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Ian V.
@artzquez.bsky.social
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Director & Cartoonist • Amateur Puppeteer & Illustrator
🚦Suggestive Art & Adult Language may happen!
#CastOfIV / #IVsComics / #SweetbaysCircus / #BlairGritstone/ #DevilChaser
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Honk honk, here she is! 🎉
#GidgetTheSillySeaLion 🦭🎪 #SweetbaysCircus
A cartoon drawing of my character Gidget The Silly Sea Lion! She is a female grey sea lion wearing white "Mickey Mouse" face-style clown make-up, a blue clown nose, a yellow & orange pom-pom cone hat with a matching neck ruff. She clasps her big flippers together in a happy pose and gives a bright open smile at the viewer with her big blue eyes. The background is a light green with a faint burst pattern and shading underneath her. Below is her name written in colorful lettering with a starred circus ball dotting the I. In the bottom left corner I signed it.
August 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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BIG BAD BAST's Big Bad Head 𓄂𓂥

#Sanura𓃠𓆃 ©@kmorrison.bsky.social
A digital ink doodle of BIG BAD BAST, a giant hulking masc panthress god with a wide snout, stubbly muzzle, tiny wide-set grumpy eyes and a thick neck wearing a little gold earring. All the following pictures in the set are of her in this same simple style. Here she looks like she's grouchily talking, looking to the right and showing her jagged teeth. BIG BAD BAST rolling her eyes and cocking her head derisively with a sour look on her face, nose scrunched and underbite showing in a frown. BIG BAD BAST fills the frame with an ambiguous spooky-eyed expression, looking down at her minuscule daughter Sanura that she has squeezed, turning in her right paw's thumb and forefinger. BIG BAD BAST hunching her neck down with an intense, straining angry look, veins popping, gritting her teeth and staring off-frame left, shooting lightning bolts of anger from her eyes/forehead. You never....ever want to see BIG BAD BAST make this face.
July 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Chase 'Em ▀▄▀▄▀▄ #DevilChaser 🎮🔫💣🧨🏏💥💵🦇😈👇
www.kickstarter.com/projects/devilchaser/devil-chaser
Digital ink doodles of the main characters from the WIP indie action game "Devil Chaser" in a silly stylized tableau. Mondo the batlike imp (a little black and white cartoon with big sneakers), Asa the sexy mothman (a leggy feminine bug-monster in cool glasses and aa showgirl outfit with fishnets and "X" & "O" patterns on his wings), Taffy the angry little poodle (she has horns in her pompadour and is wearing a tracksuit top and skirt) and ROBOT the minotaur lightbulb thing (they are all black metal with a filament like face). They all run around and pose, Robot is dancing in their poses, one tapping with a straw hat and the other doing the can-can. Around them are props such as dollar bills, bombs, a TNT stick, a bullet and some of the wacky weapons from the game, which includes three toony sci-fi guns and a baseball bat with nails in it. Also surrounding them are disjointed letters. Left to right on the white paint trail reads "© I.V. & Avengedog," "The GAME", "DEVIL CHASER." In the top and bottom corners are the date July '25.
July 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Belated birthday fan-art for @ieatrocks.bsky.social, starring everyone's favorite two best friends in the whole wide world! 🌞
Gnat's characters Guy, a yellow demon thingy, and Hank, a red puppet-like demon thingy both posing for the camera. They both are wearing snazzy black suit tops. Hank as bolo tie has no pants, while Guy has a red bowtie and is...made of pants? Guy gives us a tiny untrustworthy off-model off-puttingly cute smile while Hank looks down annoyed at Guy's crooked overly long arm that's resting on his right shoulder. He is here under duress. Guy's big ol' red arrow-shaped tail is pointing at their own arm as if to say "LOOK AT HOW MUCH WE GET ALONG." The background is pale tan and there's a yellow circle up top where I signed "for & characters © Gnat, Picture by IV '25."
July 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Family Dispute

#BlairGritstone 🦴 #CastOfIV
A normal moment at home with The Gritstones. Blair's giant green-fanged head leans down from the top right and roars dark green stink fumes and yellowish spit at her mother, who sits bored and unimpressed in a rock reading chair, holding a rock slate as if it were a newspaper.
July 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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🍀 Lucky! 🍀

#BlairGritstone 🦴 #CastOfIV
🦕 Character Design by @deeisbrowsing.bsky.social
A happy green sauropod with blue stars over her body gives a goofy smile at the camera while running away from arrows on an abstract pink prehistoric backdrop.
July 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Lumber Bitty 🪵

#BittyKittyKouture🧸
@kmorrison.bsky.social 👦⁉️ #KMsRandomInsanity
Bitty the blue beanie-toy cat dressed as a manly lumberjack wearing a fake beard, dark brownish purple beanie cap (worn half over their eyes to make a stern tough look), red flannel shirt, orange suspenders and dark brown pants that also cover their feet. Over their back they hold a toy axe with a wood handle.
July 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Business Bitty 📈

#BittyKittyKouture🧸
@kmorrison.bsky.social 👦⁉️ #KMsRandomInsanity
Bitty the blue beanie-toy cat sits crossing their legs and leaning on a book, holding a big 1980s cell phone up to their ear. They’re wearing a 80s style turquoise shoulder pad jacket with a purple and orange blouse with tie, a dark miniskirt, grey hose and little turquoise pumps. They did up their eyes with little lashes and are giving a cute smile at the camera.
April 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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RRG. ARG! OHH! OOG.
A loosely drawn abstract white shape on a black background that resembles a googly-eyed bipedal creature angry shaking its fist to the right at the character in the next image, it is made of wiggly lines. A loosely drawn abstract white shape on a black background that resembles a googly-eyed bipedal creature screaming into the sky in frustration. A loosely drawn abstract white shape on a black background that resembles a googly-eyed bipedal creature with a thick body, small arms and a big chin crouching to yell angrily to the right A loosely drawn abstract white shape on a black background that resembles a googly-eyed bipedal creature with a small torso, thick arms and legs and a very big chin crouching to yell angrily to the left
April 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Blair's Ma

#BlairGritstone 🦴 #CastOfIV
A grouchy looking grey-skinned cavewoman in a black dress and sandals. She has dot eyes, stringy black hair, purple lips and showing pale green teeth as she scowls.
April 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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CAVEMAD 😡

#BlairGritstone 🦴 #CastOfIV
Blair the buff cavegal makes an angry pose as if she's so pissed about to explode, bent knees and grasping little hands as she makes a sharp-toothed grimace. She's colored a furious dark red on an abstract bright red background with a blurry burst. Fume lines of white hot anger wiggle above her head.
April 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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"Thank.....you?"
A confused Hester not sure what to make of Kyle taking joy in her misery. Why Kyle. She thought you were a friend. Now nothing makes sense anymore.
February 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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A crazy hungry looking Beignet licks her lips excitedly with her hands clasped saying "Love to! WHADDYA GOT."
February 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Bask in the glow of that most glitteracious grebe, the mothership connection, the funkified father of Sanura and that great god of groovin’ IHY! 𓅭𓏣

✨🪩 Do not bow, only GET down, baby! 🪩✨

Created with the cool @kmorrison.bsky.social for his swaggerous & superlative #Sanura𓃠𓆃
A cartoon illustration of a small shimmering gold bird standing on the tip of a glittery gold pyramid in front of a super bright sunburst. He wears black sunglasses, a gold khepresh crown with a white sistrum hieroglyph (also with sunglasses drawn) on it, a shiny turquoise jewel on his chest and big chunky hoof-like high heels. His cream and turquoise wings hang like a cape with feathers sticking up by his neck like a collar. His body is covered in gold tinsel feathers and he's got a chill friendly grin on his swooping square beak.
February 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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BOW DOWN BEFORE THE BIG BIG BEAT OF 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗕𝗔𝗗 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗧 before 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗕𝗔𝗗 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗧 knocks you out. 𓄂𓂥

Sanura’s mama and the god that gives other gods nightmares. And yes, you DO say the whole name every time. 🫵🏿

Created with @kmorrison.bsky.social for his world of #Sanura𓃠𓆃 
🌍 (pictured sat on)
A cartoon illustration of a massively muscular and masculine navy blue pantheress sitting on a photograph of the earth. She has a blank grouchy expression with tiny green glowing eyes, her stubble also shines like stars. She’s wearing good chains around her neck, the biggest of which has the name “Bastet” written in stylized hieroglyphs, as well as brass knuckles, a gold sundial watch, a single earring and gold rings on her toes. She holds a gold sistrum in her left hand and ankh in her right. She has an emerald in her bellybutton and red painted nails. The sky is a rainbow colored cosmos with seba symbols floating as if they were real stars.
February 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙧𝙖? 🤔
ɹǝɥʇoq ʇ,uop

New character designs I made for @kmorrison.bsky.social 's thrice-baked slothful spacey sphinx Sanura and her lowercase lettuce-leaf lover Kael, the god of organized pen drawers!

#Sanura𓃠𓆃
⋗ Meet her family in the thread below ▿
A cartoon illustration of a goofy oblong sphinx that resembles a deep blue sphynx cat with wings. She has two bulging lopsided yellow eyes with pink irises, dark red shiny lids with exaggerated black ancient Egyptian style eyelashes, a two-tone purple snout with a green nose and cute little grin. She has an emerald headress and several earrings with little black braided hair to her side. Her whole expression is satisfied and…high as hell. She has a loopy long neck in a tall gold necklace ending in a big round ball stomach with a blue and pink target pattern and a ruby bellybutton piercing. Standing on the ruby is a tiny skinny green mouse holding a little scroll and taking notes. He has wonky yellow eyes, black hair, a little brown tunic and a look of intense attention as if he’s waiting to write down whatever it is Sanura’s about to say. She sits on a photograph of an ancient Egyptian column in front of a pink evening sky, sunbathing on the job instead of working
February 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Hester having feelings

From the world of #KMsRandomInsanity ⁉️ @kmorrison.bsky.social
Digital doodles of the awkward moody artist Hester, a very tall goofy teen goth girl with friendly eyes, a square head, big goofy teeth and a little skull clip in her square hair. Here she is looking unsure, grouchy, sad, shocked and very happy. Black lines on grey canvas.
February 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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A black and white doodle of Beignet bowing with her head down and eyes closed with a little smile, her left hand is on her chest and right is in the air as she spins her hand in thanks. Bouquets and roses fly past her head.
February 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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An emotional journey through a little snack 🥮
#BeignetBear 🎪 #SweetbaysCircus 🖌️ #CastOfIV
Black and white doodles of Beignet's face. Here she hungrily licks her lips with big eager eyes. The top drawing has her with a toothy grin, tongue pulling her upper lip in front of her gums and the bottom has her big tongue flipping to her cheek as she juts her chin forward towards whatever she's looking at. Black and white doodles of Beignet's face. Up top she happily starts to scarf down a full cake, below she chews with an open mouth that's stuffed with a bunch of cakes and cupcakes with a cross-eyed half-lidded lazy smile. Black and white doodles of Beignet's face. The top has her with full cheeks swallowing all the desserts at once with an elated tongue-out smile, the bottom has her satisfied exhaling and licking around her mouth with a open smile that shows her sharp teeth. Black and white doodles of Beignet's face. The top left has her lazily letting out a giant belch with a big mouth and her lips flapping, the bottom has her saying "MmM." with a big chinned smile as she thinks back on that delicious snack.
February 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Many Beign-y moods!
#BeignetBear 🎪 #SweetbaysCircus 🖌️ #CastOfIV
Black and white doodles of Beignet's face. The top two are sassy and dismissive, the bottom she does a faux-embarrassed cheeky grin. Black and white doodles of Beignet's face. To the left she makes a wide-eyed look of surprise and raises her hand to her chin, top right she sarcastically gives a grumpy side-eye and below she gives a look of shock with her mouth wide open. Black and white doodles of Beignet's face. Top left has her hungrily smiling open mouthed with her tongue curled in anticipation, top right has a big toothy grin, bottom left has her licking her lips and dreamily imagining a big cake in a little thought bubble, to her right is Beignet with big crazy happy eyes, smiling with her mouth closed and her huge tongue lolling out. Black and white doodles of Beignet's face. Top left has her giving a big eyed skeptical/sarcastic expression, to her right a grumpy eye roll blowing a raspberry, below a half lidded "ugh" expression with her bottom jaw jutting out and showing her pointy teeth.
February 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Some of Danny-Boy's favorite subjects, the local menagerie of what can be generously described as folks.

@kmorrison.bsky.social 👦⁉️ #KMsRandomInsanity
John St. Pennywhistle, a smarmy and untrustworthy looking man with a fake tan, a large chin, large torso and un-large pencil legs. He's dressed in a preppy pink sweater vest with another sweater tied on his waist and baby blue chinos with a gold watch. He's greeting someone with "CHUM!" about to butter them up before attempting to scam them. Development sketches are around him. In the bottom right there's a sequence with him on a gigantic 80s cell phone. He nods pretending to have a call. "Mmhm? Mmhm! Mmhmm..." [eyes move only] "Do you Mind? I'm in the middle of a CELLAR TELEPHONE CALL. (I am rich)" A bespectacled noodle nosed goober with a pompadour and ponytail cosplaying as a painter, with a fancy bubble pipe in his tea-stained teeth. He poses with a palette in one hand and a paintbrush in the other, with his floppy show on a tiny stool. There are other sketches around him, one breaking down his physique and fashion labeled "Style Mumblesons" (a play off his original name). His hair is labeled "flying coiffure" and "party lever", his shirt "professional torso guard", his pocket protector "pocket pal," his belt "security", his flared pants "dance masters" and his white shoes are "steppers for stepping out." A little doodle underneath has him adjusting his bowtie and saying "I look 'the snazz' if I do proclaim myself." Savannah the giraffe courier looks at you with a perplexed goofy look. She's got a little brown work had and big silly teeth. Around her are development sketches with various expressions and poses, and a small drawing showing the difference between her model in this project versus when she appears in Kyle's other comic strip "Kayla Komix". She's older and more rounded, cutesy and colorful there! The health inspector & resident middle manager of everything, an African-American man with a bean shaped body and a big head, a big nose and a horeshoe mustache/chinstrap beard (not sure the official name). He has a paisley tie, holds a clipboard with official papers in one hand as he does a persnickety pinkie point with his other. He squints one eye and looks disapprovingly. He disapproves of a lot around here.
February 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Danny-Boy's beleaguered staff--yes, someone allowed Danny-Boy to have a staff--Bitty Kitinez (the beanbag toy cat) & Llorraine Lloyaza (the llama) alongside their daughter Hester (the neither of those).

@kmorrison.bsky.social 👦⁉️ #KMsRandomInsanity
Bitty is a little blue stuffed animal cat with a white muzzle, wearing a dark purple suit that covers their arms and feet, with a light purple shirt and a neon tie. Around them are black and white development sketches of them in various poses like being picked up and flopped like a beanbag, as well as costumes. The costumes from top to bottom, left to right are: Abraham Lincoln, cowboy, "sassy shopper" dress, princess and doctor. Next to the color one in the middle is a version of the genderfluid flag stylized to match the duller color scheme of this project. They neutrally go by "they/them" but take all pronouns, they like to go by whatever they're dressed as that day! Llorraine is a hefty older llama with a long neck and bangs covering her eyes, holding a stack of yellow paper with lines of words. She wears a baggy scratchy knit sweater with a pin tree pattern, and a brown dress with no shoes on her hooves. She's got a grouchy talking expression and holds a pencil behind her bottom teeth. Around her are development sketches showing her other clothes, her eyes, Bitty riding her like a horse as she eats hay, and a little sequence with Danny-Boy. Danny says "And THAT's when I--" dramatically telling a story. Above he smugly lays on her head saying "read that back to me dear", then we see him being thrown saying "WOO gettin some air on that one!" Llorraine is Danny's secretary/stenographer but find him very...very annoying. Hester is a very tall teenage human girl with an awkward nervous expression. She's got a skinny head, a unibrow, pierced nose and ears, blig grey lips, an overbite with braces, freckles with purple blush and pale green hair with matching nails. She's wearing a dark grey high collared shirt under a red-orange sweater and darker grey pleated skirt. On her hip she has her pet, a zombie Tamagotchi style toy. In the full-body sketch we see she wears big Frankenstein-esque stomp boots. There are various drawing and color notes around her, and a little box with a sketch of a happy Bitty & Llorraine with "Bitty & Lllorraine's Darling Daughter Hester Lloyaza-Kitinez." The other sketches have her inhaling dinner like a vacuum, dancing and grooving at her art desk with her headphones while she paints. At the bottom right, Savannah points at her suspiciously saying “are you sure you’re not part giraffe?” A Lloyaza-Kitinez family portrait! Hester (here wearing a dark grey dress with purple hair & nails and a skull hairclip) holds up a very happy Bitty in a pink shirt and tie as Llorraine sits blankly...she's happy but doesn't smile for photos.
February 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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That urban adventurer, anthropologist of everything and inexplicable little thingy man, Danny-Boy!



Created by & the responsibility of @kmorrison.bsky.social 
👦⁉️ #KMsRandomInsanity
Danny-Boy, a freaky little nugget with a head like a melon, eagerly runs in his signature Action Jammies™ (a onesie with shoe soles nailed in for extra ACTION) and Style Enhancer™ (a flannel shirt for flapping). In this picture his clothes are pale pea green and burgundy, his floating hairpiece is reddish and his big fat nose is orange. Danny-Boy, a bizarre tiny weirdo with a noggin like an egg, happily struts across an invisible stage with vim and/or vigor, looking at us with a wide eyed grin as if we should applaud. His swinging arms crack and punch himself in his weirdly layered face. His skin is more yellowish and he wears blue Action Jammies™ with a greenish-brown Style Enhancer™ over it. Danny-Boy, a maddening diminutive oddball with a bonce like a kumquat, stands like a normal person but oh what's this poking out of his ear, you guessed it, it's an even smaller Danny-Boy. His skin is tan, his hair is dirty-blonde, his Action Jammies™ are forest green, his Style Enhancer™ is plaid orangey brown, his face is Gormless Stupidity™. Danny-Boy, an idiot, flies through the air through the power of god knows how, leaving a trail of sparkling magic behind him. His shirt is brown, his little outfit is baby blue with plaid lines. In this his skin is colored pinkish with a pink nose and his floating hair thing is blonde. The lumpy poorly drawn hand aiming at us in perspective? is labeled "growth."
February 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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BW sketch of Beignet proudly responding to the above comment with "well I know it, I'm just glad YOU know it"
February 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Presenting that GIANT of generosity, that TITAN of entertainment, that Impresario of the IMPRESSIVE, that most MAGNANIMOUS of men, and MOST of all...Beignet's beloved pop: 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗟 𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗪𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘 𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗦𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗧𝗕𝗔𝗬! 🎺

#SweetbaysCircus 🎪 #CastOfIV
Cartoon illustration of a tiny African-American man with a big grey handlebar mustache and beard wearing an 1800s white Southern US-style suit with a big coat and an American flag themed blue tie & pink pinstripe vest combo. He has an oversized Western hat that covers his eyes with a blue headband, blue cowboy boots and a small red boutonniere pinned to the lapel facing camera. He's on a textured golden orange background and his very large shadow is being projected by a spotlight.
February 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM