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J. Matt Graham
@nothingfrequency.bsky.social
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🖤 elder emo
sad girl sketchbook
individuality is a weapon
Snowy Toronto, Canada
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May '25. Wanted to capture streamer intimacy in a portrait with the 4th wall break. Also an excuse to do headphones and develop my smoky coloured pencil thing.

Views best with Midwife's cover of Glycerine.

#SketchbookTour #ArtRetrospective #ArtProcess #ArtistsOnBlueSky #ProgressOverTime
Coloured pencil portrait of a woman in headphones looking at you.
January 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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"Pain lasts, kid. It's how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management."

The Maxx and Julie. Only on MTV Oddities. Based on Sam Keith's popular comic book.

A little fan art.

#fanart #comicart #comics #characterart #artistsonbluesky #sketch
Coloured pencil sketch of The Maxx and Julie from the comic and MTV Liquid Television show. Word balloon has Julie saying, "Eerybody's got to take responsibility for their own life, y'know", which is a quote from the material
January 8, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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April '25. I'd been developing these multi colour portrait triptychs forms few months. It's a nice warm up or rest. Always enjoy hearing how certain portraits grab people.

I draw them all counterclockwise from the bottom, lefty hack.

#oc #traditionalart #artvsartist2025 #sketchbook #illustration
Red, blue, purple coloured pencil portraits of three women smoking and checking a cell phone. Text says, "Those trusty chords to pull me through."
January 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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March '25. I like to draw my characters and scenes as candids, maybe a holdover from 00s Internet life.

Jessica was trouble: in your Top 8, on your AIM, PC4PC, precision editing Warped band CD-Rs, 3AM texts.

Heartbreaker. 💔

#oc #art #traditionalart #millennial #drawing #poppunk #artvsartist2025
Blue coloured pencil illustration of a young woman glancing at you from across the party. She's the reason you know Taking Back Sunday.
January 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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February '25 favourite. All ink, this piece exudes line quality and confidence. Also got a few fire emojis and "Let's goooo" for her.

Amy is reacting to Yellowcard's Only One at Pac Sun.

Here I goooo
Scream my lungs out

#oc #art #traditionalart #millennial #drawing #poppunk #artvsartist2025
Ink pen illustration of a happy young woman with her hair up, wearing a flannel jacket and tank top.
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Flipping all my sketchbooks back to January 2025, this is my favourite of the month. One of the first where I treated coloured pencils like regular lead or charcoal for a life-illustrative approach.

Very "A Movie Script Ending" to me.

#oc #art #drawing #illustration #traditionalart #indiemusic
Green coloured pencil illustration of a sad girl.
January 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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Video process.

I was going to make more process for my physical media this year. Just learned Procreate does it passively.

Paper to digital is like going guitar to piano for me. I know the songs, but muscle memory argues with me.

#oc #artprocess #digitalart #illustration #processvideo #artsky
January 1, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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Enjoy the initial illustration of Kristen before the hot pink, including my handwritten font pass.

#art #digitalart #process #drawing #sketchbook #oc #illustration
December 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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"High morale. Low morals. I knew how to spot a fall, but I never stopped myself."

Meet Kristen. The routines are clean. Her hands aren't.

Bad Cheerleader is self explanatory.

Procreate.

#oc #comics #punk #illustration #digitalart #sketchbook #drawing #art #noir #cheerleading
Digital Procreate illustration of a college cheerleader with a voluminous ponytail on hot pink copier paper.
December 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Some Procreate process/learning.

#art #procreate #illustration #digitalart #drawing #sketchbook #comicsky
Digital ink drawing of a woman with a thick ponytail looking mischievous.
December 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Didn't mean to leave you hanging on
I didn't mean to leave you all alone
I didn't know what to say
Didn't know what to say
Merry Christmas, baby

Warmup 12-24-25.

#art #christmas #traditionalart #sketchbook #drawing #illustration #emo #jimmyeatworld #sketch
Colored pencil illustration of a woman eating a candy cane and winking at someone past the camera.
December 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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I waited for you winterlong
You seemed to be where I belong
It's all illusion anyway

Warmup Dec 24 '25.

#art #traditionalart #illustration #drawing #sketchbook #christmas #weirdgirlwinter #sadgirlwinter #sketcj
Pencil drawing of a girl in glasses looking at something.
December 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Aha.

#sketchbook #drawing #illustration #videogames #fanart
Colored pencil Lara Croft sketch.
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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"It's 1996, our vaginas have monologues now." - Nat, but if I made a Fox Kids cartoon of Yellowjackets.

Christmas movies cut with insomnia Yellowjackets rewatch. Alright.

#art #sketchbook #drawing #comicart #yellowjackets #sophiethatcher #90s #millennial #tvsky #fanart #illustration
December 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Bad art day yesterday, but I did get this down just to get something down and finished.

Had a series of unsettling dreams. No idea why I would even be anxious or depressed to have the Silent Hill marathon in my head that I just slept through.

#art #traditionalart #sketchbook #love
Blue colored pencil. Drawing of a smoking woman asking someone in the seat across from her, "Where did our love go?"
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Clean version of Isabel. I have a few iterations for her.

#art #illustration #drawing #sketchbook #portrait
Clean version of pencil and brush illustration of woman in red.
December 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.

-Separation, W.S. Merwin

One in a Series - Isabel

#art #digitalart #procreate #punk #romance #drawing #illustration #poetry
Digital pencils of a woman on red.
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I know you're awesome, too.

Digital remake of one of my favourite sketchbook inks from this fall. Messing with riso and coloured pencil texture to keep it Me.

#digitalart #art #drawing #illustration #selfcare
Illustration of a girl with messy hair and a ponytail giving herself daily affirmations that she is awesome. Because she is. And so are you even if you're not reading this.
December 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Here I go
Scream my lungs out and try to get to you
You are my only one
I let go
But there's just no one that gets me like you do
You are my only, my only one

Enjoy some close up and process.

#digitalart #fresco #painting #drawing #emo #poppunk
December 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I got an iPad. First digital painting ever via Fresco.

#art #digitalart #millennial #fresco #painting #illustration #emo
Digital impressionist painting of a sad girl and her 2004 AIM romance.
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Tea is being spilled at the next booth.

#oc #sketchbook #drawing #illustration #tea #sideeye
Blue colored pencil of a young woman in a cheetah print coat giving bombastic side eye at a neighboring table while she enjoys her flat white.
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Basic contrapposto warm up. Not pushed enough for me, but that is why I share process. Back to it.

#oc #sketchbook #art #process #illustration
November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Never take yourself off the top shelf just because someone else can't reach.

Warmup, three ways.

#oc #sketch #marker #ink #paint #traditionalart #bartending #drawing
Pencil illustration of a disgusted woman. Ink and paint of a with black hair rolling her eyes. Ink and acrylic paint and alcohol marker illustration of a redhead in a jacke necking a liquor bottle.
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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(Punk rock girl) please, look at me
(Punk rock girl) what do you see?
Let's travel round the world
Just you and me, punk rock girl

Melody #3.

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#oc #art #drawing #digitalart #traditionalart #sketchbook #characterdesign #music #millennial #punk #comicsky #moviesky
Colored pencil illustration of my version of Melody from Josie and the Pussycats playing her drum set.
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I will draw #frieren proper, but I like my odds.
nothingfrequency.bsky.social J. Matt Graham @nothingfrequency.bsky.social · Nov 3
What makes you run?
Was it me or anyone?
It goes to show
When people grow, people go

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Playing with angles.

#oc #art #fall #indie #traditionalart #digitalart #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #women #music #jetstobrazil #comics
Colored pencil portrait of a young woman in a flower crown looked up heroically. It's above a previous drawing of a woman smoking and looking Over It.
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM