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Xander Lee
@xanderlee.bsky.social
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Illustrator, java jockey/coffee deviant and sleep enthusiast. 🏳️‍🌈Bisexual Cis, He/Him #art
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What this earache makes me want to do; and I thought a bust nose or tooth was bad 😵‍💫🤕
September 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Got to 'The End' of @blueprincegame.bsky.social thoroughly enjoyed it. Never managed to beat Zorks and Mysts when I was a kid (Keep meaning to do Myst for my Dad) so I bounced off of this at first. Highly recommend making a notebook like it tells you. Can't wait to delve into hidden, deeper layers!
Summary Screen from the Blue Prince video game, detailing Day 22, of which I achieved the goal of reaching Room 46. It shows a profile picture of the Manor in all its hodge podge grandoise aside the multicoloured grid of room choices I made, and some statistics detailing various actions.
August 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Plus how brazen is this!? 😄
A Melody Makers/Loony Toons esque spiral background with a full cheeked, bigger build Mickey Mouse adjacent character, sweating profusely, undeneath the statement "Public Domain, Sue!"
June 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Dreaming that Crow Black Dream

Overjoyed to share that my tribute piece to the iconic Brandon Lee film 'The Crow' (1994) has been selected for @printedinblood.bsky.social 'The Crow' Artbook

#TheCrow #PrintedInBlood #BrandonLee #Artbook #Illustration #FilmPoster #CultClassic #GothicArt
A crow is on a piece of Wooden Dresser, rim lit by three tealight sized candles. They've managed to open a tin of White Clown facepaint, covering their beak in it. Under this shadow vignette'd scene, are logo text for Xander Lee, the Illustrator, Printed in Blood, the publisher, and the title of the project, THE CROW Art Book.
June 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Gotta write my way into an upbeat conclusion that doesnt scare the cameraman/ reader away; give it some 'Zang!'
May 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Adios! Ai-First... into the bin. #flippingthebirdthebird
April 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Being that it was going to be fast paced (though not as much as a Live Motion session) I switched from my Pentel fude brushpen to a Fatnibbed feltpen. Hindsights fun when you realise the tricks you fall back on might not work with a different tool lol #art
5 min pen study of a female model with a mandala leaf tattoo just below the middle of her back; you are my moby dick 15 minute couple pose of facing sitting butterfly, male facing more than female. Felttip pen on packing paper Twenty minute back on back sitting butterfly couple pose with left arms pivoting to the others extended knee Forty ish minute couple pose, man resting on woman's lap. Foreshortening/angle of limbs and his head kicked my ass some
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Session two, definitely a great week to get back into live life drawing with such challenging sessions available. Love when models have scars, markings, distinct body hair or tattoo as my detail orientated mind always tries to capture them. Alas I didnt do Paula's justice yet but soon! #art
First sheet of the session, ink and wrist warm up circles and hatching, along with the first pose. A two minute couple pose with each holding their right legs backwards whilst touching their free arms together in the air. Second, two minute pose of the male & female couple performing a syncronised yoga tree pose; their right and left central leg straight whilst outer legs bent and resting on the thighs, outer arms raised to meet above their heads. I believe their 'inner' arms are supporting each others back's but I didnt manage to capture them. 3rd sheet of three, two-minute studies with the models doing yoga poses and stretches off of each others backs. First five minute ink study of the male/female couple standing in embrace with their arms wrapped around one side and raised together on the other
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The long four poses; prefer the previous 5 min studies as trying to capture everything meant I lost focus on certain areas, though I also didnt get to draw the patterns on the blankets. Good highlight of skill defects to improve on #art
Brown packing paper with a 5 minute study of a male model, black ink brushed Fifteen minute seated pose of a male model on brown packing paper, black ink brushed Fifteen minute sitting pose of a male model on brown packing paper, black ink brushed Fortyish minute seated pose of a male model on brown packing paper, black ink brushed
March 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Figure I should start posting my life drawing sessions on here after taking a little unplanned sabatical from them. Did two in one week to try and warm the muscles back up again, especially as the next session was with two models.
Good fun drawing someone with defined muscles this time round #art
Brown packing paper with four, one-minute ink brush studies of a naked man in different poses, alongside some brush and wrist warmup pattern exercises Brown packing paper with four, one-minute studies of a man in various poses Brown packing paper with a five minute study of the upper torso/bust of a male model in black brush pen Brown packing paper with a 5 minute study upper torso/bust study of a male model in black brushpen
March 31, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Had a great birthday yesterday; the surprise portraits by my (artist) friends, like this one by @jamesloram.bsky.social were especially loved! #art #illustration
Great stylistic portrait of a bald, bearded white, smiling male with two earrings by James Loram
March 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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'Unflavoured' Coffee break between episodes
A filter coffee machine next to a napkin that reads "There is no fish in the perculator"; an injoke to a scene in Twin Peaks where that surprising event does occur, much to the chagrin of the main detective duo.
March 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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One "small present to myself" procured 🥧☕
March 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Need to find a decent white scraggly, Frank Silva wig for the next weekend with some double denim but for now, rocking this @lucieebrey.bsky.social tee
Bald, white artist with moustache-less van dyke beard wears a red and black flannel shirt over an awesome graphic grey tshirt; a little cute brown doggie in a big, red to orange gradient flame above the words "FIRE WALKIES WITH ME"
March 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I mean it probably scratches the same itches that fortnite or minecraft do for others, not to yuck anyone elses yum but i'm all kinds of giddy with this 😁
A pink balaclava'd head with goggles is in a floating protective glass dome, a "Skullsaver" that is being told to dispose of in a trashshoot amidst the rest of the colouful level and interface design
February 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Ah whimsical game design, oh how ive missed you
Flavour and tutorial text on a lighter tool "Gentle Lighter. Here to light up the deep dark corners of your life" "Warning: Spark Hazard. Flame can ignite flammable gasses" Sticker on a Banana tool/weapon "Banana Nuevos Aires. Warning: Stun Hazard. Banana peel may cause slipping"
February 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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So glad they've kept some of the cubey character design, let alone the Flotilla Cats.
A (blocky, as in early CGI design) Cat is standing in a tiled bathroom, with a giant arrowing point down at them. Their face nonchalantly staring at you
February 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Nothing says 'period' set dressing than VHS tapes 😍 Especially of some Horror Classics, in Original Sin's Dexter Morgan's room. Can't quite make out the tapes between Twilight Zone and I.T nor the final one on the right but he's definitely into the dark humour and Sam Raimi
A selection of late 20th Century horror movies on VHS Tapes, amidst medical and anatomy books used for set dressing in the new prequel series, Dexter: Original Sin
February 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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London and Manchester tickets secured! Psyched and already making up dream setlists of Lynchian, Bowian or heck, Crowian nature that wouldnt ever come to pass 😅 #nineinchnails (reposting as forgot to ALT text)
Murky Teal, black and overexposed white shapes behind orange text, proclaiming "Nine Inch Nails Peel it Back Tour NiN 2025"
January 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

#art
January 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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David Lynch.
Loved the dark, surreal, and also whimsicaly absurd art he gave us. His ABC film was delectable in its hauntingness, contrasted with the polarizing 'On the Air'; Kooky fun that ended too soon, just like him. And yes I do prefer his more imaginative Dune!
Rest in Peace
#DavidLynch
A study of NicCage from 'Wild at Heart' lying on a bed, topless and sockless, wearing just jeans as he balances an old timey radio between his feet above him and plays around with the power cable, depicted using image ghosting. Keyline of Laura Dern hovers over his face, as well as a bunch of different coloured hands all reaching out from the top of the image down towards Nic to connote memories and missed connections (I'd also adapted the study for a vinyl EP that didn't get picked up) #WildatHeart #NicolasCage #LauraDern A group of characters from TwinPeaks, Agent Dale Cooper (eating some pie), The Giant, BoB, The Man from Another Place and even a log with David Lynch's face and the Duckman from The Third Place Playstation 2 adverts are in the Black Lodge. It is implied that we are looking at the event through the eyes of the Duckman, as the coffee cup he is holding is also in the foreground, with a Laura Palmer face obscured in it. What's more optical arty, is that BoB is clutching the left side of the couch, but also appears on the right side of the couch clutching another couch, with allusions to another Cooper and Giant, as the phrase goes "It is Happening Again" #AgentCooper #TheThirdPlace #BoB #ManfromAnotherPlace #Coffee #LauraPalmer #Giant #BlackLodge #TwinPeaks A group of characters from TwinPeaks, Deputy Hawk, Sherif Truman, Agent Cooper/Dougie Jones and Lucy Brennan (and a ludicriously fake bush disguised Windom Earle, aswell as the more subtle 'evolved' form of 'The Arm') are outside, infront of a blackboard with suspect names, a table stacked full of donuts, and behind those, stacks of chopped wood logs amidst a forest. One of the group, Agent Cooper/Dougie Jones is throwing a stone with a marking on it, with enough force to kick up dust as it sores across a black oil puddle surrounded by stones that hides the infamous Black and White Chevron floor pattern of the Black Lodge. The rock has hit and exploded a glass bottle ontop of a log, though we can only see the various shards of glass splintering off, each with reflections of BoB and Dale Cooper in them, as another onlooker shields their eyes. A print of this framed as well as unframed, is available at Gallery1988 in LA, USA. #DougieJones #SheriffTruman #DeputyHawk #WindomEarle #DeputyAndy #kcoRs'teL #Chevron #Tibet #Zen #Logs #MorseCode A group of characters from TwinPeaks, Deputy Hawk, Sherif Truman, Agent Cooper/Dougie Jones and Lucy Brennan (and a ludicriously fake bush disguised Windom Earle, aswell as the more subtle 'evolved' form of 'The Arm') are infront of a blackboard with suspect names, a table stacked full of donuts, and behind those, stacks of chopped wood logs amidst a forest. One of the group, Agent Cooper/Dougie Jones is throwing a stone with a marking on it, with enough force to kick up dust as it sores across a black oil puddle surrounded by stones that hides the infamous Black and White Chevron floor pattern of the Black Lodge(with the Twin Peak's logo and David Lynch and Mark Frost credits, along with the backward's title of this piece "!kcor s'teL" hovering over it in that garish green and red branding we love. Added after the fact, the print's at Gallery 1988 do NOT have this on them. Wonders of hindsight) The rock has hit and exploded a glass bottle ontop of a log, though we can only see the various shards of glass splintering off, each with reflections of BoB and Dale Cooper in them, as another onlooker shields their eyes.
January 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Great North and Bob's Burgers are forever hitting out of the park 😂
December 11, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the great Jonny Lee Miller, star of among other things, Hackers!

#movie #JonnyLeeMiller #zerocool #crashoveride #acidburn #phantomfreek #theplague #cyberpunk #virtualreality #Hackers #illustration #1990s #Art
A giant distorting ominous face of a man, half the classic Davinci 'Veturian' half Fisher Stevens' Character is grasping with big chromey, virtual reality hands at a floppy disc with incriminating data on it, surrounded by a circle of the most important tomes of Hacking knowledge floating around it, and avatars of Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie's Characters in their urban Roller skating clothing, also trying to reach said disk. The environment is a garish neon red, blue and purple on black representation of the electronic virtual world; it is a mix of a diagram for a freighter's self leveling software that is compromised in the film, server blocks (with various cells lit up to emulate the final moments of a apartment lighting hack) and a POV of someone typing on a customized, glyphed keyboard, over another shot of the tanker. Oh yeah! and the film's title is made up of various calculator-esque symbols, over the top of a Pacman Virus that's starting to eat away at the poster *breathes out*
November 16, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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Cat had moved whilst I was out at Life Drawing so here's my much belated #Godzilla Day art post! With and Without Text for your enjoyment! #art #movie #Kaiju #Toho #Gojira #Underthesea
Two old timey diving suited figures are descending into the sepia, darkening water of the sea, amidst broken pylons and train carriages, past a giant lizard monster, Godzilla who they've alerted with a flash light to the face. Their back spine fins are glowing/ powering up. Thankfully, one of the divers has a secret weapon, a deoxygenizer! A film poster for the Toho movie Gojira/Godzila: King of the Monsters by Ishiro Honda. Depicting two old timey diving suited figures are descending into the sepia, darkening water of the sea, amidst broken pylons and train carriages, past a giant lizard monster, Godzilla who they've alerted with a flash light to the face. Their back spine fins are glowing/ powering up. Thankfully, one of the divers has a secret weapon, a deoxygenizer!
November 7, 2024 at 11:43 PM