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Matt Knieling
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Art maker, game lover, and vice versa.

He/Him

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New bits for the Cookeville ART Prowl this weekend: my “Merry Mari Lwyd” illustration as a print or on cards as well as an L Frank Baum sticker sheet. I’ve also restocked my card/print designs from last year and my Edgar Allen Poe sticker sheets.

#marilwyd #krampus #yulecat #lfrankbaum #poe
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Drew up some Treat Bags for a few of my favorite tricksters.

#halloween #trickortreat #paperbagart #monsters #crayonart #markerart
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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A real swing and miss with this new Affinity announcement. Canva takes the biggest selling point for many artists using Affinity “We don’t have AI nonsense” and says “But what if we added A BUNCH of AI nonsense!”

Sure makes me glad I bought the old licensed version before they sold it off.
October 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Playing around with some texture brushes and decided to sketch my favorite Bug Boyz, Zuckuss and 4-LOM.

(No-one shake my head canon of them as grouchy gruff dad and exuberant wiseass son.)

#zuckuss #4lom #starwars #bountyhunters #empirestrikesback #fanart #blackandwhite #procreate #macpaint
October 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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I’m pretty excited for the #nashvillecomicartsfestival this weekend! I’m tabling with my buddy @cached.bsky.social and right next to @nekoemo.bsky.social in what I’m sure will be known as the “Little Cookeville” region of NCAF. Swing by to see us and check out all of the wonderful comics!
October 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Progress pics for a new art game experience I’m working on with @cached.bsky.social
Be sure to come by our table at Nashville Comic Arts Festival this Saturday if you think you’ve got what it takes to Escape!

#3dprinting #artgame #spaceman #ghost #procreateart #nashville
October 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Had a blast with my new Dr Venture costume last night at Dragon Con. Speed suits are the fashion of the future, such freedom, such versatility! Way better for dancing, too.

#dragoncon #drventure #hankventure #teamventure
August 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Dragon Con time for the Jones Boys!Not looking forward to wearing a three piece wool suit in Atlanta heat, but I am stoked to see some cool costumes and share some comics and stickers.

#dragoncon #indianajones #lastcrusade
August 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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I’ve got a new brick print! “LetGo” is a 6”x8” print with a limited run of just 25 copies, debuting this Friday at Art Round Tennessee’s First Friday at CPAC from 5-8 pm. Come by and say hi if you’re near Cookeville!

#artroundtennessee #cookevilletn #localart #blockprinting #brickprint #lego
July 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A creekside porch in the NC mountains is a pretty great place to read and sketch some Tolkien, if you happen to get the chance.
June 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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I’ve been building up my sketch cards for FCBD and found myself with a touch of Mutant Fever.

#fcbd #sketchcards #markerart #xmen
April 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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My first chunk of Hourly Comic Day drawings. It’s a good feeling to be caught up! I love seeing how folks all around the world have intersecting and diverging moments.

#hourlycomicday #hourlycomicsday #hcd2025 #hourlycomicday2025 #hourlies #journalcomics #ink
February 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Tomorrow is Hourly Comic Day! Hands down, my favorite annual art challenge. Here are my pages from last year. I don’t know how many Feb. 1sts I’ve chronicled, but it’s well over a dozen, and these little books are some of my most treasured possessions.

#hourlycomicday #hcd2024 #journalcomics #ink
January 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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The best part of sending out mail is getting to doodle all over the envelopes.

#envelopeart #fantasyart #wizardwednesday #markerart
December 4, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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Sending some prints to a friend, they mentioned their kid is into wizards and glowing orbs, so I brought my best Van Art game for a bonus piece.

(process pics below)

#fantasyart #ttrpg #osr #wizard #orb #markerart
December 3, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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I’ve been playing a lot of Stone Shard lately and really needed to draw my knight errant, Arna der Vyrne.

She has seen…some stuff.

#stoneshard #fanart #fantasyart #osr #knight #blackandwhite #procreate #ttrpg
November 22, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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Maybe I’ve had a more picturesque drawing spot in the past, but I’ll be dammed if I can remember when. Kings Beach, you are a wonderful and gorgeous town, you’d better believe I’ll be back.

#laketahoe #ink #coloredpencil #drawingoutside #woodtoad
September 17, 2024 at 12:45 AM
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A cozy hobbity hole, ink and colored pencil on tone paper.
September 14, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Some more redrawn Warlord proxies.

I’ll be at Dragon Con this weekend and have a few spares to give away, reach out if you’d like to snag one.

Thanks to the original artists for their inspirational work: Carl Frank, Llyn Hunter, and William O’Connor.

#warlordccg #warlordsagaofthestorm #procreate
August 29, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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This is particularly weird to me, having lived through the Golden Age of Webcomics. It wasn’t even democracy, it was complete anarchy. We made so many comics and some of them were terrible and some were gloriously weird and nobody stopped us. Nobody is stopping anyone now! You can just make a comic!
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"Democratizing comics with AI" Buddy literally no one is stopping you from making comics but yourself. Allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to make something without the fear of failure. Your ability to make art is inherent to your human soul
August 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Having a blast redrawing old Warlord cards for proxy practice decks for friends. Looking forward to the return of this game!

Thanks to Carl Frank, William O’Connor, and Jonathan Hunt for such fun original art for these characters.

#warlordccg #gameart #fantasyart #procreate
June 27, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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In need of a weird wizardly dungeon for an upcoming session, I played around with a random design using my Chessex Dungeon Die. To give some extra flavor, I tossed a HeroQuest die as well to randomize size, and worked up a quick d6 table for doors.

#osr #ttrpg #dnd #dungeonmapping #dice
May 24, 2024 at 4:03 PM
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Some solar/lunar themed monsters and heroes for Eclipse Day.

#osr #ttrpg #dnd #fantasyart #digitalart #procreate #blackandwhite #vampire #werewolf
April 8, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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A ragamuffin witch with some heavy (but oddly unintentional) Tom Baker vibes.

Process video over on IG: www.instagram.com/mattknieling/

#dnd #fantasyart #osr #ttrpg #witch #procreate
A black and off white drawing of a curly haired witch with a large floppy hat and a snake curled about her neck. Shown with a startled expression on her face and a shadowy stone archway behind her.
March 26, 2024 at 4:00 PM