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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#illustration #picturebook #lifeinloops #digitalart Somehow I am becoming more and more obsessed with painting. Originally, I just wanted to create a comic, but I'm learning so much. Newfound ambition, I guess ;) trivia: Gabriel on Iceland, A.D. 2049

Gabriel walks on a wooden path in Iceland that passes by datacenters shaped like white cubes scattered across the landscape. a fleet of red drones passes by ignoring him completely. He's not important to them.

This is the value (or black+white version of the image to show it is "readable". Life in Loops is my passion project and since I spend a massive amount of time on painting now, I am considering making it into a picture book. I wrote full two seasons to prove to myself the concept works.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#illustration #digital #concept #teaser #lil I incorporated everything I learned into my new painting and am 80% happy, 100% omw :) trivia: spidermech were designed by boy-prodigy Rodas, arguing that conventional armor runs out of ordnance but a predator is the weapon in itself. (life in loops)

A Spidermech seconds before attacking two cars near the entrance to Hollow Mountain base. The gate is opening, but the cars won't make it to the entrance without help.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#illustration #artist #digital #teaser #lil trivia: Margritte, Greenland. Home of the postwar government. Ruled by a council that passes legislation drafted by the artificial intelligence on Iceland. Massive structures stretch underneath the tiny houses and shelter an EMP-device - just in case.

Margritte, a fictional village in Greenland that houses a postwar government. Lots of small houses stretch on green pasture while a VTOL craft is taking off from a helipad. Sculptures of Margritte icons (pipe, hat, moustache, apple) are scattered around and obscure the airvents of the massive bunkers below the village. (from: life in loops)

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#wip #illustration #bunker #digitalart #teaser Just a sneak at my next location: Hollow Mountain got hit by missiles, which shaved off the mountaintop, but the base survived and its bunker remains intact. I'm painting the main locations from my series "life in loops". There is lots to do :)

The entrance to Hollow Mountain, a Republic base, which was bombed during the Corporate Wars of 2049, but remains intact even today. The mountain is gone now, but it protected the bunker below when the missiles dropped. (location from my story: Life in Loops / lil )

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#moonbase #illustration #digital #painting #immortality #scifi trivia: fallback location for Zorn's immortality project "loop". Moonbase Sombra is populated entirely by Vigo Zorn clones. Each of them is anxious to prove their individuality, because the consequence of imitation is: "taking a walk".

Moonbase Sombra is one of the unique locations from my story "Life in Loops". LiL is a story about the consequences of immortality, seen from the perspective of Foster, one of its involuntary participants.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

#illustration #digital #picturebook #art I made some fixes to the first version. Trivia: Betelburgh - Foster's home, where he works in de-construction. The walled metropolis is surrounded by a maze of buildings that are demolished and repurposed.

Establishing shot of Betelburgh for the opening shots of an impact-trailer of my illustrated novel project. The city entrance consists of warning signs and large empty areas with a walled city-core visible in the background.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#illustration #digital #visualnovel #art #painting trivia: Loopertown is a subsection of Betelburgh and is entirely a greenscreen zone. Once it was a testing ground for HALO patients. Today only people with functioning interfaces remain here, quietly reliving a time that no longer exists.

Foster, my MC, inside of Loopertown an area of Betelburgh that was previously off-limit for his class. Foster is a BLUE (=worker), but after an accident he discovers he also has a HALO-Interface, which slowly and unrealiably starts to work, showing him both sides of his reality.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#illustrator #digital #painting #wip #sydfield When I'm painting the day goes by in a snap. I use only greyscale in this painting and made a custom gradient layer, which imo gives it a bit of a Syd Field vibe. What do you think? It's a WIP - lots of more work to do here. for: life in loops

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#WIP #digital #art #painting #moon I started work on 3 new paintings for Life In Loops. Yes, this is the moon :) There are so many different locations in my book that seemingly they can't all make sense, but they do. I'm posting a WIP to show the vanishing points + layout. ...time for a tea break

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#illustration #digital #visualnovel #art #painting I realized two things: 1) It's an establishing shot of Betelburgh, so I don't need the truck in this scene. 2) I'm a 3D artist by diploma, but I always want to paint. Technically that makes me a very slow render engine :)

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#wip #digital #painting #lifeinloops Guess who will paint a lot of windows tomorrow? --- Everytime I have to draw windows I think of the opening of Akira ;) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Btw, I want a surreal look, but the end result will look more realistic. This ist just the blockout.

A white worktruck drives down a street in the fictional city of Betelburgh trailing a cloud of Diesel smoke behind it. There are lots of signs everywhere indicating the strangeness of this city. work in progress

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#WIP #illustration #digital #painting #Cyberocracy I thought you might enjoy a WIP of my workspace (in CSP). When I do this stuff I use lots of photo reference, but I also have very detailed lineart from making the graphic novel. So I can basically go nuts now :) (image: life in loops, VN)

Life in Loops is what I call a "Cyberocracy", because the rules are opressive to the majority, while those who are "inside" the Loop are completely free and privileged. Betelburg is a city of technological apartheid and I show the low life of the workers in this image with a thousand signs and a truck driving to work. Work in Progress.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

#motivational #illustrator #visualnovel #trailer In this scene CHAR was painted by two kids, who found a box of sharpies. I used to treat the visual novel like the comic, racing from image to image, while I should have taken great care with every image. Always believe you 2 can find a way + go 4 it!

The robot CHAR is sitting on a wheel at the side of the road. He is tagged with child drawings all over. CHAR is a maintenance robot, but in Life in Loops he contains a human consciousness - and a secret.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#illustrator #digitalart #lifeinloops #trailer #series I'm making a teaser-trailer for life in loops and this is one of the images. I usually don't do a lot of detail work, but I'm trying to this time. Please tell me what you like / dislike.

The ship called ARGO making it's way up a monsterwave alongside wales. (just a part of the full image)

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#update #illustration #lifeinloops #trailer #painting I didn't like the ship from before. I know most people post final results social media. But I like this better. And this way you can see the change. I'll still work on it, but now is food.

The ship ARGO launches into a monsterwave alongside some wales. Illustration from my screenplay (series) Life in Loops (lil)

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#art #digital #illustration #teaser #movie #series I spent the last three years obsessively painting and writing, because I wrote Life in Loops (lil). And these paintings are my attempt at visualizing it. Yet, I wish I could do better. It's a beautiful story.

A ship climbs a monsterwave, lightning strikes in the background and it is raining. The ship is trapped in the wave alongside a herd of wales.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#digitalart #illustration #illustrator I calculated today that if I manage to finish a painting every three days, I'll have enough material for a 30 Second trailer in 75 days - well 72 days now ;)

This is an image for the impact trailer for Life in Loops, a series I have been developing for either two years or since 2013 (depending on how you wanna look at it). This is Vera at sleep in a library that miraculously survived the rising sea level. Or at least the top floor did...

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is WIP for my collection of teaser-images from "Life in Loops" - my series. The goal is to create enough interest to find a production company for what is now 2 seasons with an open ended concept. Today was a mad day of painting.

Eve sleeping in the almost pristine "Jugendstil" room of the only floor of the museum that isn't submerged under the sea. Life in Loops is an epic journey through different realities, some of them surreal.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I really like the construction phase. Two things always astound me when painting: the passage of time. And the creation of something from nothing.

the setup of a scene - just an empty room in blockout with a description below

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#cyberpunk #digitalpainting #illustration the world of lil is very much a "high tech - low life" one, even though at first it doesn't look like it. The rich connect to the Loop by using an implant - the HALO-interface. Foster thinks he doesn't have a HALO - until an accident activates half of it.

This is an image of "Loopertown" on the right and Betelburg, the regular city on the left. Both are fake, but we only find that out later.
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I am putting together a couple of images for an impact trailer for "life in loops". I wrote two seasons for lil, with 17 episodes total. And it just felt like I should stop and do some painting. Everything is WIP

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It can't be - but it is true: I finished writing the second season of my series Life in Loops. 17 Episodes done. ___________________________________________________________ My next task is PAINTING all the images for the teaser. Finally some painting again :) It's good to be back, BS!

A can that says "Canned Bee" and a bubble above it reads "It canned bee...". Next image is the same can with a bee escaping from the open can shouting: "Yes, it can!" - just a bit of fun, because I am happy to return to drawing and painting. M0N0

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've read about the autogenetic demiurg, about archons, Diamat, the Holographic Universe and about Modified Newtonian Dynamics as well as a thousand other things. And all, because I write stories that have nothing to do with any of these :) Not much painting was done of lately, but so much writing.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#birds #picky_eaters #nest #fun I'm probably not the first to come up with this, but I had a chuckle.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

#comic #illustration #graphicnovel #sci-fi I'm making quite good progress with the second chapter, because so much of it was already drafted for the original visual novel. Here are the first four pages of chapter two . BTW this is still "Life in Loops" (sci-fi) check: www.patreon.com/posts/graphi...

Two men, Foster and Otto, drive in a truck with a bunch of workers on the truckbed. They argue about Foster not going out enough and needing - well - sex. This goes on until they reach the DE-construction site, where a building is being blown up in front of them.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is the outline of the last panel for page 13 of my comic "Life in Loops". I wrote the entire first season (9 Eps), and I wrote parts of season 2. Plus I'm making this comic, which nobody takes an interest in. I am the definition of sanity. I mean insanity. Whatever - I like drawing it.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Maybe I'm just a sentimental fool, but I just watched "The Fisher King" and all I want is to create a work of beauty and meaning with my own art. For the first time in my life I've enlisted for a literary competition, and today I've applied for publishing with RandomHouse for one of my novels.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

#drawing #illustrator #comic I know these pages don't look great here, because they are made for print. But - the point is: after weeks of writing I am back into drawing. Life is a circle and my story is called "Life in Loops"😱

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#novel #coverart #spaceman Here is the latest near-final cover for SPACEMAN. It's a drama about a love triangle and a meta-narrative in the vein of "Atonement". I wonder, how many more novels I'm going to write, until one of them actually gets published, but this one is almost done.

A toy spaceship circles a heart-shaped planet with two drops of blood below it.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

#climatechange I went out walking through the mountains and this was the view from my camp. The trees lack resistance against pests due to a warming climate. Many of them were dead. A lot of this landscape is going to change during our lifetime.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

#Sisyphus Sisyphus is the artist. Pushing the rock is his hobby. He loves watching it roll down the mountain. Artists can find joy in things that seem like punishment to others. In truth there is no mountain and no rock. Only the act of pushing remains. What he is really doing is pushing himself.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

#cover #screenplay #digitalartist #illustrator I am working on the cover for a drama I recently rewrote. The screenplay is a unique mix of coming-of-age, mystery and meta-narration (like in "Atonement").

the cover for my screenplay SPACEMAN. A toy rocket circles a red planet. The artstyle is simplified, but the story is complex.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

the last two steps added detail and contrast and fixed some shapes (e.g. the waterflow in the background). Finally I added a reflections layer and a light layer (hard light mode) to bring out the edges. I might still work on this later ~ add a shadows layer but that's my process. 💙 M0N0

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#wip I adjusted my flats for a better angle on the pod-creatures and made a small herd of them. Then I used the flat colors for selections and filled in a FG (plants), MG (Water+Rocks), Creatures and BG/sky-Layer. Please remember this is work in progress and will look crap for most of the time.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I'm celebrating writing the first Episode of LiL Season 02! I really want to turn LiL into a comic, but I'm better at painting. So, I thought I'd document my process on this one. After the sketch (yesterday) I always start with flats. Looks like crap, but that's the start. Check back soon, M0N0

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Planet Feya didn't have organic life, before human colonists arrived. Energy is transfered between the inhabitants of the planet by draining their lifeforce. Humanity is pretty safe there, until a certain species discovers we have a lifeforce, too. - from Life in Loops, book 2- we're going places.

First images of planet Feya from my story Life in Loops

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

#wip #preview #graphic-novel Bonjours, hello, great to be back, bs. This is a preview of chapter 02 for Life in Loops. I have plans to release the GN in a number of ways. You can read about them on my Patreon, soon: www.patreon.com/M0N0986 Take care, M0N0

The preview for chapter 02 of Life in Loops, a high-concept sci-fi series I am developing.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Here's my panel 02_01. Sometimes I wonder why I spend 2-3 days on a tiny panel, but I really wanted to. And...onto the next one ;)

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#multitasking While I'm reworking some of my paintings into comic panels, I'm also writing the second season of Life in Loops and sending out promotional material (for my screenplays). :).)|);):)'):).) This is a WIP of panel 02/01 without shading or background.

two men in the cabin of a truck having a conversation while dragging an unholy smokescreen of Diesel particles behind the vehicle. Can you smell it, too?

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Since finishing the first season of LiL I've written: -Exposé -Onepager -Overview -Pitch-Deck -Pitch Bible -updated CV -motivational letters -translations of all the above into English +Translation of the double Pilot I'm writing these just for studios+agents...an incredible amount of extra work.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

#poesie #Gedicht Mosaik Rotes Haar Kippe im Mund Schmutziger Hund Einkauf vegan Fehlender Zahn Teile des Ganzen Die unverwandt tanzen Ein Mosaik das bist du Doch wie passt das wozu?

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

#illustration #comic #cover #graphicnovel I'm finishing the final draft of LiL:Override, the first episode of my graphic novel. I have to retouch on a few images, and the cover was one of them. Feels weird to be nearly done :)

The coverpage for the first episode of my graphic novel "Life in Loops: Override". Eve, my Main Character carries the body of her dead dog wrapped into a US-American flag, while the robot who saved Eve (Char) is curiously looking over her shoulder.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

#celebration #comic #graphicnovel #drawing Today I finished the final page of my prototype for "Life in Loops". Every day starts with new ideas and I can't wait to draw them all. This is the best time I've ever had and I just want to stay in the moment and enjoy it.

Eve, one of my main characters turns back over her shoulder, because she didn't expect another main character to follow her.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Just a WIP from my next panel. I'm currently working on page 10 and have 3 more to got for chapter 01. Wohoo.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I've made tea twice today, poured myself a cup and completely forgot about it, until hours later. Sometimes I wonder what happens when we start drawing. --- Does time just go away, or what?

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I was right! I needed more space :) This is the Spidermech from my story - life in loops: override

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#urge #paint #draw I've had this scene in my head and wanted to combine a dystopian desaturated atmosphere with all the colors on my mind. It's a work in progress ;) and I'll need a bigger canvas.

Everything I create is for my story "Life in Loops: Override", which is realized as two feature films, a (first) nine Episode-Season, a Graphic Novel and possibly as a Visual Novel. We'll see what sticks. Painting is something to learn from through practice. And I already have some issues with this painting. How about you? Anything you would change?

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

#wip #page My modified workflow adds some value to backgrounds. What do you say, is this a decent look? I think I understand the thought-process behind creating a prototype. Even with a design guide and an elaborate script, I still need "some" trial+error.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#comic #afterhours #chillout #drawing I'm just trying to tell a story that took me more than three years to write. And I really love chilling out and working on a panel or two. Luckily it isn't a competition - it's a meditation.

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

#moodboard #digitalart #painting #writing I finished the first season (nine episodes) of my beloved project Life in Loops: Override. Today, I made this moodboard as a bonus; with many of my old paintings. Tomorrow, I am submitting it to an agency. Wish me luck :)

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M0N0 @m0n0-comics.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

#writing I know BS is a visual medium, but I am so amazed about how my "lil" story unfolded, I want to share. First I wrote a story without knowing it was my main, then I wrote a new story without knowing it is the prequel and now I merged everything into a series and it's fucking magic. Just do!

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