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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll be hosting a drawing jam for @@kidscomicsunite.bsky.social next Tuesday, October 6th at 7pm EST! We'll focus on drawing OURSELVES in autobio comics! (I know, scary!!) It's pay what you want, and you can register here: kidscomicsunite.com/workshop/whe...

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'll be at ConnectiComix in Cheshire, CT this Sunday, August 9th! 🎉

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

After 8 children's graphic novels, I decided to switch things up! My next two books have finally been announced: VREELAND, a memoir from HarperAlley and MONUMENTAL, a magical queer YA romance from Knopf BFYR! There's much more to say about both books, but I'm excited to finally share this news!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'll be at Comic Arts Maine Portland this year! It's a free, one-day comics show in Portland, Maine on April 11, 2026! I'll have all my children's books, and I'll be doing a reading and draw-along! Find me at table 16B! www.comicartsmaineportland.com

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My DnD players recently met a sinister spymaster known as The Shadow Marshal...AND they met his mousling assistant Nibberly who happily betrayed his master! 🤣 There were also steampunk mechs involved, and a tabaxi resistance fighter.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My DnD campaign has admittedly gotten a little weird. The players recently fought aboard a steampunk-y zeppelin, and this was its crew! Spoiler: they were all disintegrated when the players set off the arcane warhead the airship had been carrying! 😱

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Some more character designs for NPCs from my DnD campaign!! I had an absolute blast with all of them. As you can probably tell, the story is going in some pretty wild and wacky directions. 😅

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

One of the trickiest character designs for my DnD campaign has been for the elemental giant of gravity, Moon! I wanted her to be extremely eerie, with numerous floating limbs and a distinctly arachnid flavor.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

In my DnD campaign, the entire continent of Zumara is run by several different elemental giants, and these guys serve Cinder, the Fire Giant. Their society is super militaristic, but I still wanted to bring in a bit of silliness with their designs!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Bullywugs! I love these little DnD creatures so much, but by the time I introduced them into my campaign, my players were too strong for the basic versions of these guys. So I added in some bigger, badder variants to spice things up!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

One of my favorite DnD character designs is Tempest, the elemental giant of water. I wanted to capture her fierceness, armored up with coral and shells. Plus, introducing her allowed me to bring Bullywugs into the mix, and I love my little frog guys!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Early on in my DnD campaign, the players encountered a scary hill giant and mostly managed to avoid her. But when she came back as an undead servant of necromancers, they weren't so lucky! I had a lot of fun using china markers for textures in this piece.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I love the wild directions you can go in with DnD character designs!! This is Cinder, an elemental giant of fire. He wears massive, metal armor, and he has an enormous lion's mane of fire. Because why not??

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

One of my favorite DnD designs is for Mother Mplop, matriarch of a small coastal village of snailfolk, Shellstack Cove. She was originally going to be a noncombatant, but she ended up dramatically killing the enemy leader with a very well timed magic missile! 🤣

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Some more NPC designs for my DnD campaign! The first two guys work for the Undying Empire, my necromantic nation, and then the final guy is an injured druid who's been guiding my PCs on their journey.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Thank you! I try to go for really fun settings and scenarios!! Next session, the PCs will be going aboard a zeppelin and (hopefully) stopping it before it drops a magical nuke!!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

During a recent DnD session, my players were defending Shellstack Cove, a cute coastal town of snailfolk, from a bunch of merfolk riding a giant crab! It was one of the wilder missions we've done, but my players made it out alive! (barely!)

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Three Merfolk designs for my DnD campaign! They were riding a giant crab when my players encountered them, and it was probably the toughest battle of the campaign so far!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

This guy represents all the doubt and insecurity any artist can feel, and he must be overcome to reconnect with creativity. The Month of Monsters let me do just that–I’ve gotten to play around with tons of techniques old and new. And color, too!!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I only drew one monster of my own creation for my Month of Monsters, and that was the Dark Leviathan from Doodleville. Thanks for following along!

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R. LaFille @rivkahlafille.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Oooo! Love this geometric approach! 🤩💖 Lovely!!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I wasn't sure if I would finish the initial sketch, but once I settled on a simplified, geometric approach, it all clicked for me! It just took some time to piece it all together.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

My final piece of Monster Train art for the month is Ekka, High Witch of the Luna Coven! I loved capturing the intricacy of her costume, even if I simplified it a bit. Happy Halloween!! 🎃 👻

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I've really had a ton of fun playing with texture this month! The linework here is done with a Pilot G2 gel pen, and then most of the shading is done with Copic marker ink that I keep in a refillable brush pen. The gray textures are done with a gray Prismacolor pencil!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Weirdly enough, I haven't drawn many monsters from superhero comics this month, but I had fun sketching out the Abomination, Hulk’s Cold War counterpart. I love that his spiky, textured skin is paired with those adorable wing ears!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This was actually my second drawing of Trap Jaw for this series. The first one didn't quite work, and it put too much focus on his giant gun-arm. 😵‍💫

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A beautiful ode to toxic masculinity, Trap Jaw is the best. Who wouldn’t kill for that jawline, am I right?

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The original sketch of Karen was pretty simple, but then I spent way too long on all the background stuff! (You can see Hexadecimal's leg from earlier this month!)

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Emil Ferris crashed onto the comics scene with her debut graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters. I love its main character Karen, a lonely wolf-girl trying to solve a murder in the darkest days of 1960s Chicago.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I stuck really closely to this original drawing. It was just tricky deciding on the final colors! Night scenes are tough.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I first got the full Bone collection in college and was blown away by the art and storytelling! @jeffsmithsbone.bsky.social is an absolute legend. His rat creatures are fun villains you meet early on, and I love them so, so much.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I stuck pretty close to the original sketch, but I like how clean and angular it is compared to the final version. Sometimes less is more!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I fell hard for Attack on Titan a few years ago, binging the first few glorious seasons of the show. I'm sure fans have a whole lot of feelings about Eren, but you can't deny that his titan design is pretty cool!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

This started out as a fairly small, simple drawing. I changed quite a bit for the digital version--especially the mouth and helmet!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

When I think “classic monster design,” I can't help but picture Kang and Kodos from The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episodes! I love all the little details, especially the constant drooling. So gross and so great!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This was one of the first monster pieces I started this month, but it took me the longest to finish! I went a little overboard with the shading in the original drawing, so it was tricky to translate to the digital version. I also simplified his costume a lot! (The character designs in MT are wild!)

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Rector Flicker is the champion of the Melting Remnant in Monster Train, and one of my favorite characters to play! The MR are all about death and rebirth, and I love Flicker's melting, menacing look.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The Wendigo is an evil, cannibalistic creature from Algonquian folklore. I wanted to capture the feeling of stumbling across one in a dark, deserted forest. I had a lot of fun with color and texture in this piece!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The weird musculature was tricky to capture in the sketch, but it did help establish the volume and extreme perspective!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Attack on Titan gets off to quite a stunning start with the reveal of the Colossal Titan. I wanted to capture his immense sense of scale, what it might feel like to look up at this absolute monster. All the Titan designs are amazing, but this was the one I had to draw!

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I wanted to combine a sense of rigid geometry with rough textures in this piece. But I might not know what I'm talking about.

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

One of my childhood obsessions was the early CGI cartoon Reboot. It would only air intermittently, and I scoured the early internet to find out everything I missed from the episodes that didn’t air in the US. Hexadecimal was not the main villain of the show, but she was my favorite. 🎭

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Chad Sell @chadsell01.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I feel like Goliath's pose ended up looking a bit more stiff than I wanted, but he did spend a couple centuries turned to stone, right?

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