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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

See a knight, post a knight ⚔️

A woman in a black surcoat, leggings, and armoured leg guards sits at the front of frame. An abstract drawing behind her shows water, while four comic panels show sketchy illustrations of a peregrine, her glaring eyes, a serpent, and the reliquary of st Anthony’s jawbone

Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Will grab a better picture of this later for Tumblr but got so stressed after watching Perfect Blue that this is Eq if she was 1.5% less repressed

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I deserve to draw some fucked up knights

Black and white illustration of an armoured knight whose head is the jaw bone of st Anthony reliquary, holding a long spear

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you see this, QRP your green art 💚

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the beast yearns to be slain by Beowulf

Small orange cat standing on someone’s thigh and intently sniffing a paperback copy of Beowulf

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some pictures of the eclipse seen through pinholes

Shadow of a card being held up with the shape of a partial eclipse projected through it

Shadow of a pinhole made of overlapping fingers of the same

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Artfight revenge for @516h.bsky.social ! in which I indulged the part of me that always years to make comics #artfight2026 #artfight

A three panel full colour comic. A person standing in water looks to the right, ahead, and then the left while the city behind them crumbles. In the the third image, doves in bright red have burst from their body, matching the read of the fire that consumed the city.

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I usually only collage my sketchbook covers so it was super fun to do a full piece like this. Also I think the fish really makes it.

A collage made from a brown newspaper. Multiple staircases and arches intersect in an Escher-esque interior. A black and white knight in a patterned surcoat walks up a staircase in the foreground, while another person walks the opposite direction on another staircase in the background. There is a small drawing of a fish stuck on top of the collage.

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I’ve been working on two new linocuts but now I have to wait for my ink before I can properly test print them…

A tarot sized linocut of a person in long robes stepping to the right, holding a staff

A tarot sized linocut (sharpied on) of a person holding a sword and bowing over it

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Had a late night tiramisu-induced haze and ended up with a new lady knight drawing #knight #ladyknight #ocsky #illustration #fantasyart

A lady knight walking away from the camera, glaring back while her hair spreads behind her. A sword pierces through her back. A field of yellow grass curves up and away from her, with a night sky behind it

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Behold, my fabled ‘fancy rocks’

A 2D matplotlib Spectrum. X and y axes labelled in um. Colorbar is intensity (AU). The spectrum
Looks like crumpled fabric

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Just what you want to see in the shared fumehood

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I hate him I hate him I hate him

An ultrasonic cleaner seen through a fumehood

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Want pathetic fallacy in your noir pastiche but oh no you set it on a space station? Look no farther than, uh, the station’s AI is also a massive noir fan and it’s trying to set the mood. It also really wishes you would take up smoking. #writingcommunity #scifi #shortstorydraft

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Working on a very rough first pass of edits for plot and continuity in Stars Like Darting Fish

A segment of a printed rough draft with scribbles in pink pen

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Really had to dig for something because unfortunately for everyone I love to put these two in Situations

A comic panel. Marit, a person with long hair holds Jae, a person with short hair and braces on their shoulders, to her chest. ‘It’s alright, shh. It’s alright now’ she says. Cables trail from the back of her neck

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Spent the afternoon writing, just kept picking at little bits over and over again until the sun set and suddenly was struck by inspiration. I put them in the struggle pit #mywriting I still don’t know how tags work here

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Made it through exams. Made it through the year. Every day keeps coming and we get caught in the wave. Today I’ve got my feet under me

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Nice meander, beautiful woods and a cool tower towards the end. Nice pub to take a break at before we finished up the rest of the walk. Four hours of walking give-or-take, easy, but satisfying

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Sadly I’ll be heading back to the snow soon. I’m ready for spring

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Incredibly janky cat FaceTime photo for your enjoyment

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Keep seeing #portfolioday and even if I don’t post much art here thought it would be fun. I’m Lizard, mostly sci-fi-leaning illustrations and comics 💼 excavatinglizard.carrd.co

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

No hike today, just sunset over the hills

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Every single review mentions how insanely boggy this hike is. Think we made up some new curse words while skirting the mud unsuccessfully. Very cool ascent and light scrambling at the top and along the ridge made more challenging by being in a cloud and hit by the wind. 5 hours, Challenging

Picture looking down over a valley with the remnants of stone walks and huts in Eryri.

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Think this hike was only ranked ‘hard’ because everyone kept doing it in their wellies. They were all good sports about it. Lots of elevation and what could generously be called minor scrambles. Stuck in the clouds for most of the upper section. 4.5 hours with lunch, moderate

A photo of Devil’s Kitchen in Eryri, looking down over the tarn

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Newest obsession: trawling facebook marketplace over breakfast

A screenshot of two items on Facebook marketplace under the heading ‘today’s picks’. The items in question appear to be a paper cube with Billie eilish’s face, and a pregnant sonic prayer candle

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Lizard @excavatinglizard.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Cat encounter, before the cold came

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