Cy

Holds him so sweetly…

A snail being painted as narcissus looking down at its reflection in the water

A gouache portrait of a snail looking upwards with splotches of blue and pink paint in the background

Here are the two pet snail portraits I finished a little while back!
These are for @cydork.bsky.social 🥰

[ #petportrait #watercolour #gouache #snail #art ]

His silly little strut

Half-booth with a variety of stickers, prints, and comics/zines.

First page of a black and white comic, with a red artist seal stamp in the margins.

Person with rectangular glasses and a mask featuring a Maya style monster mouth pointing at a board with several posters on it, particularly one labelled “shifters and spacebirds”.

Yellow pieces of card with social media details written on them, and small silly drawings of a dragonfish and isopod-like alien. These were placeholders for business cards.

Forgor to share pictures. Had a very good first con experience! Lovely neighbours, a lot of compliments, made back my booth cost and ran out of business cards by day 1. Didn’t manage to break even but now I have Market Knowledge (TM) for next time.

Disembodied hand holding up a zine titled “Notes on the Supreme Dragonfish”, with a golden fish painted on the cover, to a similar looking fish (arowana) in a tank.

Now you too can give fish body dysmorphia!

#art #artistsonbluesky #fish #arowana #artistshop

Visit Cy's Shop! I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

After being scared of Shopify, I remembered I have a Ko-fi account that allows for shop setup, so behold! A way to purchase my physical wares :) I made a brand new comic for the con I boothed at last weekend, only available in print! ko-fi.com/thecydork/shop

#art #artistsonbluesky

Floorplan of the convention CAFKL9 (Comic Art Festival Kuala Lumpur 9), with F10 encircled in red.

Stickers laid out on a red fabric background. Waterproof matte sticker sheet, A6, RM5 Mirrorkote stickers, thick gloss lamination, RM2 each All 3 for RM5 The sticker sheet depicts dragon-like aliens in various sleeping posts. The stickers depict, from top to bottom: 1) Two isopod-like aliens locking horns, with the caption "The Girls are FIGHTINGGGG" 2) A yello snail with a conical shell, strutting on high-heeled feet 3) A disgruntled looking baby coot

Prints laid out on a red fabric background. Ivory card, 300gsm prints A4 - RM 8 A5 - RM 5 There are two A4 prints, one depicting an anthro bee with a rapier, the other depicting a man looking up at neon red and blue lights saying "NO DEVIL USE". There are also two A5 prints, depicting a musician shredding on a guitar in blue and purple lighting, and a person half in shadow with one eye reflecting the light back.

Comics and zines laid out on a red fabric background. A5 comic, 8 pg, b/w, RM 8 B5 illustrated zine, 8 pg, full colour, RM 15 B5 comic, 28 pg, b/w, RM 20 All 3 for RM 35

CAFKL9 is this weekend! I'll be at F10 under "Shifters and Spacebirds" :)

I know most of you are overseas so if you’re interested in any of my wares, you can email me at thecydork@outlook.com and we’ll sort something out (I have yet to set up an online shop, they terrify me).

Rough comic page of a person washing their hair, brushing their teeth, then flinching and discovering a crack at the corner of their mouth. Their partner materialises behind them, scaring them. Then, the pair discuss what caused the crack. DIALOGUE Partner: Morning babe, whatcha looking at? Original character: Ah! You snuck up on me. I think I cut myself. Partner: No. I'm pretty sure that's cheilitis.

Rough comic page of a noisy forest, and a bird picking about in leaf litter being stalked by a cat.

Hey everyone! I got into CAFKL9 and am working on a new comic to sell there, the longest solo comic I've done to date! I'm posting roughs daily on Patreon, and have roughs and development for other comics too. I'd be very grateful if you checked it out!

www.patreon.com/cydork

#comic #comicartist

An Era 4 nameless ghoul from the band Ghost facing the left, painted in shades of blue. Diffused light is shining from behind their head, resulting in a lavender outline to the right and blue streaks on the left.

A veiny hand against an abstract surface painted in blues and greens.

Answering that question made me realise I forgot to share these! I tried oil painting for the first time last year; these are my 2nd and 3rd paintings. The 1st one was a boring and janky still life, so I left it out. 3rd one is also technically incomplete, I missed a spot before I photographed it.

3) If you count school, I did art until Year 9 I think? Before we chose classes for O-levels, at which point I dropped it. Outside of school, I’ve done one Chinese calligraphy class and a photography workshop. I’d like to take a watercolour or oil painting class someday.

2) For as long as I can remember. According to my mum, about since I was 4 or 5 years old.

1) I prefer sketching traditionally but lining and colouring digitally. A lot of the time, I need the physicality of a pencil sketch to get a piece going.

Hit me!

It's okay, you don't have The Cataloguing Disease

Hello again! And you're very welcome, I'm still so thrilled that you like it 💗😊

Wdym you’re clearly teaching them advanced tricks, like lie down and jiggle endearingly

Various Charms - Dross's Ko-fi Shop A variety! Got some new ones and some old ones now in a little bundle. The oreos are all bone and some glass beads, the little guys are bone and copp...

I've got new little guys, cookies, and a three charm dealio up

ko-fi.com/s/7f61afc48e

So true. It’s times like this where I’m grateful to be a small artist because it’s likely no one will have seen or interacted with the post yet 😂

That struggle of posting art online.

A person with cat features pressed against a wall, hackles raised, golden eye staring directly at the camera.

Another feral-ish Gold, but this one's from last week or so. I got possessed to paint him quickly; it's fun to draw him in this state. He's in control of his faculties, not "feral" in the sense of losing it. Just visibly more feral.

#gold #ndu #cat #shapeshifter

A person with cat features holding a human by the throat. He looks at the camera with a kind of innocence while blood trickles down the other person's body, who lies like an angel in a Renaissance painting.

WIP from October. I'll finish it eventually, but I like it even now.

#gold #ndu #shapeshifter

16 scientific diagram type drawings of Cubaris sp. "amber ducky" isopods, 4 per row. The lines and base yellow colour are identical, but each one has a different black "saddle" pattern. The first isopod in the topmost row is labelled female, and the first isopod in the third row is labelled old.

Beginnings of an insane endeavour: documenting the markings of every adult amber ducky isopod I have, so I can recognise them individually. Started in November last year.

Lines can be downloaded from my tumblr.

#isopod #cubaris #cubarissp #amberducky

Realising this art is completely out of order, but oh well.

Some more stuff from October: Gold and his immediate family (brother Kai above, mum left, dad right). An exercise in making people look different yet still related. With and without glasses, for clarity.

#characterdesign #portrait #ndu

Reference sheet of a figure wearing a teal hooded labcoat, with copper gloves and a copper gas mask. Beside them is the colour palette, and a segmented red worm with radiating tentacles instead of a face.

Reference of an anthro palawan peacock pheasant wearing an iridescent turquoise crop top and thong. The claws on both their hands and feet are painted red.

Reference of an anthro snapping turtle cowboy. He is wearing a stetson, an open waistcoat, jeans, and cowboy boots, and is holding a tin mug.

Sickly looking man with a rucksack slung off one shoulder, holding a radio detector to the sky. He is dressed in pale greens and purples, has slicked up hair, tinted glasses, and acne. His shirt says "I want to believe" with a picture of a UFO, and his rucksack has an alien and illuminati charm on it.

Characters I made for a design trade in my server. Each person gave several prompts for others to design a character around.

1) For Northwyrm on tumblr
2) For @artsandgoodies.bsky.social
3) For @heavenbat.bsky.social
4) For Pizzaman on Discord

#anthro #characterdesign #worm #ufo #cowboy

Pterosaur-like aliens in various sleeping positions labelled, from top to bottom, left to right: idk, "The Loaf", "The Emu" and "Child's Pose".

Eepy Karraguls from January. A fun practice at drawing their anatomy in poses I wouldn't normally do.

#alien #specbio #karragul

Of course! I adore her design :)

100%. I had this happen once on the train when I had a migraine. Turns out that “in so much pain they’re about to throw up” is pretty easy to see on people’s faces haha

A many-limbed figure crawling towards the screen. He is green, with darker green stripes, and an abstract face held by two hands.

Secret Santa art I did for @satourni.bsky.social last year! I love drawing hands and arms, it was a truly perfect matchup. This is the alt version of an originally green and red image, but I ended up preferring this more over time.

#bodyhorror

Pencil sketches of raccoon dogs. Top left: Old individual with short whiskers and scruffy fur looking down, captioned "Lady", with a cute face and heart. Top middle: Simplified, round, younger individual facing the camera, captioned "Dumpling!" Top right: Lady sniffing at some food on a tray, with her scruffiness emphasised Bottom left: Lady's head poking out from beneath a pine branch. Bottom right: Another simplified Dumpling, fullbody, facing left

Sketches from an online life drawing class back in October. Raccoon dogs used to be my favourite animal, and still hold a place in my heart, so it was lovely to watch and draw them.

#tanuki #raccoondog #lifedrawing #wildlife #canidae #pencilsketch

A middle-aged man leaning on the table, taking notes and looking very tired, while a ribbon-like creature with an arrow head extends from his arm to say "kill urself lol <3"

Short comic of the same man, Tobias, and creature, arm demon. PANEL 1 The demon wraps around Tobias's head. Demon: Ohoh, just one? But there's sooo many juicy ones Tobias: Watch it... PANEL 2 The demon "stares" at Tobias (it has no eyes) while he looks shocked. Demon: QUICK! Don't think of a weird sex thing. Ohh, that's a good one. PANEL 3 Tobias grabs the demon. Tobias: SHHHH shut up, shut up, shut up!!! Demon: Three- I don't have a windpipe, genius. Three words. Ballistic. Gel. Torso.

Short, two panel comic of Tobias and the arm demon. PANEL 1 The demon strains towards the sky, its body tied in a knot. Demon: Egh! PANEL 2 The demon "looks" at Tobias while its bow hangs limply. He looks smugly at it in response. Demon: Ohhhh you're gettin' the intestinal worm dream tonight, sunshine.

Tobias and his arm demon. First pic was me trying out the demon's look, second was in response to an ask about Tobias's secrets, third is based on someone telling me to "tie that little bastard in a knot".

(Also yes, I forgot his tear tattoos in the first pic)

#characterdesign #demon