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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Standing at a bar having a pint after work. The amount of people who have started to queue behind me is hilarious. The bar is 20ft long and empty apart from me. I haven't corrected a single one.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

All the newspapers today. #makeitfair AI companies need to stop using creatives work or pay the creatives a usage fee. They need to stop stealing.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

All the people who are either joyous or silent on how Trumps dealing with the war in Ukraine are just wronguns. Claiming other countries have had elections during wars is just wrong. No country is having an election while they are occupied or having bombs dropped on them. Dicks.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Fantastic last night by @CTRLFC It was the performance we needed after the CC. I think we were one competitive friendly short in pre season. Lawler, Simbiken, Rooney and Westy were fantastic. Be good to have Milnes back for the kicking.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Just tried to report our concern over someone's welfare to the police, the local police station is closed on Fridays and 101 said there is nothing they can do. I mean.......What the actual fuck.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Seven hours sat in an auditorium today where the seats had less legroom than a Northern train service. I'm 6ft 5. That shit should be against the Geneva Convention.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Cas top for my birthday and I didn't have a clue. My missus is pretty decent.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

So here are my super league predictions. 1. Wigan 2. KR 3. Warrington 4. St Helens 5. Catalans 6. Leigh 7. Salford 8. Leeds 9. Wakefield 10. Castleford 11. FC 12. Huddersfield Positions 7 to 12 could be in any order depending on sales and injuries. There's definitely a split. @ctrlfc

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Jesus. I made one factual comment. Open up twitter at half time and see these replies. The sooner Twitter is banned in this country the better. People have forgotten what truth is or just don't care.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I might not take right wing idiots seriously as let's be honest, they are none threatening. It's like your younger brother getting angry with you, you feel something between pity and shame and just end up laughing.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I'm now being called a pervert for pointing out that someone has edited a video of school children to suit their right wing narrative and it is right the police are looking into it. FFS. I only went on to look at the rugby league journalists posts.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I find myself still logging onto twitter out of habit. The amount of racist right wing nutters from America wanting British people to overthrow our government is ridiculous.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hi #portfolioday I'm Rich, I'm a traditional pen and ink artist from the UK. Currently available for work. You can see my portfolio at www.richbanksart.co.uk

Pen and ink illustration of Notre Dame De Lorette WW1 cemetery in France.

Pen and ink illustration of the Cloth Hall in Ypres.

Pen and ink illustration of Micklegate Bar in York.

Pen and ink illustration of the Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Psychologists should get this Nottingham Forest team together with the Cas Tigers team from 2017. Both teams did/have just, from nowhere, beat the accepted system and that is fascinating. It shows not all team sport is skill based.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year guys. I personally have given up on social media apart from streaming on Tik Tok which is completely unlike me. I would like to wish you all a great new year and remind you that Elon Musk is a fucking fraud. Love ya, in a bit.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

How did you spend your Christmas? I spent most of the time getting turned on by Fray Bentos curry sauce if I'm honest.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Watching a turn, they have the worst bit of design I've seen in a while.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Gone in a hilariously bad pub in Malvern. All the posters are laminated. Live laugh love sign behind the bar. Guy refusing to leave the fruity. Game of killer happening. Coked up fake gangster in the corner trying to act tough. It's got everything.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Gonna call it now, if the Fury fight goes the distance, he wins. They want a trilogy.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Was meant to be seeing my childhood friend tonight seeing Me First And The Gimme Gimmes. But he got glassed last night outside the pub he owns, and he was the one arrested.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The Richard the third society are a weird bunch

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Asi looks a sexy improvement on Miller. Exciting. #coyf

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Close to telling the area manager to go fuck themselves. No time for office politics or workplace bullying.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I have finished my first illustration in 3 months today. This is a map of Yellowstone National Park in America. I am going to clean it and add the text next week then I will be uploading the step by step drawing tutorial to my Tik Tok and website. #art

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Sign manufacturers having terrible signs is always amusing

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The Tories had 14 years of abject failure, Labour have inherited the mess and had 5 months in power. How about we wait a while before judging?

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I normally hate Tiny Rebel but this is a cracker.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I produce map commissions for clients. This is of Guimaras and Ilo Ilo in the Philippines, it was for a client who got married there and wanted to commemorate the occasion. If you would like a personalised map get in touch with me at www.richbanksart.co.uk #art

A black and white hand drawn map of Guimaras in the Philippines

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Jena (Red) Stavros @scandalous.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

👋Hi. I'm a freelance culture writer. My beats include: necropolitics, tech, gaming (especially #boardgames), politics, history, travel, food & drink (let's talk #beer), lifestyle, entertainment, & sports. I've written for several awesome pubs. I'm working on multiple books. This is my🧵of clips-

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Live streaming is actually giving me the kick up the backside I needed to start drawing again. I've stopped procrastinating and I actually came up with 2 ideas for drawings, that's more productive than I have been in 6 months. #art

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Aelestial✦ @aelestial.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thank you so much for hosting, Julia✨✨✨I'm Aelestial, I love drawing lines, and I make a starter pack for line art artists! pls feel free to check it out☺️ go.bsky.app/ExYzAg3

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Julia Metzger @juliametzgerart.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Quick reintroduction of myself: I'm Julia, and these are some of my favourite personal artworks from the last few years, some of which marking career milestones for me. I might have a bit of a love for wallpaintings and tapestries within paintings :D #art

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Thank you for hosting this Julia 😎 🍷 These would me my picks from the past couple of years. Straight pen on paper..lots of evenings and weekends bringing strange worlds to the page

Pen drawing of a feminine figure with tentacles for hair waving in the air crawling towards the viewer with a foreshortened left hand with a floating large headed large eyed jellyfish like creature. Their body is covered in runes and the ground beneath them is a series of cracked stones over a level of biomechanical machinery with Grey alien heads in each lower corner and a light purplish plasma. In the sky are spheres with stars across the horizon, only one close and the others in a sky of light plasma blues and purples tinged with orange and grey.

Pen drawing of a small grey alien being with a big head surrounded by a twisted fusion of technology and cancerous organic shapes

A pen drawing of the upper torso of a woman whose shadows are filled with stars as she
looking up while framed in a circle of arcane symbols and her tattooed arms flowing into otherworldly vegetation

Pen drawing of an androgynous being with psychic energy radiating from the top of their head and arcinng around their body in the form of half realized nebulous faces, bolts of lightning like energy and various spheres. They are in a large, bulbous, flowing robe covered in textures and gems with their hands joined inside their sleeves in front of them. There are some stone columns around them in the background and on the floor in front of them is an oval white portal that is radiating and consuming the bolts from their mind.

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The COYFCast @coyfcast.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Coming soon… #COYF

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Since starting my new job I have not had the motivation to draw. I'm going to start live streaming once or twice a week on Tik Tok as a way to force myself to draw. Hopefully.

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Kova𓍊☽𓋼 @twoshortswords.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Let's do an✨ART SHARE ✨ Thank you so much for 4K followers! 🌿Artist, drop your art! 🌿Introduce yourself! 🌿Retweet and share (optional), support others ❌No N/F/Ts, No AI, keep it SFW. #artshare #art

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Snow🌸❄️working on comms❤️‍🔥 @snow-fredel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Impromptu Art share today✨ Also thank you for the 4k+ 🙏🏻 Pls read rules⏬ ◾ Share your Art & your intro ◾ Share this post for visibility ◾ Support others by sharing, comment, like 🔹(Bonus) Alt text 🔸(Opt) Tag friends (❗❗Don't post and ghost) ❌No A👁, No NFT #artshare #supportartists

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

People of the Bluesky, things are a bit quiet on the work front. If you need a writer I’m available. I’ve worked for TV, radio, print, advertising - all the medias. If you need help with a corporate Christmas speech, I can add the Lolz mathew-owen.co.uk RT or whatever it is over here, please, cheers

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Bit nippy today, I might have to put jeans on and consider the big coat.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Here's one of my favourite illustrations that I've drawn. This is the Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire and I drew this in 2019 I think. You can see more of my architectural work at www.richbanksart.co.uk #art #illustration

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I am currently working on a book on the First World War. This was a bit of a passion project I started last year that turned into the most complex project I've ever worked on. Everything is illustrated by hand including the text. You can see more of the project at www.richbanksart.co.uk #art

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here's a pen and ink illustration I created of Elland Road in Leeds, this took my about 120 hours. If you would like to see more of my work and the drawing tutorials I create then head to www.richbanksart.co.uk #art #illustration

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Here's my top pub pet peeves in no particular order. Queuing. Ordering drinks separately. Taking one dirty glass back and leaving the rest on the table. Getting a seat before buying a drink. Playing music on your phone. Sampling every beer on offer before choosing the first one. Londoners.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

People who stop mid order in a pub to have a chat just after you have finished a 12 hour shift are actual criminals

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm finally stepping away from Twitter. For those of you who didn't follow me over there, I've been working as a pen and ink illustrator for the last 15 years. I listen to weird punk and folk music. I'm also a massive @ctrlfc.bsky.social fan. Here's some of my work.

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Rich Banks @richbanksart.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Did an art thing tonight for the first time since covid and I'm wired. It was fun but I'm not sleeping for a while. Back in work at 7am, that won't be fun.

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