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Arthur Riel
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🦌🏳️‍⚧️♾️ Illustration and archaeology | Laguna, PH | he/they | rep'd by Keir Alekseii of Azantian Literary | artiodaktyl.carrd.co
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repping some aroace colors for #aceweek ☁️
digital painting of a deer prancing on still waters against a moonlit sky. the color palette is blue, orange, yellow, and white after the aroace flag.
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Hey #PortfolioDay - I'm Arthur, Filipino museum worker by day and freelance SFF illustrator by night. Looking for new projects by November! 🎸🗡️

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illustration of Archangel Uriel illustration of the Four of Wands tarot card in a classical Southeast Asian setting YA mecha concept cover art digital illustration of two OCs with a dragon on the back of a truck
October 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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COMIC REVEAL! 🐺💙

BLUE EYES, WHITE WOLVES, my new one-shot about transpinoy angst and american masculinity, is joining the anthology TRUE TRANS SOUL REBEL: A MIXTAPE ZINE edited by @/ltsbwrms and @/yan.pyre!

all profits go to supporting @/transmascph after they were cut off from USAID funding.
Black and white comics illustration for the zine "True Trans Soul Rebel" titled "BLUE EYES WHITE WOLVES." The main character Luke, a Filipino trans teen, looks over his shoulder with a row of older smug white guys below him. Behind them are various fragmented busts of wolves and dogs against a full moon in the background. Caption reads, "Luke thinks a runaway car with some beer and testosterone will fix all his problems. But in this side of the woods, every wild animal was once an angry lost boy... #TRANSRAGE #WerewolfMetaphorGoApeshit. Warnings for violence and gore, strong language, and alcohol (DUI). All profits go to Transmasc PH." Cropped comics page of a grisly werewolf transformation. Cropped comics page of Luke cursing as he drives past a bilingual coyote warning sign. Caption reads," TRUE TRANS SOUL REBEL. A five-story comic anthology. All profits for @transmascph."
September 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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kulitan practice again ("queti sulip anti banua" / on earth as in heaven)
A vertical column of white Kulitan calligraphy that reads "queti sulip anti banua" or "on earth as in heaven"
September 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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uhh playing with an old 2024 sketch
colored sketch of my OC, Lance, standing menacingly with black angel wings and a black habit draped over one shoulder. He holds a strapped guitar behind his back. Old version of the same Lance sketch without colors yet. Rough sketch of Lance's mecha in mid-air
September 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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I have prints of two artworks available as part of this auction! Please check out and support all the lovely works listed here.
Digital illustration of the Risen Christ as a brown trans man Digital painting of the Four of Wands tarot card in a precolonial Southeast Asian setting
August 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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[wip] i've been holding off on this one for YEARS now
sketch of an anthropomorphic eagle brandishing a sword with Kulitan script and cropped out letters on the side
August 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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laxamana (kapampangan, hispanicized): southeast asian maritime official, from sanskrit lakshmana 🌊
digital illustration of my OC Lance sitting with a rifle on a mossy broken anchor. behind him is a compass motif with wave patterns and a golden garuda head together with Kulitan calligraphy of his surname, Laxamana
July 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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[suddenly forgets how to render]
cropped wip screenshot of my OC Lance sitting with a rifle and a gold Garuda motif behind him
July 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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author copies of my picture book safely arrived from Kahel Press! 🥹
A stack of copies of my book Katkat forgets on a table with my grey long-haired cat sitting beside it
July 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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belated happy #nonbinarypeoplesday! i'm arthur (he/they) and idk how my gender works yet, but i know how to draw sometimes. i study history and illustrate art and comics for a living 🫡
digital painting of Jesus as a brown trans man illustration of the Four of Wands tarot card as a classical Southeast Asian queer couple illustration of OCs Tristan and Joey on the back of a pickup truck with a white dragon illustration of OCs Gavin and Cyan floating in a stylized underwater cover with a helicoprion monster in the background
July 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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"I don't care"
Fanart of the Gundam Gquuuuuux Endymion Awakened Unit in side profile
July 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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wip. have not messed with traditional scripts in so long
lineart of my OC Lance seated looking emo with a rifle and a draft of vertical Kulitan calligraphy beside him
July 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Alt text versions:
Illustration of Archangel Uriel Illustration of the tarot card "Four of Wands" as queer Southeast Asian figures Mecha comic concept art of "Arrows To Their Heaven" Illustration of original characters Tristan and Joey on the back of a pickup truck, with a white dragon perched on the roof.
July 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Arthur and I'm a queer freelance illustrator from the Philippines. I've previously illustrated for sci-fi and fantasy TTRPGs, comics, and books and would love to work on more 🎸

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📧 ganicabz.art@gmail.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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...Cover reveal? Excited to share that KATKAT FORGETS / NAKALILIMOT SI KATKAT, my bilingual picture book about ADHD, is printing and coming soon from the amazing Kahel Press 🧡
Book cover of "Katkat Forgets: Forgetfulness in ADHD" ("Nakalilimot si Katkat: Pagkamalimutin sa ADHD") by Arthur Riel Cabezas, showing a young girl falling through the sky with her school and home supplies scattered around her.
July 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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some more fun shots (still need to panel line but i got excited)
Gundam Calibarn posing on an action base Gundam Calibarn posed as if strafing to shoot mid-air Gundam Calibarn raising crossed swords
June 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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finally graced by hg calibarn's presence
closeup dramatic shot of the Gundam Calibarn model dramatic shot of the Gundam Calibarn aiming her rifle
June 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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happy pride
a half-built model of Gundam Calibarn in front of a sharps box and a medical kit with a box of testosterone
June 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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bright side to working from qc is the hobby popups maybe
closeup of the Gquuuuuux HG gunpla model Gundam S Freedom models on display Oowashi Unit Akatsuki Gundam HG models on display a large gundam statue in the middle of SM North Edsa mall grounds
June 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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wip :]
cropped sketch of Vessel from Sleep Token screaming and raising his sword
May 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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if I ever start a collection for one mon it might be for dragonair
Japanese Dragonair art rare card from the Scarlet Violet 151 set
May 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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deinonychus
scanned ink drawing of a deinonychus skull side profile
May 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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sick and forced to bed rest against my will, trying to draw a bit anyway
ink sketchbook drawing of a raptor skull on top of an encyclopedia with the reference skull on the cover
May 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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drawing way bigger things on the left but for now i’m canonizing oc heights. “for scale”
a closeup crop of a mecha design showing only the silhouette of its pilot labelled “Lance Laxamana (157 cm)”
May 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM