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Scout Villegas

@scoutstiel.bsky.social
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comic artist, painter, con vendor, anxious goblin, and occasional writer — she/her

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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
i still don’t know how floor/chalk mural artists do it. the PAIN…. my hamstrings feel like they are coated in molasses and fire ants.
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
slowly crawling back onto the internet after a month of body horror i was finally feeling good enough to exercise again and promptly destroyed my body by drawing a bunch of massive jellyfish on the sidewalk in one sitting
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
imagine what i’d be capable of if all my blood decided my brain was the cool place to be sometimes. i’d be unstoppable
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
not me in the hospital yet again for another stage 4 hypertensive crisis!!! hahahaha truly a fanciful love affair with having a stroke what can i say
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
thank you!!! it’s been horribly intimidating so i appreciate any encouragement! 😭♥️
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
it’s called good taste and great priorities!!!
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
i’ve spent the last nearly 2 months learning CSP and writing in full a sci-fi horror graphic novel script…should have more to actually show soon. i’d like to have something i can really talk about in the fall. sorry i’ve been such a basket case!
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
i have no new art to post yet and i have been dodging social media, but i’m still chipping away at my big personal project. i’ve been very bad at answering DMs, here’re pictures of the cats to hopefully make up for it
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
omg. my cat has the other eyelash. (i love!!!!!!!!)
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
sometimes when others would tell me the god’n’gabe/swaingel books made them gasp or weep or laugh, i’d feel actual joy course through my veins. making those was the most fun i’ve ever had in my entire artistic career. i want to take at least one more big swing before a job hunt!!!! 💪😤
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
if i’m able to blast through a bunch of pages by the end of the week, i’m going to start taking it way more seriously. saying this right before diving in to the Real Work. i want to do everything i can to make something *i* want to consume, and i hope that means other people are into it too. 🥺🥺🥺
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
i’m doing it entirely for me and can’t tell if anyone will like it, and it may all be for naught, but i always feel so so so much pressure to do my very best for other peoples’ projects…i really desperately want to see if i can do it for myself 🥺
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🧵 i always space having my bsky but i realized i needed a public forum to say “aloud” that today i am starting the meat of the work for an original graphic novel i plan to make 200+ pages. all my own characters, stories, environments. the works.
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
just got back from mini-vacay that was the stand-in for my birthday. went to raleigh to see a show, and i’ve wanted to see Ninja Sex Party for well over a decade. in a sea of 1500 people, i somehow managed to ride the tide and was basically in front near the end. and i-i saw…i saw… 💖✨him💖✨
danny sexbang enchanting the raleigh crowd with his siren song
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
thumbnail ⏩️ sketch got some pedro pages sketched out. was completely burnt out of my gouache sketchbook for nearly two months but his cannes look ripped me out of it. i’m so excited to paint this 👁️👄👁️
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
it’s so soft and i am completely beside myself, i feel like i’ve found a shiny pokémon
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
i am in absolute shock. i’d done some research into the local moth populations a ways back, and have desperately tried to find luna moths for years. this morning, for the first time in my life, i saw a live luna moth in the wild!? i thought i was hallucinating! but look!!! 😭😭😭
it’s a friggin luna moth yo!!!!
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
i finally got through all my out-of-nowhere insane last-minute projects from last month. completely ignored my own birthday in that time so i’m going to just spend the week…being as dumb as life allows me. less brain starting today until like friday…yeah
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
the sketches i send are unhinged but at least they read as sincere…endlessly grateful for what is oftentimes blind faith in the process
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
i’ve had a couple of big projects that require all of my time and have wild deadlines. one i had to REALLY quickly piece together, but i’m pleased with how it turned out. impossibly this was an approved sketch, which i explained “please entertain that this is a man’s hand holding a tactical handgun”
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
cain’s entered senior territory and has been officially put on ocd meds. never too late to pursue your mental health wellness. love my medicated older king
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
not at all!! i don’t personally have the urge to do this, however i do really like wearing velvet/-like materials. people timidly ask to feel the material pretty often when i’m out. i think the stimulation of expected sensation really scratches some human brains just right
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
miss you too! so far nothing on the docket, and it hurts my heart. plus side though, i think almost all spn shows are on the east coast, so there may be hope yet!
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
even if i didn’t have it written down, i’d know it’s con season based solely on the amount of panicked last-minute needs/requests of regulars on the circuit. 😂 i miss everyone very much, and it does warm my heart knowing i still occupy a little dark corner of at least a small group of ppls’ brains.
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
omg. there’s no way this charm isn’t at LEAST 5-6 years old. heather, i am so incredibly impressed…both by your dedication and charm upkeep, because damn!! 🥹
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
a genie asks me what my wish is. i say “all i want is paint please” and they mishear it as “pain”. confused, they tell me they can’t fulfill the wish if i already have it and leave
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
cleaned for 6 hours. did tedious mandatory updates on pc for 6 more hours. didn’t hate self enough, filed own taxes as punishment for freelance work. another 2 hours. i’m finally here
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
acrylics are akin to EDM and gouache is jimmy buffett and i can’t explain any further than that
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
after doing so many large acrylic paintings, my love for little gouache paintings in my sketchbook has intensified. distance truly makes the heart grow fonder
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
i’ve discovered my least favorite work to do on commission is anything animated, and this goes for any project. having to be all the entire staff for a multi-person project ain’t for me anymore. 😩
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
although i won’t immediately be able to get to them, i’ll bump commission info. inquiries for anything else (like cartoon/illustrative stuff) can be discussed! my con schedule is still unclear and tragically empty, so i’ll still be posting about these on more frequent occasion:
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
this… is INCREDIBLE. thank you SO much. i’m so honored and grateful!! i poured a lot of love into these, and it really is such a huge pleasure to see them all together like this.
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
COMPLETELY caught up on commissions!!! i dangled a carrot in front of my face, which was my sketchbook. i haven’t allowed myself to do anything other than commissions the last month. but i’ve also been watching severance. i want to paint severance things. so. bad.
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
i need to get online more!! omg! i’m glad you’re ok! alright. that’s outta the way. hear me out. that mass? alien technology. we’re talking extraterrestrials. they thought, huh, that’s weird. there’s radiation from imagi…THEY KNOW! THE HUMANS KNOW! GET THE DATA FARMING DEVICE BEFORE THEY FIND IT—
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
i don’t think i’ve ever painted or drawn anyone from the angle i had to paint and draw dean from. the blue steel shines from all angles. thank YOU, rachel!! 💕
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
i’m still not done with this commission, but absolutely aghast at how long it’s taken me. i’m usually intimidated by painting faces and capturing a likeness, but these two detailed off-white/cream colored costumes with like, blue reflections and yellow lighting…my brain…
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
it might be because i’m of a certain age, but the weather is like a sledgehammer for my brain. the second i see clouds rolling in i get the migraine warning sparkles 😵‍💫✨ weekend is clearing up so my fingers are crossed! still 3 more commissions to go!
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
have had to slow my roll big time this week thanks to a series of cluster headaches. i’ve managed to fight off a migraine i think, but i’ve lost a lot of painting time to it. so frustrating. when i try to literally work through it, i always end up having to re-paint over whatever i did 🥲
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
this is the best thing ever!!!! i heavily encourage anyone with a new pet portrait to let me know how the pet themselves jives with it. much love to you and penny! ♥️ and so, commissions continue on!
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Jess🖖🏻 @callherjess.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My @scoutstiel.bsky.social commission is here. ❤️❤️❤️ Penny approves. Thank you again, so much. I cannot tell you how happy I am and how wonderful this is.
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
i still think about how my old (well like, 10 years ago) painting sessions used to be 8 hours at a time without breaks. i understand that’s why my body is technically a puppeteered corpse now, but i miss being an unstoppable machine…….
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
making slow but steady progress on commissions. 2 fully knocked out and shipped; the rest in progress. i had intended on having a lot of these done before feb, but because of the late canvas shipping, it’s pushed everything by about a week. 😪
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
i finally made a break for it after 2 1/2 hours. I’M FREE! this was a cautionary tale. if nothing else, at least bring a book or something 😂
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
there’s a screen boasting that they found some long-lost silent film about abe lincoln. the screen itself is muted. the kind thing they could do would be to ACTUALLY SHOW THE SILENT FILM! ANYTHING! IT’S SILENT AND YOU FOUND IT! …i-i’m sorry. i’m really understanding that pile of hair.
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
there’s something scattered next to a chair and i couldn’t figure out what it was til now. hair. it’s hair. there’s a small pile of hair on the floor next to this chair, and i can only conclude the last person sitting there literally started ripping their own hair out after the first 4 hours
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a man with a skeleton mask on his face is wearing a tan shirt
ALT: a man with a skeleton mask on his face is wearing a tan shirt
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
one random lady, another civilian, loudly and mournfully announced that she’d somehow accidentally sent a college application to a school in china. she was panicking because she didn’t know the language or had a passport. she…didn’t elaborate any further.
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
it’s unnervingly quiet too, safe for some hushed conversations. someone tried playing music, and were inaudibly shunned from doing so in less than 45 seconds
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
spending my entire day, a beautiful afternoon, trapped in the hell that is the DMV. some people have already been here for 3 hours. some took a lunch break and still weren’t called. if i’ve learned nothing else, it’s that i never want to work here
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I’VE DONE IT! i spent my entire day getting all of the commissions that came in sketched and primed. i’ve also emailed everyone with updates. i’m so upset i lost all those days, but happy for the progress. pet portraits all came in first, so those are first on the chopping block! 🔥🔥🔥
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Scout Villegas @scoutstiel.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
…THEY’RE HERE!!! several days and also hours later than i’d hoped. but eyyy sunday will be sketch drop dayyyy! 🎉
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