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royale.bsky.social
royale, obsessed with pirates
@royale.bsky.social
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🇹🇹 | 28 | they/them | mixed transmasc butch lesbian | comic artist

working on my first webcomic idk coming soon!!

#art #comic

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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
royale.bsky.social
alright i've been having a lot of issues with my adhd meds. i apologize for dropping off the face of the earth—i haven't forgotten about anyone's comms. i'm seeing my psych to get my shit sorted out next friday but i will be trying to make progress in the interim.
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
royale.bsky.social
im trying my best to claw my way out of burnout. coping with my special cocktail of neurodivergence without therapy this year has been exhausting in ways i can't describe. i can't keep up with the demands life keeps making of me but i can't just stop trying either.
September 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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willowsquest.co.uk
Throwback to the time i wrote a joke "one-page game" called HOBBYJOB RPG: YOUR HOBBY IS YOUR JOB in an effort to capture the vibe of the freelancer/self employed lifestyle
HOBBYJOB RPG your hobby is your job, this may have been a mistake __ACTIONS__ HOBBY JOB CRY SLEEP ENERGY: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳 STRESS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳 BILLS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳 PROJECT: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳 MONTHLY ACTIONS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳 Hobby: -1 stress -1 energy +1 project Job: +2 stress +2 bills -2 energy Cry: -1 stress Sleep: +2 energy •if BILLS bar is not full by end of every month, you FAIL •if STRESS meets or exceeds bar, you have an ANXIETY ATTACK. reduce ENERGY to 0. •if PROJECT meets or exceeds bar, add +1 to BILLS at start of month (the fabled PASSIVE INCOME) •you WIN when BILLS is filled entirely by PASSIVE INCOME CHANCE (roll 1d6 once a month) 1: nothing happens. continue as usual. 2: an unexpected expense. -1 BILLS 3: someone on social media left nice comments on your stuff :-) -1 STRESS 4. your files corrupted. -1 PROJECT 5. someone on social media REALLY likes your stuff. +1 BILLS 6. working at a computer all day has given you a repetitive stress injury. -2 bills OR reduce ENERGY bar by 1 for (1d4) month(s) as you attempt to rest the injury.
September 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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comicsbeat.bsky.social
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE Review: The price of dreams is steep

Helmed by Dana Terrace, John Bailey Owen, and Zach Marcus—all from The Owl House—Knights of Guinevere refuses to pull punches in multiple respects.
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE Review: The price of dreams is steep
Helmed by Dana Terrace, John Bailey Owen, and Zach Marcus—all from The Owl House—Knights of Guinevere refuses to pull punches in multiple respects.
www.comicsbeat.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
create

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bonus comics:
patreon.com/nhoj
4 panel comic P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw" P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it. P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within. P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"
November 8, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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athenaeumcomicart.bsky.social
The Athenaeum Gives application is now open! One early career cartoonist will win a $1500 grant. Check out our website for details. Please share this post. Thanks!
September 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
royale.bsky.social
@schweizercomics.bsky.social haha sorry for liking a million of your posts at once, you give good advice that keeps me motivated to do my best!!
September 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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drooliasnott.bsky.social
where did you go
Onion Pendergrass, the teen main character of the graphic novel project Blue Hollow, sits speculatively under a weeping willow on the river's edge during a gloomy afternoon.
September 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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schweizercomics.bsky.social
The trick I've found to be the most useful when designing a story's cast is not just to work them up in silhouette (ensuring that they read differently at a foundational level), but to start with literal shapes. You can more easily spot the means to differentiate similar components (like armor).
September 27, 2023 at 2:29 PM
royale.bsky.social
having a really bad week. sorry for the timing of it all
September 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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blambot.bsky.social
Happy Letterer Appreciation Day! Each year on September 1st—Gaspar Saladino’s birthday—we celebrate the invaluable contributions that letterers make to the comic book industry!
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
September 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains." Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
September 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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arielries.bsky.social
Since the reprint of my graphic novella CRY WOLF GIRL came out this week, I'll do a little thread talking about the visual development process!

Buy the book here: store.silversprocket.net/products/cry...
cover of the graphic novella Cry Wolf Girl, depicting a girl with her head in the mouth of a giant wolf the first page of Cry Wolf Girl. A young woman picks some fur off a tree
August 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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ohrobin.bsky.social
“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.”

- Fred Hampton
August 31, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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artofchira.bsky.social
I usually go out of my way to draw out my perspective grids by hand but for certain projects I speed up the process by using this generator by Reuban Lara

reubenlara.com/perspectiveg...

if you find it as useful as me I encourage you to click the little Paypal icon at the top right to send a tip
August 8, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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stevemullis.net
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:
August 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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royale.bsky.social
a few characters from my pirate webcomic i'll be starting soon 🏴‍☠️ when i've got full refs going maybe i'll post short bios about them

#art #ocs #comic #webcomic
August 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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radicalgraffiti.bsky.social
"The revolution will not be in your feed. Seize the tools of liberation so that we might cast off the yoke of our oppression"

Poster seen in San Francisco, California
August 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
royale.bsky.social
i havent been able to draw much lately so shaking off the rust with some comfort zone portraits really helped 😭
August 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
royale.bsky.social
a few characters from my pirate webcomic i'll be starting soon 🏴‍☠️ when i've got full refs going maybe i'll post short bios about them

#art #ocs #comic #webcomic
August 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
royale.bsky.social
off season has finally hit at my day job so i get an additional day off now. new things coming soon...
August 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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stevelieberart.bsky.social
Been a year. Time to repost this.
YOUR PORTFOLIO CRIT THINGS I'D TELL YOU IF I WERE LOOKING AT YOUR WORK IN PERSON 1 Violating the 180 degree rule makes this sequence hard to follow 2 A few more incidental overlaps will make this foreshortening clearer 3 Symmetrical compositions with a character dead center imply an important moment. Don't draw every panel like that? 4 This __ looks kind of fake. Take the time to look at reference instead of just making it up 5 An establishing shot will help the reader understand where this takes place. 6 Find a life-drawing session to attend, or practice from photos online. 7 Show these pages to someone who doesn't know the story and ask them to tell the story back to you. 8. Nudge this part over a bit to eliminate that tangency. 9 You flattened out the depth by rendering the foreground, middle ground, & background with the same values. Create depth and direct the eye by organizing them into overlapping planes of light & dark. 10 there are better ways to use your time than rendering every brick. 11 these characters look like they're floating (or falling). Draw figures and bg from the same eye level. 12 Unless this will be a wordless comic, leave more room for the lettering
August 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM