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Brian
@greygraphite.bsky.social
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Artist, college drawing instructor, union organizer, amateur Sasquatchologist.

www.brianrwilliams.com

Creator of the webcomic “Orick & Argyle."

www.orickandargyle.com
patreon.com/orickandargyle
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Brian @greygraphite.bsky.social · Sep 12
Hi! My comic, “Orick & Argyle,” is about a Sasquatch and an extraterrestrial who commit acts of civil disobedience in defense of nature. They’re often joined by human person Ursula and mountain lion person Leona. Comics at orickandargyle.com and you can support me at www.patreon.com/orickandargyle
Comic characters Orick, a Sasquatch, and Argyle, an extraterrestrial, are walking on a sidewalk past a shop window in their human disguises. Their reflections in the window reveal their true selves. Comic characters Ursula, the human, Orick, the Sasquatch, and Argyle, the extraterrestrial, sit outside around a campfire at dusk. Argyle’s hot dog caught on file. In the distance behind Argyle is the trailer Ursula lives in. Comic characters Orick, a Sasquatch, Argyle, an extraterrestrial, and Leona, a mountain lion, are relaxing in Orick’s cave. Orick is reading in his chair, Argyle is on the floor watching The X-Files on his iPad, and Leona is napping in front of the fire. In the background is a bookshelf and a staircase, and above the fireplace hangs a painting of one of Orick’s Sasquatch ancestors.
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greygraphite.bsky.social
boids 🪶

#birds #birdart #digitalart
XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. Stanza Eleven from the poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens, illustrated by me. A flock of blackbirds flies alongside a greyish-blue streamlined steam passenger train speeding over a stone bridge under an overcast sky.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
boids 🪶

#birds #birdart #digitalart
XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. Stanza Eleven from the poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens, illustrated by me. A flock of blackbirds flies alongside a greyish-blue streamlined steam passenger train speeding over a stone bridge under an overcast sky.
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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greygraphite.bsky.social
I added a new Orick & Argyle illustration to my Patreon page! I'm posting chapters of my ongoing Orick & Argyle graphic novel adventure, "Will-o'-the-Wisp," exclusively on Patreon. My goal is to have 50 Patreon patrons by the end of the year.

www.patreon.com/orickandargyle

#digitalart #webcomics
A digital illustration showing comic book 3 characters in a rowboat on a pond at twilight. The pond is ringed with lily pads and cattails. Orick, a Sasquatch is rowing the boat; sitting in the boat behind him are Leona, a mountain lion, and Argyle, an extraterrestrial. The characters are looking cautiously in different directions. In the distance is an island with a spooky old wooden church and a pier.
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
Artist manifesto:
1 - you can’t capture the world or even a fragment of it so be specific.
2 - there’s value to taking a position in your art that is more extreme and less nuanced than you might hold in your actual life, to make a point, to be a counterweight.
3 - do what you like.
That’s it
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
greygraphite.bsky.social
If you see this, post your art with clouds 🌥️
III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. A digital illustration of Stanza III of the poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens. A red-winged blackbird flies above a metal contraption made of old rusty tin wind-up toys. It is placed over a rectangular hole in the ground that emanates purple light. The contraption is inspired by the painting "Twittering Machine" by Paul Klee. In the distance is a foggy field, a tree line, and pink and grey clouds at dusk.
November 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
A digital sketch for a drawing. I love sketching digitally even if the plan is to finish the drawing using traditional media.
A digital sketch of a giant jellyfish floating in the air in front of a large Tudor-style house at dusk. The jellyfish glows orange and pink, and its long tentacles drag on the ground.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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jimmynijs.bsky.social
It's my birthday today, and because I am turning 31, am actively balding, and will probably die alone, I want to celebrate it by sharing some of my favorite pieces from this year. 🥳🥳🥳

If you want you can join the celebration by sharing these pieces, that would be very much appreciated. 🖤
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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spacethrob.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
Artists, quote with your night art!

#digitalart #webcomic
A digital illustration showing comic book 3 characters in a rowboat on a pond at twilight. The pond is ringed with lily pads and cattails. Orick, a Sasquatch is rowing the boat; sitting in the boat behind him are Leona, a mountain lion, and Argyle, an extraterrestrial. The characters are looking cautiously in different directions. In the distance is an island with a spooky old wooden church and a pier.
October 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
I added a new Orick & Argyle illustration to my Patreon page! I'm posting chapters of my ongoing Orick & Argyle graphic novel adventure, "Will-o'-the-Wisp," exclusively on Patreon. My goal is to have 50 Patreon patrons by the end of the year.

www.patreon.com/orickandargyle

#digitalart #webcomics
A digital illustration showing comic book 3 characters in a rowboat on a pond at twilight. The pond is ringed with lily pads and cattails. Orick, a Sasquatch is rowing the boat; sitting in the boat behind him are Leona, a mountain lion, and Argyle, an extraterrestrial. The characters are looking cautiously in different directions. In the distance is an island with a spooky old wooden church and a pier.
October 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
Quote your art with fire 🔥🔥🔥
"Carbon," graphite and charcoal powder on toned paper, 2025. A pair of tree trunks in the foreground have square holes cut out of them. Emerging from the biggest hole is a man playing a burning violin; his arms holding the instrument and the bow are emerging from two smaller holes. The arm holding the bow is coming out of a different tree than the rest of his body, revealing the surrealistic and nonsensical nature of the scene. An ammonite and a pile of uncut diamonds are seen in two other cut-outs in the tree. Also emerging from the trees are steel smokestacks belching copious amounts of black smoke and sparks. In the background is a meadow with a creek running through it; along the horizon more trees can be seen. The sky is overcast. Everything in the scene is composed partly or entirely of carbon: the trees, the violin, the diamonds, the steel smokestacks, the smoke, the man.
October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
Oh it’s #portfolioday !?

I’m Brian, I like to do drawrings. You can see more at my website: brianrwilliams.com
A graphite drawing showing a surreal scene: in the foreground is a tree trunk with four square holes cut out of it. A man playing a violin emerges from the biggest hole; his arm holding the violin sticks out from another hole. His other arm holding the bow emerges from a hole in a second tree trunk. The violin is on fire. Diamonds and an ammonite are seen in the last two holes in the tree. Additionally, connected to the front of the two tree trunks are three smokestacks belching black smoke and sparks. In the background is an overcast landscape with a meadow, a creek and a forest in the far distance. A graphite drawing shows Krampus stepping into the hallway of a fancy house. Krampus has one human foot and one cloven hoof. He wears a basket of sticks on his back and drags chains shackled to his wrists. He looks at the viewer and sticks out his tongue. A graphite drawing shows an outdoor scene in a desert, with a mountain, clouds, stars and the moon in the background. In the foreground, a woman sits in a carved wooden sleigh being pulled by fantastical creatures whose whiskers the woman is using as reins. A graphite drawing on sepia-toned paper shows a woman wearing a wig and garments from the early 1800s. She stares at the viewer. Behind her is a nighttime landscape with a river, trees and stars. The spirit of the Mothman floats in the sky above the river.
October 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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greygraphite.bsky.social
It's almost Squatchtober! 🍂

Quote repost with your Autumn themed #art

orickandargyle.com
A digital painting of Orick, a Sasquatch wearing an orange scarf and carrying a hot drink of some kind, walking between some trees and saying "boo" to classic movie monsters Nosferatu, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a werewolf, who cower in fear and run away.
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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greygraphite.bsky.social
Just posted a new chapter of "Will-o'-the-Wisp," the novel-length Orick & Argyle story, to my Patreon! Here's an excerpt.

www.patreon.com/c/orickandar...
Orick, a Sasquatch, grabs Wicked Jenny, a Grinteeth, and says: "Jenny, no. I won't let you drown my friend." Ursula, a human person, is sitting on the bank next to a pond and asks, "Orick, you know her?" Beside her, Argyle, an extraterrestrial, holds her shoulder protectively. Orick answers, "Yes, Jenny is a Grinteeth." Wicked Jenny, interrupting Orick, says, "WICKED Jenny! My name is Wicked Jenny." Orick continues: "Grinteeth stalk and drown anyone who wanders near their pond." Jenny responds: "I was just about to release her!" Wicked Jenny, glaring at Orick, says, "And I don't drown EVERYONE. Only the one percent!" as she jerks her arm from Orick's grasp. From out of frame, Argyle says, "Huh?" Wicked Jenny explains: "I only drown the one-percent-wealthiest people! I swear it!" Ursula says, "Cool, she's a Jacobin Grinteeth!"
October 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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greygraphite.bsky.social
"Bow Shock," digital drawing. REX INTERFECTVS EST ("the king is killed") is the titulus above the scene on the Bayeux Tapestry depicting King Harold's death during the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The tapestry also shows Halley's Comet, which appeared the same year King Harold was killed.

#nokings
A digital drawing in black, grey and gold, showing an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon king painted in black and while being struck by a comet with a golden tail. The king is wearing chain mail and his hand is shown letting go of a lance. All that's shown of the king's head is his skull, which is being spun in the air by the force of the impact. The skull is still wearing a helmet and a crown. The night sky behind the scene is filled with gold stars. At the bottom of the drawing is an inscription written in gold that reads REX INTERFECTUS EST, meaning "the king is killed." The drawing is inspired by the death of King Harold II of England in 1066 as depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry.
June 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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wallacepolsom.bsky.social
Wallace Polsom, “The Fate of Dolls Lost at Sea” (24 Jun 2021), paper collage, 20.2 x 31.4 cm | wallacepolsom.com/post/6549032... #papercollage #collage #art #contemporaryart #thefateofdollslostatsea #surrealart
July 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
Just posted a new chapter of "Will-o'-the-Wisp," the novel-length Orick & Argyle story, to my Patreon! Here's an excerpt.

www.patreon.com/c/orickandar...
Orick, a Sasquatch, grabs Wicked Jenny, a Grinteeth, and says: "Jenny, no. I won't let you drown my friend." Ursula, a human person, is sitting on the bank next to a pond and asks, "Orick, you know her?" Beside her, Argyle, an extraterrestrial, holds her shoulder protectively. Orick answers, "Yes, Jenny is a Grinteeth." Wicked Jenny, interrupting Orick, says, "WICKED Jenny! My name is Wicked Jenny." Orick continues: "Grinteeth stalk and drown anyone who wanders near their pond." Jenny responds: "I was just about to release her!" Wicked Jenny, glaring at Orick, says, "And I don't drown EVERYONE. Only the one percent!" as she jerks her arm from Orick's grasp. From out of frame, Argyle says, "Huh?" Wicked Jenny explains: "I only drown the one-percent-wealthiest people! I swear it!" Ursula says, "Cool, she's a Jacobin Grinteeth!"
October 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
If you see this post something monochromatic

#traditionalart #drawing
"Carbon," graphite and charcoal powder on toned paper, 2025. A pair of tree trunks in the foreground have square holes cut out of them. Emerging from the biggest hole is a man playing a burning violin; his arms holding the instrument and the bow are emerging from two smaller holes. The arm holding the bow is coming out of a different tree than the rest of his body, revealing the surrealistic and nonsensical nature of the scene. An ammonite and a pile of uncut diamonds are seen in two other cut-outs in the tree. Also emerging from the trees are steel smokestacks belching copious amounts of black smoke and sparks. In the background is a meadow with a creek running through it; along the horizon more trees can be seen. The sky is overcast. Everything in the scene is composed partly or entirely of carbon: the trees, the violin, the diamonds, the steel smokestacks, the smoke, the man.
October 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
Artists, quote with something silly

#traditionalart
“The Hermit II,” graphite on paper, 6x8” oval, 2025. A birch tree grows from the neck of a woman from a 17th-century Dutch painting. She wears an elaborately-embroidered dress and stiff ruff collar. A woodpecker peeks out from a hole in the tree approximately where the woman’s head would have been.
September 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
It's almost Squatchtober! 🍂

Quote repost with your Autumn themed #art

orickandargyle.com
A digital painting of Orick, a Sasquatch wearing an orange scarf and carrying a hot drink of some kind, walking between some trees and saying "boo" to classic movie monsters Nosferatu, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and a werewolf, who cower in fear and run away.
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
"Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control has the power!" -G'mork

#kaseyart #penandink
September 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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abstractica.bsky.social
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September 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
Tomorrow! My solo show, "Rare Earth," opens at La Luz de Jesus Gallery! @laluzdejesus.bsky.social

This one's called "Alarm Call V," one of a series of absurdist little vignette drawings of birds & rusty old fog horns symbolizing nature's warning signs about climate change

#traditionalart #drawing
Rare Earth, drawings by Brian R. Williams, Friday, September 5 at La Luz de Jesus Gallery "Alarm Call V," graphite on toned paper. A pair of brant geese fly past a fog horn with 5 horns of various sizes, each facing in a different direction. The horns emerge from the top of a rust-stained cylindrical concrete structure built among an archipelago of sharp-edged triangular rocks. Visible at the base of the structure are metal pipes, wheels and drums of uncertain function. A photo of "Alarm Call V" matted and framed in a gold wooden frame.
September 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
greygraphite.bsky.social
If you see this, post something monochromatic 🖤
A black and white digital illustration showing comic book characters Ursula, a human woman; Orick, a Sasquatch; Argyle, an extraterrestrial; and Leona, a mountain lion, walking down a staircase carved into a cave. Ursula, holding a flashlight, leads the group.
August 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM