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skullamity.bsky.social
August Brown
@skullamity.bsky.social
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Dad, queer, he/him. Illustrator & graphic designer. Artist & co-author at endcomic.com!
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skullamity.bsky.social
Back to work! My girl is having a terrible time (of her own making) in this and the next batch of pages, and I am so excited to be fixing it up. Lot of good expressions in this batch! #makingcomics
A panel from the webcomic The End. I am currently fixing the colours in this chapter, original chapter made in 2018. It features the character Sam with a very stupid, perturbed expression on her face in response to a dig an off panel character has just made about her. The new colour scheme invokes "seeing red" because she is about to lose her entire shit.
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Okay, got all but two of the pages I spent the morning prepping fixed up, which in retrospect was going to happen no matter what because most panels in this 8 page scene are full of fancy alien food. Here are some panels I liked! Gonna finish the last 2 up tomorrow. #makecomics
An illustration of four alien celebrity athletes. Three of them are bipedal, small and spindly, with slimy snail-like heads, and bodies made varying shapes of carapaces. The fourth is a quadroped--each of its legs have very long, shovel-like claws. It is wearing a fancy cloak, and it's snail face has a lot of long dangly protrusions that look a little like a mane. An illustration of Max, from the webcomic The End. Max is a brown-skinned man with a short beard, wearing a green sweater. He's sighing in relief because he (wrongly) believes that he has prevented an argument between his dining companions. I have always really liked this panel, and fixing it up made me like it even more.
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Today I'm colour correcting one of my favourite extended scenes I have ever drawn! I'll post pics later, but right now I need to figure out a colour treatment for it. I keep saying colour treatment, but what I actually mean by that is:
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Got pages 11 to 20 done today, which is honestly a surprise because I had like 3 screen switches and a double page spread. Ducking out (on time!) to make chorizo tomato rice 🤤
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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sonnyross.bsky.social
Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience

www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks
A naive floral illustration with a severed hand that was already all fucked up because it was made by a slopper. With the text “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser”
November 12, 2025 at 12:13 AM
skullamity.bsky.social
Okay, good start! Found a colour treatment that still invokes 'artificial sunrise lighting' that isn't yellow, lets you see more of the lineart and makes things pop. Gonna set up the next 5 pages of this scene with my adjustment layers and then speed through them! #makingcomics
The 2018 version of a page from the webcomic The End. In the top panel, Max is crawling back to consciousness with the mother of all hangovers. In the bottom panel, Sam is looming over him, interrupting his wretched awaking and they exchange the following dialogue: Sam: Still alive, huh? I'm impressed, Max. I never thought a grumpy bastard like you would be such a party animal. Why'd you sleep in thr trunk, anyway? Remind you of home? Max: Um. ...how long have you been standing there? The old version of this page's shadows are overpowering and obscure a lot of the line art in a way that destroys a lot of detail and makes the page weirdly blurry. The colour scheme is blacks and sepia, which was unintentional. The 2025 version of this page. The dialogue remains the same, but I've made major adjustments to the colours and toned down the shading. The page is now saturated yellows and reds, with blues and purples for contrast. The blacks that remain are no longer overpowering and a lot of small lineart details that got lost in the 2018 version of this page are once again visible.
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
me for the past 17 hours as I get increasingly hyped to work on fixing up this next chapter. setting up my workspace now, and in about 2 minutes I will be living the dream
patrick star from spongebob squarepants with his hands folded
Alt: patrick star from spongebob squarepants, rubbing his hands together with a sinister expression to signal plotting
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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laminda.bsky.social
Please help, I've fallen down the Temu screaming goat throw pillow rabbithole
A quartet of throw pillows illustrated with embroidered screaming goats, each more deranged-looking than the last.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Now that I'm done with work, I have like...15 minutes to zone out on my phone and then it is time to cook dinner. Feels good!
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Best possible way to wrap up the day was colour-correcting this cover! Excited to dig into fixing this chapter tomorrow, can't wait to find out what kind of art landmines past me has left for present me to step on! #makingcomics
The colour corrected cover art from chapter 21 of the webcomic The End. It features Sam, a scappy looking woman with a scarf and long, messily braided hair and Max, an unkempt middle aged man wearing electro-shock gloves and a sweater. Their vibe is suspicious and untrustworthy. The new colour scheme is all over the place in a way that ticks all of my good vibes boxes. I'm not posting a comparison pic because I saved over the old cover without exporting a copy of the original to compare to the new version, whoops!
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
I will never get tired of drawing her more unhinged expressions. Only one page left in this chapter after I finish this one! #makingcomics
Two panels of the character Overseer Xia from the webcomic The End. In the first panel she's sweating and looking calculating baout the fact that there was a witness to her committing a murder and being really emotional about it. In the second panel she is...smiling? Grimacing? She's making A Face, for sure. She has decided to double down on how unhinged she is currently feeling. The lighting is red and menacing.
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Psyched that there are only 4 more pages before I get to colour correct on my favourite chapter I have ever worked on! Very pleased with how much more vibrant the colour correction made both of the scenes in this comparison, and how much easier it is to see what's happening. #makingcomics
A page from the webcomic The End. This page features the end of one scene and the beginning of the next, and was a good demonstration of some of the colour correction work I've done for this chapter. The first panel is a zoomed out establishment panel featuring a dingy hover-truck speeding through a giant mushroom forest/mesa, off into the distance. A nearby gas giant looms in the night sky. The second and third panels are a scene switch and feature Kana regaining consciousness amidst some rubble. Xia stalks towards her, her shadow ominously cast over Kana. This is the original colour treatment for the page, and it's dark in a way that obscures a lot of line art. This page was better than the pages from the rest of both scenes, but needed heavy colour adjustment because of how much colour adjustment the rest of both scenes did/will require. This version has a bit of a yellow tint throughout both scenes that a lot of my original pages had, and I am trying to move away from that choice specifically. This is the colour-corrected version of the previous page. The first half of it is still darker because it is outdoors and night time, but I've replaces a lot of the blacks with very saturated blues so that more of the line art is visible and easy to parse. It also looks very nice in contrast to the second two panels, which still have a bit of a yellow tint, but that tint is now meant to temper very saturated red lighting that I replaced the initial yellow with. Once again, the line art is much easier to parse and the shadows are still there, but not as overpowering.
November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Once every couple of years, my tablet monitor's stylus (critically endangered species) decides to be finnicky and I exit the other side of the event feeling like I've just come home from war. Did not need to spend the last hour fighting for my life, terrible start to my day!
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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matthewcort.land
I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it.

So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.
mrscrabapple.bsky.social your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 9d
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
skullamity.bsky.social
How I have spent my 41st birthday so far!
I am sitting on the couch, and Parsnip, a fluffy black cat, is in my lap. He is making bad mouth noises, but he is very cuddly so it balances out.
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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sarahbecan.bsky.social
New Sauceome comic today, with a recipe for pesto! buttondown.com/sarahbecan/archive/recipe-classic-basil-pesto/
Recipe: Classic Basil Pesto!
Fall is pretty much here in Chicago - there’s a chill in the air, the leaves are falling, and the potted basil on my front porch wasn’t going to survive our...
buttondown.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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a-n-d-y.bsky.social
A very nice collection of pixel fonts for your bitmap projects
somepx.com Ivano (somepx) @somepx.com · 11d
This goofy font is part of my sale! But hey, if you don't like it there are 39 more:

itch.io/s/158296/40-...
Awesome - Itch cover Awesome - uppercase letters Awesome - lowercase letters Awesome - English pangram
November 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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alexassan.com
Ivo and Satinder pinups! Plus a more risqué Easton in the reply for those of you who like greasy men in lingerie...
A pinup style illustration of Ivo Keys, a character from the webcomic Shaderunners. She is wearing a 1920s swimsuit and enjoying a drink at the beach, a sly expression on her face. A pinup style illustration of Satinder Hali, a character from the webcomic Shaderunners. She is sitting on a vintage car and smoking a cigarette, wearing a revealing tank-top and an easy smile.
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Powering through Ch20! Cannot believe how visually incomprehensible most of this chapter was, also cannot believe that they looked mostly fine on my old tablet??? I can't see ANYTHING in the before. 💀
A page from the webcomic, The End, before colour correction. The shading is so dark that the contents of the page are basically a big black blob. A page from the webcomic, The End, after colour correction. Most of the blacks were replaced with blues, and the result is that all of the line art is visible and the final page doesn't make my eyes hurt while looking at it. I also redrew the scream sound effect because the old one was ugly.
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
Turned on my little rechargeable air blaster to clean my keyboard and my two hearing cats scattered. My deaf cat first tried to grisp the air with his paws like some sort of raccoon and then went full wharglebargle on the air when that didn't work. His head is so empty, I love him so much!
a black and white dog is being sprayed with a hose in a yard .
ALT: a black and white dog is being sprayed with a hose in a yard .
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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aplante.com
for the record, this is mostly reserved for corporate clients who do design by committee because 17 people want to leave their fingerprints on it, and for clients who want $500 worth of nitpicky tweaks for a $50 commission
aplante.com Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 14d
laughing at this old comic again for no reason whatsoever

#comic
4 panel comic 1. artist with glasses holding up a paper. "Okay, here is the final draft! I've sent you an invoice" 2. Client (wearing a tie) holding it in front of them and exclaiming "WOW!" 3. Client holding it up excitedly "we LOVE the direction you're going with this" 4. Client looking at it thoughfully and pleased with themselves "we'd like you to make it objectively worse"
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 PM
skullamity.bsky.social
so it turns out that my liquid silicone is fuuucked, but we got them stuck on there and as long as he doesn't stand in the rain without an umbrella, they should hopefully stay on the whole day. Had to use the cheapo backup horns because the other two pairs are too big for his head somehow lol
my kid wearing a pair of plastic devil horns with a black and silver belly dancing sash as a bandana over a black and white tentacle patterned t-shirt
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
skullamity.bsky.social
up at stupid-early-am to silicone some devil horns to my kid's forehead for school, put me out of my miserrrrry
October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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pseudonymjones.bsky.social
the swamp of despair (from 2018)
A graph titled “The Creative Process” showing a cute pumpkin girl going through stages of making something. She starts out high up, “I just had the best idea!!!” and starts sliding down a hill “this isnt as simple as I expected.” She winds up in The Swamp of Despair (two skulls say: “this part sucks! don’t give up!”) She says, “this sucks, I suck. Why am I wasting my time.” She crawls her way out of the swamp “it’s not perfect but I’m going to finish” and crests the final hill, “it’s done??? I lived???” Finally, she walks away from it all, glittering with pride. “This turned out pretty good!”
March 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM