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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Great book! Well deserved! Congratulations!!!

Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pencil cray opposes my instinct to mix colours (both with gouache and my digital work.) It's much more about adhering to more precise colour selection on the page. They also demands a more patient approach for someone used to knocking in big shapes of colour with a fat brush.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Still trying to decide if pencil crayon is a medium I like working in. These last two drawings make me feel like I do. I think it's important as artists to muck around with mediums that make us struggle and then not give up on them when we feel like we've got no idea what we're even doing with it.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pump track at the local park. Pencil Crayon which is 🇨🇦 for coloured pencil. Which is 🇨🇦/🇬🇧 for colored pencil.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The illuminated years ended long ago and we are grateful for our protectors in these dark times.

Barbarian woman in bronze breast plate and leather kilt, leather sandals and greaves and bronze sword. Dark hair bound in a poytail by a bronze ring. Empty background.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Big sister and little brother. Members of a settled clan in an age of darkness and fear.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

History buffs: the book I illustrated, "Did You Hear What Happened at the Alamo?" is now on shelves. This is the second in Katie Kennedy's "Did You Hear What Happened..." American history books. Also available, "DYHWH in Salem?"

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sword and sorcery aura in ballpoint pen.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Did You Hear What Happened at the Alamo”, comes out September 1st. The second in Katie Kennedy’s “Did You Hear What Happened…?” series features a wry account of the iconic event and 20ish black and white illustrations by me.

Cover illustration for “Did You Hear What Happened at the Alamo?” Featuring two cowboys on horseback leaning in to converse in hushed tones with the Alamo’s contemporary facade and a Texas flag in the background. The sky is a dramatic gradient from gold to red-orange to copper.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Edmonton International Folk Fest August 8, 2026 Ballpoint pen in a big ol' sketchbook

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Sorry to disappoint, I don't know if I even have them on a drive any more, and definitely wouldn't have the layers.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Dragon Age Inquisition has one mission that’s essentially that. The winter palace constituted about an hour or two of a much longer game, but is almost entirely composed of social gameplay uncovering the intrigues of high fantasy Versailles, with multiple outcomes possible.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@faitherinhicks.bsky.social - Loved it. Equal parts trip down memory lane and overdue emotional processing. Made me want to dust off my animation disc.

Cover illustration of Faith Erin Hicks' graphic novel "Inbetweens" depicting the twin protagonists Sloane and Ashe surrounded by sheets of animation paper each with a modified flour sack character in various poses on each one.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

That phrase “prohibited anatomy” should be launched directly into the sun.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Maybe you’re not the audience for smut. But for the love of art, your lgbtq+ friends, small l liberal values, defend it being allowed to exist. There’s a long list of things they object to and depictions of sex are just the first line item.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Maybe you’re not the audience for smut. But be clear eyed that Kickstarter TOS, payment provider TOS, book laws in Alberta, these are all fascist foundations for even more insidious intrusions into the things we take for granted.

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Jaws🎃 @jaws-stone.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Hey sharks, can I be so fekkin real for a second? For the last three years, my friend and I have made a podcast that I spend so much time on editing. We talk about comics, uplift them, analyze them etc. Can I ask you to spread the word? Please? @theartofpod.bsky.social

Cover photo for the podcast The Art of Comics, showcasing The prince and the Dressmaker

Cover photo for the podcast The Art of Comics, showcasing Delicious in Dungeon

Cover photo for the podcast The Art of Comics, showcasing Green Yuri

Cover photo for the podcast The Art of Comics, showcasing Saint Catherine

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Happy #StarWarsDay! We at Arcanaut Studios are making something awesome, and we're growing our team. Have a look at the link below to see our open positions, including a cinematics animator. #SWFOTOR

Screen shot from Fate of the Old Republic teaser. Extreme close up of a light saber user's eyes.

Still from the Fate of the Old Republic teaser of a ship engine thruster.

Still from the Fate of the Old Republic teaser of a capital ship wreck way in the distance on a dreary and dark, rainy, rocky planet. A party of three are small in the foreground against the landscape.

Still from the Fate of the Old Republic teaser of the main character in a cloak framed in silhouette against a circular door backlit in deep reds and oranges, thick vapor clouds streaming out of the door.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Pett. Medical drama but the cast is all Henson style puppets.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I’m a published illustrator through Hachette. This is a big deal! Very happy and supportive to see this initiative!

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This is so killer RJ. Curious, did they let you bring the ink media into the museum? My local museum are sticklers for only allowing graphite.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hey Jaws. Did you hear the inventor of the joystick vanished? They downright up and left.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Oh willikers, Faith. This looks like something I need to read.

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MOC (they/them) @miraongchua.com · 31/03/2026

happy #tdov 🩵🩷🤍

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Day of Visibilty 🏳️‍⚧️ means you have to look at my art again, sorry I don't make the rules I'm Chloé, an artist who happens to be a trans woman, working in comics & video games ✨🌸 #tdov #transdayofvisibility

a pic of me surrounded by several artworks done last year, in 2025, including fanarts and comic covers

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Merlin G.G 🌻🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ VisDev Artist @everydaymerlin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

🌈 trans day of visibility baby!! 🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ i’m merlin! a transmasc concept artist, illustrator and brush maker, i make adoptables on my free time too (you can support me by getting some brushes and adopts below 👇) [ #tdov #transdayofvisibility ]

heimerdinger commission for his arcane VA

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Happened to be a Schiele exhibit in NY when I took a trip there in college. So expressive but still structural anatomy. Three cheers for Schiele.

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Jeff Simpson @jeffsimpson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Open for work! 18 years experience in AAA games film/tv. What have I worked on? 6 Assassin's Creed games, Marvel MCU shows and films, Magic the Gathering cards, shorter stints on franchises like Deus Ex, Halo, Paths of Exile, Ghost in the Shell, Pirates of the Caribbean and many more.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Plein air season is almost upon us. I'm always a little FOMO about April when all the plein air artists I admire are out there painting the spring colours. Where I live we don't get much green til the end of the month and it can still be too cold for wimpy old me. Here's some of last year's fun.

gouache painting of a early 20th century brick school house roof detail. A brick gable with three inset windows and ornate cement molding

gouache painting of the back of a blue burger shack backdropped by big trees and a grassy sand dune in the foreground

Gouache painting of a storm drain discharge through sand dunes, flanked by large concrete blocks. Storm drains are so cool. Why are storm drains so cool?

Gouache sketch of nasturtium flowers and their round leaves.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

You're right and since you mentioned him, Dave, David and David too.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I enjoy working with my game dev colleagues over the years, Dan, Dan, Dan, Chris, Chris, Ryan, Ryan, Shawn, Sean, Sean, Chris and Dan, Matt, Matt and Matthew. Shout out to all y'all.

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Nadhir @nadhirnor.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Procession I

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This on the Anno discourse. Straight into the bin with every top 30 under 30 article ever written. Your life is a mountain range. Your capacity for meaningful expression is bottomless.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Sorry to hear. It must be a super monkey's paw moment.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Sorry for the bummer of a post. I had the unique perspective of seeing the game among a crowd of Canadians and Americans, all strangers to one another, and it's thrown me off in unexpected ways.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

But today I can't shake it. Seeing how the team chose to celebrate and who the next generation of hockey fans and players have to look up to. It's so so depressing and colours that moment in the theater as toxic. I feel bad for American hockey fans whose moment of national pride was debased.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I'm not a sports guy. But it stung when the final goal was scored and the other half of the theater started chanting "USA! USA!" I had to be mindful to divorce the game result from my feelings on Canada-US relations. "There's no hostility in their chanting. They're proud of their team. That's it."

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

My son asked who it was. He knew the name. "Why did everyone do that? I thought he was the best." I hesitated. "Cuz of politics." The older Canadian beside me overheard and let out a sardonic scoff.

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Nick Thornborrow @nickthornborrow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I was on holiday yesterday and they had the CBC broadcast of the game in the resort theater which was filled with Canadian and American tourists. the camera cut to Gretzky sitting in the stands and the Canadian half of the theater let out a suppressed groan. Like an icky jump scare.

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