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Adult Christmas has turned me into such a Grinch. This is seriously the worst time of the year.
December 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I just did a sneaky, cheeky little super late night update over on my Patreon with a HUGE MASSIVE SNEAK PEAK related to my upcoming comic shhhhh... 🤫

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State of the Arts #12 - Year End Roundup | Jeff Pennington
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December 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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“Jammin’!”

Just a lil Toejam and Earl funk for funsies
Digital drawing of Sega Genesis video game all-star characters Toejam and Earl, aliens from the planet Funkotron, standing side by side with their arms cross and sassy espressions (as much as their designs allow) on their faces. They’re wearing matching black Chuck Taylor’s which may or may not be anachronistic to their classic designs? I’ve drawn em that way since I was a kid though Art by me Fun fact: They were the inspiration for me buying my first pair of Chucks as a kid and after years of other shoes since I still wear almost nothing else
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Thanksgiving Mission Complete

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November 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Today was my boy Miles’ birthday! He’s 10 and growing even more handsome by the day
My cat Miles laying on my chest in a very bright room My cat Miles looking up at something with like 40% interest at best while laying on the back of our couch My cat Miles sitting on our little rug near the back door with an incredibly doofy look on his face with his tongue partly out.
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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{ Let’s Go!! RIDER KICK! }

Hongo Takeshi/ Kamen Rider faces off against a shadowy inhuman in the moody blue darkness of an abandoned church!

Just a proof of concept for fun
Digital illustration/ fanart of the original 1971 Kamen Rider series. Hongo Takeshi poses dynamically, ready for battle, in the foreground while his other form, Kamen Rider, mimics the same pose over his shoulder, the symbol of Kamen Eider over -his- shoulder. Behind them a silhouette of Hongo, casting a long shadow, steps in from the bright daylight into an old dilapidated church with high tattered banners. A burning red light at the bottom of view casts a demonic, inhuman shadow across the floor back towards our hero. Art by me!
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I’m gonna go ahead and do a (not)Daily Song thread finally. Consider me the musical scorpion to your frog cause it’s just my nature

First up, open.spotify.com/track/4ZJQ4y...
Roses Are Red
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November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This is this evening! 6pm EST, you gotta stop by and hang out, it’s gonna be a blast!
jeffpennington.art Jeff Pennington @jeffpennington.art · Nov 16
Hey folks, I'm gonna be guesting on @watchredirect.com 's LIVE Twitch podcast TOMORROW, Monday at 6pm EST over at www.twitch.tv/watchredirect where we're gonna be talking The Game Award 2025 noms, Kirby Air Riders and MUCH much more probably!

Be there or be just a real doodoo head.
WatchReDirect - Twitch
Twitch specific stuff: Nintendo-focused streams. Schedule M-W @ 8pm ET. General Re:Direct stuff: AJ creates Nintendo related video essays.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Hey @idwpublishing.com ! Do you need a cover artist for your rad new Rocketeer comic by any chance? I’m very VERY available!
Digital illustration of pulp comic book and film character The Rocketeer blasting through stormy clouds with his famous jetpack. He is an adult male wearing a gold toned metal helmet with dark lenses and a grated mouth piece, a reddish brown leather jacket with a gold-over chest flap and gold buttons, tan jhodpurs, and black leather gloves and high boots. He is saluting the viewer with one hand and controlling the thrust of the jetpack on his back with the other which is spouting yellow and red flames that turn into a spiraling trail of gray smoke. Art by me, Jeff Pennington!
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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With less than 1K left to complete the campaign it’s definitely time to do whatever you can to get Ahmad and his family across the finish line! 🇵🇸 🍉
ahmadjohary16.bsky.social AHMAD~JOHARY 13🕊𓂆 @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · Nov 13
OUR CAMPAIGN IS SOOO CLOSE TO THE FINISH LINE 🥁🏁🏁

It’s been stuck for a while, sadly and we only need $700 to complete it.♥️
My friends, please don’t let this moment slip away.

Every bit helps.
Stand with us and don’t let us down now.🙏

WE BELIEVE in YOUR KINDNESS ♥️
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November 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Hey folks, I’m open for work and commissions! I’ve got bills and rent to pay and Patreon has decided to withhold a huge chunk of my Storylords income so it’s the perfect time to get some art made!

Your fave/OC? D&D art? Dumb funny idea? Whatever you like, besides NSFW! contact@jeffpennington.art
A commission chart with examples of my art and prices for different categories of art. The three categories are Sketch (represented by a very hard boiled Jar Jar Binks 1940’s noir detective), Line Art (represented by a recreation of a chapter illustration from Dragon Ball Z starring Giga Cat Mario as SSj Goku and an astonished Bowser as Frieza), and Full Color (represented by a digits painting of Malenia, Blade of Miquella, from Elden Ring.)
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Today was my wife Krystal and my 10th wedding anniversary! We have more planned for when we can take time off but for today we learned how to blacksmith and made metal chopsticks together and then ate UNBELIEVABLY delicious Korean BBQ. Such a great day with my favorite person on Earth
Photograph of me and my wife Krystal standing in the forge together wearing heavy aprons. I’m the big bald one. The anvil I used in the blacksmithing class with my hammer, forge gloves, and the chopsticks I made sitting on top of it. You can peep the tip of my Chuck Taylor in the bottom middle too. My hand (top) and Krystal’s hand (bottom) holding the two sets of metal chopsticks we made during our blacksmithing class. They ain’t ugly, they’re our utensils! You can see various forge related things in the bg including the action forge itself spitting out hot ass flames.
November 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Just a quick reminder that if you like Star Trek and pisspantsing from laughing then maybe check out my Trek podcast @mclasspodcast.bsky.social that I do with my pal @joshhenderson.bsky.social

If you wanna hear horror stories I've written (a lot of 'em) then maybe listen to @storylords.bsky.social
Main artwork for M-Class Podcast, digital minimalist portraits of hosts Jeff Pennington (back) and Josh Henderson (fore) saluting while wearing Star Trek: Strange New Worlds era Starfleet uniforms. Three Enterprises, or Constitution-class starships anyway, fly diagonally in the background in colored silhouette, each one a division color of officers aboard a starship, red, yellow, and blue. The M-Class Podcast logo resides in the bottom left corner and a white outline appears around the space nebula in the background. Art by Jeff Pennington. 1980's style chrome logo for the podcast Storylords which has a blood red glowing moon shape with a segmented lower half and the overlay of a double-headed war axe over it. Several sparkles appear on the lettering. Created by Jeff Pennington.
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Once again Jeff Pennington absolutely floors me with everything he does but this series of portraits has been so special to have made and I will genuinely treasure them the rest of my life
jeffpennington.art Jeff Pennington @jeffpennington.art · Oct 22
And all three pieces together for the first time anywhere!

Huge thank you to patron of the arts @acallback.bsky.social for commissioning each of these pieces!
“Wanderer Above a Sea of Stars” by me, Jeff Pennington. A digital painting homage to “Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog” by Caspar David Friedrich. “Spacehawks” by me, Jeff Pennington. A digital painting homage to “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper. “Spaceship at Nebula, Supernova” by me, Jeff Pennington. A digital painting homage to “Ship at Sea, Sunset” by Edward Moran.
October 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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And here’s some more art if you’re on the fence about hiring me for something cool:
Digital illustration of pulp comic book and film character The Rocketeer blasting through stormy clouds with his famous jetpack. He is an adult male wearing a gold toned metal helmet with dark lenses and a grated mouth piece, a reddish brown leather jacket with a gold-over chest flap and gold buttons, tan jhodpurs, and black leather gloves and high boots. He is saluting the viewer with one hand and controlling the thrust of the jetpack on his back with the other which is spouting yellow and red flames that turn into a spiraling trail of gray smoke. Art by me, Jeff Pennington A science fiction space themed homage to Edward Hopper’s 1942 masterpiece “Nighthawks.” Phillies diner is now part of a space station, somewhat eroded by time and mis-care floating overtop of a planet with swirling fluffy clouds and two burning moons near an asteroid belt that stretches past the back window. Space and other planets lie beyond, dotted endlessly with stars. Inside the diner a robot bartender serves a man in a mechanized space suit and cape, a retro futuristic astronaut complete with bowl helmet, and an alien woman in a reddish space suit with a snout and horns who all sit at a triangular bar under bright yellow lights. There are a few hidden characters, and a couple cameos for you to find hidden around the piece as well. Painted digitally by Jeff Pennington for client Jon Anderson. A black and white digital painting of Captain Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation dressed as his Holodeck counterpart, hard boiled 1940’s detective Dixon Hill. He wears a classic detective’s outfit of fedora, overcoat, suit and tie. He’s illuminated by a light source coming through Venetian blinds off screen in a mostly black dark room otherwise. “The Big Goodbye by Tracy Torme”, the title of both the episode this is homaging and the fictional book the episode is based on, resides to the right of Picard in stylized lettering. Art and lettering by me, Jeff Pennington. A test comic page for a short comic titled “Space Ghost: Host No More.” Digital illustration in the style of the classic 60’s Space Ghost cartoon mixed with the psychadelic additions circa Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet. Space Ghost breaks through a wall to find Brak left behind by the other villains for not being evil enough anymore. Brak accuses him of coming to ruin his fun and throws a vial of a suspicious liquid into his chest, to no avail. Art by me, Jeff Pennington.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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It’s #portfolioday again! I’m Jeff, an illustrator and cartoonist with a super versatile style looking for work in comics, publishing, video games, and any and all illustration jobs!

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📫 contact@jeffpennington.art
Digital painting and design piece based on the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode “Little Green Men.” Quark, a Ferengi with large ears, sharp teeth, and an extremely gaudy patterned suit, is pointing his death ray (index finger) at a human woman in a 1940’s style military uniform with curly hair and a terrified look on her face. An overlay features text in the style of a 50’s sci-fi B-movie, featuring a logo which reads “Little Green Men” in shocking text over a glowing green Earth and under a small green UFO. Text in the bottom right list the major player actors of the DS9 episode in the style of a classic movie poster. Art by me, Jeff Pennington. Digital illustration created for the indie game Poulet Poulet. Poulet, a spherical chicken wearing sunglasses with a red quoff, is posing jauntily in the air overtop of a bustling world filled with enemies hopping around, orbs to collect, treasures to find, and different biomes stretched across its surface. Islands and clouds float in the air improbably all around the sphere. Art by me, Jeff Pennington. Digital painting of Mega Man standing strong, his fist clenched, facing left at his enemies, the robot masters, from the video game Mega Man 2. They are, from top left: Air Man, Wood Man, Quick Man, Metal Man, Crash Man, Flash Man, Heat Man, and Bubble Man. All of the Robot Masters have red glowing eyes and are standing on a black, shadowy field tightly packed together in a frame beyond Mega Man’s depth. Beyond their frame is space and speckled stars. The Mega Man 2 box art logo resides in the top left. The designs of Mega Man and the robot masters are all those originally created by Hitoshi Ariga for his manga series Mega Man Megamix. Digital painting based on the Nintendo Switch video game Super Mario Odyssey. Mario, wearing his original inverted color outfit from the first few games he appeared in, is riding a yellow Vespa on a city street in a fish-eye lens perspective. He’s smiling broadly and looking up at the sky, his head tilted to the side and eyes off in the distance. A small iOS messenger word bubble appears below that states “this ur uber, am outside” implying that Mario has texted you this photo and is here to pick you up for Uber. Art by me, Jeff Pennington.
October 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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We’re Halloweenin’ now, boys!!!
Our front yard, currently, filled with fake graves and skeletons and boogins and the like. A fake grave in our yard cordoned off with a fake broken iron fence with “See You Soon” written on it and a skeletal hand bursting out of the ground and waving to you, neighborly. A fake skeleton seemingly buried in the dirt and being choked by the huge tree root in our front yard. He’s gripping at it to try and escape. Our normal little turtle sculpture we keep in our front yard flower bed we named “Koopa” but he’s wearing a spoooky ass vampire cape and hamming it up for the camera. Behind him is a fake gravestone that reads “R.I.P.” and then some hostas.
October 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Here’s some more examples of my work

You can contact me via DM here or by email at contact@jeffpennington.art!
Digital painting and design piece based on the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode “Little Green Men.” Quark, a Ferengi with large ears, sharp teeth, and an extremely gaudy patterned suit, is pointing his death ray (index finger) at a human woman in a 1940’s style military uniform with curly hair and a terrified look on her face. An overlay features text in the style of a 50’s sci-fi B-movie, featuring a logo which reads “Little Green Men” in shocking text over a glowing green Earth and under a small green UFO. Text in the bottom right list the major player actors of the DS9 episode in the style of a classic movie poster. Digital illustration of Undyne from Undertale standing in full Royal Guard armor, her helmet tucked beneath her arm and her other hand grasping onto a glowing spear which highlights along her reflective armor. She has a gigantic, janky maniacal smile on her face and her ponytail is whipping in the wind. A lightning bolt crashes dramatically in the background, highlighting her figure from behind. Digital painting of three variations of Kermit the Frog dressed in oversized white suits ala David Byrne during the Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense” Tour. Each Kermit is making a different expression standing under two blurred stage lights behind them, but are primarily lit from stage right. A closed caption below the image on a black bar reads “Same as it ever was.” Based on the performance of Talking Heads “Once in a Lifetime” on the show Muppets Tonight. A test comic page for a short comic titled “Space Ghost: Host No More.” Digital illustration in the style of the classic 60’s Space Ghost cartoon mixed with the psychadelic additions circa Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet. Space Ghost breaks through a wall to find Brak left behind by the other villains for not being evil enough anymore. Brak accuses him of coming to ruin his fun and throws a vial of a suspicious liquid into his chest, to no avail.
October 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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It’s my birthday! Which isn’t super exciting but what would be is if you RT my art around today to celebrate. I’d appreciate it and maybe someone looking to hire an artist could find me!

More at jeffpennington.art ✌️
Digital painting of Captain Sisko of Star Trek Deep Space Nine as the 1950’s science fiction writer Benny Russell, with the ghostly presence of the actual Sisko hovering contemplating over his shoulder. Russell wears a fedora, gold rimmed glasses, and a suit and tie and has a look of disbelief on his face. His right glasses lense has the reflection of the space station Deep Space Nine covering it. Digital illustration combining Nickelodeon’s Doug with Kentaro Miura’s Berserk. The Berserk logo has been over-written with the Doug logo as if the red kanji text translates to “Doug.” Doug Funnie is partially dressed as Guts and carries his massive demon slayer sword in the foreground while the Band of the Hawk in the mid ground is represented by the fictional band The Beets. In the back ground Skeeter Valentine, dressed as Griffith, looks into the distance with a blank smile while Patti Mayonnaise, dressed as Casca, looks contemplative and distant behind him. Rolling clouds lead into the sunset in the far distance. Digital portrait of Elden Ring character Malenia, Blade of Miquella. She is touching a digitized butterfly from the Kirby series of video games because that’s what the client wanted and I did it even though it’s kinda made this portrait not of the zeitgeist but whatever. The touch of the butterfly is digitizing Malenia, her lower half already transforming into broken apart glowing pixels. She wears a golden prosthetic arm and golden winged valkyrie’s helm, dark red cloak with a furred neckline, and a series of overlapping robes with golden accessories. What can be seen of her right arm is rotted into an indiscriminate inhuman tone. Her red hair is flowing from beneath her helmet, framing her body on either side. Digital painting of a fish-eye lens view of Mario from Super Mario Odyssey wearing his original NES-era color scheme outfit and riding a Vespa with his head tilted up toward the viewer and a big smile on his face. He’s pulled up to the curve parking on a city street marked with several decals. An iPhone text bubble below reads “this ur uber am outside” as if Mario is texting you himself.
October 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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For folks wondering what I've been up to, what kinda art I've been making, & how my journey as an artist is going please consider becoming a patron cause I just dropped another edition of my newsletter "State of the Arts"!

TONS of behind the scenes talk in this one:

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Digital header reading "State of the Arts" on a background of a drawing pad of paper turned sideways. A small alien walks alongside the logo with his hand to his chin pondering even though he's wearing a bubble space helmet. A signature at the bottom right reads "Jeff Pennington!" which is me, I'm that guy.
September 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Here’s some more examples of commissions I’ve done
Digital painting created by Jeff Pennington as the thumbnail art for Re:Direct’s YouTube video “The Duskbloods is a Win Nintendo Hasn’t Seen in 25 Years!” It depicts Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom dressed as Malenia, Blade of Miquella from FromSoft’s “Elden Ring.” She is holding Malenia’s helmet as if she just removed it and is brandishing her prosthetic arm blade. A gigantic glowing tri-force looms in the background, backlighting her figure. Digitally illustrated pen and ink drawing of Schwartzvald from The Big O, a maniacal man wearing bandages covering almost every inch of his skin, a neck brace, and a trench coat over it all. He is holding his forehead, staring at the viewer with a malicious Cheshire Cat grin and holding up a lit butane lighter. His bandages flutter in the background and through to the foreground. Digital illustration of pulp comic book and film character The Rocketeer blasting through stormy clouds with his famous jetpack. He is an adult male wearing a gold toned metal helmet with dark lenses and a grated mouth piece, a reddish brown leather jacket with a gold-over chest flap and gold buttons, tan jhodpurs, and black leather gloves and high boots. He is saluting the viewer with one hand and controlling the thrust of the jetpack on his back with the other which is spouting yellow and red flames that turn into a spiraling trail of gray smoke. A science fiction space themed homage to Edward Hopper’s 1942 masterpiece “Nighthawks.” Phillies diner is now part of a space station, somewhat eroded by time and mis-care floating overtop of a planet with swirling fluffy clouds and two burning moons near an asteroid belt that stretches past the back window. Space and other planets lie beyond, dotted endlessly with stars. Inside the diner a robot bartender serves a man in a mechanized space suit and cape, a retro futuristic astronaut complete with bowl helmet, and an alien woman in a reddish space suit with a snout and horns who all sit at a triangular bar under bright yellow lights. There are a few hidden characters, and a couple cameos for you to find hidden around the piece as well. Painted digitally by Jeff Pennington for client Jon Anderson.
September 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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I’m gonna be real it’s getting a little iffy going this long without any work so if you’ve been holding off hitting me up for a commission or any longer term work this is the PERFECT time to reach out!

contact@jeffpennington.art or DM me!
A commission chart with examples of my art and prices for different categories of art. The three categories are Sketch (represented by a very hard boiled Jar Jar Binks 1940’s noir detective), Line Art (represented by a recreation of a chapter illustration from Dragon Ball Z starring Giga Cat Mario as SSj Goku and an astonished Bowser as Frieza), and Full Color (represented by a digits painting of Malenia, Blade of Miquella, from Elden Ring.)
September 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Went to the Maryland State Fair today and had a kebab and a frozen banana. Pretty sick day all around tbh
Photo of me and my wife Krystal standing in front of the “Welcome to the Maryland State Fair” mural looking very cute together. Don’t get scared by the skeletons on my shirt they’re not real. Photo of me standing next to a big ass carnival prize plushie of something, I couldn’t really tell what it was supposed to be. A giraffe with no neck? A cow? Anyway I’m 6’3” so this bitch was huge. Photo of three very reflective gentlemen in top hats and holding canes. I know they’re meant to be the colors of the flag but they remind me way more of Gavan, Sharivan, and Shaider, the first three Space Sheriffs.
August 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Look we have fun here at Jeff Pennington dot BlueSky dot social but I am actually very much in need of work so if you have any artwork or design work you need done please hit me up! Email is below or you can DM me here
jeffpennington.art Jeff Pennington @jeffpennington.art · Sep 4
I’m definitely open for commissions in a BIG way, a strong way even, because I’m very strong and big

Aaaanyway, if you need art made of any kind you could imagine please hit me up via DM or email at contact@jeffpennington.art!
A commission chart with examples of my art and prices for different categories of art. The three categories are Sketch (represented by a very hard boiled Jar Jar Binks 1940’s noir detective), Line Art (represented by a recreation of a chapter illustration from Dragon Ball Z starring Giga Cat Mario as SSj Goku and an astonished Bowser as Frieza), and Full Color (represented by a digits painting of Malenia, Blade of Miquella, from Elden Ring.)
September 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM