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Julian Miholics

@pansybeast.bsky.social
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aka Jules; 30yo gay trans illustrator and ceramicist in Ontario, 🇨🇦 | he/him | 🪱🌾

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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
awww thank you so much!!! Can't believe I'm on the same standing as grandpa shark what an honour... I got the set in the mail yesterday and I'm so, so happy with them!
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I won't have as much ceramic work as last time due to having a ceramics only market next month but I'll have plenty of other goodies! and sorry for the late post, I meant to do this at the start of the week 💀
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🌼Flower Dance🌼 I'll be vending again at the Hamilton Art Crawl tomorrow where this wall tile and other various work will be available! 📍Hamilton, ON, James Street North between York Blvd to Murray St East, 5pm-11pm
A round ceramic tile with a white background. The illustration on it features four fuzzy, pink, semi-humanoid creatures linking hands and dancing in a circle. They have puffball tails, big, round eyes, and a whiskered snout.
They wear an upside down flower as a hat, and more flower illustrations frame the scene.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I came up with three colour variants you can get and this is the common one! The rare one has glow in the dark accents 👀
A Bizarre Beasts social media post reading "If you guessed Greenland shark, you're right!"
It features an illustration of the shark in green and yellow tones. Stars and seaweed frame the animal.A photo of the pin against a blue background.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the new #BizarreBeasts episode in which I designed the enamel pins for is out now! Give it a watch! ⭐
youtu.be
This Shark is Toxic (So It Doesn't Freeze)
YouTube video by Bizarre Beasts
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I haven't worked with black clay for ages so this gal and her log is a little test!
the same creature now with oval shaped pupils and spots and stripes and little lineart details renderd in
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
btw I also got some prints of the original star stag and some other digital work made up! It's been a bit hectic lately with an exhibition deadline and whipping up ceramic work for market prep so I've been slowly chipping away at documenting and uploading stuff to the online store.
A work in progress featuring a black clay ceramic creature with a long tail and single white horn. White underglaze brushed over it is being carved away to shape its eyes, stripes, and other markings. It rests on foot on top of a log.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
and damn I missed autocorrect being anti indigenous, printed by Rezonance Printing!! with a Z!!!
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you're local just email me to work out a pick up plan!
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The past week has been busy with some deadlines but finally got around to taking some photos of these star stag tote bags locally printed by the fantastic Resonance Printing! These are available via my online store ( miholics-shop.ca / link in bio )
An off white tote back featuring a black ink illustration featuring a bounding stag, the ends of its antlers taking on the shape of stars. Another star sits above its head, more stars surrounding the deer. Many simple little drawings in a rock art style with more star horned stags are by the upper left and bottom right of the animal. Floral motifs with the flowers taking on a heart shape surround them and the illustration is framed by simple patterned borders. Wild grape leaves frame the bag.A close up of the bounding stag's head.A close up of the rock art style star stags.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
omg already sold, thank you!!! ;;
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A stoneware dragons and berries dish set, currently available via my online store! #ceramics miholics-shop.ca / link in bio
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
thanks so much everyone for the kind words, they really did help. multiple market deadlines and less sales this month and challenging myself for an exhibition deadline due in 9 days on top of the general state of things warranted a bit of a crash out but I've recovered and back at it in the studio 💛
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Maybe I'm just challenging myself a bit with this latest illustration project and down in the dumps and feeling like I've regressed with some skills who knows. I miss when I could afford to be carefree about art n not worry about income and if things do well on social media to provide said income ;;
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've been feeling so tired and disappointed with my work and frustrated with how long it takes to create it. I feel like I'm not on par with others and I possibly won't be able to make art as a living with how bad things are getting economically as well.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
💛💛💛
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thank you!! Using an underglaze pencil and a slip trailer with liquid underglaze always provides such fun contrast!
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks so very much Riley!! 🥺💛
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
in person you can see this tile actually has a pillow shape about 2" high - it allows space for me to add mounting loops on the back while distributing stress that can lead to cracking or warping in flat forms
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
finally finished!! #ceramics #werewolves (sold)!
 A ceramic wall tile with a yellow background and raw, brown clay borders. A werewolf is curled in on itself and has long hair falling over its body. It has a massive head weighed down by gravity, large teeth visible in a snarl. It tries to covers its face with its hands, fingers spread to reveal an eye staring at the viewer. Its body is naked, scarred and hairy, and still very human; an unchanged ear with a little earring present, and its digits end in blunt human nails. It is framed on all sides with a floral border.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's really neat!! The texture is also akin to a marshmallow! Next we wanna try a fake fish recipe with a soy/seaweed type marinade and score the slices to ride off the soft texture and mimick soft and flakey fish meat
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
my puff nuggets are more like puff curds, it really is like a mozzarella cheese and a mushroom had a baby
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oooo!! 👀
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
omg yay! little dude going on regular adventures!! 🫶
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
awww oh my gosh!! and I'm so glad you appreciated them!! 😭💛
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
giant puffball patch found at last
My hand placed over very large hunks of giant puffball and a smaller whole puffball. Text reads "giant puffball season is upon us. Eating GOOD tonight"Golden brown bits of mushroom in a frying pan. Text reads "puff nuggets to start"
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I need to put together a thread of fav shipping doodles again, there's always a bunch of them sitting on my phone
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i forgot I've drawn spinosaurus mirabilis back in july, this now belongs to a lucky customer who placed an order to my store ^^
A pen and paper drawing of a spinosaurus mirabilis bust; a theropod with a long snout, pronounced head crest, and a speculative dewlap. It has a toothy grin, sparse body hairs, and whiskers at the base of its face. Plants frame it and stars sit about its head. Text reads "Thank you! -Jules"
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
hehehe ty!!!
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
and tariff free lettermail shipping for US customers linked in FAQ!
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Link :) miholics-shop.ca/products/pok...
miholics-shop.ca
Pokémon Stickers
Glossy stickers of various pokémon!I'm slowly drawing up more designs in my free time and have art print versions available as well!
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
also took some new product photos of my #pokemon stickers! I'm slowly drawing up more in my free time and Cetitan + Cetoddle art prints + general restock of prints will be next!
Sticker of a shiny morph cetitan.Sticker of  a roosting crobat and zubat pups.Sticker of fiesty, flaming quilava. Sticker of a content group of spheals.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
made some stickers of my latest little ceramic horses! also restocked a bunch of stickers in general :) miholics-shop.ca/collections/...
A sticker of a little ceramic sculpture featuring a brown appaloosa horse with various shades of cream and black making up its spots. It's held up against a background consisting of yellow and orange flowers and grass.A sticker of a little ceramic blue toned appaloosa unicorn held against a blue sky and pine tree backdrop.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
nothing quite like some home grown fresh fruit or veg and displaying it like a proud fisherman 🙂‍↕️
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ooo the picked relish sounds fantastic l'm absolutely jotting that down!!
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
bountiful swiss chard-vest
A pile of rainbow swiss chard and fordhook giant swiss chard on a table.Me; Jules holding the Swiss chard like a bouquet and grinning
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
oh! and I meant to state carbon paper specifically instead of xerox whoops, my old guy painting teacher in high school used those terms interchangeably and it wore off on me lol
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
thank you so much!! 💛
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
yellow underglaze and sat on it for a while before cooking up this design and doing an AR app transfer to get the rough form and outline down then blocked it in with white underglaze! :)
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For this tile in particular I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do so ran it through bisque with the white slip only. I either use xerox transfer paper or an AR drawing app to "project" the sketch. I originally did a xerox transfer but wasn't happy with it / unrelated design so covered it with -
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
oh no worries at all I'm always happy to go over the process for people! and you are correct in that being my standard process! There is a small difference however, I like to use a base later of white slip since it's cheaper to get a clean background (on red clay) before going in with underglaze.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
got the werewolf wall tile and some other stuff all set for the glaze firing tomorrow! 🤞
The previously described werewolf sketch is now illustrated on a square ceramic tile with a yellow background, and framed by flowering plants.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
keeping the lens further away from your work or using portrait mode helps! :)
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A DSLR camera helps remove some of that weird wide angle lens warp you can get more often in smartphones! These were shot on my phone though (i don't like all the effort for DSLR pics lol so I save it for more portfolio worthy type work) and
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
thank you!! 💛
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
some more ceramic pieces from last month!
A little ceramic sculpture of a brown appaloosa horse with various shades of cream and black making up its spots. A little brown creature with a long neck, nubby horns, and a white belly.
Little black spots are all over its body and it sports a delicate pink blush over its cheeks.A white dish with little blue, big eyed fish and stars circling the inside. A photo of two white dishes with a brown checkerboard pattern on the inside. 
In the centre of them is an aged gold finish.
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
thank you!! It'll be about the size of a matchbox once finished, super cute! I'll have to make more ^^
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ohhhh brother that stinks and you already know 9 times outta 10 kids like that will shit their pants as soon as they get caught in the act and confronted about it and told that you're gonna walk their asses back to their house with them to get their parents involved etc. etc. #valuablelifelessons
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
oooo cute!!! jalapeños or a different variety? 👀
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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ohhhh no rip sunflower, I always have to grow extras since about 1/4 or 1/3 of mine can get eaten or broken etc etc. 😮‍💨
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