nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 03/10/2026An illustrator’s morning: the comic scene requires the character to retch, and you think “I’ve never drawn retching before” & are struggling to picture it and your instinct is to make a retching face but you’re sat in a nice neighbourhood cafe next to a young family, so decide ‘better leave it’. 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You know it’s time for bed when you find yourself on the German-language Wikipedia page for Lizzie Borden 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I couldn’t take Germans seriously when I learned they call Charlemagne “Karl”. Like “Big Karl”. Now I learn that Francis of Assisi is “Franz” smfh 031
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🎤🎵this is the rhythm of the night🎹🎸 Here’s your invite to Sunset Cocktails with Patricia 🤗 (I’m rewatching Widow’s Bay) 020
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Leaving a comment that references something late into a persons video is the viewer equivalent of wanting an A grade from a therapist or a server 120
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Now I’m picturing the Pan’s Labyrinth monster with monocles on his palms to enjoy a bit of Richard Osman 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I wonder what my mum thinks when her adult daughter is a) recounting the plot of a two decade old Disney film and b) getting choked up 020
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am UNABLE to outline the emotional beats of an animated movie without crying 000
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 16/09/2026If Slender Man is the stuff of nightmares, how about Lanky Man, the awkward cousin 000
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If I stay on TikTok for long enough I just get a string of videos with various brain diagnoses 🤘 020
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I *really* enjoyed Coyote vs Acme 🥹🙏💣🛼 021
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 10/08/2026As an adult I don’t psych myself up for movies like I did as a teen - I don’t ever look up trailers - but boy I’m looking forward to Coyote vs Acme. (Coyote v Acme?) Screw Warner Bros! 030
Reposted by nataliebsketchingMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A few years ago, I was trying to explain to my sister why John Goodman is hot and she told me she didn’t get it, but then her eyes widened and she said “Wait, did he play Pacha in The Emperor‘s New Groove?” And I said yes, and a look of realization and awe came over her face. She got it. 3075763
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I watched Close Encounters for the first time and I have thoughts 020
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 25/07/2026What podcasters look like is none of my business 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’m now doing workshops encouraging people to doodle in a carefree way. It’s devastating I have to practice what I preach 😭 what if I don’t wanna? What if it’s bad? 030
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This was supposed to be a “doodle” but doodles should take less than 5 mins. Part of “my week in doodles”, a series(?) I’m doing to demonstrate looking at life through a cartoony/visual lens. 020
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Petition for the US to take up the “4th of July” date-month order all year round 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The Guardian has published a list of movies to watch in a heatwave. I’d add 12 Angry Men and Rear Window… I’ve never lived through a New York summer but these make me think I have 030
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 23/06/2026“Oh, the humidity!” [said like you’re watching the Hindenburg] 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Both thematically and literally, “Silo” is Snowpiercer on its side 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 12/06/2026If you need to get going but you’re having trouble standing up, getting your bag etc - put on American Pie (the song) and see if you can’t be out the door by the time it finishes. Get your pink carnation and your pickup truck 110
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Is this based on experience? Who can say 060
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Last night I met a man who (had previously) planned to move to Dubai and also “doesn’t vote”. Stay safe out there 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The experience of posting art is bad! But I guess we have to do it. I designed a sticker about it 060
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Going to call all the spit-gobbing men out there “Hockleberry Phlegm” and send them rafting upstream on their own fluids 020
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Returning to Bluesky to report that in the park I saw a cat in one of those backpacks, a fluffy fella named Puchka who “loves his walks”. This message is for Puchka, I hope you’re having a wonderful day 020
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Me as a baby / don’t ask if you don’t really wanna know the answer 130
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I moved flats last year and this is my chosen palette scheme when I have free rein: 💛💙💚❤️ 011
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The new Crow & Craig comic, “Foraging for Fame”, is free to read on my public Patreon - and apologies to #foragetok www.patreon.com/posts/152789... 031
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Another comic on my public Patreon! I’m uploading ones that show my progress in comics since 2024 www.patreon.com/posts/152463...patreon.comArchival Comic: “The Worst Year in Human History” | Natalie is SketchingGet more from Natalie is Sketching on Patreon 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 07/03/2026This is now a Stan account for The Undeniable Isadora Duncan 030
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I finished a new ‘Crow & Craig’ comic and it’s on the indie shelves at Gosh Comics!! There’s also a mini version of the original comic for £2 ✨ The series is about a corvid (Crow) and cryptid (Craig) trying to live a peaceful life in the woods, unbothered by human nonsense (usually) 060
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Rumbled by a fortune cookie [insert the theme music to ‘The Americans’] 050
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 20/02/2026One of my earliest newsletters was all about the Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner landscapes nataliebsketching.substack.com/p/looney-lan...nataliebsketching.substack.comLooney LandscapesLessons in composition via Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I’m working on a one page comic (turning out to be at least 2 hours work for a single punchline lolol) and the landscape sketches are clearly inspired by my studies of Looney Tunes! 010
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I re-did an old comic as a sticker design. Support shrivelled up artists 020
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Can someone explain why, in my free time, I play games to simulate extremely stressful work 050
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 12/02/2026My Hourly Comics Day comic is now up on Patreon for free! I’ve literally just made my creator page, so I hope everything works www.patreon.com/posts/150565...patreon.comHourly Comics Day 2026 | Natalie is SketchingGet more from Natalie is Sketching on Patreon 031
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Picking up my fucking digital bindle yet again 051
nataliebsketching @nataliebsketching.bsky.social · 10/02/2026ngl I’m pleased with my from-memory drawing of the characters of Black Books (from my Hourly Comics Day comic). Bernard, Manny and Fran are burned into my mind’s eye 020