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Hey! Monster Boy
@heymonsterboy.bsky.social
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Ezekiel Strange ✨ He/Him ✨ Queer ✨ Live, learn, do better

Designer, Illustrator, Thaumaturgist

Living at the crossroads of the eerie, whimsical, and weird
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Just realized nobody can stop me from drawing homoerotic finance bros 🤠
Two South Asian men in business clothes standing facing one another. They are leaning together so one man can light the other man's cigarette. They are making slutty eye contact.
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Anyhoo off I go to spend time punching things
A photo of a mantis shrimp swimming away at top speed
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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(Blowing the dust off the box in my head labeled "Loving To Draw Actually") Let's fuckin GO
An energetic black-and-white sketch of a mohawked punk girl sitting on a concrete ledge. The angle looks upwards from her boots to her face. She's throwing the sign of the horns and sticking her tongue out through her grinning teeth.
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Any similarity between chinchillas and Nox Hill house imps is purely coincidentally on purpose
Various sketches of house imps: small creatures with bird feet, a squirrel-like body, big cat eyes and sharp teeth, and a big feathered tail.
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Made stickers to hand out while I'm at the garlic festival tomorrow :D
A collection of cartoony hand drawn garlic stickers. Some garlics have faces and some do not. Some have green backgrounds. Some are ghosts. Garlic ghosts.
September 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The smile / The reason
A selfie of a white guy (me!) with a goatee, a septum ring, and shaggy chin-length hair. He has a big lovey smile on his face. A photo of a chinchilla sitting on a bookshelf looking curiously at the camera.
September 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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aren't we all
A black and white drawing of an arm sticking out of deep waves giving a thumbs-up. Words in the background say "doin swell"
August 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Just played a goofy "let's label the provinces and states" game with @cairosteele.com and lol. lmao
A map of the USA and Canada with the provinces labeled (mostly correctly except for PEI) and the states labeled (mostly incorrectly)
August 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Copperfield wants to know if you have any games on your phone
Copperfield, a little round chinchilla, perched slightly above the camera, facing the viewer. His little hands are folded politely against his chest, slightly hidden by his thick fluff, and his round belly just begs for a tickle. His toes are just visible over the blanket he's sitting on. One of his ears is folded back. He has a curious expression.
July 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Figured I'd start doing some object studies

Here's a little copper pot I thrifted and then couldn't figure out what to do with. 40min ish
A chunky painting of a dusty copper pot on a grayish background
July 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A photo taken from a low angle, of a hand holding aloft a pudgy dark grey chinchilla, Houdini. You can see his little hands and feet with his toes splayed, and his soft fuzz piling around the edges of the person's fingers. His whiskers are spread out and his little nose is pointed towards the camera.
July 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Got the itch to draw fan art of @antonarcana.gay's magical unicorn boy.... so I did ✨🦄
A digital illustration of an anthro unicorn, turned 3/4 away from the viewer, reading from a spellbook and holding his arm aloft to create a blue flame. He is wearing a tan vest, red-brown breeches, a poofy dark blue shirt, and round red-rimmed glasses. He has an incredible mane of hair flowing in the wind and is surrounded by pink and purple billowing clouds.
July 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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face
the same sweet potatoes as pictured but with certain eyes and notches in the top one outlined to make the shape of a face
July 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Distracted @metuiteme.bsky.social with a bad joke and she told me I'd gotten her with a WEIRD HOOK so anyway I had to draw this
A four-panel graphic entitled SIGNATURE FIGHT MOVES. The first panel is two arms performing a straight punch. It is labeled THE JAB. The second panel is two arms performing an upward punch. It is labeled THE UPPERCUT. The third panel is two arms performing a cross-body punch. It is labeled THE CROSS. The last panel is two arms in strange spiraling rubberhose configurations. It is labeled THE WEIRD HOOK.
July 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Spent a while working on an older idea that I started ages ago and never got past the sketch stage with. Have to fix some perspective issues but whatever. WIP for the dopamine
A work-in-progress digital illustration. It is an upward shot of a figure with a cloud for a head, wearing a business suit with a lit cigarette, sitting on a bus stop bench in the afternoon sun. A telephone pole and electrical wires with birds perching on them is set against the blue summer sky in the background.
June 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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things are starting to shake loose--
A red ink line drawing of an anatomical heart with a wide staring eye in the middle, dripping blood and framed by veins
June 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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2006 vs 2020, because it's the best contrast I've got and the same timeframe, roughly. Generative AI is giving up and will only ever give you a hollow result. Have some pride in yourself and your ideas-- do the work instead.
From 2006, a pen and marker drawing of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth from the waist up. Lady Macbeth, ginger haired in a red dress, stands behind Macbeth with her hands on his shoulders and speaks softly into his ear. Macbeth, dressed in black, looks back towards her (resentfully?). A green snake makes a celtic knot motif behind them. Text above them reads: "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it." An illustration from 2020. A heavily tattooed white man with skull makeup on his face pitches forward into smoke and wind. His shirt is open to show that he is covered in tattoos and wearing a considerable amount of jewellery. He is grinning as if in defiance. Behind him, explosive billows of smoke form into skulls.
May 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Not every panel is a hell panel, I should be clear. THIS, however, is 8) (This is 1/3 of the panel lmao. I did this to myself)
A work-in-progress black-and-white comic panel depicting a crowded cityscape built into rocky cliff faces.
May 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Asked my new deck (Unveiled Tarot) what it had to say to me right now and it threw this one at me. So that's. Complimentary
The King of Wands from the Unveiled Tarot. It depicts the King as a rock musician in a stadium, standing amid a sea of upthrown hands.
May 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The Nox Hill vibes are immaculate
A broken ceramic mask, overall a vertical oval, with bulbous eyes, protuding lips, and a broken-off chin. It resembles a Lovecraftian fish-man.
May 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Saw that #StarterPackNoAI thing going around and thought I might as well joi-- ah hell, he got out. Where did I put the traps from last season
A greyscale drawing of a cardboard box. The box is taped shut and air holes have been poked into it. "ARTIST STARTER PACK" is scrawled on one side. The box has been violently torn open from the inside. Its former occupant is nowhere in sight.
April 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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And Merlin has ZERO interest in any of THAT tyvm. He is basically impossible to grab. A greased eel of an old man
A light grey chinchilla is curled up in a wooden cube attached to the side of his cage. He is looking blearily over his shoulder at the camera.
April 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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They never do HAHAHA I love to hold Houdini (pic 1) but he tries his best not to let me. Copperfield (pic 2) will put up with it more easily
A large grey chinchilla perched on a shelf looking straight at the camera A round grey chinchilla sitting politely with his little hands resting on the photographer's toe
April 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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this would fix me
A black and white sketch of a chinchilla curled up with a person snuggling into the deep fuzz of its flank. Either the chinchilla is giant or the person is tiny, but either way, it's the perfect scenario
March 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I've found... Wizard Sign 🔎
The keyboard of an open laptop. In front of the keys, two chinchilla handprints and two chinchilla footprints are perfectly outlined in dust.
March 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM