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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, this looks exciting

Day 1 of #inktober #catober #drawtober with prompts from Karen Luk@mastodon.social A cat FATHOMs below #drawingchallenge

Ink drawing on a passport size sketchbook. A cat in old fashion diving suit with a breathing tube to the surface, underwater looks at a small fish and does not see tentacles coming from below.

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Brent Patterson @delanop.com · 30/09/2026

I spoke again at the Blender conference last week. I was so nervous that my watch later asked if I had been running during those twenty minutes. #bcon26 #blender www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEgQ...

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Enter the Dome: Rendering for Planetariums — BCON26

YouTube video by Blender

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Graham Annable @grickle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A vampire who isn't Dracula... #grickledoodle #vampire #horror

A cartoon illustration of a bald vampire shepherds a flock of ghosts back to his castle away from stormy weather. Caption reads "It was time to get the flock back to the castle."

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James Kochalka Superstar @kochalka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh we’re posting Vampires on Bluesky today? Here’s two Bicycle Vampires from my sketchbook. OMG I had forgotten all about Ximp and his Vampire Trike.

Jeremy the Bicycle Vampire and his Vampire Bike

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Nathan Fowkes Art @nathanfowkes.com · 28/09/2026

Painted for DreamWorks El Dorado.

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Chris Samnee @chrissamnee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow is the first day of October! I’ll be doing a Batman related piece of art, based off single word prompts I got from folks over on IG, and posting one each day of the month— I call it BATOBER! See you all tomorrow ✍️ 🦇

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Goldie and Komos @komos-and-goldie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Doctor Who needs to get closer to the spirit of The Twilight Zone -- lower budget but eerie and unforgettable -- rather than trying to compete with Marvel and Star Wars.

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Paul Chadwick @paulchadwick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Made me feel great.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Literally every Meta product. When Dracula is the CEO the product will always be vampires.

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adafruit @adafruit.com · 29/09/2026

spooky season is nigh, and we will commune with the ghosts and spirits of LEDs and projects past

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Scans from “Nomads” by Itsuro Naraki. Naraki is a Japanese photographer whose work is deeply influenced by Robert Frank. These portraits show people Naraki met on the street between 1986 and 1994. The book is available for purchase at Pinakotheca Books. IG t.archivist

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW ADVICE-FROM-LIEBER LIST! I've posted these tips as a thread before, but I figured it's about time I made it available as a single, shareable image.

MISTAKES I'VE MADE THAT YOU CAN AVOID
Don't be like me.
1. Don't trash your own work when complemented. In that context your self-deprecation is insulting someone else's taste! Just say thanks and change the subject. Maybe credit an influence?
2. As far as your readers are concerned, comics are drawn with a printing press or a monitor. Don't fetishize the original art or the tools you make it. Anything that gets the story told the way it needs to be told is the right tool for the job.
3. Don't use one job to audition for another. It's unfair to your collaborators and a betrayal of the reader to get flashy or sexy or explosive if the moment in the story doesn't call for it.
4. The important storytelling choices on a page can be worked out in thumbnails. Gesture, camera angle, framing, broad arrangement of tones-get this stuff right before you worry about anatomy, lighting, drapery, or facial expressions.
5. Some artists can put down a final inkline with no underdrawing, but that's because they're skilled and experienced enough to do all that underdrawing in their head. You probably aren't. Get your underdrawing right and save the masterstrokes for the masters.
6. What you're feeling while you work doesn't matter. What the audience feels when they read it does. You can be happy and still do a great drawing of someone in agony. You should understand what you're depicting. It's not necessary to experience it in real time at the board.
7. Get a fresh eye on your work. You never know when some accidental juxtaposition is going to completely change your intended meaning.
8. Don't let getting things 100% right keep you from getting things done. It's easy to get bogged down in research or prep sketches. Make a schedule at the start of a project so you know how much time you have. Do the best you can with the time allotted and move on. But...

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 28/09/2026

“Meet people where they are; don’t force them to come to you. Bring the studio to where the music is happening. If that is a parking lot, a hallway, or while they’re lying on the ground and the mics are farther away than is optimal, so be it.” Ian Brennan’s Hidden Musics:

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Hidden Musics

By 2014, I'd already been transitioning for more than five years from working in traditional studios to almost exclusively doing field recordings overseas.

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💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know beyond parody gets said a lot but we are now beyond speculative dystopian fiction as well

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 27/09/2026

“Visual elevator music.” Is spot on.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

The effective altruism movement is extremely closely linked to rationalist social groups and high-level people at leading AI companies (the Venn diagram is almost a circle) - and it also has a sexual assault problem: bsky.app/profile/fain...

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💥Alex.W💪🏾💥 @jokeb0i.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think OP has had particularly bad personal experiences pre-2020, but there has been a general agreement online fandom spaces specifically have deteriorated bit, not because of its growth, but due to a lack of real world socialization and all activity being moved to sites that encourage negativity

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Animation by Matt Williames & Bruce W. Smith* | The Princess and the Frog (2009) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I loved the visuals surrounding The Batman Who Laughs, but never got 'round to reading any of it. Haven't seen anything with it for ages, so I guess it's run its course.

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Kelly Brack @kellybrack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Batman | Columbo

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Jesse Farrell @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve seen numerous variations on this these; what I appreciate about this one is that Columbo’s in the Batcave and Batman’s listening to him with posture of respect and serious consideration for what he’s saying.

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Brian Kolm @briankolm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My friend is doing another wonderful cat calendar of watercolor paintings. You can also get a drawing lesson as an option.

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RP @rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com · 22/09/2026

There's been a post going around on Reddit about the reality of using platforms like Kickstarter and BackerKit. And I think it's very important for independent creators to realize a couple of things before they get started with those platforms. So here is a free post on my patreon about those.

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The Reality of Crowdfunding | Fari RPGs ⋅ Tabletop Blueprint

There's a post on Reddit talking about the point of Kickstarter. It went pretty viral and got very popular. A lot of upvotes, a lot of comme

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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From back in April. Y’all now know it was the Muppets I was working on. I’ve never had more fun drawing 20 pages and I hope that comes through when you pick up the book tomorrow. I’m so grateful for this opportunity.

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JD, you can’t eat comics. @lostcity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are a lot of advantages libraries have over bookstores in connecting readers to books, but one that I need everyone to think about is graphic novels and manga. These books are expensive, but fast to read. There is NO WAY bookstores alone can fill the need for comics, even for the well-off.

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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is making the rounds on Tumblr again, so I'm sharing it here for anyone struggling to put Accurate Boat Stuff in their creative work. (These are excerpts from my comic A Week at Sea with OHP, which you can read online here: lucybellwood.com/new-comic-a-...)

An illustrated diagram showing the different parts of a square sail on a tall ship, including tacks, head, leeches, reef nettles, foot, and clews, along with how they work together to bring the sail up to the yard or down to be set.

An illustrated step by step guide to setting a square sail on a tall ship. 1. Cast off your gear, 2. Sheet home, 3. Tend your braces, and 4. Haul your halyard!

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David Hahn (L-A-T-E-R that week) @davidhahn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The big takeaway in the story of the USA will be "with great freedom comes great stupidity."

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The Soloist @the-soloist.itch.io · 18/09/2026

Working on a little setting for the Vaults of Vaarn Jam (and Hobbit Day). #ttrpg

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Void | 📺TV & Radio📻 Horror Vtuber @voidtaffy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

🚨PSA FOR GIVEAWAYS (w/ alt text)🚨 sorry to break out the scary red text Often I see streamers hosting giveaways that are potentially violating TOS or illegal under US law PLEASE- if you or a streamer you watch aren't following these laws, let them know because you can get in serious trouble for it

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 18/03/2025

always just assumed roko's basilisk was a serious thought experiment of old, not some shitpost someone came up with on a forum 10 years ago "i must contribute to building the torment nexus in case the torment nexus becomes sentient and persecutes anyone who didn't help build it" fuck offfffffff

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tbh, good advice regardless of mergers and media consolidations. Support the weird, small art made by real people.

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Onion only makes banger articles but this one is especially perfect start to finish

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Brian Kolm @briankolm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Get your Flu and Covid vaccine today!

Photo of two round bandaids on Brian somewhat hairy arm. Both badaids have superhero faces drawn on them. "COVID VACCINE!" one says and the other "FLU VACCINE"

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Brian Kolm @briankolm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When the folks at top can't be bothered to do the work it sends the message that effort is meaningless. Fire the guy.

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 21/09/2026

It's not just AI-generated art anymore. Now, Agentic AIs are in our emails, and they really really want us to buy their D&D "module." If AI can so easily subvert spam safeguards, it's the beginning of the end for our inboxes.

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An “AI Agent” is begging us to buy their D&D module

iLands has been inundating the inboxes of journalists and publications… and now it’s Rascal’s turn to take out the trash.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Translation: "You can't pay an absurd amount of money for this and hide it in a freeport as a form of tax evasion."

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SoloRPGList @solorpglist.com · 19/09/2026

New to the #SoloRPG List: Bird is Dragon! by @nipafruticans.bsky.social A solo-ish drawing, nature journalling, and birdwatching TTRPG. LINKY: solorpglist.com/search.php?i...

Cover for the solo plus RPG: Bird is Dragon! a solo drawing, journaling & birdwatching TTRPG. Drawing of a cute little bird with an arrow pointing to a journal with black line art of a dragon

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adafruit @adafruit.com · 21/09/2026

receiving samples from a USB SDR, decoding FM audio, and drawing a live waterfall. the invisible signals become something you can hear, see, and learn from. stand in a rainbow with your radio, head 📻 adafruit.com/product/6200 & adafruit.com/product/1497

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Adafruit Fruit Jam - Mini RP2350 Computer

We were catching up on a recent hackaday hackchat with eben upton and learned some fun facts: such as the DVI hack for the RP2040 was inspired by a device called the IchigoJam. we ...

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I typed up my random animal list and turned it into a handout:

A list of 100 animals which can be rolled on to create different random combinations.

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