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Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian artist’s painting of a swallow on a flake of limestone, dated to the New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, c. 1479-1458 BC. The sparrow stands in profile with head to the right. It is delicately painted with a pinkish body. The outline and details are highlighted in a reddish/brown pigment. It’s legs, eye, and beak are painted black. Limestone flake dimensions H. 6.6 cm x W. 10.6 cm. This may have been a practice drawing of the sparrow hieroglyph which was used for words meaning ‘small’, ‘poor’, or ‘bad’. Egyptian artisans who decorated tombs and temples made practice sketches on flakes of limestone which are known by egyptologists as ostraca (singular: ostracon). Sometimes the drawings were used as a template when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available for this purpose as by-products of the construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of ostraca were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations.

Artists have always loved to sketch!

Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC.

Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used small flakes of limestone as sketchpads!

MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

Old Milk and Cheese pinup of them dressed as Captain America and Bucky, yelling, "The Red Skull -- Is a Dead Skull". Off too punch nazis.

More M&C cosplay. Off to punch Nazis.

Some of our other creators are also at events this weekend!

Auld Alliance Comic Festival: @juliecampbelldraws.bsky.social and @verface.bsky.social

Glasgow Zine Fair: @toadlett.bsky.social and @sna1l.bsky.social (our prepress tech!)

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.” On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use. On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm. On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

yep! unpaywalled:

An anniversary worth marking.

I'm sure we're going to see the very people who have trashed its legacy seek to appropriate WW2 today - so let's remember what was really fought for: peace, a more united Europe, a land fit for heroes (mark 2) and the defeat of fascism.

Keep making art.
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Will Riker wall clock where the hour and minute hands are his legs

the perfect wall clock doesn't ex......

yes

yall are worried that fictional villains will teach people the wrong lesson but sixty years of fiction has failed to teach people that that nazis are the bad guys so idk

A sappy, corny little valentines illustration for me and my boyfriend.

a very old @morrowdragon.bsky.social sketchbook cameo 👀

#art #sktchbook

"Imbolc or Imbolg, also called (Saint) Brigid's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Bríde, Scottish Gaelic: Là Fhèill Brìghde, Manx: Laa'l Breeshey), is a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of spring."

"February-isn't-Spring" people, remove the coloniser from your mind

Coloured drawing of girl with braided brown hair wearing a grey scarf over her shoulders. She looks scared and has just been crying.

Pencil drawing of girl with braided hair wearing a grey scarf over her shoulders. She looks scared and has just been crying.

Assortment of pencil sketches for an upcoming comic I'm working on. The top left shows a little girl floating and screaming in anger as she beats her teeth and claws. Top right shows the same girl transforming into a beast. Bottom right shows drawing of girl with braided hair wearing a grey scarf over her shoulders. She looks scared and has just been crying.

Page of comic script draft with sketches of the layout and notes.

Some upcoming stuff I'm cooking up...

A 1-page League of Legends fan comic. Renata Glasc and Viktor the Machine Herald are mid-argument over an assignment in Viktor's kitchen. Renata speaks "... FINE, Viktor. Feed the Piltover Gazette into one of your robots, and-" before Viktor interjects, "I’m not leeching off starving artists OR using Piltie slop. Besides, you’ve not seen what a REAL A I can create. Observe." The hex claw points directly at Viktor's fridge that's covered in childish crayon drawings of Blitzcrank, Ekko, Zeri, Rio, poros, and more. Notably, there's one of Blitzcrank and Viktor together. Viktor's mask comically cries while he declares "Blitzcrank's childhood drawings..." Renata is displeased.

Proud father.

#viktor #machineherald #renataglasc #blitzcrank #art #leagueoflegends

Can't break my courage.
And I won't fall.
#Arcane #Viktor

Embroidery of a white unicorn sitting above the grave of a skeleton

The Guardian

Guts.
#berserk

Yes, I send all my support regardless ❤️
And yup, I've jumped on the bluesky bandwagon!

Large panel, three men on camels ride towards the viewer in a desert landscape. It is late morning, and the sun is already beating down.

Hi BlueSky!
It's been a minute!
This summer has gone fast! just wrapped up a short story for Savage Sword of Conan #4, now am working on a cover, wrapping the last sets of pages for HEAVY, and finishing some overdue commissions.

I'll be at ROSE CITY COMIC CON Sept 6-8, hope to see you there!

Art-

Is this a coming out post? Yay either way, friend!

sorry, but you will never know what Matt Damon looks like in the Arthur universe

There were many years when I thought we would never know what Matt Damon looks like in the Arthur universe, but I was dead wrong.

Really hope everyone is clear that NONE of this is about keeping Jewish students safe

You don't get to say 'we regret that the protesters escalated' and 'community safety is our top priority' when the protesters are students who haven't hurt anybody and your response was calling in, like, a hundred unaccountable guys with guns

there is a very short leap from “hey let me casually take some pictures of birds with this inexpensive zoom lens” to “what do i need to sell to afford this ultra-telephoto lens so i can get a proper close up of the red-tailed hawk that occasionally takes a perch in the neighbor’s tree”

I drew a picture of Stupid Sexy Ned Flanders as Dr Manhattan from Watchmen appearing as a partially muscled skeleton outside of the Gila Flats Test Base. “November 14th: A stupid sexy partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing...”

November 14th: A stupid sexy partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing...