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Birone
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Lantern
Laindéar

Christmas card for 2025, drawn in Clip Studio Paint.
Have a great Christmas, gang! Nollaig shona daoibh!
Stain glass style illustration depicting Shades O' Reilly holding a glowing lantern. He looks up to a lone star against the night sky.
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Nice aim!
Aimsiú iontach!

Christmas card for 2024, drawn in Clip Studio Paint. And pencil sketches that were then included on the inside.
Shades stands shocked as a snowball splats him in the face. He is hit with such force his hat and sunglasses fall off. Pen and ink sketch of Shades wearing a sour expression as the snowball slides off his face. He doesn't see the next oncoming volley. In the corner is another stack of snowballs ready to go. These were then arranged on the inside spread of the card.
December 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Carol Singing
Canadh Carúl

Christmas card design for 2023. Linocut print.
Black and white linocut print of Shades O' Reilly perched in a tree in the forest. He happily listens to two birds sing their song.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Night Sky, Night Watch
Spéir na hOíche, Faire na hOíche

Christmas card design I made in 2022. Drawn in Clip Studio Paint.
A limited colour palette of blues and accent reds depict a snowscape. Shades looks to the night sky and sees reindeer pull a sleigh across the sky. They are silhouetted by the full moon.
December 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Top of the Pine Tree!

Christmas card I designed in 2021, drawn in Clip Studio Paint.
Shades O' Reilly sits near the top of a pine tree decorated with baubles. He holds aloft a decorative star that glows in the night sky.
December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Pine Marten, Pine Wreath

Christmas card design I made in 2018. Drawn in Photoshop. And also sketches I included on the inside of the card.
Shades O' Reilly dons a Christmas cap and is surrounded by a Christmas wreath of holly and pine cones. He cheers and waves out to the viewer. Two sequential sketches of Shades O' Reilly in the middle of a Christmas wreath. In the first one he goes "Oooh, pine cone!" as he grabs one. Second one has him bit into it with an audible crunch with shards spraying forth.
December 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I've got a good few done already but if you folks would like a card, let me know!
birone.bsky.social Birone @birone.bsky.social · Nov 22
Heya! How's the craic? I know it's a touch early but I'd love to send out Christmas cards for December. So if you'd like one, do let me know!
Doodle of Shades O' Reilly donning a winter cap, carrying a post bag and posting a Christmas card into the post box
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Heya! How's the craic? I know it's a touch early but I'd love to send out Christmas cards for December. So if you'd like one, do let me know!
Doodle of Shades O' Reilly donning a winter cap, carrying a post bag and posting a Christmas card into the post box
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I've made a compilation of last month's drawings for ToonJune in one handy place. Hope you enjoy!
A collection of all my drawings for the ToonJune drawing challenge last month, featuring Shades O' Reilly and Judge Kavangh, among others.
July 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I realized I hadn’t drawn a pine marten in several years, so I drew @birone.bsky.social
#art
June 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Day 1 of #ToonJune: your favourite cartoon character(s!). Wanted to kick things off with an iconic trio, haha!
These prompts are a great reason for me to do rough doodles in the sketchbook again. Hope to get through as many as I can!

Pencils // markers // fountain pen
Rough sketch of the Warner brothers and the Warner sister: Yakko, Wakko and Dot from Animaniacs.
June 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Glass Marten

Stained glass style illustration for today's date, 10th of March, aka Mar-ten.
Drawn in Clip Studio Paint.
Digital art of a pine marten sitting on a log, drawn in the style seen in stained glass windows. The pine marten looks off pensively into the distance. A decorative border of lines and diamonds flank the sides of the picture.
March 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Gonna get a lot of FLAC for this one...

One from the A6 sketchbook. Blue pencil // Pencil // Pitt pens
Caption reads "Folks love the sound of waves, but audiophiles love the sound of .WAVs". In the foreground sits an otter holding a shell to their ear, and a fennic fox with over-sized headphones connected to a hi-fi music system. Behind them is a nautical wave crashing on one side and an audiowave on the other.
January 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Hi all, hope you're keeping well! It's that time of year and I have some cards I'd love to send out for December, so do let me know if you'd like one (especially ol' mutuals and pals!).
Pine marten detective Shades O' Reilly leaps up and stuffs letters into an overfilled post box. The post box has burst open spilling letters and packages onto the floor
December 4, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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Hi all, hope you're keeping well! It's that time of year and I have some cards I'd love to send out for December, so do let me know if you'd like one (especially ol' mutuals and pals!).
Pine marten detective Shades O' Reilly leaps up and stuffs letters into an overfilled post box. The post box has burst open spilling letters and packages onto the floor
December 4, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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I Was Told There Would Be Cheese

Done in Clip Studio Paint
An annoyed mouse stands in front of a camera, no food to be had. And they say the camera never lies...
December 2, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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In Snow, pt. 1 & 2

Drawn in January 2019. My contribution for the NFC conbook that year, a half-page and two page spread respectively.
Done in photoshop
A lone mouse wanders through a winter landscape. The sun creates stark shadows from the pine trees. A mouse wanders through a winter landscape and approaches a cabin with smoke billowing from the chimney.
December 2, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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Writing Records for Redwall

Another Redwall piece that was done for the Tapestry fanzine from the crowd that made the Re:Redwall Podcast. Drawn in September 2021.

Done in Clip Studio Paint
A squirrel monk is in the library writing. At the desk lies old parchments, a pot of ink and a hot drink still brewing.
December 2, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Gallivanting

A Redwall-inspired drawn in February 2020 that was originally intended for a fanzine named Mouseflower, but the pandemic put a dampener on that.
I was able to reuse it though for another fanzine called Tapestry, by the crowd that made the ReRedwall Podcast.
Drawn in Clip Studio Paint
Three woodland creatures, a badger, a squirrel and a mouse, dressed in medieval garb are walking through an idyllic forest with the sun shining down on them
December 2, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Hi all! Aon craic?
Dusting off the cobwebs and wanted to flesh out this profile a bit with artwork, old and new.
Hope you've all been keeping well!
December 2, 2024 at 7:33 PM