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Matt Hollingsworth

@matthollingsworth.com
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Neurodivergent Californian in Croatia, color artist for Marvel, DC, and Image comics, writer, brewer. www.matthollingsworth.com ➔ tags: #writing | #comics | #ClipStudioPaint | #Affinity | #painting | #photography | #read

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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 7h
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.
Close up of a black cat.A tortoise shell colored cat licking its chops.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 06/10/2026
There is no god.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 06/10/2026
Great fucking book. Hope you dig it.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 06/10/2026
Loved it. Genuine fun.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 06/10/2026
Why can't the three people who most deserve to die on this planet drop dead instead?
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 06/10/2026
At ~58 years old, with more & more friends and people I know dying, I spend more time being sad than ever in my life. Not as exciting as posting some social media success, right? Not looking for sympathy. I mean, I'm not dead. But sad that people I know, respected, and loved are dropping like flies.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 04/10/2026
First 2 Untappd scores are bogus. I only poured it in June, 2014, in Zagreb.
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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-...
Homebrew kegs, transferring beer.Murky glass of beer.
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 01/10/2026
The October issue of Clarkesworld (our 20th anniversary issue) is now online and features stories by Alex T. Singer, Fiona Moore, Shi Heiyao, Elizabeth Bear, Louis Inglis Hall, Natalia Theodoridou, and Tia Tashiro clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_241 Subscribe at: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Cover art by Marcel Deneuve is "Labyrinths of Azarax" and features a blue and white mechanical eye in a circular opening looking at a small, white, glowing humanoid figure standing on a large pipe in the tunnel. Many pipes line the walls, all heading out to the main room. Pipes are yellow and gray. Room beyond is blue.

Interviews with Wole Talabi and Yoon Ha Lee. Article by Gunnar De Winter.

This is the 20th anniversary issue. We're dancing, but it's not in the image.
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October issues of The Dark, @nightmare-magazine.com, Dirty Magick, @locusmag.bsky.social, @lightspeedmagazine.com, @adventitiouswords.bsky.social, @smallwondersmag.com, @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and Sally Port are here and en route to subscribers: weightlessbooks.com/2026/10/
Cover art for The Dark issue 137, featuring an undead person with long black hair hanging from the ceiling in a doorway open on a checkered corridorFlash Fiction Online October 2026 issue cover, featuring abstract white-on-black lines and texturesCover art for Adventitious Issue Five, featuring a Black person wearing a great great horned owl head as a hat up to their shoulders in waves with a huge moon and another owl behind themCover for Locus Magazine #789, featuring a row of white doors in a blank white hallway, one of them open on a glowing red room
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Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today it's a great pleasure to welcome Andrea Damic with her flash Yin to My Yang @damicandrea.bsky.social #flashfiction #readingcommunity #writingcommunity. Please follow the link below and enjoy fictivedream.com/2026/10/01/y...
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https://fictivedream.com/2026/10/01/yin-to-my-yang/
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 29/09/2026
Reduce your use of the word "just." Good night.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 28/09/2026
Congrats back atcha. I'll be sure to check out your story!
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 28/09/2026
If you didn't continue, you were spared the absolutely terrible ending. I'm okay with the concept of trying different approaches to filming, but for me, this one fell far short.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 28/09/2026
They did film it on phones. (Maybe you already know. ) And it shows. Ugly filmmaking, unfortunately.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 28/09/2026
A short story of mine, in fact flash (962 words), has gone live at Fabula Argentea. Free to read at the link. Dark humor. #writing #amwriting #indiepublishing #flash #flashfiction fabulaargentea.com/index.php/ar...
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THE COMPASSION OF PREDATORS by Matt Hollingsworth – Fabula Argentea
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 27/09/2026
Love the Green Man vibe.
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Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Issue 14 cover reveal🎨 Click to view the full digital watercolor by Reza Afshar Full issue available October 1
Radon Issue 14 front cover. Greenish-blue watercolor showing a nearby planet in the sky covered with mysterious yellow dots
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
PSA! Just a reminder to also follow The Village, our free platform for the global flash community. Promptember will be happening there Oct 11-Nov 2. You can click on the invitation link pinned to @heyflashvillage.bsky.social to join The Village. It's free, and so is Promptember.
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The man who saved the world.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 25/09/2026
Punks, go listen to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXhW...
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I Got A Right (Remastered Studio)
YouTube video by The Stooges - Topic
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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 · 25/09/2026
My pleasure. Thanks for the great tutorial. I'm learning a ton. Cheers from Croatia!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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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
Don't pay. Return to sender.
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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
Weird CG s
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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 · 19/09/2026
Fucking great movie. Enjoy.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 19/09/2026
Got edits back for my story "The Compassion of Predators" before it goes to print, and the way the e-mail was worded, I was all ready for disappointment, but the editor removed a single comma. That's it. For a flash piece of 962 words. Due out next weekend. Yay!
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026
Attach the image!
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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.
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 · 18/09/2026
My son and I loved it. So good.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 18/09/2026
Saw Resident Evil in IMAX last night with my son. We loved it, start to finish. Fucking great. Horror people: go see it.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 16/09/2026
I added detail to the flats by varying individual bandages. So, I misspoke.
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Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com · 16/09/2026
Someone who's neither alive nor dead.
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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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