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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Emerged from my summer heat coma and did a bit of digital colouring. Process notes can be found over on my blog... johnweldingdraws.blogspot.com/2026/09/digi...

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Depressed at the Cara scrapping/hack. This world for common people has changed for the worse since the 'Tech bros' appeared on the scene. My illustration work is cursed so I can only hope that that curse finds its way back to the thieving c*ck juggling thunder c*nts! #TaxTheRich and then eat them.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I have enjoyed playing with Krita recently. It has a good set of brushes for sketching. I like it and it reminds me of a simpler time with drawing software. What PhotoShop did decades earlier with colour and painting, Krita is doing opening me up to using texture.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

WIP. Panel without words. Totally out of context but I like it. Drawn in Krita and Affinity 3.0

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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

AMoM #1 - variant cover by @danielwarrenart.bsky.social debut issue available now ⭐️

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Thanks to @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social I fell into watching The Sentinals. Fantastic stuff. Love the augmented soldier designs. Made notes. I found the original Bande Dessinée albums on Archive.org and the Enrique Breccia art work has a feint Kev O'Neil look about it.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Ah. This was the file I was looking for... Cirrus Uncinus, are thin, wispy high-altitude clouds that resemble a horse's tail. In lew of not drawering anything new I am thinking of collecting my series of dream comics and stories into a Pdf download.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some old film 'sketch' pages (from 2017) I found on a hard drive whilst looking for something else entirely. Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981 Russian film). Dip pen and ink and water/digital colour. I drew the inky bits as I watched and coloured/lettered and arranged afterwards.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Hot and uncomfortable. Chuffin' Billy zip tied into a Martian war machine.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I found some of my old markers from when I was doing a Graphic Design course, about 40 years ago. They still work, kind of, coloured in some doodles from my sketchbook. Not sure about the toxicity levels but hey, 'squeakers' are good fun to use.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Film sketch. Scene while buffering. La Espera/The Wait 2023. 1970's Andalusian land owner bribes a hunt organiser with fatal consequences. Bleak stuff but beautifully shot.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Work in progress. I need to finish this page but I am struggling with drawing comics. So thank you to Thomas Pitilli's YouTube video on John Romita's art work for Amazing Spider-Man issues 108 and 109 - where JR Sr just got on with it! Watch the video here... shorturl.at/vrAEG

process photos of Chuffin' Billy comic strip page 9 panel 1. Loose blue pencil drawing of an angry little robot called Chuffin' Willy shooting at pigeons with a sci-fi blaster attached to his arm along a London road, causing mayhem. The blue pencil under drawing is being inked with a black Pental Colour Brush Pen.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🔥The results of the UK Comics Creators Survey 2025 are in 🔥 STATS! Come get yer STATS! Fresh juicy STATS! ukcomicscreators.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The front cover of the UK Comics creators research report, by Joanna Rivera-Carlisle, Amanda Nicole Curtis and Hannah Berry May 2026

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Monday sketchbook. Parallel pens. Colour inks.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

My drawing has been black and white of late, thought I'd get a bit of colour practice on this panel. Over on my blog I think about using Ai to help me colour. Do I regret it? johnweldingdraws.blogspot.com/2026/03/usin...

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Inking with a Pental Colour Brush. WIP. Panels to be scanned and reassembled as part of page 5.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

WIP Chuffin' Billy Page 5. The River Folk disembark. Details. Face redraws and alternative background. #ComicStrip #Process #BrushPen

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

WIP Chuffin' Billy Page 5. The River Folk disembark. Details. #ComicStrip #Process #BrushPen

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Mark making in the park before The Bone Temple.

Black and white brush pen drawing in a sketchbook of a tree in a park.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Another night another panel done.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Drawing outside on the way home from Asda somewhere Durkar Low Lane. 6°c and overcast. Gave up after 25 minutes. Hands and back seized up. Shuffled off home for black Redbush tea and a Snickers bar.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Panel drawn while watching Osgood Perkins's Keeper. I really enjoyed the film and the drawing.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This morning. Drawing outside. Sandal Castle. Brush pen, watercolour, A5 sketchbook.

The photo shows a brush pen and watercolour drawing in an A5 sketchbook. The remains of Sandal Castle, West Yorkshire are in the background. Text reads ' visited Sandal Castle to meet a friend and collect my Christmas dinner from the castle Cafe. A stranger in the car park shouted that I 'needed to wear gloves in weather like this!'

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This morning, drawing outside at Calder Wetlands.

Black ink. Brush pen drawing. Sketchbook. Old rope.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

FREE PDF Of my Mundane Diary (Jan-Jun 2024) in the link below. It's a comic strip diary about walking the mundane outskirts of Wakefield, UK. Download it now: (61mb) drive.google.com/file/d/173xN... #DiaryComic #FreePDF #MundaneDiary #ComicStrip #IndieComics #Wakefield

Photo shows the PDF montage cover to John Welding's Mundane Diary PDF superimposed over his work desk which contains a black and white drawing in his A5 sketchbook and the tools he used to create it which is a pencil, traditional dip pen and black Indian ink.

Photo contains orange wording 'FREE PDF in the link below...'

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Designing a little character in the latest Chuffin' Billy comic strip. The angry little left overs that are Chuffin' Willy.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

'Jones goes for a walk'. Drawing from February 2015. I thought this was lost long ago. Found it tucked away while looking for something else in the sketchbook graveyard.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

WIP Back working in the real world with brush pen on A3 paper.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Watching the excellent Catweazle season 1 on YouTube. Kids and magic TV series from 1970.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Chancellor Reeves November pre budget speech. Why does it all sound so familiar?

Cartoon by John Welding from 2017 based on the film Frankenstein (1931) showing the then Prime Minister May standing over the living corpse of Great Britain declaring, "It's alive... and strong... and stable!" mocking the Tory slogan of the day.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Did a little impromptu paper and ink performance for someone's special day this morning. (I've replaced the original birthday wishes with some inane babbling from the internet!)

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Watched 'Protein' the other night and really enjoyed it (my only real complaint is the lead character is too stoic!). The 'Ken Loach' meets vigilante serial killer angle worked for me as did the similarity to 1999's (eat to live) Ravenous.

Black and white brush pen drawing and notes with a grey scale textured overlay (from the artist's own photo library).

He watched the film 'Protein' the other night and quite enjoyed it. Enough to draw characters from memory at least.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

It's been a weird year for my drawing. It kind of peaked using a computer and I wasn't able to sustain or replicate the results I was getting. With all the Ai shenanigans going on at the minute, my response is to go back to basics and draw freehand with a brush pen. Drawing direct.

Photo shows an A4 page of drawing and notes of vegetation and a robot using a black Pental Colour Brush Pen.

I am trying to get back to basics.

It's been a weird year for my drawing.

It kind of peaked using a computer and I wasn't able to sustain or replicate the results I was getting. With all the Ai shenanigans going on at the minute, my response is to go back to basics and draw freehand with a brush pen.

Drawing direct. Using as little guidance from artificial means like a light box or computer software to edit the image.

Close up of the previous Photo showing an A4 page of drawing and notes of vegetation, trees and a robot using a black Pental Colour Brush Pen.

I am trying to get back to basics.

It's been a weird year for my drawing.

It kind of peaked using a computer and I wasn't able to sustain or replicate the results I was getting. With all the Ai shenanigans going on at the minute, my response is to go back to basics and draw freehand with a brush pen.

Drawing direct. Using as little guidance from artificial means like a light box or computer software to edit the image.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I work part time in recruitment (admin, min wage) so know the amount of checks already in place. Digital ID has nothing to do with controlling migration and everything to do with pandering to the elusive far right vote. #LaboursLibDemMoment Vote Green in future.

Black and white sketch of a futuristic fascist Mega City Judge threatening consequences for the crime...of not having ID.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Been awhile. Mark making outside.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Notes on refilling a Pental Colour Brush Pen - refilling never really worked for me, it loses the hairline/bold mark making quality I love it for. However I recently discovered, dipping the brush in water and gently squeezing dilutes the ink enough to restore it's gorgeous inky qualities.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Chuffin' Billy Book 2 is here. Billy discovers something alien in the Gas Street Basin canals and the South have secrets of their own! Written by @noelkh.bsky.social and drawn by @johnwelding.bsky.social with Gary O'Donnell and Bhuna. Available on amazon uk amzn.eu/d/1DHh8bH

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Now available on Amazon... amzn.eu/d/eCqqQGV The long awaited Chuffin' Billy Book 2. Contains two Chuffin' Billy stories written by Noel Hannan and drawn by me. 'The Goliath of Gas Street Basin' and 'The Embuggerance Engine Part 1'. Plus 'The Siege of Dublin' by Noel and drawn by Gary O'Donnell.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

WIP. Chuffin' Billy half page panel. Inked in #AffinityPhoto

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I was posting old work on Cara and found these four strips for The DFC and The Phoenix comics 2008-2012. Written by master storyteller Ben Haggarty. If you're human, see alt text for more context.

Page one of a five page comic strip titled 'One Man Short'. Introduced by the tale talking Will Skoggin's Skull. Timothee Lee gets enlisted by three tall, dark strangers in carrying a coffin.

Drawn by John Welding, Written by Ben Haggarty and published in The DFC comic 2008.

Page one of a four page comic strip 'An Eye For A Profit'. Will Skoggin's Skull tells the story of a young man seeking his fortune by searching for a one eyed Cyclops monster!

Drawn by John Welding and Written by Ben Haggarty, published in The DFC comic 2009.

Page one of a five page comic strip,'The Apprentice'. A young apprentice dabbles with his master's book of magic with demonic results!

Drawn by John Welding and Written by Ben Haggarty and published in The Phoenix comic preview issue 2011.

Page one of a four page comic strip 'Mrs Ma and the Dumplings'. Mrs Ma must outsmart the hungry Forest Gobbler by trading with local tradesmen using her delicious dumplings.

Drawn by John Welding and Written by Ben Haggarty published in The Phoenix comic 2012.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Trench Cats were a real thing back in WW1. Process post over on my blog... johnweldingdraws.blogspot.com/2025/04/tren...

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Real shame about 'WH Smiths'. I hung out regularly at the Bletchley branch after school as a youth, reading the comics and magazines. Here's a diary page I did back in 2013 for The Ridings shopping centre, some things never change...

A series of pen and ink and watercoloured panels arranged A4 Landscape.

The handwritten text reads:

"Having lived in Wakefield for a number of years, walking through The Ridings has become part of my regular route through the City Centre. Sometimes it's a shortcut. Sometimes like today, it's because I am on a mission to buy a birthday present."

"There is one place I go when faced with the challenge of shopping or entering shopping malls in general. It's a place that orientates me to the City Centre environment."

WH Smith.

"I don't even have to read a magazine anymore, a glance at the reassuring shelves of magazines and stationery is enough. Part of a shopping ritual for me..."

"I have been doing this in various towns throughout the land for 33 years."

"WH Smith founded 1848 by William Henry Smith and Son."

© John Welding 2013

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Darwin talking to a lawyer about Babbage's work. I like how this one came out. Page written by @noelkh.bsky.social still needs lettering.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Over on my blog, trying to make sense of why I ditched Meta... johnweldingdraws.blogspot.com/2025/02/dele...

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Early Chuffin' Billy concept sketch (2018?) before I had seen any scripts.

Pen and ink, muted watercolour sketch of a World War 1 steam powered robot. Spindly scaffolding for arms and legs protrude form his armoured, battered torso as he marches through a bomb blasted, smokey landscape.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Been drawing traditionally for 46 years, have had a few goes drawing digitally in the past but now seems a good time to go all in.

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