Layla

Layla

@laylaspence.bsky.social

Cartoonist & painter Makes the comic ill fame: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ill-fame/list?title_no=382596 • patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/LaylaSpence?view_as=patron

268 Followers 57 Following 621 Posts Joined Oct 2024
1 hour ago

Oh wow, that’s an intense dream! Although I think I’d enjoy a dream like that, too

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15 hours ago

Say a thought about comics

To quote Junji Ito, "if you're going to eat the poison, you might as well eat the plate"

Always go full tilt, push whatever you're making into the best version you can conjure up, don't shrink in the face of your imagination, challenge yourself, eat all of it up

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1 week ago
Digital drawing of seals and eels swimming upwards, wearing shawls and carrying bags of food

Episode 112 of ill fame is up now to read. After the big confrontation, everyone, including villains, adjust to the new world

#comics #webcomics

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/il...

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15 hours ago

Say a thought about comics

To quote Junji Ito, “if you’re going to eat the poison, you might as well eat the plate”

Always go full tilt, push whatever you’re making into the best version you can conjure up, don’t shrink in the face of your imagination, challenge yourself, eat all of it up

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4 days ago
A bird man with a backpack on the floor standing behind a woman holding her own bag. Standing in front of a bush with a sunset behind them

Redrawing some of the early episodes of ill fame to prepare for print and its wild to try and ape my own style that I tried really hard to evolve out of. Anyway, here’s a version of the weary and cautious Frankie and Rhys from the first episode, drawn in my current style

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3 days ago

I think you’re allowed “comedic nudity”, whatever that means

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3 days ago

Thank you 🙏 Three chapters down, 113 to go!

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4 days ago
Page from the redrawn first episode Image from the original episode

On the left is the redrawn page, all candy bubblegum coloured, and the right is the original drawing for the first episode from 6 years ago

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4 days ago
A bird man with a backpack on the floor standing behind a woman holding her own bag. Standing in front of a bush with a sunset behind them

Redrawing some of the early episodes of ill fame to prepare for print and its wild to try and ape my own style that I tried really hard to evolve out of. Anyway, here’s a version of the weary and cautious Frankie and Rhys from the first episode, drawn in my current style

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6 days ago
King holding a stamp looking up at 45 crows cawing

New newsletter up looking at the references in episode 112 of ill fame, including apotropaic charms against sea witches, lavender coats & 45 crows

Available on substack and Patreon, both the same content, both free

www.patreon.com/posts/152295...

open.substack.com/pub/laylaspe...

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6 days ago
King holding a stamp looking up at 45 crows cawing

New newsletter up looking at the references in episode 112 of ill fame, including apotropaic charms against sea witches, lavender coats & 45 crows

Available on substack and Patreon, both the same content, both free

www.patreon.com/posts/152295...

open.substack.com/pub/laylaspe...

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1 week ago

Illustration from my zine The Prince & The Chrysalis. What would you do if your best friend dissolved their insides and spent a year turning into a butterfly boy?

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1 week ago

Illustration from my zine The Prince & The Chrysalis. What would you do if your best friend dissolved their insides and spent a year turning into a butterfly boy?

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1 week ago
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I love the way Tillie Walden and Jillian Tamaki used limited colour if you need some extra inspiration

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1 week ago
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1 week ago

Same, never really made character sheets either. Too busy trying to get the comic drawn 😅

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1 week ago
Digital drawing of seals and eels swimming upwards, wearing shawls and carrying bags of food

Episode 112 of ill fame is up now to read. After the big confrontation, everyone, including villains, adjust to the new world

#comics #webcomics

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/il...

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1 week ago
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45 crows approach with a message in episode 112 of ill fame (my shapeshifter romance comic with lots of crows in it, and seals and eels, too)

Out today 7pm gmt/2pm est

#comics #webcomics

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1 week ago

I definitely think Link would eat the shells on that seafood, too

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2 weeks ago
Hand of a goat man (off panel) offers his mask to a man wearing a hat

Episode 112 of ill fame is out on Monday and Robin (with the mask) proposes more witchy shenanigans

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2 weeks ago
Hand of a goat man (off panel) offers his mask to a man wearing a hat

Episode 112 of ill fame is out on Monday and Robin (with the mask) proposes more witchy shenanigans

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2 weeks ago

Thank you so much for this @tateufel.bsky.social it is gorgeous! Beautiful calm moment from their hectic lives

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2 weeks ago

i have to believe that, at the end of the day, craft will save us. That our attention-spans can and will make time for it, both to slow down and make the thing you're proud of and for the person who encounters it and stops to soak it in. It's the only thing they can't take from us.

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2 weeks ago

Thank you so much for this @tateufel.bsky.social it is gorgeous! Beautiful calm moment from their hectic lives

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2 weeks ago

You just found out you're a witch! 🧙‍♀️✨

Who are you recruiting first to be in our coven?

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2 weeks ago

And another, this time on brown craft paper

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2 weeks ago

The Prince of the Land and the witchy stable boy make a grave mistake as they trespass into the forbidden caves of the usurped long dead king

(Illustration from my new zine!)

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2 weeks ago

The Prince of the Land and the witchy stable boy make a grave mistake as they trespass into the forbidden caves of the usurped long dead king

(Illustration from my new zine!)

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2 weeks ago
Ink and watercolour drawing of a man sleeping Pencil, watercolour and acrylic ink drawing of a man’s face Ink and watercolour drawing of a woman scowling Pencil, watercolour and ink drawing of a man

In the evening I like to do some wind down drawings and usually they just end up as a made up faces but they’re quite relaxing to do. Here’s some of my recent ones

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2 weeks ago
Ink and watercolour drawing of a man sleeping Pencil, watercolour and acrylic ink drawing of a man’s face Ink and watercolour drawing of a woman scowling Pencil, watercolour and ink drawing of a man

In the evening I like to do some wind down drawings and usually they just end up as a made up faces but they’re quite relaxing to do. Here’s some of my recent ones

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