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Mikkel makes things
@mikkelmakkelart.bsky.social
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🌈 Mid-30s, Enby Artist
📖 Zines | 🖋Illustration
🖼Graphic design & UX
maker of #oursweetestbuckyboi zine and lots of skull #doodles
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Mikkel makes things @mikkelmakkelart.bsky.social · Oct 1
October starts tomorrow. Still looking for some art/drawing prompts? I've combined October and autumnal themes for variety! I can't wait to see what we all make!
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#octumnal2025 #art #drawing #artprompts #october #drawingprompts #creativeprompts
Octumnal prompts image for 2025. Features prompts and skull illustrations. Octumnal rules list for 2025. Features rules and skull illustrations.
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Gel print from a glossy photo of Bucky. Because Bucky is my life.
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#art #gelprint #cats #oursweetestbuckyboi #printing
Print of a cat face close up
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Printed (inkjet because my screenprinting chemicals apparently expired) an old public domain illustration from Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla on my homemade paper as a gift. So my paper works!
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#handmadepaper #carmilla #sheridanlefanu #paper #pink
A woman reaches for another woman on a bed printed on pink handmade paper
November 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The fact that I get to manage a zine table (kind of give one, take one) at my work is pretty damn cool.
#zines
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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soup season (2021)
2021 portrait of a cat stirring soup through a kitchen window, atop a wood stove
September 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Sticker of the Day!

This is my sticker based on my painting, "Wimdy"!

www.joyousjoyness.com/collections/...

#art #sticker #wimdy #tuxedocat #meme #cat
Photo of a left hand holding a square sticker. The sticker is a matte painting of a tuxedo cat with her fur blown in the wind.
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Happy Halloween from Trick’r’tweet and Phantaray 🎃

#art #oc
a digital illustration of a happy face carved jack-o-lantern in a patch of grass. My creature Trick’r’tweet is perched on it, while my other creature Phantaray is sneaking up behind it to go boo!!!
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃💀👻 Today is the final day of #octumnal2025, and the theme is Halloween! I'm celebrating by making art today! What are y'all doing to celebrate?
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#art #halloween #multimedia #ink #paperart #drawing
Illustration of stacked skulls and pumpkins. Tombstone reads Happy Halloween 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Day 27: Trap
I have always been fascinated by carnivorous plants. They're so uncanny but also pretty.
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#octumnal2025 #art #acrylicmarkers #carnivorousplants #pitcherplant #painting
Painting of a pitcher plant
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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My painting, "Scaredy Cat"! Super fun trying some more simple shapes and flat colors!

#art #cat #BlackCat #halloween #spooky #painting
Painting of a scared black cat arching his back, draw in a simple style in black and white. The background is orange and there's a white sketchy border.
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Inside of me there are two wolves
(they are the same person)
🖤🎃🧟🖤

#OC #TraditionalArt #Werewolf #Halloween #Horror #ccZayne
Zayne being silly with a carved pumpkin in his jaws. Rotting undead Zayne still giving us a grin.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Day 30: Spell
Rhymes with bell, so I chose Gladys' bell used to cast spells of control in Weapons. What spoopy movies have you been watching lately?
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#octumnal2025 #art #auntgladys #bell #acrylicart #sketchbook
A drawing of a bell with a triangle and 6 carved in
October 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Day 29: Mansion
One of my favorite artists is Fever Ray, and the imagery of the music video for "If I Had a Heart" lingers with me. A haunting display of a mansion, scene to death and horror.
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#art #feverray #ifihadaheart #ink #drawing #sketchbook #octumnal2025
Sketch of a mansion with an empty pool and bodies
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Day 28: Horror
I was very inspired by the horror short "quiet apocalypse" by insolitum. on YouTube. The creatures are so odd and so forlorn. This was one of my favorites from the short.
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#quietapocalypse #horrorart #horror #sketchbook #grabiemarkers
A painting of a multitentacled beast in the clouds
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Day 27: Trap
I have always been fascinated by carnivorous plants. They're so uncanny but also pretty.
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#octumnal2025 #art #acrylicmarkers #carnivorousplants #pitcherplant #painting
Painting of a pitcher plant
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Day 25: Sweater
Day 26: VHS

Thinking of redoing these in procreate and making stickers. 🤔🤔🤔

#octumnal2025 #art #october #halloweenart #vhs
Sketch of Freddy Krueger sweater with text in your dreams Sketch of vhs tape with be kind rewind on it and text i peaked at the video rental store
October 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I named him Lumpy and he is my Lumpy

#OC #TraditionalArt #Cute #Monster #auLumpy
A soft round monster with a fuzzy dark mane, long pointed ears, big droopy eyes, bat wings, and a spear tipped lizard tail. He's colored in shades of grey, brown, cream, blue, purple, and pink.
October 25, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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#⏰🐘🧵
A white on black typewritten note that reads "protect trans kids or shut the fuck up" With a doodle of an elephant in the trans flag colors
October 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Don't know how, but I didn't post days 18 and 19! Cinnamon and Divination.

I'm a big fan of cinnamon bears. Any other cinnamon candy fans?

I also found a neat pendulum to draw.

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#octumnal2025 #art #drawing #cinnamon #pendulum
Sketch of cinnamon gummy bear Sketch of ornate pendulum
October 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#octumnal2025 Day 24: Creature
I chose an illustration of an elephant in a 13th century bestiary. I love how unfamiliar animals were rendered.
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#elephant #drawing #bestiary #medieval #medievalbestiary
Sketch of elephant with a tower on its back
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Been catching up on #octumnal2025:
Day 20 - Cemetery (a statue from a cemetery)
Day 21 - Spirit
Day 22 - Harvest (guess the movie!)
Day 23 - Costume (Bucky loves it!)
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#art #drawing #sketchbook #ink #acrylicmarkers
Sketch of cemetery statue of person Drawing of blue ram skull in darkness Sketch of Wicker Man Sketch of cat in dino hat
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Day 17: Blood Red
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This doodle turned into pure horror. I'm very happy it came out so creepy!
Acrylic markers on cardboard
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#octumnal2025 #horrorart #red #drawing #acrylicmarkers
Doodle of skull in reds
October 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Day 16: Tea Leaves
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I went a very different route and handmade paper dyed with turmeric and spotted with dried lavender buds.

Want to participate in #octumnal2025 with a different craft than drawing/painting? Please do!
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#handmade #handmadepaper #diy #recycled
Handmade yellow and spotted paper
October 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Day 15: Gothic
"But I am a blasted tree," states Victor in Frankenstein (1818). Mary Shelley's Gothic novel is one of my favorites.
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#Frankenstein #octumnal2025 #posca #acrylic #art
Drawing of a red tree with text but I am a blasted tree
October 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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October starts tomorrow. Still looking for some art/drawing prompts? I've combined October and autumnal themes for variety! I can't wait to see what we all make!
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#octumnal2025 #art #drawing #artprompts #october #drawingprompts #creativeprompts
Octumnal prompts image for 2025. Features prompts and skull illustrations. Octumnal rules list for 2025. Features rules and skull illustrations.
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Day 13: Shout and Day 14: Skeletal
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#octumnal2025 continues with skulls skulls skulls!
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#skulls #art #drawing #skullart
Illustration of skull screaming ah Illustration of skull on red rope
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM