Ryan Stanley

I've forgotten to post here for 9 months somehow! Could it have something to do with the fabric of contemporary reality tearing to pieces? We'll never know!

I live just outside of a very lovely touristy town, and last summer I felt compelled to make a hyper-local (and hopefully amusing) souvenir for the sweet folks who come through and see my work.

For some reason it took me until now to finally colour it and have it made, but they're here!

I genuinely believe that if you do something long enough, & are sincerely devoted to it, you will become successful at whatever Thing you do.
It may not be as financially successful as you'd like, but don't get THAT fallacy confused w actually being successful &/or GOOD at a Thing: it still matters.

A recent commission. How happy I was to be asked to draw a spooky fishing cove. Being surrounded by them was certainly helpful for inspiration.

We've burned through most of them (my guy is also 9) and he dug the Ant Man movies and the whole Avengers series👍

Put on a happy face.
😁💀😁

You remain an incredible influence, as always.

My innie started rewatching S1 while my outie is counting the days until the next episode of S2.
#severance

That's amazing, thank you! Glad to inspire.

QRP with your cosmic horror. I want to see!

A little something I drew for an article my wife wrote for our local independent paper.

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Icon VS Artist

Some days just wish I could blast it all with my eye beams, you know?

A new image I drew up to accompany an essay my wife wrote here:
jackiestanley.substack.com/p/the-farmho...

Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Pee-Wee Herman from a Tim Burton series I got started on a while back. Hoping to come back to it soon!

#darkart #watercolour #illustration

Glad you're here.

Severance VERY good

New year, new guitar, same me.

@thecure.com Robert peeking out from my shirt.

Can't believe I'm in the cool kids club. Follow everyone in here if you're down with weirdo art.

Happy Lunar New Year! It's the year of the snake, so here's one from a few years back with the Ior rune for good measure.

#lunarnewyear #yearofthesnake #inkart #oracledeck

Don't know that I ever saw it this way and now I am FOREVER IN YOUR DEBT.

Worked on me!

We had an absolutely lovely time performing at 2 Crows in Halifax on Saturday night! Here's a little taste of @wreckedmail.bsky.social photos from the show 🖤

It me.

More, more! This is gorg.

Wow, man! Love your work.

Glad you're here, man!

I was just having a conversation along these lines. It's feeling more hopeful and organic than in the past. Maybe less desperate?

I crowdfunded an oracle deck a while back and the first run is very close to sold out 🤯🤯🤯 With just a few left, I'm planning my next moves.