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Ken Parille

@kenparille.bsky.social

November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM

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@vlegogo.bsky.social

It's like if Paul Pope inked Jack Kirby. It’s Tony Salmons

November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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peke

@pekepekex.bsky.social

#oc
🦋💥🪱

November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM

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Comics Covers

@comicscovers.bsky.social

October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM

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Colin Smith

@colinsmith.bsky.social

Drydocked For Painting And Scaling, 1918, by Edward Wadsworth.

October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Stranger At Home

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🧛‍♀️

October 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM

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Gaijin Rando

@gaijinrando.bsky.social

Poster for THE BRAIN EATERS (1958)

Poster features a painting of a screeching, yellow-eyed woman with an exposed brain. The tagline says: "CRAWLING, SLIMY THINGS TERROR-BENT ON DESTROYING THE WORLD!".

October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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S A M

@comicnerdsam.bsky.social

Some more

Fan art for Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Fan art for William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III (1990)

Fan art for David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977)

Fan art for Rozz Williams's and Nico B.'s Pig (1998)

October 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM

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supervixen

@arkivisto.bsky.social

your mother in winter

September 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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pbbeta

@pbbeta.bsky.social

and some b&w stuff!

September 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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Catsuka

@catsuka.bsky.social

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour.
"Manben" is such a great TV program.
>> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

September 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM

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S A M

@comicnerdsam.bsky.social

I put some color under this! Haven't colored anyone else's work before, but this was fun! Kly is also a SUPERB artist, so it was cool to spend some time looking real close at their art

August 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM

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@mettaflix.bsky.social

May 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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Guy Pradel

@pradaldi.bsky.social

The Collector

#LostPages

The collector. b&w illustration.

Top : pendant made of tree small tiki "ivi po'o" and two seal teeth.

Middle : emaciated ghost of a French navy doctor (inspired by early 1800's costume) two spears through the chest, a butterfly net in hand.

Bottom : pinned beetles.

August 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM

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Tom McH

@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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台羽正

@tadashidaiba.bsky.social

August 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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Trung Le Nguyen

@trungles.com

Ngl, the reason I wanted to finally read Ruslan and Ludmila by Alexander Pushkin was because I wanted to know what the heck was going on in these Gennady Novozhilov illustrations. It did not disappoint.

A poster illustration much like a book cover to the poem Ruslan and Ludmila by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. It’s a warm-paletted drawing of two figures. The figure in the front is a young woman with light skin and striking dark eyes and long reddish-blonde hair. She wears a jeweled headband and holds an irregular incurve chrysanthemum. The man in the background is a knight with white-blonde hair, a handlebar mustache, and pale blue eyes. He is dressed all in red and brandishes a sword. An eagle, appearing like a golden coat of arms, appears on his shoulder.

The pale-blonde shoulder rides a reddish horse over a field of spears and corpses beneath a soft orange evening sky while a falcon flies overhead. The bones and skulls lie amongst discarded armor and weapons, and elegant wild vegetation blooms all around them, overtaking them.

A knight dressed all in red atop a ruddy brown approaches a giant severed head appearing to grow out of the ground, its mustache and hair tangling into roots affixing it into the ground. The giant head appears to be wearing a giant horned helm.

Two images of the same young woman, evidently in some sequence. She is golden-blonde. In one image she is seated on a carpet amid a generous spread of delicious-looking fruits and wines nestled among serene wildflowers. Above her is a golden ornament. In another image she is looking at herself in a mirror, wearing a tall dark hat, apparently pilfered from a small goblin-looking man who appears stunned to see her wearing it.

August 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM

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Ian MacEwan

@ianmacewan.bsky.social

August 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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ヒラカワ水平対向

@mhira1962.bsky.social

ちょうど3年前に描いたものです。
暑くて脱水でヘロヘロです。かなりヤバい。明日の原爆忌はどうなりますかね。お年寄りが心配。
今日広島東インター付近が渋滞していました。事故ともなんとも表示がなかったので不思議でしたが、どこかの国の要人が到着したのかな。明日は式典ですから。
今日は広島市内はいつもと違うのでしょう。
みなさん午後も本当にご安全に。ちょっとナメてました。

August 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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ari velazquez 🌯

@arivelazquez.com

everyone yelling at itch in these replies is a goddamn moron. what the fuck do you think itch is capable of doing against a combined trillion-dollar force?