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Happy #portfolioday, gang! I’m Sandy, and I draw/color stuff, sequential and otherwise. Here’s some otherwise:

Happy we have officially announced this thing I've been working on for ten freakin' years. Expect to hear more from me about it over the next little while. Meanwhile, here are details:

www.superherohype.com/comics/65227...

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers.

Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

Don Drape Mad Men pitch meme. The sign has been edited to say “make it suck shit.”

the tech industry

Three panel comic. Panel one: a bush baby in sunglasses and a leather jacket sits outside a house on a motorcycle with huge handlebars. A starry-eyed ingenue in daisy dukes runs from the house. She says “wait, biker bush baby! Take me with you!” Panel 2: biker bush baby solemnly turns back and replies, “heh. Kid… you want nothin’ to do with this.” Panel 3: he rides into the distance while she watches him vanish on the horizon.

Morrigan NES style

columbo but mole

Molumbo

This shit is why I get upset when I see artists doing everything they can to appease whatever social media algos are lording over them.

This is where it inevitably heads.

You're just dollar signs to these companies. Stop playing their games. Get off their platforms.

Some old Daredevil layouts - I loved working on this book with @charlessoule.bsky.social

Our Dan Dare Kickstarter gets great coverage in the new Judge Dredd Megazine! Thanks Tharg!

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Buying that. Thanks for the heads up.

STOP THE PRESSES

Please RP! Covering up a modest budget hole.
Accepting ONE A3 commission based on the following:
Manga: Golden Kamuy/Devilman/Tenchi Muyou
Movies: Ichi the Killer/Noroi/Mad Max
Games: Silent Hill 2/Onimusha/Legacy of Kain
Tokusatsu: GARO/Shin Ultraman/Kamen Rider

€300, 3 months delivery! DMs open🙏

Dear Mr Stride, can you please help me and other UK children’s book illustrators? The governing is considering AI policy measures that would make us, as copyright holders, ‘opt out’ if we don’t want tech companies breaching our copyright to train their systems. The big companies then use our own art in competition against us. The UK ought to be proud of its children’s book tradition. Our artwork is exported all over the world, and by giving it away free, we’re ruining the industry. Children will be poorer: there’ll get dumbed-down, mechanical books that have no real person thinking hard about each aspect of them. My colleague Steve Antony described it: “It’s like allowing someone to break into my house and steal my belongings so that they can research, recycle and resell them, unless I stick a label on each and every one of my belongings that says ‘DO NOT STEAL’, even though the objects are clearly not theirs and clearly within someone else’s house. That house bring my copyright. It’s absolutely ridiculous, makes no sense, completely destroys existing copyright laws and insults every single one of us.” Please, could you stand up for us and out copyright? If you could mention our concerns to Feryal Clark, Minister for AI & Digital Governent, and to Chris Bryant, Minister for Creative Industry, Arts & Tourism, I’d greatly appreciate it. Warmest wishes, Sarah McIntyre, Illustrator & Author, Bovey Tracey

A handwritten letter on my illustration work desk to my local MP, Mel Stride, asking him to help UK children's book illustrators keep our copyright during the current AI policy consultation ✍️

@mrsteveantony.bsky.social
@alcs-uk.bsky.social
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
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Took a page out of @zeurel.bsky.social 's book and remade one of my favorite Simpsons scenes!

#2Danimation

animated clussy for #1houranim this was the tie down pass that took about 3 hours. theme was "hurry". All on paper. I wanted to work on my posing, and limited drawings!

SFW artists doing NSFW / NSFW artists doing SFW

phew! I can finally show some stuff I've been pecking away at on weekends! Helping my dear pal @pitiyindee.bsky.social on their next Hank Howell cartoon!

He challenged me with doing a few laugh shots at some tricky angles, and I LOVE a challenge!

It feels good to animate again!

An ink and marker drawing of Dr Doom throwing his hands up and yelling FUCK.

Mood

Springer, Wreck-Gar and Hot Rod having a pose-off

Been itching to draw these guys together ever since I found out @skybound.bsky.social's superb VOID RIVALS was adding Wreck-Gar to its roster alongside Hot Rod and Springer.

THEY'RE THE BEST ONES!

Next week, I’m launching something really personal:
A 200+ page guide to making indie #comics it’s everything I wish someone had told me 15 years ago.
It’s the book I needed back then, and I hope it helps the next wave of creators.
Sign up here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...

Big Barda! The New Gods 8 variant cover

Big Barda! The New Gods 8 variant cover

Style-guide pages by Alex Kirwan for Mickey Mouse (2013–2019), developed by Paul Rudish, Disney Television Animation

you'll never be rid of him

when people say "this isn't what I voted for" they should be forced to list what they DID vote for

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