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Jesse Miksic
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Poetry … Traditional Art (pencil ink watercolor) … Philosophy … Contributor, participant, pop culture enthusiast, nerd … Always searching
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Keeping a low profile lately, but here is a drawing from an ongoing project, a poetry zine I’ve been working on.

“I would take up no space, maybe become a space for others.”

Blog post about it: miksimum.com/2025/12/07/t...

#poetry #zine #drawing #sketch
A drawing in ink brush with ink wash, showing an oversized face in profile, super imposed over a background of tall trees. There is a stream running into the forest. Within the white space of the profile head, there is a circle with a red abstract symbol Stamped over it at an offset position.
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I thought these appliances were supposed to be Smart.
A photo of three slices of pizza, one triangular and one square, all burnt to a charred crisp.
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Picking up a typography book won't suddenly fill in 20 years of rusting design expertise... but it will certainly make you a type snob for a few hours!

(as I scan Google Fonts for "superfamilies" and try to tell the difference between Humanist serifs)

#GraphicDesign
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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INKTOBER 5 // Deer

I am not here as the hand of creation, nor, for that matter, to serve any agenda at all, under the eye of anything. I am here as a creature of play, as purpose crafting itself in the current.

miksimum.com/2025/10/18/d...

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #Inktober2025Day5 #sketchbook
A brush painting in ink and ink wash, showing a young man of color with half-mature antlers (or "spikes") and short hair. He looks up serenely at a cluster of maple leaves in the upper right corner of the frame. The number zero-five appears in the space to his right. Tree trunks are visible in the background, and ink splatters add texture to the page.
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Inktober 04 // MURKY

Do we succumb and offer ourselves as prey? Or do we become elusive and scarce, mean and jagged and toxic?

miksimum.com/2025/10/07/m...

#drawing #inktober #inktober04 #inktober04murky #penAndInk #sketchbook #art #illustration #bskyArt
A drawing in ink washes, done with a brush. It shows a dark landscape with a shadowy figure. There is rolling fog and a couple bare trees. In the background, a large fish floats, facing the camera. It has huge black eyes and sharp teeth. The number 04 appears in the white space of the drawing.
October 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Inktober 03 // CROWN

Wasn't sure whether this bird was an eagle or a vulture. Whichever it is, its contempt for the crown is absolute.

miksimum.com/2025/10/06/c...

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktober2025crown #sketchbook #drawing #penAndInk #illustration #gothic #bskyArt
A drawing in ink and ink washes, done with a brush. It shows a large bird perched on a bare branch, its wings halfway open. On a lower branch, a crown dangles. There are splashes and strokes of messy ink in the background, and the handwritten number 03 appears in the white space.
October 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I am connected to everything
And through everything, finally
I am connected at last to myself

miksimum.com/2025/10/04/w...

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktober2025weave #drawing #sketch #sketchbook #illustration #traditionalArt #bskyArt
A pen and ink drawing, created using brushes and fineliner pens, showing a disembodied forearm and hand pulling a thread downward. Another thread attaches to the forearm from below, implying that the hand is pulling its own string and unraveling itself. There are other strands of fiber hanging loosely about the hand. The number 02 appears to the left, and a column of messy, diluted black ink adds texture to the negative space.
October 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Inktober 01 - Mustache

miksimum.com/2025/10/03/m...

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktober2025mustache #inkDrawing #inkPainting #sketchbook #portrait #brushwork #bskyArt
A loose portrait of a man, drawn with brush and black ink. He has shadowy eyes and a serious expression, and an epic mustache, connected to his dramatic sideburns. He wears an old-fashioned cabby hat. The number 01 appears hand-drawn beside the face. There are messy splashes of ink framing the portrait, adding texture to the negative space.
October 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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EVERYTHING

Here I am
Looking deep
Into everything

miksimum.com/2025/10/02/w...

#sketchbook #drawing #penAndInk #art #illustration #traditionalArt #bskyArt
A drawing in pen and ink, showing a face looking up, exposing the neck and throat. The values are rendered in cross-hatching of various densities.
October 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Drawing: Dockhand / Longshoreman

The rough old sailor

miksimum.com/2025/09/29/l...

#drawing #art #sketch #sketchbook #illustration #traditionalArt #bskyArt #drawingOfTheDay
September 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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"I must be something like
The hundred billionth primitive idler
To witness this
Annual assay of the geese
Southbound following the
Turning earth’s body heat"

miksimum.com/2025/09/23/a...

#watercolor #art #painting #autumn #landscape #bskyArt
A watercolor painting of a tree with a vibrant explosion of autumn-colored leaves. It leans away from the viewer, toward a hill in the distance. A pathway winds back and forth on the way up over the crest of the hill.
September 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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WICKED ABANDONED FELLOW

a shiv
in his stocking,
a rose
in his tea,

ain’t this
a fellow
we’d all
like to be?

miksimum.com/2025/09/12/w...

#bskyArt #drawing #sketchbook #art #drawing #illustration #poetry #surrealism
A drawing in pencil, with an off balance, flowing line quality, showing a gentleman in a bowler hat with a handlebar mustache leaning forward on a cane. His eyes are in shadow and he has a sinister look about him.
September 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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HARD LIFE, BAD ATTITUDE, PRETTY COOL HAIR

Practicing face and head structure, balancing realism and expressiveness and working from imagination.

#drawing #sketchbook #art #portrait #pencilArt #punk #traditionalArt #illustration #bskyArt
A drawing in a sketchbook, showing a male head with strong bone structure, a wide mouth, and a classic greaser pompadour hairstyle, looking indifferently at the viewer. There are abstract designs above and below the head.
August 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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DAYS BETWEEN DAYS

He told me a lot of things that I’ve forgotten since then. How much of me is still there, trying to listen?

miksimum.com/2025/08/21/d...

#art #sketch #sketchbook #bskyArt #drawing #fishing #parenting #DadLife
A pencil sketch of a man standing on a bank with a fishing pole, with a young boy on his shoulders. He is wearing overalls and a country hat.
August 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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ANTHROTECTURE

“Matter invokes form —
Quiet now! The monolith
Is about to speak!”

miksimum.com/2025/08/15/a...

#art #sketch #sketchbook #surrealism #bskyArt #traditionalArt #illustration
A drawing in a sketchbook, showing two human heads, abstracted into angular lines tracing skull and facial anatomy. These are merged into an abstract column of loose architectural forms.
August 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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THE PRACTITIONER

“We practice in times of peace,
Just as we practice in times of war.
We perform for show,
And we perform in the dark.“

miksimum.com/2025/08/13/t...

#drawing #sketchbook #bskyArt
A drawing in pencil, showing a character in a loose layered tunic. His head is clean shaven and he has a dramatic handlebar mustache. He carries three wooden swords on his back, arranged pointing in three different directions.
August 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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POEM: LAST ASLEEP, FIRST AWAKE

A poem for late nights, and falling into the gap between yesterday and tomorrow.

Originally published in Hearth & Coffin, March 2022.

miksimum.com/2025/08/12/l...

#poetry #PoetryCommunity
A poem entitled LAST ASLEEP, FIRST AWAKE: Though I stiffen, Morbidly corporeal, I offer up a sigh — And still I vie For that paper-thin Morning light, An imprint for A dragged body — Why have I made These barriers inside myself? And as if in answer: The coin, I think, Spins evenly, though One side always hides itself The day has come, Dreaming body, Let’s fall into Her arms.
August 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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SELF AS INSCRIPTION

Carry your name proudly
And when it gets hard, your name will carry you

miksimum.com/2025/08/11/s...

#drawing #bskyArt #portrait #art #traditionalArt #sketch #sketchbook #illustration
A drawing in pencil, showing a woman standing with her hands behind her back, head tilted, making stern eye contact with the viewer. She has short hair and several earrings in one ear. She wears a top, and on her upper chest there is a visible tattoo that appears to be an upside down flower, also looking like a key or a blade.
August 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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GRIMES GLEN

Falls at the top of the creek

miksimum.com/2025/08/02/g...

#drawing #bskyArt #sketchbook #landscape #sketch #sketch #nature #waterfall #GrimesGlen
A pencil drawing in a sketchbook, showing a waterfall cascading over several levels of rough rock into a still pool at the bottom.
August 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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LONELY ARCH IN MOONLIGHT

My hobbies: – Marathon Geometry – Outliving my usefulness – Being the last one with a firm grip on the earth

miksimum.com/2025/07/22/l...

#art #painting #watercolor #gothicArt #bskyArt
A watercolor painting in neutral blue and gray, with bright white secondary colors, showing a gothic arch at night, with a huge moon behind it. It stands at an angle, and is surrounded by rubble at its base.
July 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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SINGULARITY SKEPTIC

“I see the multiverse in its entirety, every possible future, and none of them interest me very much.”

miksimum.com/2025/07/17/s...

#drawing #sketchbook #art #fantasyArt #illustration
A sketch showing a female character in light armor with shoulder length hair. In her outstretched hand, she holds a small ball of energy. Her head is tilted forward, staring at it with a neutral expression on her face.
July 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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THOUSAND MILE EYES

“Need a steady hand on the rudder? I can do that. It’s hard to ruffle my feathers these days.”

miksimum.com/2025/07/12/d...

#drawing #sketchbook #illustration #art
A drawing in a sketchbook, showing a portrait of a male character from the chest up. His black hair is neat and he has a mustache. He wears a fur lined jacket over a white dress shirt. Her expression is calm, looking at the viewer, or perhaps through them, off into the distance.
July 16, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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UN // BOUND

The key is a flower
The flower is a blade
The blade is a key

miksimum.com/2025/07/08/d...

#bskyArt #drawing #sketchbook #fantasyArt #cyberpunk #illustration #traditionalArt
A drawing in pencil, showing a female figure from the waist up, unclothed, her skin fragmented into crystalline facets. She holds her fist out in front of her where she can look up at it. In her raised fist, she holds a chain, with the short end dangling down and terminating in a large object looking like a flower, or a wicked axe-blade. The long end of the chain is taut, criss-crossing behind her.
July 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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SUNLIGHT ESCAPING

Every evening I follow
It always gets away

miksimum.com/2025/07/02/p...

#bskyArt #watercolor #painting #fantasyArt #traditionalArt #illustration
A watercolor painting, showing a deep orange and purple sunset in the background. In the foreground, in dark, muddy colors, there is flat ground and a tall arch, broken off at one side. Walking through the bottom of the arch is a figure on horseback, slumped a little forward and looking tired. In the center of the circle of the arch, there is an abstract shape that looks something like a key and something like an ax and something like a flower, hanging upside down over the figure.
July 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A poem for today's #PoemsAbout #ItsASin -- with appreciation to hosts @brokenspinearts.bsky.social and @alanparry83.bsky.social

Offering some low, simmering intensity, cut with reverent undertones. My own little religion of solitude. Thanks to all my fellow poets.

#poetryCommunity #poetry
A poem called "Innocent Blood": The quiet opens for me like a wardrobe The quiet parts for me like swift waters The quiet stares at me like a gap in the floorboards The quiet gathers around me like the summer stars Reluctantly the quiet presses the keys, spreading wide a song of submission At the altar of quiet I place myself, an offering with love already sacrificed.
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM