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Tuesday, October 14th is #PortfolioDay! If you are a creative looking for work, this is the tag for you.

Read on to find out how to participate and visit portfolioday.art for more!

"my child could make this"

are they making it though? as in, do you let them? are they allowed to pursue art and the joy it provides? are they creating? its so hard to create nowadays. is your child given the abundance of freedom that creativity offers, or are they stifled by your judgemental mind?

rough thumbnails for a comic. hopefully they will still make sense when i actually come to draw them

realised recently I very much enjoy thumbnailing even though it's the hardest part of the process

Happy birthday! 💛

graphic for the drawing prompt challenge #Objectober. text reads: Objectober A drawing challenge of THINGS Prompts 1. cup 2. key 3. cutlery 4. toy 5. brush 6. sharp 7. soft 8. wheel 9. weight 10. worn 11. crown 12. lamp 13. tool 14. loud 15. orb the image is decorated with drawings of everyday objects (clothes peg, scissors, stool, beaker, lamp, spoon, pull along toy) with little arms and legs.

graphic showing the rules of the challenge. test reads: rules: • make some art about objects! Any kind, style and interpretation is good! If you’re stuck, there are some bonus challenges to give you some ideas. • You do not have to hit all the prompts. Take it easy! • using reference is encouraged! Using AI references is NOT. I made a list of some handy reference sites I found, which you’re welcome to use: toadrefs.carrd.co

graphic titled "Bonus Challenges" text reads: Stuck for inspiration? Try these! • Draw each object being held or used • Each object is found in the room or pack of a single character. What story do they tell? • Each object is a museum exhibit. What do they tell us about the people that made them? • Draw each object broken • Combine two prompts and draw an object that works as both make the objects into little creatures use real objects to design a character a pencil and a hairbriush, both with little legs, decorate the image.

I'm trying out a wee drawing challenge for October! #Objectober is a v chill challenge designed to make drawing inanimate objects fun and also to broaden our use of reference!
if you take part I'd love to see your work!
also I made a website for reference resources: toadrefs.carrd.co

I'm going to be talking at @tagsfest.co.uk next month with the wonderful @mortiscausa.bsky.social about fanfiction as folklore, and old stories! <3 See you there?

yess looking forward to this! I have many thoughts!

Carved in Stone A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now for pre-order!

I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more.

Check it out!
carvedinstone.scot

A graphic showing the sequential Scotland logo and then the following text: Sequential Scotland will return on 08/08/2026 at the doubletree by Hilton, Cambridge Street, Glasgow www.sequentialscotland.co.uk

SAVE THE DATE

Sequential Scotland 2026 will be happening on Saturday August 8th!

As with 2025 we will be going for Creative Scotland funding to make this possible.

To stay up to date sign up to the mailing list at the website below. And keep your fingers crossed for us!

sequentialscotland.co.uk

Nikolai Kupreyanov (1894-1933)

rough digital sketch of ME hooked up for an ekg

had a follow up with cardiology yesterday and for some reason during my ekg i ended up posing like a saint displaying their stigmata lol. anyway good news: my heart is fine 🫀✨

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

Friends, I am as excited as heck to tell y'all about the NEWBERRY MEDIEVAL MINICOMIC PRIZE!

It's for emerging cartoonists (i.e. no major publisher work, excepting anthologies) considering making a short work that engages with a medieval subject (fic or nonfic). 1/

www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

oOOOH!!! 👀

A graphic reading “Back within 48 hours to get this limited edition print!” with an arrow pointing to a print design featuring a sword with a ribbon tied to the hilt and a branch with several leaves and berries growing from it.

Glatisant is live on Kickstarter! 🛡🦌🌿 Your adventure awaits. Back in the first 48 hours and you’ll get a free linocut print of the sword and branch design, handpulled by @oddsandents.bsky.social. Help make this game a physical reality! tinyurl.com/bd949nbv

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

It was more of an accident but I just love this painting in black and white.

watercolour/pencil sketches of a toddler with dark blue paint smeared over her eyes, looking very like the lead singer from ghost

sketches of my niece, future ghost super stan, messing around with some paint

"Bluesky is boring."

Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually.

When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.

pencil sketches of characters in 18th century dress

pencil and ink sketches of characters in 18th century dress, and also a couple of blue ink drawings from another project of a character mending a fishing net

more

pencil sketches of horses in various dynamic poses

two riders on horseback riding away from the viewer over the countryside, colour pencil sketch

various ink sketches of characters in 18th century clothing (aiming for the 1770s) plus one sketch of a rider on horseback coming out of the woods. sensing a horse theme here

sketches of foxes and dogs in pencil, one larger sketch at the bottom of a boy running away from hounds with a fox on his shoulder

bunch of sketches, mostly from my time in hospital

ooh is that stationary I spy 👀👀 good luck! hope the day goes well for you

Coming soon: Glatisant: A Two-player Arthurian TTRPG A duet game of purpose, pursuit, and guidance

Coming Next Month: Players take on the role of Knight Errant & Questing Beast in this asymmetrical hunt. The Knight must catch the Beast and the Beast (who knows the win condition) must make sure the Knight is worthy of the quest.

Follow the KS!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

the cover of my graphic novel

I can finally say BUUZA!! is going to be PUBLISHED BY ABRAMS BOOKS!

I've had to keep this under wraps for SO LONG, but the Pre-Order links went up today, so it's official!!

BUUZA!! Vol. 1: Good Morning Salwa will be available in the USA on 14th April 2026!

www.abramsbooks.com/product/good...

Website-building resources Tutorials new The Quick ‘n’ Dirty Guide to Making a Website (2022) new Mala's Self-Hosting Guide new A Mini Guide to RSS Feeds (video presentation with the same info) new Music on Neocities: A cheap bastard's guide W3Schools - learn HTML, CSS, and Javascript Resources Bear Blog - small blogging platform Zonelets - small blogging engine (I use this one!) GifCities - Geocities GIF archive Lightbox2 - lightbox script Neocities - web hosting service (what I'm using right now, recommended!) Rarebit - open-source webcomic template Whimsical! - graphics website (cursor credit) new Virtual Observer's comment widget Articles & Arguments Rediscovering the Small Web by Parimal Satyal Plain old webpages still matter by Felix Plesoianu My Website is a Personal Museum by biko Cyber Mauseoleums (Or the Argument Against Deletion) by neonaut new Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters by Daniel/Melon

People are sharing a lot of resources on how to make your own website so I've updated the website-building section of my site with a link to some of the best I've found. PLEASE make your own website, it is fun (sometimes)! Fast (sometimes)!! Free (sometimes)!!!

💻 evegwood.com/links#resour...

Close up on an ancient plate featuring a light pink octopus with bright eyes and a smile. The octopus has two arms waving above its head in a friendly manner.

hi

There's only 8 days left in our campaign for our newest collection of comics, and we still have £3000 to go until we reach our goal! You're not going to want to miss out on these fantastic autobio comics 👇🐉

I’m contributing a fun wee comic about fairies and how vast the world would be for them!
This issue looks amazing, so get your pledges in now! 🥰

Artuš Scheiner (1863-1938)

thanks! I hope so too 😭

thanks!!! ♥️