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A Rude Awakening @a-rude-awakening.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

next are these charming friends from @lilypadula.bsky.social! perfect for cozying up for soup season 🥣

a green sticker sheet featuring 15 illustrated forest animals

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I’ve been working really hard on this! I was sick of my super talented, award winning artist friends being broke every month so I wanted to find a way to put my years of web and retail sales to work helping us all, so we can spend less time grinding and more time creating

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A Rude Awakening @a-rude-awakening.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

we’re working hard to make something special. check us out and give us a share!!

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Stay tuned for more updates.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Today’s arrest of @bradlander.bsky.social is just one disturbing example of what ICE does every single day across the country. It’s not interested in law and order—this is about spreading fear. New York City will not stand for it.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 24/05/2025

This is a fantastic breakdown of the broader implications of the current spectacle in comics culture.

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

One day late sharing this lettering commission from @theglobalgoals.bsky.social ! Always love an opportunity to draw a forest. I’m currently available for new assignments, hit me up if you need a book cover, poster, or for any other lettering projects!

Illustrated poster featuring the letters “May the Forest be with You” prominently in the center, a large tree takes up the far background, and in the foreground we can see lots of detailed plants, animals, and a hiker enjoying the scenery. Palette is primarily bright greens and warm browns, with accents of blue and purple

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Kim Salt @kesalt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Some very chaotic swans for Deloitte 🦢🦢🦢

a bevy of swans clamors toward a large body of water filled with stars, one swan taking the lead

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

welp. The thing I’ve been worried about happening for about a year finally happened. Please consider checking out my web store or giving me a boost, it’s going to be basically our only household income for a while 🫠 ♡ www.stillvreni.com ♡

I don’t wanna! sticker with cute tiger cub

Isabelle from animal crossing riso print

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Another exciting project with EarthJustice, I’ll be sharing more about this series next week!

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Another piece from my Character Strength cards, a deck I made in collaboration with HKCocoon! This piece is called Social Awareness: “I am aware of and understand my feelings and thoughts, as well as the feelings of those around me." Art direction by Hannah Ma and Cherry Ma

Illustration in a style inspired by Henri Matisse paper cut outs. a blue purple background and abstracted shapes of stars, planets, and galaxies, with three abstracted human figures and a sun shown in yellow in the center of the image

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Bluestockings Cooperative is an incredible radical space in NYC, and they do do much important mutual aid work in their community. Help them stay open! www.gofundme.com/f/qe29bh-sav...

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Donate to Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces, organized by Bluestockings Cooperative

Comrades, book lovers, queer fam, we have some rough news. … Bluestockings Cooperative needs your support for Save Bluestockings: Support Radical Spaces

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Chris Kindred @chriskindred.com · 26/02/2025

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” Remembering Aaron Bushnell’s words and the close to 100,000 people martyred by american imperialism through israel. In the year since we’ve seen so much brutality, proving the necessity for us to keep putting our skin in the game

An illustration of former serviceman Aaron Bushnell during his self-immolation on this day last year.

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choo @choodraws.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

happy 10th birthday bloodborne 🩸👽❤️💉🦑

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Humility, a new illustration from my character strength series! I usually see tigers used as symbols of strength and ferocity, so I wanted to flip that symbolism around for this piece. Many thanks to Cherry and Hannah from HKCocoon for commissioning me for this project!

Illustration of a friendly looking tiger using its tail to help a bunch of flightless kiwi birds reach their nest in a tall treetop

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WinRAR Earle @tommchenry.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find. They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.

INTRODUCTION

Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling.

You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse.

You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life.

TIPS

1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way

possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything.

2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought.

3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you.

5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook.

6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes.

7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case.

8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes.

9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out.

10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky." - Jasmine Mooney www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

NEW INVESTIGATION from me: There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor www.propublica.org/article/eric...

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Zoë van Dijk @creepcaptain.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Oh hey my two beautiful girlfriends have arrived with their print treatment. Such a delight reading this book and getting to illustrate these two small town heroines for Tess Sharpe's newest book "NO BODY NO CRIME." Ty to the team at FSG!

Illustrated cover featuring two women running, one with blonde curly hair, the other with reddish auburn hair in a braid, through the fire trail left by a downed plane. Behind them in the silhouette of the flames we see two men in the woods hunting them with guns and flashlights.

Same image but now with type, "NO BODY NO CRIME" a novel by Tess Sharpe.

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

a girl can dream 💭 #comic

four panel comic
1: in a dream bubble. The local bodega guys are hanging out. Theres a jingle from the door. One says “What the-“
2: still in a dream bubble. An annoying orange car walks in pulling a little cart with a note on his collar. He says “MAOW!”
3: still a dream. The bodega man says “theres a note!” The note says “Dear Mo, my mom and dad are very hungover. Please make two bacon egg and cheese and a pedialyte. Theres $ in my collar”
4: regular panel. Im lying in bed with jesse suffering while tomtom sits on me looking stupid. I yell “pleaseeeeee tomtom! Just once in your life do something useful!”

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Gouache painting of the iridescent clouds created by the 98% eclipse over my house, April 8th 2024

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Illustrations that accompanied patient reports of their anxiety, created in collaboration with DScout a few years back! Prompts for each image in alt text, the full series can be viewed here:

Illustration of large, simplified, colorful dancing figures. In the lower center of the image, a sad person sits hunched over in a black box.

“This moment felt dark and empty, like I was in a small box. As if I was sitting in a dark, cold, tiny box and looking at everyone else living in huge figures of different shapes and vivid colors.”

Illustration of a woman’s head in a large fish tank with a scared expression on her face. Outside of the fish tank, tiny people carry on with normal life activities

“This moment felt dark and empty, like I was in a small box. As if I was sitting in a dark, cold, tiny box and looking at everyone else living in huge figures of different shapes and vivid colors.”

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This piece is from an assignment about wage gaps in the workplace- art director wanted to avoid money imagery and asked me to tackle this dry topic with a more conceptual approach, so I decided to solve the problem with S H A P E

Illustration of small people standing on large, abstract floating blocks. There’s a gap between a main group of blocks on the left, where all the people are, and the right side of the image, which contains a ladder to exit the maze of blocks

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Never not thinking about this edo period drawing of hammerhead sharks 🥹

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Illustration from a few years back, done at the peak of the straw ban craze for @nbcnews.com about how the pollution problem goes way beyond straws. Many thanks to Kara for working with me on this!

Illustration of a woman standing waist deep in an ocean littered with plastic waste. We can see underneath the water in the bottom half of the image. The woman is holding a bundle of plastic straws

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Illustration I created last fall for a @propublica.org story, about the Yakama Nations fight to secure funding they were promised for a solar project, but is now held up by bureaucracy. Many thanks to my art director Peter!

Illustration of a small village on a river, nestled in the hills. The outer border shows the village in the dark at night, and a central rectangle overlay in the middle shows the village at sunset. The overlay is in the shape and pattern of a solar panel

The same illustration in horizontal format, this time with a shattered pattern on the solar panel

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I am STRUGGLING on here without drafts

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Gouache painting of the iridescent clouds created by the 98% eclipse over my house, April 8th 2024

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I can’t tell if the egg on my egg carton is friendly or sinister

Egg carton with egg shaped face on it, the face has eyes eyebrows and a mouth but no nose. It says “good morning sunshine”

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WakandaPunk 🍉 @indiedynamo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

All of you have been absolutely amazing and I should probably share this more than once as this is the fund ill be building the rest of my life and funding a "celebration of life" for my brother and dad next month

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Zoë van Dijk @creepcaptain.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

LOS ANGELES! We put together a figure drawing fundraiser and raffle next week to benefit animators displaced by the Eaton fire. 2 models on 2 stages! Raffle items from @natandrewson.bsky.social @angelasungart.bsky.social @trevorshin.bsky.social @owenfreeman.bsky.social and more!

Film noir themed Illustrative poster advertising a figure drawing fundraiser, drawn by Owen Freeman.

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Many members of the animation community have suffered unimaginable losses due to the LA wildfires – here is how to help displaced individuals in the animation industry. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY SO WE CAN HELP EVERYONE OUT!

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How To Help Animation Industry Workers Who Have Been Displaced By The L.A. Wildfires

Many members of the animation community have suffered unimaginable losses – here is how to help them directly.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

why the fuck would i want realistic graphics. i can see real things just by opening my fucking eyes. i want to see 1000 different interpretations of the world. show me what makes each thing a thing

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I used to think my dog was dumb for checking a spot where he saw a squirrel for days afterwards, but I saw a fox a week ago and every morning since I go back hoping to spot it again 🥺

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This famed designer is intent in not understanding that her famous firm, Pentagram, used GenAi models, which are under litigation for copyright infringement, as a foundation to one of the biggest government projects around, which 100% displaced artists. www.creativebloq.com/design/ive-n...

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'Some of the comments were very nasty': Paula Scher on the backlash to Pentagram's AI government website design

The legendary designer on why she's 'never seen anything like this' for 30 years.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Adobe users: it’s the most beautiful time of the year, where you can threaten to cancel your plan and get the price cut down from $59.99 to $29.99 for the next 12 months ✨ Manage plan-> cancel my plan -> continue and then you get this offer: (more)

The second step in Adobe’s “cancel my plan” workflow, where they roll over and give you everything for half price, $29.99 vs the rack $59.99 cost

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

First snow first snow! To celebrate i wanted to share an older illustration I made. It’s about a part of the Mount Everest hike called “rainbow valley”, named after the bright gear that can be spotted on bodies of hikers that fell and cannot be retrieved.

Illustration from a high viewpoint of many hikers on a snowy Rocky Mountain. A blue ice crevasse cuts along the bottom right of the image, Maude of which we can see frozen bodies of previous hikers.

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Naomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Everyone coming out of our hole to read the words on the bullets

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Old favorite piece circa 2019 or so, commissioned by NBC news during the straw ban era, about how straws are only the beginning of the plastic pollution problem.

Illustration of a woman standing in waist deep water, holding an armful of plastic straws. We can see above and below the water surface, which is heavily polluted with plastic waste.

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

First up in my character strength series is Creativity! When I was dreaming up this illustration I’d never seen the northern lights, though it had always been a dream of mine. About a month ago, they showed up in New England in the most dreamy way!

Illustration of person standing in a grey, icy landscape, holding up a paint brush out of which the northern lights are emanating and filling the sky.

Illustration of person standing in a blue, icy landscape, holding up a paint brush out of which the northern lights are emanating and filling the sky.

Same illustration printed on a postcard with a text overlay that says “creativity” in English and Chinese

Photograph of the northern lights, glowing pink above a horizon of silhouetted trees

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Lily Padula @lilypadula.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Earlier this year I created 24 illustrations based on different character strengths. These were commissioned by CoCoon, an educational non profit based in Hong Kong. I’ll be sharing more about each piece in its own post, but here’s an overview. Many thanks to Cherry and Hannah for a dream assignment

Photo of the artists hand holding up a set of fanned out illustrated cards in front of a bookshelf

Set of illustrated cards laid out in a grid

Illustrated card about Bravery, showing a small red deer with huge antlers jumping over a huge gap between large hills rising out of the water

Illustrated card about Humor, showing a teenager sitting on a flower covered hillside at night. They are blowing a dandelion, and the seeds are transforming into shooting stars, delighting two other people lying on the grass in the distance.

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

I'm still new here. Please help me find folk in the #fiction world, and #climate #storytelling space. I need my #solarpunks too. Let's see if this also, alogos.

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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

If you cancelled your subscription to the LA Times or Washington Post, please invest those dollars in non-profits or independent news committed to important journalism. Among them: Pro Publica, The Marshall Project, Reveal, The City (NYC), The Texas Tribune, Baltimore Banner, Philadelphia Inquirer

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SOLRAD Magazine @solrad.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

SOLRAD Presents is an imprint of SOLRAD for cartoonists looking for a permanent digital home for comics. We accept comics that had previously been published on social media, unpublished comics, or comics published in other places that no longer serve their maker’s needs. solrad.co/solrad-prese...

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Cooking and eating seems like such a scam until you realized a computer needs enough power to run a small country to draw a picture and all I need is toast

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