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Grim Max
@deadtiredartwork.bsky.social
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23 year old animation graduate, illustrator and storyboard artist. Enthusiast of the strange and unusual

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Mac & Reggie: Cranium Castle (4/9)

Will be posting the rest tomorrow. Thank you for reading 👻🩸

#art #artwork #illustration #digitalart #comic #comicstrip #webcomic #oc #originalcharacter #spooky
A comic page, and a continuation of my last 3 posts. The first panel continues to only show text, with text showing person 1 saying “wait- shush! He’s waking up”. The subsequent panels show that Herb has been passed out during this conversation, explaining the lack of visual illustrations. It shows his point of view, as he opens his eyes he sees a blurry face. As his vision focuses, he sees the vampire from before, only looking a lot less intimidating. He looks rather lazy and gormless, but what seems to be blood is still running down his chin. The next panel cuts away from Herb’s point of view, showing the vampire leaning over his with a lazy grin, as Herb looks rightfully terrified. The vampire speaks, “hey”. Suddenly Herb starts screaming again, and the vampire (wearing a hoodie, sweatpants and slippers) flops onto his side from shock. Herb sits up, still screaming, to see his torso and ankles have been tied up and he can’t move. He looks over, still screaming, to see the doll from before staring at him while sat in a chair. This page shows the room Herb finds himself in. It’s a tall basement, with a single lightbulb illuminating it. Baby doll heads hang from the ceiling with wide disturbing eyes, one of them has a long smiling grin with switches bounding its mouth shut. A garland hanging on the ceiling is made up of teeth. Two shelves show multiple disturbing sculptures of odd, monstrous characters. A scratched up old workbench has baby doll hands lying on top of it, with a disused nuclear waste bucket holding a large hammer and saw. Multiple spiders are crawling across the room. Herb continues to scream, of course. As Herb continues to scream, the doll speaks, with its eyes lidded. “Excellent. He’s making that noise again”. The vampire sits up, next to the doll with the same lazy smile. “Just give him a minute Reggie” he says as the two turn to look at each other “I do this when I wake up to”. “Yes,” the doll replies “I’m well aware”. Herb is still screaming.
November 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Mac & Reggie: Cranium Castle (Part 3/9)

#art #artwork #illustration #digitalart #comic #comicstrip #webcomic #oc #originalcharacter #spooky
A comic page, as a continuation of my last 2 posts. Herb is shown running from the doll frantically, shouting “Heard! Understood!” as the spirit’s ghostly, wispy auras surround and follow him. The auras open the door to support his escape, and the outside exterior of the garden is shown. There’s a gate in the distance, with dark shadows surrounding the crescent moon in the sky. “C’mon c’mon c’mon” Herb speaks to himself frantically. “Gotta get out!” He repeats to himself over and over, as he runs and gets incredibly close to escaping. Before he can, a dark figure swings upside down from the door frame. He is staring at Herb wide eyed, with pointed ears, dark hair, a bite mark on his neck and what looks like blood dribbling down his chin. Lighting cracks dramatically from behind him. The vampire licks the blood from his lips with a “shlurp” sound effect, before the final panel shows another shot of the mansion. Lighting continues to crack, as Herb is heard screaming. The following 2 pages have no illustrations, only text on a black background spoken by two off screen characters. I will refer to them as 1 and 2. 1: you put our address in the papers!? 2: well yeah, you wanted buisness right? Look’it that, it worked 1: I said I wanted business, not intruders! 2: chillax, Reggie. He seems pretty harmless to me… he’s wearing a polo shirt. 1: again with that infernal tendency of yours… if you must insist on opening your mouth, I beg of you, use words found in a dictionary. 2: ohh yeah, that kinda slang was before our time, huh? Must be all those 90s film nights. 1: Ugh, don’t remind me… if you make me watch Clueless one more time, you’ll find out what it’s like to die a second time 2: gosh, he’s really pink isn’t he? Even for a guy who’s like, totally passed out. 1: for the last time, Macwell. Step away from the oaf. You don’t know where he’s been. 2: aww, just two more minutes? I almost forgot what humans look like up close.
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Mac & Reggie: Cranium Castle 2/9

#art #artwork #illustration #digitalart #comic #comicstrip #webcomic #oc #originalcharacter #spooky
A comic page, as a continuation of my last post. The room is suddenly illuminated by lamps hanging from the ceiling, lit by a ghostly blue light with a “fwooosh!” sound. Herb stands looking up at them in bewilderment. Herb slowly staggers back, only to turn and spot something that terrifies him. At the bottom of a staircase, he sees a Victorian doll sat with its back turned to him. It is shrouded in darkness, wearing a dress with its hair in a braid and a bow on its head. The next panel zooms in to show the back of the dolls head more closely, before its head slowly turns on its body to face herb, with an elongated “crack” sound. “Get out” it whispers Herb steps back in horror as he watches the doll start to glow and levitate. “Ohohooo noooo, not agaiiin” he whimpers, before the doll screams “GET. OUT”. Two glowing beams of magic blue flames burst out from behind it.
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Mac & Reggie: Cranium Castle (Part 1/9)

I made a comic. A low effort and very inconsistent comic, truly terrible actually. I detest it. But wait wait wait don’t go please read it

#art #artwork #illustration #digitalart #comic #comicstrip #webcomic #oc #originalcharacter #spooky
A comic page. The first panel shows an establishing shot of a dark, spooky city at night time. In the foreground, a sign reads “Welcome to Grizzlegrove. Population..’. The number in question is obscured by graffiti that reads “all stone cold dead”. The second panel depicts a creepy mansion, with an off screen character saying “s-seriously?”. The subsequent panels show that the character speaking is Herb, a young nerdy man in a visor with messy hair covering his eyes. “This is the place? Oh- whatever, it suits the brand right?” He says nervously. The second comic page. Herb is knocking on the door of the mansion. “Hello? Any one in? Hello?!” His knocks turn into bangs as he becomes more frantic. “Hey, I saw your ad!” He shouts as he lifts his hands to his face. “That’s why I’m here!” He yells again. Suddenly, the door creaks open by itself. Herb walks in apprehensively. “Hello? Look.. I’m sorry to bother you but.. I need help!” He calls out, as an old painting of a young man hangs behind him. In the next panel, the paintings eye’s are following Herb’s movements. “You’re the ‘paranormal experts’, right? I’m from the next town over, but I was your address in the papers… are you there?”. Herb continues to hear no one reply. “I think the convenience store I work at is haunted, ok?! Stick flying off the shelves, lights flickering, voices over the intercom… actually that might’ve just been my manager, but-“ As Herb continues speaking, he doesn’t realise the door is creaking to a close behind him. “Trust me,” he continues “there’s other stuff! Like this horrible wailing before closing and-!”. Before he can finish, the grand entrance hall is shrouded in darkness as the door suddenly slams shut. “.. doors slamming shut”, Herb says weakly as he finishes his sentence.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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#art #artwork #digitalart #illustration #drawing #sketch #darkart #surrealart #horrorart #inkart #penandink #blackandwhite #monochrome #creepy #macabre #weird #surrealism #artcommunity
July 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Art Fight 2025: Week 1 - Valerie (alts + credit in replies!)

#artfight #artfight2025 #teamfossil #art #illustration #digitalart #characterart #comicart #succubus
July 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Art Fight 2025: Week 1 - Ove (alts + credit in replies!)

#artfight #artfight2025 #teamfossil #art #illustration #digitalart #characterart #comicart #dnd
July 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Fanart for MeatCanyon’s wonderfully horrific Melvin’s Macabre
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#art #artwork #digitalart #illustration #procreate #darkart #horrorart #comicart #fanart #meatcanyon
May 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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artiodaktyl.bsky.social
He is risen 🌟 happy belated easter again (and thanks for the appreciation on the wip last sunday!)

#art #illustration
Digital painting of the resurrected Christ as a brown trans man with rays of light bursting from his top surgery scars. He holds a trans flag instead of the conventional red and white cross banner.
April 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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I’ve replayed Undertale for the first time in 10 years and it’s made me want to ugly cry. I don’t forgive Toby Fox.
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#art #artwork #illustration #sketch #digitalart #fanart #undertale #sans #frisk
April 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Coming to the bottom of a clearance bin near you
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#starterpack #art #illustration #digitalart
April 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Art of Hotel Transylvania → bit.ly/2sI2wmJ

#animation #conceptart #modelsheet #characterdesign #visdev
April 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM