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Nicky Grillet she/her
@nickygrillet.bsky.social
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Ex GW concept artist, maker of doodles, boxes, music and stuff
Free Palestine 🍉
Did you know that fascists are bad people actually?

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I’ve been feeling mostly utterly useless for a while now, and if I can relise how lucky I am, I still feel like I’m struggling to do more than the basic human functioning.. so here’s a comic to gaslight myself into feeling like I’m doing something ✨
Take care 🍀
Watercolour drawing of me laying on the ground of my tiny flat, next to my bed and my books, the floor in a general sense of untidiness Watercolor drawing of me getting up, feeling weird Watercolour drawing of me opening the windows, my drawing desk in the background and a table with random stuff next to me. Watercolor drawing of my building from the outside, me shouting through my window “I’d like to stop being sad, pretty please?”
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Hi!
I don’t really know the optimal way to show a 5 panel comic with the 4 pictures limitation of Bluesky but here’s an attempt!..
Watercolour drawing of me in a cage in a green field of grass and poppies, looking outside through the open door.
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Not addressing the question, but please accept this modest offering of birbs bathing and drinkig the bath water 💚
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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And the rest of it
Drawing of me pulling a thread of my arm, like I was made of clothes, various holes are showing on my silhouette. The text says “I feel like an old piece of fabric, that had a few holes then” Drawing of me, just a torso and a head, ideas of arms, entangled in strings like a fly in a spider’s web. The text says “and is now unravelling to the point of uselessness” Drawing of me, head down on my drawing table with pencils and brushes, in front of a window, with spider webs forming around me. The text says “and I feel so guilty for not being able to function anymore”
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Hi! Here’s another comic from my instagram days, very much influenced by the toxic aspects of instagram of seeing so much cool stuff all the time.
Leaving the platform was a huge improvement for my mental health, although I still struggle with functioning and the feeling of wasting time..
Title card, saying “unraveling” on a background of watercolour threads Drawing of me sitting on a bench in a park, a notebook in hand, watching people pass by a be alive. The text says “I know that comparing myself to others is the quickest way to feel like a failure” Drawing of me, scrolling on my phone, on a background of drawings of an instagram feed full of talented motivated and alive folks. The text says “I do that a lot though, and I feel that a lot” Drawing of me in the water, floating with a lifebelt, with silhouettes of people in yoga poses on poles flexing elegantly. The text says “most people around me give me the impression that time, age and experience made them stronger, more confident”
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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And the rest of it
Drawing of me laying in the grass, feeling cosy, my hands behind my head, with a psyduck laying near me. My bag is open in the grass with drinks and biscuits. The text reads “for the silent complicity of friendship” Drawing of me standing in panties between two mirrors, trying to show my weird proportions in a honest and modest way. The mirror on the left show a deformed reflection of a potato with sticks for legs and arm, and a cube for the head. The mirror on the right shows the ideal proportion of a curvy girl. The text reads “for a body I will never have” Drawing of me, eyes wide open in front of my tv, a console controller in my hands. A few famous characters from various video games are watching above my shoulder. The text reads “for a sweet oblivion” Drawing of me, a half eaten cookie in my hand, watching down as I reveal a round hole the size of the cookie in my belly under my top. The text reads “for a cookie to actually fill the void inside” Happy stuff!
October 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Hi!
While I’m still struggling to have any ressemblance of human functioning, I somehow had an idea for a tiny comic like i used to make a while ago on insta. Here’s my favourite one from back then, still very accurate with describing how I feel.. introverted navel gazing kind of shit :p
Title cards reading “longing, or a personal take on the trans agenda”, on a green watercolour and gouache drawing of grass and flowers, the trans agenda written in the trans pride Colors Watercolour self portrait of me staying at my favourite spot in my flat, sitted at my window near my plants with a coffee in hand and a bird on the tree just in front of my window. The text reads “I sometimes have an intense longing” Watercolour self-portrait of me eating under my blankets in my bed, with plushies and cushions (?) and books, with a plate of noodles on my blanket and my mouth full. The text reads “for peace and quiet without guilt” Drawing of me standing on one foot, with six arms each grabbing a symbol of one of my many interests, miniatures, drawing, music and so on. The text read “for the energy to make all the things I want to make”
October 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Big robot!
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Pencil drawing of a big robot with stumpy legs and a tiny head and a stupid looking oversized gun that doesn’t make any sense
September 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Random picture of the church of the gyrochoir I have hanging around..
Take care 🏳️‍⚧️
Photo of a group of miniatures in a ruined church, towered by a tech priest with mechanical limbs followed by cultists of their noisy religion
September 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Hi!
I managed to draw a trio of bog witches a few days ago!
Still struggling a bit with things in general and drawing in particular, but I’m glad I can still do stuff sometimes!
Take care 🏳️‍⚧️
Three pencil drawings of floating bog witches with various shapes and designs, with commun motifs such as antlers, circles, stones and branches, all from a notebook my favourite mechanical pencil is keeping open for the picture
September 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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I’m basic girl, I take pictures of the sky, it was being very dramatic and I can really understand that 💚
Wide angle photographe of a sky just before a storm, waves of black clouds over a black lake in tiny Switzerland, pierced by a godly ray of light in a very dramatic way
September 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The last of the miniature I worked on - that I know of - has been revealed!
I did a lot of concepts for her, and suggested few commandeering poses that were sadly refused :( still, the model is great and I’m really happy to see her 4 years after my work on her! Congrats to the team!
September 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Some beep boops from late last night!.. bit for the end of a track that will be buried under guitars and stuff, I kind liked how it sounded on its own! Take care 🏳️‍⚧️
August 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Oh, and one of the opened box since the gif didn’t work. I really should have done it differently, impossible to take a photo of what is inside 💔
August 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Some random pictures I took with my phone while I was setting them up.. have a good week!
Necron miniatures kitbashed to be skinnier and scarier fighting three tall cyborg ladies clad in black in a ruined church in a sewer swamp Necron miniatures kitbashed to be skinnier and scarier fighting three tall cyborg ladies clad in black in a ruined church in a sewer swamp. One of the necron robot with three legs and three arms is protecting a fleshy red wormy thing with robotic elements Necron miniatures kitbashed to be skinnier and scarier fighting three tall cyborg ladies clad in black in a ruined church in a sewer swamp. On the foreground, a screaming man stuck in a wall machinery is probably trying for get some attention Necron miniatures kitbashed to be skinnier and scarier fighting three tall cyborg ladies clad in black in a ruined church in a sewer swamp. A bigger robot with a human face on mechanical wiring extends a red fleshy hand from their mechanical arm. If you squint you could guess some bloody red veins are showing inside the machinery
August 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Hi! I have a new blog post about two warbands inspired by the manga Blame! And an almost new box!
Photo of a trio of miniatures inspired by the silicates from the manga Blame! Weird elongated android bodies with feminine shape clad in black, in a grimy environment evocative a sewer with gothic elements, kinda Stop motion animation of a box turning on itself and opening, revealing the interior of a maniature spaceship, all very dark and grimy
August 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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I was scavenging through old boxes for bits and found this 15-18 years old kitbash of a varghulf! Vampire counts at the time were a favorite faction of mine, still have loads of minis from that time!..
Have a good week 🏳️‍⚧️
A photo of a kitbashed warhammer miniature of a big grey vampire monster made from a winged nightmare with sculpted fur, a demon prince with sculpted ears and tyranid warrior’s claws, standing on a very grey rock
July 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I was looking through my drawings, and found this 2022 drawing I don’t remember sharing at the time..
Kinda witches and cosy homes obsession!..
Take care 🏳️‍⚧️
A watercolour drawing of a boat made of junk and two tiny houses, with a trans flag floating in the wind. A witch is at the front, next to her cauldron. She has a big hat, tiny biking, and is waving at a giant friendly floating Medusa I’m sorry I suck at these alt texts, I draw so I don’t have to talk about my drawings
July 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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First drawing of the year 😶 feels so odd to not have been drawing for so long!.. glad I still know how it works though!
Kinda self portrait with my anxieties!.. take care 🏳️‍⚧️
Watercolour drawing of a girl in a metro, surrounded by three ghosts as her intrusive thoughts: “stop, stop it Nicky, stop it now”; “they know Nicky, everybody can see it, they are just being polite”; “you’re old Nicky, look at all these young beautiful folks, you were never one of them, you’ll never be one of them” Happy thoughts
July 8, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Midnight jam, still learning!.. take care 💚
July 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Hi! Nothing new but I stumbled over these pictures and thought I could share them here.
It was an very delayed attempts at some proper inq28 vibe with actual inquisitor, so it was weird for me to make a space marine from it in the end!
So I still have to make this proper inq28 team at some point!
July 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Lil coffee jam, take care 🏳️‍⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Hi!
I haven’t shared much recently, but i just took some pictures of two new war bands I made these last months, hopefully something will come soon on my blog!..
in the meantime, have this slightly cryptic and weirdly fleshy close up!
Hang on 🏳️‍⚧️
A bony robot holding a bloody worm, and a bleeding floating egg. Just another Monday
June 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Super late jam I was quite into!
Take care 💚
May 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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I’ve tried myself at sculpting hairs, quite happy with how it turned out!
Voluntarily obscure close up because lots more to do 😶
Take care 🏳️‍⚧️🍉
Close up of a miniature girl’s head with hairs sculpted in greenstuff, rocking a fringe and a messy bun
April 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM