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Lily Padula
@lilypadula.bsky.social
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Illustrator/animator/adjunct professor at SVA

My last name means Shrek in Italian 🧌

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vreni.bsky.social
I’ve been working really hard on this! I was sick of my super talented, award winning artist friends being broke every month so I wanted to find a way to put my years of web and retail sales to work helping us all, so we can spend less time grinding and more time creating
a-rude-awakening.bsky.social A Rude Awakening @a-rude-awakening.bsky.social · 4d
A Rude Awakening is a collective storefront for six friends and artists living in New York. As the world becomes increasingly hostile to the arts we have come together to make cool shit that will not only sustain us financially but also nourish us creatively
WAKE UP FROM THE MUNDANE WITH A RUDE AWAKENING: ART AND MERCH CRAFTED IN QUEENS. a rude! Calendar 2026 edition gorgeous print of the empress tarot card painted by Kenny wroten sticker version of the beloved Alex Krokus comic “artist alley”
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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we’re working hard to make something special. check us out and give us a share!!
A Rude Awakening | Start Your Day Strong - Learn More
Stay tuned for more updates.
arudeawakening.store
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Today’s arrest of @bradlander.bsky.social is just one disturbing example of what ICE does every single day across the country. It’s not interested in law and order—this is about spreading fear. New York City will not stand for it.
June 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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emo-sludge.com
This is a fantastic breakdown of the broader implications of the current spectacle in comics culture.
emmahouxbois.bsky.social véronique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · May 23
so i wrote about how alex graham's racist comic was an accidental act of self annihilation, that the styles we draw in are choices that carry weight of their own, and why all roads always lead back to robert crumb when this stuff happens www.patreon.com/posts/graham...
graham crackers | Veronique Emma Houxbois: Cartoonist
Get more from Veronique Emma Houxbois: Cartoonist on Patreon
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May 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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One day late sharing this lettering commission from @theglobalgoals.bsky.social ! Always love an opportunity to draw a forest.

I’m currently available for new assignments, hit me up if you need a book cover, poster, or for any other lettering projects!
Illustrated poster featuring the letters “May the Forest be with You” prominently in the center, a large tree takes up the far background, and in the foreground we can see lots of detailed plants, animals, and a hiker enjoying the scenery. Palette is primarily bright greens and warm browns, with accents of blue and purple
May 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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kesalt.bsky.social
Some very chaotic swans for Deloitte 🦢🦢🦢
a bevy of swans clamors toward a large body of water filled with stars, one swan taking the lead
May 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
lilypadula.bsky.social
One day late sharing this lettering commission from @theglobalgoals.bsky.social ! Always love an opportunity to draw a forest.

I’m currently available for new assignments, hit me up if you need a book cover, poster, or for any other lettering projects!
Illustrated poster featuring the letters “May the Forest be with You” prominently in the center, a large tree takes up the far background, and in the foreground we can see lots of detailed plants, animals, and a hiker enjoying the scenery. Palette is primarily bright greens and warm browns, with accents of blue and purple
May 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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vreni.bsky.social
welp. The thing I’ve been worried about happening for about a year finally happened. Please consider checking out my web store or giving me a boost, it’s going to be basically our only household income for a while 🫠

♡ www.stillvreni.com ♡
All My Friends are Plush! Sticker sheet I don’t wanna! sticker with cute tiger cub Isabelle from animal crossing riso print porco Rosso sticker
April 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
lilypadula.bsky.social
Another exciting project with EarthJustice, I’ll be sharing more about this series next week!
April 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Another piece from my Character Strength cards, a deck I made in collaboration with HKCocoon!

This piece is called Social Awareness: “I am aware of and understand my feelings and thoughts, as well as the feelings of those around me."

Art direction by Hannah Ma and Cherry Ma
Illustration in a style inspired by Henri Matisse paper cut outs. a blue purple background and abstracted shapes of stars, planets, and galaxies, with three abstracted human figures and a sun shown in yellow in the center of the image
April 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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tutusntinyhats.bsky.social
Bluestockings Cooperative is an incredible radical space in NYC, and they do do much important mutual aid work in their community. Help them stay open!

www.gofundme.com/f/qe29bh-sav...
Donate to Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces, organized by Bluestockings Cooperative
Comrades, book lovers, queer fam, we have some rough news. … Bluestockings Cooperative needs your support for Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces
www.gofundme.com
April 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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chriskindred.com
“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal”

Remembering Aaron Bushnell’s words and the close to 100,000 people martyred by american imperialism through israel. In the year since we’ve seen so much brutality, proving the necessity for us to keep putting our skin in the game
An illustration of former serviceman Aaron Bushnell during his self-immolation on this day last year.
February 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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choodraws.bsky.social
happy 10th birthday bloodborne 🩸👽❤️💉🦑
March 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Humility, a new illustration from my character strength series! I usually see tigers used as symbols of strength and ferocity, so I wanted to flip that symbolism around for this piece. Many thanks to Cherry and Hannah from HKCocoon for commissioning me for this project!
Illustration of a friendly looking tiger using its tail to help a bunch of flightless kiwi birds reach their nest in a tall treetop
March 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes. 7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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antoniajuhasz.bsky.social
"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky." - Jasmine Mooney
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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vreni.bsky.social
up now in my shop!

#artshop #riso
March 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
NEW INVESTIGATION from me:

There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams

How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor

www.propublica.org/article/eric...
March 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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creepcaptain.bsky.social
Oh hey my two beautiful girlfriends have arrived with their print treatment. Such a delight reading this book and getting to illustrate these two small town heroines for Tess Sharpe's newest book "NO BODY NO CRIME." Ty to the team at FSG!
Illustrated cover featuring two women running, one with blonde curly hair, the other with reddish auburn hair in a braid, through the fire trail left by a downed plane. Behind them in the silhouette of the flames we see two men in the woods hunting them with guns and flashlights. Same image but now with type, "NO BODY NO CRIME" a novel by Tess Sharpe.
March 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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March 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Painting of cat holding a fish
February 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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vreni.bsky.social
a girl can dream
💭 #comic
four panel comic 1: in a dream bubble. The local bodega guys are hanging out. Theres a jingle from the door. One says “What the-“ 2: still in a dream bubble. An annoying orange car walks in pulling a little cart with a note on his collar. He says “MAOW!” 3: still a dream. The bodega man says “theres a note!” The note says “Dear Mo, my mom and dad are very hungover. Please make two bacon egg and cheese and a pedialyte. Theres $ in my collar” 4: regular panel. Im lying in bed with jesse suffering while tomtom sits on me looking stupid. I yell “pleaseeeeee tomtom! Just once in your life do something useful!”
November 19, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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Gouache painting of the iridescent clouds created by the 98% eclipse over my house, April 8th 2024
January 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM