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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Detail from today’s tumblr #zelgan #lozfancomic page, for the evening crew. The black-only panels are sometimes a challenge, but interesting to use sometimes. www.tumblr.com/studiorat/81...

Detail from monochrome comic page. Ganondorf and Zelda are arguing about her flouting his order to stay out of the damaged tower. He is trying very hard to be intimidating. He is losing this fight.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I would rather be drawing. But no, i must be an Adult 🫠 #wip #comicwip #csp

Screenshot of monochrome comic in progress showing a rolling landscape with clouds and bitch trees above a fortified encampment

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Detail from my favorite panel from today’s #zelgan #fancomic page at www.tumblr.com/studiorat/81...

Monochrome panel depicting the interior of a campaign tent, and to the left a blank ragged letter page. The single bed is a folding chest-bed, with a simple folding leather and wood stool beside it. Several books and a pile of letters rest on the shelf of the bed and on the stool. Next to that is a folding armor stand, and a carved washstand. Rugs hang on the tent wall and cover the ground.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

For the #repostyourart day 8 prompt ‘autumn’ we have to stretch a little with a portrait of Catalina Villanueva in her autumnal dress, since apparently I have done very little work on theme, despite that being my favorite season 🫣

Painterly, romantic bust-length portrait of s brown-skinned elven woman with dark brown hair and eyes. She is dressed in an autumnal orange print 1830’s gown with black piping, signifying her widowed status. She wears a modest white chemise under the gown and a silver locket on a black ribbon as a necklace.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Belated offering for #repostyourart day 7, ‘Silly’ on account of being unable to wrap my head around lighter things that day. #lozfanart #lozfancomic #ganondorf #bulblin

Grayscale comic panel showing Ganondorf in a long coat and fur hood bemused by a group of panicked blins. They hold elaborate patterned cloth and one of them is exclaiming ‘I want to be Pretty.’

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

For #repostyourart day 6: bird An old 8”x8” acrylic study

Close photo of a painterly study of chicken feet. The hen has golden feathers. Brushstrokes and the canvas texture are clearly visible

Full view of the same work sitting on a tablet stand, with scattered highlights from the protective film wrapped around.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

For #repostyourart day 5, “mountain”. Strangely I have lots of works with mountains in the distance, but few where they take center stage. ‘Dawn In The Heart’ was painted for a friend in 2019. #botwfanart #lozfanart #zelda

Loose painterly rendering of Revali and Zelda perched in the heart of the Roost, overlooking Tabantha and Hebra. Revali seems to be talking about something, and Zelda leans against his chest, staring at the mountains in the distance. The color gamut is pale and slightly purply.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

For day 4 of #repostyourart a panel from a short comic I drew in 2015, featuring a seal-point cat having Opinions [ #lozfanart #lozfancomic #ganondorf ]

Black and white wide comic panel showing Windwaker Ganondorf reclining with a seal point cat curled up on his chest. The cat’s ears are flat and her tail is smacking his face, but his lips curve in a subtle smile.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

For #repostyourart day 3, “spring” This was also painted in #procreate for a #yeehawgust prompt in 23. Still somewhat surprising that came from my brush. Landscapes are challenging for me!

A wide angle digital painting of a southwestern grassland in spring at sunset. A bit over half the composition focuses on the dramatic clouds above the faultline peaks and volcanic mesas interrupting the horizon. In the foreground are a few distinct native plants, mostly wildflowers and sage.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Where I come from, that kind of welcome is called la coquetería.” For #repostyourart day 1 prompt of “hello”. 😂 Eleanor Cecilia Knight was originally painted in #procreate for a #yeehawgust prompt in 2023. #weirdwestern #laMalaSuerte

Digital painting of a Black elven barkeeper wearing a turquoise 1830’s dress with a white apron pinned to it. She stands before a gilded, mirrored barback full of diverse spirits and is washing a glass in her hands. A black powder pistol lays on the counter in front of her, and bounty notices are affixed at the edges of the mirror

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

One of my favorite panels from the current #zelgan #lozfancomic chapter on tumblr is also the silliest… It’s fun to give #Ganondorf a bit more to do in the story than just ‘be the boogeyman to the Hylian empire’ www.tumblr.com/studiorat/81...

Loose calligraphic, monochrome portrait of twilight Ganondorf on a gray starry background. His right hand is heavily bandaged, and he holds a sealed letter to his nose with soft expression. A little flourish to the right includes a handwritten “sniff” with a heart because he’s being a romantic sap in secret that’s why.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

My darkest helper sings his dark songs to inform me it’s lunchtime, so please enjoy these highlights of Apollo Voidnoodle doing his best.

Young black cat loafed on a coffee table beside some legos. He’s looking at the camera with zero thoughts upstairs

Black cat laying on glass doors for the bookshelves behind him. Helping.

Black cat curled up on a dark rainbow shawl, asleep.

Black cat laying on laptop keyboard. He has somehow opened a help center screen

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The one panel I’m happy with from this morning’s work.

Screenshot of a wide birdseye comic panel. It is a silhouette and outstretched hatch work shadow of a man on foot holding the reins of a large armoured horse with a cloaked rider pillion behind the war saddle. The rider is almost invisible in the silhouette of the horse

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I don’t get much time for traditional painting anymore, but i think the yearning for Texture™️ comes through whenever I trade ‘pen’ for ‘brush’.

Screenshot of a detail of a digital painting in Procreate. Depicts a black spanish norman horse in charro tack bowing beside a pale woman in a white 1830s gown. Varied visible textures define the forms and impressions of light and shadow

Screenshot of a detail of a digital painting in Procreate. Depicts an older white man’s hand tenderly cradling the textured hair of a black elven woman. Textural brushstrokes imply form and light.

Screenshot of a detail of a digital painting in Procreate. A dark elf in high gothic fantasy armor stares sidelong at the viewer. Though the he is tightly rendered with blended color & sharp edges, further from the focal point chunky brushstrokes suggest forms

Screenshot of a detail of a digital painting in Procreate. Depicts an active volcanic eruption in the distance with red stormy skies & a redorange meadow in the foreground. Most of the image is rendered through textural suggestion

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

#flashbackfriday to the days of impasto acrylics and reduction prints 😂 In a way I miss that tactile era, but my dwindling storage space does not.

Small original painting on a tablet stand. It is a figure study of a portly man holding a stick, with visible brushstrokes and texture. The overall cast of the piece is green

A reduction print on yellow paper, a master study of a van gogh painting of cypress trees at night

A reduction print on orange paper depicting a feminine form crouching to fit in the frame. The raw paper makes sparing linear highlights on a blue green gradient. Shadows carved in a rough, spot ink style are printed in dark purple

A small original painting in tones of thalo green with dioxazine shadows. The subject is a masculine figure broadside to the viewer, curled on knees and elbows, face hidden. Textural brushstrokes define the form and radiating light above him.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

As I work on the final chapters of volume III of Shade of My Enemy, I look back to thumbnailing the first pages four (!) years ago… (yes I know it’s a very kludge method, screenshotting #clipstudio to draw in #procreate but it prevents getting precious about it…) #fancomics #zelgan

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Stampede. One of my more popular posts on tumblr, oddly enough. Painted for day 5 of #yeehawgust back in 2023, and part of the same loose series as the fandango (yes that is mi hijo Teca on the black horse) #ocsky #westernart

Painterly illustration of a stampede of longhorn cattle with four riders among them, riatas airbourne. Most of the cattle are brindle or paint coats, bellowing and wild-eyed. The riders in the distance have gray and chestnut horses. The rider in the midground with red hair has a larger black horse who is biting one of the longhorns beside him.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I woke up thinking about mi hijo this morning so please enjoy this piece I did for day 5 of #yeehawgust last summer. #ocsky #westernart

Charcoal-style drawing of an elven fandango. At the left, a fiddler, harpist, and two guitars play for the dancers. To the right, a very tall vaquero with his hands behind his back is doing fancy footwork while the woman he dances with twirls around him using skirts and shawl to emphasize her motion. She and several musicians look happy. The vaquero’s expression is focussed and a little wistful.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Have some soft botanicals, for morale. ^__^

Watercolor style digital studies of flowers arranged over a thin banner of paper pinned to a loose sky background. The paper is marked with a combined stylized crest of red eagle, green wolves, purple wings with abstracted gear-tooth halo and triforce symbol. The flowers shown are: blue aster, morning glory, golden peony, tuberose, red moss rose, and purple toadflax.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Process video, roughly 2 hours direct time

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

“Longhorn” for #yeehawgust day 4. The clouds are my favorite part though. Falling behind on getting the studies for this week, but hoping to catch up this weekend 🤞

Sepia-toned charcoal style study of three longhorn cattle in a field with sinrise behind them

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

“Horsin’ Around” #yeehawgust day 3 The ref I used for this prompt has been sitting in my inspiration folder for a couple years because the moment I found it I knew I had to use it for Teca and Asifad.

Digital charcoal-style sepia tone study of a dark horse wearing braids, mosquero, a charro style leverage bit with dragon design on the arm and roller for the tongue, yawning messily at the man holding his reins in bright midday light. The sharp-featured man informally dressed in only shirt, trousers, and suspenders does not look amused.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

“Running With the Wolves” #yeehawgust day 2 I chose a scene of Teca and Vishan running from bounty hunters in the second arc (still a work in progress manuscript) for this prompt.

Sepia-toned digital charcoal-style study of three horses and riders moving left to right at speed in a loose southwestern landscape. The forward rider on the dark horse in charro inspired gear is pivoting hard, his rifle in his right hand. The rear rider with a spotted horse and hybrid tack is sitting back as his horse vaults an obstacle, his rifle in his left hand. The third horse is spooking in a cow-hop, carrying an early western trail saddle, bosal and mecate tethered to the rider falling to the ground at the left side of the frame with implied dirt and blood on impact. In the far distance in the horizon, pale outlines of wolves run left to right over the mountains.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

“Stars of the Midnight Range” #yeehawgust day 1. This year I’ve decided to use the prompts to add some sepia tone studies to the La Mala Suerte project, so for this prompt I chose the scene with Teca and his employer Rafael Tapia riding to Dan Seward’s for the fandango.

Digital charcoal-style sepia-tone study looking up at two riders at a slow trot under a starry sky.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

La luz de las estrellas. It’s been a busy summer but I managed to dust off an old sketch for a little procreate painting for La Mala Suerte to get myself in the headspace for yeehawgust.

Loose digital painting of elves in 18th century inspired fashion dancing in a garden at night, with stars and lanterns lighting the brick dance floor. The central couple os a black elven woman in a light blue dress with purple accents, and her partner is a red-haired white man wearing a dark blue suit with gold lining

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Noodled on another #lozfanfiction cover. Finishing wips is good for morale. This one goes to a 77k pre-Twilight era story which I contributed to some years ago and for assorted reasons never finished the illo for promoting it. So I did. archiveofourown.org/works/149063...

Ornate gold frame with red faceted heart gems on either side, against a blue textured ground. The image in the frame is a standing pale elf with long gold hair pulled back in a high three-strand plait, their back to the viewer, gold-hilted tuck in their right fist and bright magic in the cup of their left hand. They wear blue-gray garments: loose pants gathered at the ankle and fitted half-sleeve side-vented tunic, with soft curl-toed shoes. They stand in a courtyard or large room, with an arched colonnade in the background and a polychrome 8 pointed star on the floor under their feet.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Struggling to work on future pages for the #zelgan #lozfancomic today so here’s an older one from the scene where he finally admits at least one(1) feeling. Enjoy.

Monochrome comic page with six landscape panels stacked to the left side over a calligraphic rendering. All depict Ganondorf and Zelda unwinding each other from their coats, flirting in a sardonic fashion belied by the tenderness of their hands. The speech bubbles show her teasing him for his reticence and alluding to shared pleasure as demonstration of alliance and fearing he’s lost interest after one tryst, and him teasing her in return that even if he conquered her every night he would desire to again the next day. When she calls out an aside in Geld’o, he deflects with a teasing threat of a boring lecture (that is, a poetic offer of oral sex).

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Was going to work on #lozfanfic this morning. Cats insisted my lap was Unavailable for computers, so I did some thinking about the #fancomic instead #lifewithcats

Screenshot of clipstudio paint workflow with a color cover for Shade of My Enemy Volume 3 in progress. The text is calligraphic in light gold and the top half of the page has an ornate gold frame with red jeweled hearts around the central image. In that frame twilight princess link is holding the hylian shield on his right arm in guard and making a sweeping bloody cut with the master sword in his left. The graphic design portions are polished while the inset image is rough & painterly

POV you have a dense half-bengal car wallowing on your lap, her head upside down to beg more pettings. In the background are cat food bowls, loz related figures, and the epic Last Judgment of Zelda scroll mounted in a billy bookcase glass door

POV the bengal has been supplanted by a young black cat looking up at your hand with an expression that says he has never ever done a crime in his life

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Behold how elegant my workflow 😂just. Three swooshes, yes, future me will totally know what that is meant to be. #wip #fancomic #zelgan

A screenshot of a clip studio paint workspace with half of a page visible. In the top panel stretching across the page a fully rendered grayscale campaign tent and armored man in black ink stands at a map table near a support pole with a photoblue mass blocked in under him… and random swooshes of blue ink indicating future developments. The second panel is a loose pencil sketch of a goblin with a fancy curled updo and a text note reading “treason”. The third panel at bottom right shows a developed ink and hatching close portrait of the man with some of the sketchy lines still visible under, with the text note “told you not to do anything foolish”

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Some stuff in the want-to-paint pile I talked about on tumblr this month while forgetting to login to bluesky & trying not to think about the horrors www.tumblr.com/studiorat/77...

Sepia tone study of a greek courtyard garden with trees

Half-rendered painterly study of an outpost pre-BotW, with wireframe lumps for trees and buildings

Very loose Color study of a dock with tallships and a wooden boardwalk leading to a terraced island with windmills

Loose color study of a birch grove within castle walls. A tall dark figure in armor and cloak half-kneels to put their face near the blobby princess in lavender, standing on a haybale under a tree

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Didn’t quite finish in February as I’d hoped but a rewarding challenge all the same #oc #artchallenge

Ink, hatch and wash rendering. A jade-colored oggish man with dark hair carries a busty wood elf in bridal fashion, returning her mischievous kiss. He wears his hair braided up and back in a standing spine-like rope that ends in a looped queue at the nape. He has a pair of gauged ear piercings, a brow ring, and a red tunic. She wears a long fluffy pink dress with a square neckline and bishop sleeves. Her hair is dressed in a pair of side queues, with two long pieces pulled over her pink heart-figured circlet to frame her face. She wears gold hoop earrings with pointy dangles

Ink and wash style study. A light elf woman in a blue historical fantasy style layered dress sits in the lap of a dark elf woman in a red and gold military uniform, holding her face and demanding a kiss. The dark elf holds the light elf at hip and shoulder for balance. Her insignia indicate skill with fire.

Romantic style portrait of two male elves in 1830s workwear. The taller elf with tan skin, red hair, and gold eyes stands with a copper mug in his right hand and his left arm draped over the shoulder of the smaller dark skinned man with pink hair who is stretching up to steal a cheek kiss under the taller man’s wide black hat. The taller elf has his white shirtsleeves partially rolled and his dark rust waistcoat buttoned, but his red neckcloth hangs loose. The smaller man wears his white shirt mostly unbuttoned, and though he has a green neckcloth draped over his shoulders and his suspenders are buttoned, he has no waistcoat.

A romantic style portrait of two elves in 1830s foundational garments, laying with their bodies opposite and their faces turned toward each other to kiss. The pale-skinned, white-haired elven gentleman is at the top pf the frame. He wears a smocked shirt with turquoise cufflinks and dark pearl buttons, and his full beard is neatly trimmed, with a prominently curled mustache. He wears a turquoise silk neckcloth tied in a double bow, his long and slightly curly hair tied in a matching bow,and three rings on his left hand, which gently cradles the woman’s textured hair. The Black elven woman wears a gauzy chemise with lace trim and orange silk stays. Her natural hair is held back from her face with a turquoise silk sash, and she wears simple but bold earrings of turquoise with gold inclusions.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Storyweaver. For #throwbackthursday a little painting intended for the cover of an anthology of original gothic wondertales

A painting of a dark elf with dark curly hair, standing in knee-deep water and holding a wide bowl which seems to emit light. A translucent white garment drapes the left side of her body. Behind her are pale tree trunks and two moons - on the left the small red moon is full, on the right the larger white moon is a crescent.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Spent some time noodling on one of the original romantic comic projects on the back burner, Unspoken. For morale.

Color comic panel: on the left an orcish character with a xiphos and round shield spars with a human with a spear in a sandy courtyard. They are both wearing white linen shirts and dark pants. Behind them under the suspended ogive arcade a crowd of various fantasy people in red and gold uniforms watch the spar. The lighting implies midday heat.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Meant to work on the next #wip pages, made #lozfanart resources instead for FutureMe while having Deep Thoughts about how #twilightprincess lampshades The Goblin Problem™️ in both text & design & the rich opportunities it offers for fanwork

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#burnoutproject #wip #procreate I got a little traction between other tasks today but the battery is at 8% so I guess my lunch breach has to actually involve lunch rather than stress-painting. Whoops. #artistproblems

A letter size brown-toned page of four graphite and tone sketches. All four compositions feature a tall figure with a hat and riding boots, accompanied by an anthropomorphic rat

Toned brown paper with a digital graphite sketch of the two figures, bird’s eye perspective, both looking up and to the right of the frame. The tall figure carries a weapon, while the rat carries a cane and a satchel

Screenshot of annipad workspace: on the left pane an aerial reference image of pine trees and a trail. On the right, a procreate project with a lumpy color study loosely based on that forest, with the two figures from the prior sketch placed roughly center.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Every time I tell myself “just stick to layout and some lines”, I get ahead of myself and sucked into rendering. 🤦 #artistproblems

Snapshot of an ipad in a red impact case open to Clip studio, resting on the side of a drowsy calico who commandeered my red ergonomic bolster pillow and rests her wee chin on her white paw. CSP is open to a comic workflow with three two-page spreads across and down inna grid. The first 4.5 spreads are rendered and inked in monochrome, the latter half are rough pencil sketches on toned digital paper. In the background are blankets and cat toys and art mounted in the panel of a billy bookcase door.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

QRP with your #art that shows a blue sky, as a welcome to all the new #artists on Bluesky 🦋

A painterly and textured digital study of a mojave landscape with a blue sky and late afternoon sunlight. In the foreground in the shadow of a rocky hill, an elven scout with braided hair crouches by a small fire with a cylindrical pot suspended over it. To the right of the scout is the handwritten title and signature for the study “patrolling the mojave”, a prompt from the Yeehawgust event on tumblr in 2023. In the midground to the left side of the frame, a single rider on a horse with two pack burros moves west through the sagebrush, navigating around a smaller rock formation. On the horizon are layers of faultline and volcanic mountains.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Woke up late this morning, day job promises to be hellish again, but it’s Thursday so it’s time to commit to Studio Hours regardless. Hoping to get ink on more than two pages today… #wip #lozfancomic

Screenshot of a clip studio paint workspace showing eight monochrome two-page spreads and a color cover for Shade of My Enemy Volume 3. The table of contents spread is rough with handwritten notes. The four rendered spreads juxtapose a hawk flying through sweeping landscape, landing on the hero’s fist on the right page of the third spread, and approaching the castle in the fourth. There are few speech bubbles, the text instead presented in excerpts of books and letters. At the bottom right, two spreads have faint, rough pencil sketches on otherwise blank pages.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Now if two of these were “forgetting all my settings for a project” or “pouring 3x as many hours into the background as the subject” I would have double bingos…

Bad habit artist bingo card with five near misses.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Of all days to wear plaid 😅

Rough digital painting of an anthropomorphic gray rat sitting on an upturned cardboard box, facing to the left of the frame. They wear a red buffalo plaid shirt and dark, loose capri length pants with dark patterned slippers. They have rainbow hoops piercing the left ear, red hair draped over their right, and a rainbow coffee cup in their paws. The box says “studio box” on the right side.

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StudioRat @studiorat.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Kept my hands too busy for doomscrolling today by going all-in on a resculpt of a few plastic horses - two will become Epona but in different scales. #modelhorse #miniatures #wip #lozfanart