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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Criterion cover for an as of yet nonexistent Criterion edition of Posession. Mixed media graphite, gouache, and colored pencil

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Gouache paintings of internet smut and dudes getting blown up

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

A few pages from my new short comic Glut! 8 pages of dark fantasy grime

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Paintings from the last session of the semester

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Gouache studies from tonight’s figure drawing session

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Gouache studies from tonight. All Zorn palette all the time. I’m really happy with how these turned out.

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Gouache studies from tonight. All Zorn palette all the time. I’m really happy with how these turned out.

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Gouache studies from tonight’s figure drawing session

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Some quick Rebecca Guay studies in gouache. When I played Magic the Gathering in the 90s I’d run five color all Rebecca Guay decks and lose miserably. Her work is a big reason I became an illustrator.

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A few sketches from last night on my new, more compact sketch easel setup. I like being able to control the angle of the substrate independent of the tray surface in this design

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Some sketchbook drawings from NYC, the drop-in figure drawing night that I run at school, and from a recent artist talk. And also a Scully in gouache

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Today’s other project is this James Gurney style sketch easel. Just need a few small parts and it’s good to go

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I tried painting in gouache from a model for the first time to mixed results

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I like watching the Criterion closet pick videos but not enough of them pick Salo. I want them all to pick Salo.

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A few hours into a Hammershoi master copy

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Some figure drawings from tonight and a Scully painting from this morning

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is my first oil painting in over a decade. I really hated everything about painting in undergrad but last year I guess my attitude changed and I’ve been enjoying going back to physical media.

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hershey park butterflies with my lovely partner who I am very lucky to have

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Posting less on other apps means that my vanity gym pics come over here

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Some small gouache paintings from last year. Trying to get my head back together so that I can get back to making new work.

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I’m happy to say that my Tetsuo: The Iron Man poster was included on the long list in the first @booooooom Illustration awards!

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Some weird little digital painting studies

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I’m only about 60 pages into Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and I’m already worried.

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I wish my sketches could just be the final

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

An illustration for the Robert Aickman short story The Swords

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I wasn’t happy with the first take so here’s a second version of my illustration for the short story G by Ling Ma

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Not loving this trend of students turning in blank documents when they haven’t done the assignment. It feels like they’re banking on me assigning a grade without looking at the work. Also, are other professors grading without looking at the files? Does turning in a blank document work?!

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

An illustration for the short story G by Ling Ma. In this story there is a drug called G that turns you invisible and comes in a seashell shaped pill

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm in a weird rut. I don't have too much trouble drawing and making work, but I'm very unsatisfied and I don't feel like the work I make accomplishes anything or has a point. I've been in this rut for a while. I think I've been out of freelance too long because of teaching and running a program.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 08/12/2024

I've spent much of this weekend reviewing the work of emerging #kidlit writers and illustrators and offering feedback for two different organizations. Over and over this comes up. Become obsessed with your process—with your practice—not the products of that process. Produce as much as you can.

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Rosemary V-O @hirosemary.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The first two posters in my series paying tribute to the films of the great Satoshi Kon 🎤🎬

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Michael Hoeweler @michaelhoeweler.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Illustration friends, if you haven't done so yet, it's time to update your contracts with clear language about preventing a client from using your name and work in association with GenAI.

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Some D&D character commissions from a while back

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

QRP with skull art! I had to go back pretty far to find a skull. When did I stop drawing skulls?

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Robert Young @robertyoungillo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I made this illustration of a conspiracy theorist I saw while voting on the morning of November 5th when I was a bit more hopeful. Sorry if I jinxed anything.