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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/10/2026

Only right that as a brewer, I root for the Milwaukee Brewers. After watching nearly all of their games in the second half of the season, I'm attached to this team. Hope they go all the way.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 09/10/2026

At Nova Runda Brewery in Croatia.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 07/10/2026

All punk, death rock, all goth, when I was young, in the 80s, I wore mostly black, but that ended once I'd been out of Mom's house a few years. Because I got cats. Fur is the doom of black clothes. All these years later, I have a black cat (Nyx) & a torti (Efi) and they're better than black clothes.

A tortoise shell colored cat licking its chops.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 04/10/2026

@mirod.bsky.social Our next test, with ibus written on the plastic kegs: 350, 450, 550. Highest in the first test was 450, so we'll see what that extra hundred does. Another iteration of Hopocalypse Now, which I brewed in 2014. Any score after 2014 on my page are lies. untappd.com/b/wildworks-...

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 25/09/2026

A page from Batwoman 7, written by @gregrucka.com, drawn by DaNi, and colored by me. Out now? From DC Comics. #ClipStudioPaint #comics #colors

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 24/09/2026

Finished the first stage, the blockout, of a great Blender hard surface modeling tutorial from @blendersecrets.bsky.social. Next up seems to be retopology. Here's a playblast of a matcap, since no materials have been created yet. #blender3d #b3d #blender

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 23/09/2026

Turntable animation is way too fast. Still fun, though. Animated booleans and noise displacement. #Blender

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 22/09/2026

Yeah, a bit abstract. The whole point. Fucking around and trying to break everything. Playing in Blender. Here, I'm testing the displaced material. Will render a turntable overnight. Should take 7 hours or so to render 150 frames. #blender

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 22/09/2026

View from within Blender for this mangled mess mesh.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 22/09/2026

A playblast from Blender, playing with animating Booleans. (For those who don't know, playblasts do a basic render from the viewport to check animation, not shaders/materials/surfacing.). #Blender

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026

I based this Blender project on this specific ray gun. I didn't make it up. Found nearly ortho images and dropped those into Blender and modeled based on that. This original toy has no flashing light like I put in the red plastic area, but the gears do spin when the trigger is pulled, as I animated.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026

Quad view. There you have it. Fun in Blender. Recommending for all children.

Quad view in Blender, so four viewports showing a CG model from four angles, open simultaneously, so you can see multiple ortho views as you model.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026

Animation for those rotating gears, in Blender.

3D viewports showing animation keyframes and curves for rotating gears.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026

The node tree for the material for the blue plastic on the ray gun. A bit of a mess.

Node graph in a CG app. Boxes of math connected by noodles.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026

Here's the composite done in Blender, with render passes.

Render nodes in Blender. Basically, boxes of math in a GUI connected by noodles.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026

View of the ray gun from withing Blender.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026

The turntable vid has the trigger pull animated as well as the spinning of the gears and a light in the red plastic area, but for the stills I skipped that. These are a little higher quality render.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026

1950s ray gun done. I'll do a little thread. Turntable attached. I'm new to Blender. Been doing tutorials, but those get boring, so I did this little thing on the side, from reference. I did everything in Blender—modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering, compositing. —continues #blender

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Final rendering done in Clip Studio Paint for pastel highlight and shading. Final image.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Here's the sky texture, painted with India ink and salt, scanned, and used like a Mitch.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Sky texture added. Not digital, but real paint on a layer in Clip Studio Paint. Paint layer in next post.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Flat colors adjusted slightly, and blood/wounds added to feet in their own layer so I can adjust later if needed.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

This is the gradient map I used over the flats, as a correction layer set to 90% on Normal color mode. I put this over the adjusted flats.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Here, I've applied a gradient map in Clip Studio Paint, which adjusts all colors globally in the image based on the value of the colors. I turned the gradient map down to 90% to preserve small color variances for color selection and color variety in the final image.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Here, I adjusted ONLY the levels of the flats. I haven't actually made any color choices at this point. I used the flats that were delivered, and adjusted levels. Like Jesus would do.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Raw flats, straight from the flatter, Yes Flats, in Korea, who I've worked with for about 18 years.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Let's start with the lineart, which Ian Bertram drew, beautifully. Nothing from me here. This is just his genius drawing.

A fire hose spraying blood all over your mother.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

If you're so inclined to watch an art WIP, follow this thread for comics coloring in Clip Studio Paint. From Karman Blade, written by Darcy Van Poelgeest, drawn by Ian Bertram, and colored by me. Out soon from @imagecomics.com In this thread, I'll show you everything everything everything everyth

You in a cage cradled by your mother, who's swaddled in mummy wrappings. You, you're not doing so good. Bleeding. Maybe questioning life decisions. A disappointment to everyone around you. All of them wonder why you spend so much time reading ALT text. But they don't understand. None of them understand. You just smile so that you don't have to deal with explaining everything for the millionth time.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 15/09/2026

Work-in-progress in Blender, a new app to me—modeling/texturing/lighting a vintage ray gun from the 1950s. Fun. I've fallen in love with the UI. Great app. A few more things to texture, then output render passes, composite, and call it a day. This is how it looks at the moment. #blender

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 12/09/2026

A page from our book Hammerfist, issue one, written by @remender.bsky.social drawn by Steve Epting, and colored by me. In stores now from @imagecomics.com #comics #colors #ClipStudioPaint #hammerfist

Action scene with someone getting shot in the leg by a sniper, and a man wearing a powerful gauntlet getting shot in the chest, then hitting the ground and sending cops and their cruisers into the air.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 11/09/2026

A page from our book Hammerfist, issue one, written by @remender.bsky.social drawn by Steve Epting, and colored by me. In stores now from @imagecomics.com #comics #colors #ClipStudioPaint #hammerfist

Comic page with four horizontal panels. Panel one, a man holds up a glowing gauntlet to block bullets. Panel two, the camera turns to reveal police shooting at him. Panel three, wearing that gauntlet, he swings and in one arc, hits three cops in the heads and their heads burst. Panel four, he punches and the shockwave sends cops and their van flying.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 06/09/2026

WIP from this weekend, a vintage 1950s ray gun modeled in Blender. No proper materials or textures yet, and not finished, but having fun figuring out this UI and its tools. Pretty much all box modeling, with one boolean. #blender

1950s ray gun with gears. Work in progress render.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 22/08/2026

Drinking a 17 year old Chimay. 2 years older than my son. It's oxidized, of course, but still has some interesting things going as that oxidation creates some interactions with the maltiness. The age softened it the alcohol perception. Doesn't taste like 9% abv.

An Orval glass, into which is poured Chimay from 2009, the bottle to the right of the glass, covered in dust.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 21/08/2026

My son, 15, flatting a Batwoman cover in Clip Studio Paint.

My studio with my son working on a Huion tablet.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 19/08/2026

Another Modo experiment from nine years ago. As I recall, I was playing with primitives and boolean modeling. Intersections and all that. #cg #Modo

A CG sphere with loads of cylinders jutting out of the surface, and cylindrical cavities in the sphere.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 19/08/2026

Here's the first actual render of the TIE fighter sequence I did in Blender. Camera turn added, planets added, star field added, and basic materials applied. Good fun exploring this app. #blender

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 17/08/2026

Here's the Blender file with the Geometry Node tree used for making the swarm and animation.

Screencap of the Blender app and the 3D Viewport showing the Tie Fighter model as well as a window showing the Geometry Nodes.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 17/08/2026

Messing around with Blender. Here's a Playblast. Simple Tie-Fighter modeled, then I used Geometry Nodes to make a swarm and animate them with randomized rotation and flight paths as well as varied flight speeds. Shouldn't be collisions, but there might be. #Blender

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 17/08/2026

The render without depth of field.

Multi-colored sugar-coated candies, as made in Blender.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 17/08/2026

Played with sugar-coated alien candies in Blender on Sunday. Fun mucking around.

CG render of sugar-coated candies of various colors.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 14/08/2026

Using recovered rainwater to chill the condenser while distilling peated whiskey. A no-work Friday.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 09/08/2026

Procedural modeling, done in Modo nine years ago. #cg #Modo

A procedural model that looks a bit like a carnation.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 09/08/2026

Never used Blender before, so I did a tutorial from CG Boost to learn the UI. Needs more tweaking, but this'll do for now to just warm up to the app. I've used Maya and SoftImage XSI professionally on movies, and Modo as a hobby, but never Blender. The app seems pretty great.

CG still life with apples piled up in a bowl with a burlap cloth draped over the bowl, and a knife on a wood surface.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 08/08/2026

After four days typing for forty or more minutes per session, I've wrapped up typing out the George Saunders story "Tenth of December" in full, all 8,633 words. Took about three hours and seven minutes, so 46 words/minute, which is pretty slow for me. My usual is 60. But there you have it.

Manuscript of the George Saunders story "Tenth of December" in Scrivener.

Bar graph showing time spent typing the story over the last four days.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 07/08/2026

Here's another test comparing results from converting from RGB to CMYK color in various apps. For those who don't want to use Adobe apps, Krita, Affinity Photo 2, and Clip Studio Paint conversions are looking good. Open on a larger monitor to compare. #ClipStudioPaint #Krita #AffinityPhoto2

Color chiclets showing the results from converting from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop, Affinity Photo 2, Clip Studio Paint 5.1.1, and Krita 5.3.3, with CMYK codes written over colors to compare those numbers.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 05/08/2026

When the Photoshop layer was changed to Divide color mode, it showed this difference only between PS and CSP. When I zoomed in, though, these colors were all in the blacks, and the differences were no more than 1% difference in the k tones. Not something any of us can see.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 05/08/2026

This is a cover for DC Comics drawn by Gabriel Hardman & colored by me in Clip Studio Paint. The file was flattened and saved out as a PSD, opened in the other apps, and converted to CMYK. For the CSP version, it was exported and converted during export. CSP on left, then Krita, Affinity, and PS.

Superman cover with cloaked figure in the Bg, and explosion, and Supes flying into the FG.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 02/08/2026

6:45am. Time to mash in and brew a peated whiskey.

Grain bag for heavy peated distilling malt

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 31/07/2026

They look like gene-splicing experiment psychos from an A24 movie.

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 31/07/2026

Always thought I was misunderstanding that "like a pigeon from hell." But nope. That's what the lyrics actually say.

Lyrics from The Pretenders' song "Back on the Chain Gang" that include the line "Got in the house like a pigeon from hell..."

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