 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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joandark.com
Y'all have been so kind donating and boosting the GoFundMe so far! From 69% (nice) the other day, I would love to reach that goal this weekend after just paying rent! www.gofundme.com/f/support-jo...

(thanks so much @delightfulhorror.bsky.social for this amazing promo art 💚💚)
Art of Joan punching a green money creature in a NYC-like space similar to an old fighting game. Text reading "GFM Joan" on the top left, and a bar with Joan's face next to it with text reading "69% to goal!" $4000 is listed on the top right at the end of the health bar.
May 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Every spring, the Night Herons nest in downtown Oakland #sketchbook #art #oakland #birds
ink, profile adult and juvenile night herons ink drawings of fledgeling night herons ink drawings of adult and juvenile night herons
April 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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this is how i picture safiya nygaard on an average day
April 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM