Maksim Strelkov
@zethkeeper.bsky.social
Comicbook colorist and music composer. Tired. | I'm so prog I listen to concept albums on shuffle (c) Kmac2021.
keepercolors.com
zethkeeper.bandcamp.com
For hiring: keepercomicsgeek@gmail.com
#comicbookcolorist #colorist
keepercolors.com
zethkeeper.bandcamp.com
For hiring: keepercomicsgeek@gmail.com
#comicbookcolorist #colorist
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Maksim Strelkov
@zethkeeper.bsky.social
· Oct 14
Idea 21
Messing around with instruments while sick with covid.
soundcloud.com
Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm a comicbook colorist AND a musician, so I figured I'd do something different this time [1/3].
Here are a few of my music samples:
soundcloud.com/zethkeeper/i...
soundcloud.com/zethkeeper/s...
youtu.be/NeVzce_jIdQ
youtu.be/mtDas2lW8x4
youtu.be/UFB4aO7VA2Y
youtu.be/JYgq9bifAA
Here are a few of my music samples:
soundcloud.com/zethkeeper/i...
soundcloud.com/zethkeeper/s...
youtu.be/NeVzce_jIdQ
youtu.be/mtDas2lW8x4
youtu.be/UFB4aO7VA2Y
youtu.be/JYgq9bifAA
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🔥 Post Malone’s BIG RIG Vol. 1
When Hell invades the Dark Ages, the answer is 25 tons of demon-slaying steel— and the people brave (or unhinged) enough to ride it. Have you picked up BIG RIG yet?
https://bigrigcomic.com/
#BigRigComic #Comic #VaultComics #PostMalone
When Hell invades the Dark Ages, the answer is 25 tons of demon-slaying steel— and the people brave (or unhinged) enough to ride it. Have you picked up BIG RIG yet?
https://bigrigcomic.com/
#BigRigComic #Comic #VaultComics #PostMalone
December 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🔥 Post Malone’s BIG RIG Vol. 1
When Hell invades the Dark Ages, the answer is 25 tons of demon-slaying steel— and the people brave (or unhinged) enough to ride it. Have you picked up BIG RIG yet?
https://bigrigcomic.com/
#BigRigComic #Comic #VaultComics #PostMalone
When Hell invades the Dark Ages, the answer is 25 tons of demon-slaying steel— and the people brave (or unhinged) enough to ride it. Have you picked up BIG RIG yet?
https://bigrigcomic.com/
#BigRigComic #Comic #VaultComics #PostMalone
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Decided to try something a little different this time. ❤️
#corinhowell #lilith #goth #horrorart #horroraesthetic
#corinhowell #lilith #goth #horrorart #horroraesthetic
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Decided to try something a little different this time. ❤️
#corinhowell #lilith #goth #horrorart #horroraesthetic
#corinhowell #lilith #goth #horrorart #horroraesthetic
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How I’m walking out of 2025
December 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How I’m walking out of 2025
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Conan
Working on some skills I need to work on more often than I do - I find it especially strange trying to colour my own work (probably because I color so many other artists) - I also messed with Rebelle for the water color background…
#ComicArtist #Illustration #ArtSky #Artist #Illustrator
Working on some skills I need to work on more often than I do - I find it especially strange trying to colour my own work (probably because I color so many other artists) - I also messed with Rebelle for the water color background…
#ComicArtist #Illustration #ArtSky #Artist #Illustrator
December 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Conan
Working on some skills I need to work on more often than I do - I find it especially strange trying to colour my own work (probably because I color so many other artists) - I also messed with Rebelle for the water color background…
#ComicArtist #Illustration #ArtSky #Artist #Illustrator
Working on some skills I need to work on more often than I do - I find it especially strange trying to colour my own work (probably because I color so many other artists) - I also messed with Rebelle for the water color background…
#ComicArtist #Illustration #ArtSky #Artist #Illustrator
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flipside of the slop tsunami: companies like Google aren't just flooding our digital existence with AI gruel, they're actively, intentionally destroying real human-created content too, because they know that we largely still value real content and that ultimately the slop can't compete
First I read that new YouTube users are served up material that is 20% AI slop.
And now, multiple cases of legitimate YouTube creators having their content stolen and being accused themselves of copyright theft.
Like this poor guy.
YouTube is destroying itself.
youtube.com/shorts/QtXHn...
And now, multiple cases of legitimate YouTube creators having their content stolen and being accused themselves of copyright theft.
Like this poor guy.
YouTube is destroying itself.
youtube.com/shorts/QtXHn...
YouTube wrongfully deleted my video
YouTube video by Life in Jars?
youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
flipside of the slop tsunami: companies like Google aren't just flooding our digital existence with AI gruel, they're actively, intentionally destroying real human-created content too, because they know that we largely still value real content and that ultimately the slop can't compete
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable…
www.404media.co
December 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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transition video showing different stages of colouring Randy Green's Grace lines.
#ComicArtist #ComicSky #ComicColorist #Colorist
#ComicArtist #ComicSky #ComicColorist #Colorist
December 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
transition video showing different stages of colouring Randy Green's Grace lines.
#ComicArtist #ComicSky #ComicColorist #Colorist
#ComicArtist #ComicSky #ComicColorist #Colorist
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The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
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#76 Artorias - Ink and gouache on 13 x 19 bristol, possibly the last one of 2025 #artorias #darksouls
December 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#76 Artorias - Ink and gouache on 13 x 19 bristol, possibly the last one of 2025 #artorias #darksouls
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so if you’re new to bsky and looking for some good #comics folk to follow may i HIGHLY recommend this fine selection...
go.bsky.app/FUN5iTP
go.bsky.app/FUN5iTP
December 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
so if you’re new to bsky and looking for some good #comics folk to follow may i HIGHLY recommend this fine selection...
go.bsky.app/FUN5iTP
go.bsky.app/FUN5iTP
Snorted so hard at this my wife came to my studio to check on me.
December 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Snorted so hard at this my wife came to my studio to check on me.
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This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
Anyone who supports this is an embarrassment. "Instead of typing it out they'll generate their idea"? Are you insane?
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
Call yourself whatever you want but you aren't creatives, that's for sure.
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default.
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit
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Saturn's tiny icy moon Mimas hangs in space against a backdrop of the giant planet itself.
The rings cross the bottom of the view, and cast their shadows onto the planet beyond.
NASA Photojournal PIA06142, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 7 November 2004 some 3.7 million km from Saturn.
The rings cross the bottom of the view, and cast their shadows onto the planet beyond.
NASA Photojournal PIA06142, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 7 November 2004 some 3.7 million km from Saturn.
December 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Saturn's tiny icy moon Mimas hangs in space against a backdrop of the giant planet itself.
The rings cross the bottom of the view, and cast their shadows onto the planet beyond.
NASA Photojournal PIA06142, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 7 November 2004 some 3.7 million km from Saturn.
The rings cross the bottom of the view, and cast their shadows onto the planet beyond.
NASA Photojournal PIA06142, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 7 November 2004 some 3.7 million km from Saturn.
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"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out
pick up a pencil and a napkin
pick up a pencil and a napkin
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Happy Holidays, everyone!! I'll take the opportunity to share this starter pack full of my amazing fellow colorists!
December 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Happy Holidays, everyone!! I'll take the opportunity to share this starter pack full of my amazing fellow colorists!
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We've been busy 🦇🩸
A little early gift for all of you...
KS launching on 01/20/26:
SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
KS launching on 01/20/26:
SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
December 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We've been busy 🦇🩸
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This, the bullshit with "oh we don't use it for ACTUAL art, just concept art inspiration!! All of our art is HANDMADE by HUMANS", it's all just testing the fences like a god damn velociraptor. Trying to push the boundaries bit by bit so it gets easier to accept the NEXT use of Gen AI.
December 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This, the bullshit with "oh we don't use it for ACTUAL art, just concept art inspiration!! All of our art is HANDMADE by HUMANS", it's all just testing the fences like a god damn velociraptor. Trying to push the boundaries bit by bit so it gets easier to accept the NEXT use of Gen AI.
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Like
There's no reason to
These goddamn platforms have been proven, over and over, to get basic facts and figures and math wrong. Why in the world would you want or need that for BUDGETS or DESIGN DOCS??
NOT TO MENTION that any information you enter is fed back into the machine! Goodbye NDA!
There's no reason to
These goddamn platforms have been proven, over and over, to get basic facts and figures and math wrong. Why in the world would you want or need that for BUDGETS or DESIGN DOCS??
NOT TO MENTION that any information you enter is fed back into the machine! Goodbye NDA!
December 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Like
There's no reason to
These goddamn platforms have been proven, over and over, to get basic facts and figures and math wrong. Why in the world would you want or need that for BUDGETS or DESIGN DOCS??
NOT TO MENTION that any information you enter is fed back into the machine! Goodbye NDA!
There's no reason to
These goddamn platforms have been proven, over and over, to get basic facts and figures and math wrong. Why in the world would you want or need that for BUDGETS or DESIGN DOCS??
NOT TO MENTION that any information you enter is fed back into the machine! Goodbye NDA!
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It's very easy:
Just don't. The idea that Copilot or ChatGPT are suddenly essential tools is just buying into the corporate ad blitz.
Games were made just fine (well, relatively) up through...what, 2023? 2024? They didn't suddenly become VITAL for budgets or design docs in the last 2-3 years.
Just don't. The idea that Copilot or ChatGPT are suddenly essential tools is just buying into the corporate ad blitz.
Games were made just fine (well, relatively) up through...what, 2023? 2024? They didn't suddenly become VITAL for budgets or design docs in the last 2-3 years.
December 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It's very easy:
Just don't. The idea that Copilot or ChatGPT are suddenly essential tools is just buying into the corporate ad blitz.
Games were made just fine (well, relatively) up through...what, 2023? 2024? They didn't suddenly become VITAL for budgets or design docs in the last 2-3 years.
Just don't. The idea that Copilot or ChatGPT are suddenly essential tools is just buying into the corporate ad blitz.
Games were made just fine (well, relatively) up through...what, 2023? 2024? They didn't suddenly become VITAL for budgets or design docs in the last 2-3 years.
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And just over 250 people have already pre-saved the campaign!
LET'S FUCKING GO!
LET'S FUCKING GO!
A little early gift for all of you...
KS launching on 01/20/26:
SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
KS launching on 01/20/26:
SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
And just over 250 people have already pre-saved the campaign!
LET'S FUCKING GO!
LET'S FUCKING GO!
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Because I've gotten a few questions:
1) SINK YOUR TEETH IN is a miniseries, this KS will be just for the first issue of it, with subsequent issues getting their own KS campaigns!
2) It is an 18+ book! For violence, language and sexual content.
3) We DO have variant covers, TBA when we launch
1) SINK YOUR TEETH IN is a miniseries, this KS will be just for the first issue of it, with subsequent issues getting their own KS campaigns!
2) It is an 18+ book! For violence, language and sexual content.
3) We DO have variant covers, TBA when we launch
A little early gift for all of you...
KS launching on 01/20/26:
SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
KS launching on 01/20/26:
SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
December 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Because I've gotten a few questions:
1) SINK YOUR TEETH IN is a miniseries, this KS will be just for the first issue of it, with subsequent issues getting their own KS campaigns!
2) It is an 18+ book! For violence, language and sexual content.
3) We DO have variant covers, TBA when we launch
1) SINK YOUR TEETH IN is a miniseries, this KS will be just for the first issue of it, with subsequent issues getting their own KS campaigns!
2) It is an 18+ book! For violence, language and sexual content.
3) We DO have variant covers, TBA when we launch
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December 23, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM