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Cartoon Beardy

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A late entry for #xenovember day 19 - went a bit disco with this one.

#art #DarkArt #Alien #xenomorph #horror #HorrorArt #HRGiger #ArtChallenge #BSkyArt

A biomechanical creature from the alien movie series stands in a fiery space looking at you.

November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Visited the LuxMuralis Time light art installation at Greenwich Naval College. Pretty cool and I’m not just talking about the -2 degrees wind coming off the Thames

A chapel wall with arched cove streams beams of streaking starlight over the area

A tower of the Greenwich naval college is illuminated with yellow clocks and clockwork. Below it are some columns and promenade illuminated in vivid reds and pinks

The painted gallery of the Greenwich naval college is illuminated by eight huge columns of multi coloured light. The light is emanating from floating structures in two rows of four

A chapel of the Greenwich naval college is bathed in purple, blue and pink projection overlaying mathematical symbols and formulas with excerpts of writing by HG Wells’ The Time Machine.

November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

I'm not saying anything about how my day is going *Cough!* but I managed to do a second take on #Xenovember day 18

#art #alien #xenomorph #DarkArt #ArtChallenge #HRGiger #Horror #HorrorArt #Creature #CreatureArt #BSkyArt

A digital painting of a biomechanical creature from the Alien films. It stands its arms wrapped around itself looking up at a light source from the top left of the image. Its body a mass of pipes and shiny metallic skin

November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Up late doing #Xenovember day 18 - which should stand as a cautionary tale about knowing when to stop before you over egg the piece. Smudgy and indistinct I should have stopped 2 hours ago
#art #DarkArt #xenomorph #alien #bskyart #ArtChallenge #mistake

A biomechanical feminine creature. It’s a bit too dark and high contrast and blurry to be sure what it is.

November 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

#xenovember day 17 - dropped the colours for a bit of mood lighting
#art #DarkArt #alien #xenomorph #horror #HorrorArt #HRGiger #ArtChallenge #BSkyArt

A digital painting of a biomechanical creature from the Alien franchise. The creature is stooped its arms and head lolling forward limply. Its back arched and its legs bent as if rising from a crouch.

November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Well I WAS drawing, but I guess I’m not now…

#cat

A ginger cat sits asleep in the foreground . In the background being held at arms length is an iPad with an unfinished sketch on it

November 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Well despite the website saying otherwise, the market was closed. So had a stroll round a chilly London. And discovered what a boat would look like if you designed it on LSD

A black boat sculpture with a creatures face, pipes, spikes and ornate flourishes on the hull and main mast. Making the boat look like some kind of Victorian, steampunk sea monster

November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

So I got in super early on #Xenovember day 16 - Well I say early, I started on the 15th at 11pm so here I am, happy to be early but regretting that I’m going to bed at 2:30am Sunday morning 😴🫩
#art #xenomorph #alien #hrgiger #horrorart #darkart #horror #bskyart

A digital painting of a Xenomorph biomechanical creature from the Alien film franchise. The creature, bathed in blue light, turns towards you. One arm raised as if to block the light.

November 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

#xenovember day 15 - I had to stop on this one. I could have gone on for hours farting about with it and getting nowhere. Then procreate crashed so I’m taking that as a sign to stop.

#art #xenomorph #alien #hrgiger #horror #horrorart #darkart #scifiart #procreate #artchallebge #bskyart

An alien from the film franchise of the same name. It is leaning back bathed in blue light and red shadows

November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

#Xenovember day 14 - went a bit Alien 3 with the setting and colour

#Art #alien #darkart #xenomorph #horror #horrorart #hrgiger #artchallenge #creature #scifiart #bskyart

A digital painting of a Xenomorph creature from the alien film series. The creature sits perched on a beam lit by a stark yellowish glow from below that it appears to be cowering from. Behind in the distance is the vague I ndistinct forms of a factory or derelict machinery

November 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

QRP with your fan #art

#digitalpainting #jurassicpark #TRex #filmart #fanart #painting #bskyart

Digital painting of a scene of Jurassic Park. In the foreground is a man wearing a cowboy hat holding a flare. In the middle distance is the huge menacing T-Rex, looms over an upturned car staring intently at the flare.

November 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Just got a text from my wife who has come home to find the cat, who appeared out of a bush in our garden and randomly adopted us, has made himself at home again. BTW the blanket wasn’t on the sofa, this little sod moved it 🤣
#cat

A photo of a sofa with a dark grey blanket on it. In the middle of the blanket is a sleeping ginger cat, laying flat on his back.

November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Morning all. A bleak drizzly morning today, but I have a mug of coffee the size of an Olympic swimming pool, the radio on and getting some #xenovember sketching in early while I await client feedback

So actually it’s not a bad start

#art #wip #xenomorph #alien #wacom #cintiq #bskyart #drawing

A Wacom Cintiq drawing monitor sits on a desk. On the screen is a digital sketch of a Xenomorph from the alien film franchise. The sketch is just basic construction lines drawn on a blank Photoshop document

November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

#xenovember day 13 - I’m noodling for longer and longer on these things. At this rate day 15 will arrive in a week.

#art #alien #xenomorph #horror #horrorart #hrgiger #creatureart #scifiart #artchallenge #bskyart

A tall willowy thin Xenomorph from the alien movie series stands, passive, in a pale green light. Its biomechanical skin is pale with translucent blue and purple mottling through its skin.

November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

#xenovember day 12 aka snapping out of a four hour digital painting flow state and wondering to myself “where the hell did that come from!?”

#art #alien #xenomorph #darkart #horror #horrorart #hrgiger #creatureart #creature #bskyart

A digital painting of a biomechanical Xenomorph creature from the alien movie franchise. The creature sits perched on a rock bathed in sickly green light from above. The creature crouches down and looks upwards to the light source

November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Thank you for hosting the Artshare.

One of these is my most popular image of 2025 so far

Probably not the one you’d expect 🤣

A monochrome digital painting of a Xenomorph from the Alien franchise. The creature looks biomechanical with pipes and mechanical seams across its sinewy body. Its head elongated and phallic and from its back protrudes pipes. The creature is posed to rest an arm on a folded leg and its head is dipped

A cartoon zombie is slumped, tired, over a desk the top of its head is missing and the creature is pouring coffee into the top of its skull.

A digital painting of a Xenomorph from the Alien franchise, doused in an orange sandy light. The creature looks biomechanical with pipes and mechanical seams across its sinewy body. Its head elongated and phallic and from its back protrudes pipes. The creature is posed leaning backwards to the left of the page its arms outstretched

A digital portrait of the actor Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty from the movie Blade Runner. The character looks tired and contemplative in the rain

November 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

#xenovember day 11

Last minute dot com with this one.

#art #alien #darkart #xenomorph #horror #horrorart #hrgiger #scifiart #bskyart

November 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Morning Jim

November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

#JustWatched Velocipastor (yes really) and it contains this profound statement over the image of a priest ripping a ninja masters head off…

Absolute cinema right there!
#filmsky #moviesky #movies

A man covered in blood roaring and raising his hands above his head has the caption “only through the elimination of violence, will we finally be able to achieve world peace.” - Gandhi

November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

If you see this, post your bird art 🐦

#birds #art

Pencil drawing in a sketchbook of a small bird

November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Afternoon everyone. Another day another #Xenovember piece. Day 10 shows what difference model reference makes (and drawing on a Cintiq at my workstation rather than an iPad on a sofa with a cat on your lap)

#art #darkart #xenomorph #horror #horrorart #HRGiger #alien #scifiart #bskyart

A monochrome digital painting of a creature from the Alien movies. The creature is posed sat, its leg dangling while the other is bent upward for its arm in the foreground to rest on. Its head is dipped

November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM

Cartoon Beardy

@cartoonbeardy.bsky.social

Just thought as I have 9 images done I’d do a collage of my first “week” (maths was never my strong suit) with #xenovember Days 1-9

#art #alien #darkart #xenomorph #horror #horrorart #hrgiger #scifiart #bskyart