iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 15h

Tried colouring this and didn't like it so went with grey scale instead. Which I do like.

A4 black and white/greyscale brush pen ink drawing showing a sci-fi space suited explorer and his feline robot as they stumble across alien energy in a detailed alien mountain/valley landscape.

John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Definitely not inktober but I found myself furiously inking random scenes in an effort to push my mark making. Pleasurable. Now I need to refill my brush pens.

A4 brush pen drawing. A female ghoul emerges from crosshatched lines under a full moon.

A4 brush pen ink drawing. A sci-fi environment suited explorer and his feline robot stumble across alien energy in a detailed alien landscape.

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Always something special when Vincent Perriot drops one of his videodraws over on YouTube... m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4eH...

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THE FUTURE - IN MY BRAIN - [official Videodraw]

YouTube video by Vincent Perriot - NEGALYOD

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Details from pages coloured so far. Sans words. Don't want to give the game away! Chuffin' Billy Written by Noel Hannan and drawn by me.

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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 · 22/06/2026

Inked panel. Scanned to Black and White.

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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

Pencil and inking video for that particular scene. I am now a brush pen convert. The range of mark making and line variation make drawing fun again. The thicker lines means less noodling from me.

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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 · 21/01/2026

Affinity 3.0 is the best alternative to PhotoShop at the moment. There are differences that are annoying after using Ps and a bit of research is needed. There's plenty of YouTube videos to help out though. I use Affinity 2.0 because I bought it and want to get my full 10 years out of it!

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John Welding @johnwelding.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I don't usually notice details like this but the trailer had edited frames compared to the film. I can understand why. #TheBoneTemple

A brush pen, watercoloured drawing of a crow on a rock pecking at an orange, discarded face.

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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 · 29/12/2025

I like black and white but sometimes I really need to add colour. It breaks the monotone monotony.

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

Watercolour applied back in the comfort of home. #SketchBook

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

I added foreground figures. There was too much dare I say... uninteresting crosshatching filling the panel

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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 · 12/10/2025

I think 'white out' and 'patching' is still an acceptable part of the process!

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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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