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David Morgan-Mar
@dmmaus.bsky.social
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Creator: Irregular Webcomic!; Darths & Droids; Planet of Hats; mezzacotta
Physicist, photographer, educator, old-school TTRPG gamer, Australian. he/him
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Latest sketch. "Your Display Gallery", a tiny neighbourhood antique store, next to a hairdresser, a cafe, and... suburban homes. It opens on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Pencil sketch of a tiny antique store on a street corner.
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Three of @shaenon.bsky.social ’s original artworks for her X-Files recap comic “Monster of the Week”. Now hanging in a new position in my hallway after the home repainting and mini-renovation.

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Photo of a freshly painted hallway (oooh, aah), with three framed artworks hanging on a picture rail. They are Episodes 1.1, 2.18, and 3.22 of Shaenon Garrity's comic Monster of the Week, an episode-by-episode humorous recap of The X-Files.
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Sketch of a house in Greenwich, Sydney.
1917, Federation Queen Anne style.

#sketch
Ink sketch of a 1917 Federation Queen Anne style two-storey home.
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Love Japanese maples.
Photo close up of red Japanese maple leaves.
October 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Painting is finally underway at my place! It's gonna be a mess for a week, but then fresh and new.
Photo of a living room with furniture covered by plastic dropsheets and the floor covered by canvas dropsheets. A painter is at work cleaning the walls around a window. The ceiling has already had a coat of new paint, the edges visibly overlapping the old wall paint (to be covered over).
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Now I know why this timeline feels wrong. According to Usborne Books' "World of the Future", published in 1979 and a childhood favourite reading source of mine, the 2020 Olympic Games were supposed to be held on the Moon.
A page from Usborne Books' 1979 "World of the Future" book series. It shows a title "The Olympic Games, Year 2020", with illustrations of rockets conveying athletes to a lunar habitat, culminating in a hopeful picture of an athlete in space suit holding an Olympic torch in an oxygen globe.
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I guess sloppy colour grading is not so noticeable in a temporal format like a movie. But making a comic strip (like Darths & Droids), the bad colour match sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm gonna have to adjust the colour on the bottom left panel.
Screencaps of 8 shots from a single scene of Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, the scene where Rey enters Kylo Ren's artefact chamber on the Steadfast. Seven frames are colour matched, but the bottom left one is noticeably more blue and less green in hue.
October 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Vertical sprawl.

#photography #sydney #urbansprawl #highrise
Photo of four brand new residential towers in close proximity with no space showing in between.
October 14, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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At the bookstore.
Photo of two books on a bookstore shelf. First title: What is Strategy? Second title: This is Strategy.
October 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Found a friendly blue-tongue skink in the neighbourhood.
Photo of a blue-tongue skink sitting on some pavement. Photo of a blue-tongue skink sitting on some pavement.
October 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Sketch of one of the many bays in Sydney Harbour. From Bayview Park, Greenwich.

#sketch #art #drawing #sydney
Pencil sketch of a scene showing multiple yachts and boats moored in a small bay, with the opposite shore showing massed trees and a few buildings. In the foreground are three wooden mooring pylons, each topped with a black cormorant.
October 4, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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In 2006 I met Jane Goodall. I had an unremarkable webcomic, in which I'd co-opted Jane as a character—a crass, egotistical, version who posed as an expert on “monkeys”. I showed her some printouts & she said, “I’ve seen these. They’re funny.”
She agreed to pose for photos for my comic. RIP Jane.
A 4-panel photo comic: 1 {scene: a lecture theatre} 1 Me: Dr Goodall, it's an honour to meet you. I do this thing called Irregular Webcomic!... 2 Jane Goodall: {the real Jane Goodall! Really!} Oh yes, I've seen this. I've been hoping for the chance to meet you one day. 2 Me: You have?! 3 Jane Goodall: Yes. Come here, there's something special I want to give you. 3 Me: Yes? 4 [sound]: Smack!! {Jane Goodall chimp-slaps me across the face.}
October 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Old and new architecture in Sydney.
Photo of an old 19th century brick factory building, adjacent to two modern apartment towers.
September 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Did a sketching jaunt to Greenwich Hospital (in Sydney). This is Pallister House, built in 1892 as a country home, converted to a girl's school, then a girl's orphanage, before finally being taken over by the hospital.
Victorian Filigree architectural style.
Ink sketch of Pallister House, a two storey late Victorian Filigree style country home, with wrap-around verandah on the ground floor below a warp-around balcony on the first floor.
September 20, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Korean sweet & spicy fried chicken I had for dinner last night. From a new place I tried for the first time: YumKo in Chippendale (Sydney).
Photo of a bento box containing six pieces of Korean fried chicken, three appetiser dumplings, salad, rice, pickled radish, and a quarter orange.
September 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I'm running a Star Wars one-shot roleplaying adventure next Friday night. I made an intro graphic for my players.
Star Wars opening crawl text with the text: The Emperor and his right hand man, DARTH VADER, have established an iron grip on the Galaxy. The Senate, once the bastion of democracy, is either unable or unwilling to curb their tyranny. The downtrodden are forced to desperate measures. Your mercenary group has survived by taking on questionable jobs and asking no questions. And you’re NOT afraid to shoot first. A bounty hunter tells you a band of Jawas on Tatooine have a KYBER CRYSTAL. Retrieving it will bring wealth, and introduction to JABBA THE HUTT's inner circle. But one of your team is still recovering from an injury sustained in your last job...
September 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Taken at a restaurant near me.
I'm happy about their ingredients.
Photo of a sign outside a restaurant. It contains nine Chinese food menu items, such as honey prawns, braised pork belly, sweet and sour pork, salt and pepper tofu, etc. Stuck to the sign is a sheet of paper with handwritten text: "Homemade by us. No Pet"
September 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Sketches from The Rocks, Sydney.
I was sitting on a bench drawing the church and a bus pulled up and parked right in front of me, blocking my view! Had to walk around it and stand on the street side near the traffic to finish the drawing!
Ink sketch of Argyle Street in The Rocks, Sydney, showing a cafe umbrella in the foreground, in front of the Argyle Centre building, with street market stalls in front of it. Brush pen sketch of the Garrison Church at The Rocks, Sydney. A beautiful old Sydney sandstone Anglican church, constructed 1840-1846.
August 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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No wonder we're all sick of the rain in Sydney. The last 6 years have been the highest 6-year running total rainfall in recorded history. Average around 7200mm, current total 9293mm.
Graph showing Sydney's six-year running total rainfall. The last point (up to the current date) shows a record total of 9293 mm. (In records going back to 1858.)
August 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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The rotunda at Balmoral Beach, Sydney.
Sketched today while taking my dog Scully out for some fresh air.
Brush pen sketch of a rotunda/bandstand with Doric columns supporting a circular roof. Wide steps lead up to the stage. In the foreground in front of the steps is a statue of a dog sitting on a plinth, looking at the rotunda. Green eucalyptus trees fill the background.
August 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Sketches from the University of Technology Sydney before my teaching stint tonight. (I accidentally wrote the month as 7 in the date on the first one, it should be 8.)
Ink sketch of the main tower (left) and the new Building 2 of the University of Technology Sydney. Ink brush sketch of the old clock tower of the University of Technology Sydney College building in Ultimo, Sydney, with street corner scene in the foreground.
August 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Scully says hi from the harbour shore.
Photo of a black toy poodle sitting on a sandstone wall, with water, yachts, and boats in the background.
July 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Trying to keep up my sketching after my European trip. Here's a scene from much closer to home. Did this while out walking my dog this morning.
Pencil sketch of Oyster Cove, in Waverton, Sydney. The scene shows a harbour wharf with naval ships dominating the mid-ground, a private recreation boat in the foreground, and trees and the Anzac Bridge in the background.
July 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Sketches of Vienna.
I've scanned all my sketches from Europe, and they're in this album:
www.flickr.com/photos/dmmau...
Pencil sketch of the Graben town square in Vienna. A large city square surrounded by 4-5 storey buildings, with people milling about, or sitting under large cafe umbrellas. Ink sketch of the Karlskirche in Vienna, a large Romanesque church with a central dome and two tall pillars out the front. Ink sketch shaded with grey ink washes of the Ankeruhr historical clock in Vienna. Ink sketch of the Neuer Markt square in Vienna, with a large fountain dominating.
July 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Sketches of Salzburg.
Pencil sketch of Mozartplatz in Salzburg, showing a couple of large churches flanking a distant view of a large castle high on a hill in the background between them. Pencil sketch of the Pegasus Fountain in the gardens of Schloss Mirabell in Salzburg. A statue of Pegasus reads from a stone platform in the centre of the fountain. This is the fountain the children and Maria run around when singing “Do, Re, Mi” in The Sound of Music. Behind it can be seen the steps where they perform the finale of the song. Ink sketch of a view over Salzburg from a view point high up in the castle overlooking the city.
July 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM