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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New job started this week. Its tough but should give me plenty of room to keep doing my art stuff outside of it. Now we ease into the long road, working a bit and refining my craft until it can become my main job 👏 The journey continues.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ive watched the Lonesome Dove miniseries over a dozen times at this point. It being one of the things I like to make a yearly revisit to. This go around I decided to finally tackle the book and hot damn. It's incredible and I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to do it. Makes me a little homesick

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Lonesomedove Lonesome Dove

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man oh man, finally finished an episode after writing myself into a deep corner 👏

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nothing refills my cup like talking to artists and looking at their cool stuff. Yesterday was the West Seattle art walk and it was a magical time

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ever since the Speak hup meme, I cant get the idea of a UK based John Stewart out of my head. Should've let him keep his natural accent, it's a cool shake hup

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bold of Fender to make a long commercial featuring 1 second of guitar playing.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Signed up two more locations for my how to draw series 👏 seattle wants to draw

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Learning to draw samurai while eating onigiri. Feel like I'm unlocking my final form

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Yaaaa look atcha @tcannoncomics.bsky.social so cool to see Iron Coffin at the shop 👏

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Morning sketch to wake the pencils up

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Man, I don't think Batman ever really recovered as a concept once his rogues became ultra murderers. Joker over here mass killing, abducting Alfred and ALL the batfam, meanwhile batman is getting tricked left and right. At this point call in the League and hang it up dawg, youre a liability.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Its a shame that anime games are stuck on being arena fighters. Id love to see @supergiantgames.bsky.social make a Kill La Kill game. A gameplay loop like Hades would be so perfect for it.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

120 pages of fundamentals down in 2.5 weeks! Quickest I've filled up a sketchbook so far. Now the tricky part, not falling out of practice habits again 👀

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hades 2 may just about be the greatest sequel ever made. @supergiantgames.bsky.social absolutely knocked it so far out of the park its in orbit to join the gods themselves 👏 👏 Think I need to do something artful about it, my inspo is off the charts

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Melinoe Hades 2

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Partnering with my local library to do another series of how to draw classes 👏 turnout has been great, everybody wants to draw!

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Going on an odyssey this weekend. Hiking the two hours to seattle to do a double feature of Spider-man and the Odyssey then hiking back. An hour for every year Odysseus was gone 👏

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We need a catchy double feature name like Oppenheimer and Barbie did but for Spider-man and the Odyssey. I suggest 'brand new odyssey'

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Im starting to notice, all the faces I draw from imagination are sad. I hope that doesn't mean anything

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This page highlights the frustration I have with comics. The issues burn through interesting set ups to get to the next beat so the episode can wrap-up. Shang chi and lady deathstrike having a kung fu fight over an evil katana while trapped in a laser field should last more than a single page.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Friday sketchin, if I finish 3 more pages I get some soju. If i do 13 more I get a lot of soju

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Pretty wild haul for a random trip to the bookstore.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Highly recommend, still one of my favorites

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Been playing Metaphor Refantazio, mainly because the name is so cool. I love the persona series and this captures the heart of that so well. The theme of, what if you got powers for being a cool dude that helps their buds, is always a good time 👏

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Metaphor Refantazio: Hulkenberg's Warrior

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

All things lead back to Jackie Chan

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Chloe Brailsford @comixbychloe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The baddie herself: Black Canary!

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Bruce wayne is so extra. Even his chair has bat ears.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Highly suggest checking in with your past self and giving them a high five for starting 👏

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I really didnt know what to think of this Failsafe story until Batman had to do a retroburn sequence with his grappling gun. This was one of the greatest sequence of events I've ever witnessed.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Reading through Failsafe to study Jorge Jimenez and I just have to ask, at what point does batman stop making robots that he cant control? This is like the third time his contingency super weapon has been used against him. We have to accuse him of arming super villains if it happens again.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It can be kinda overwhelming with how much absolutely incredible art there is being casually posted on social media. People posting things that would have adorned the walls of nobles and museums a handful of decades ago get tossed up for a dozen likes these days. I used to see it as pressure

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trying to finish this with my pencil roaches

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This ended up being as tricky as I hoped it would be. So many volumes to figure out. Have a few more from a training video I saw to try out.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

How it started vs how its going

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Working on a cover contest piece. All done with the test illustration. Now to lightbox and ink it 👏

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Jason Copland @jasoncopland.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Another 2 page spread from FULL TILT. #comics #art

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

An earth exploration team earns a meeting with a machine lord in a local system. Hopefully the meeting goes well 👀

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The only feedback I really listen to is from my nephew. Dude doesnt care about perspective grids, anatomy accuracy, style, just wants to see cool robots fighting stuff.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

First meeting of my drawing club went really well. I got a lot of inking done. With my fountain pen finally working, its waaaaay more fun. Im a believer now.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Had a little fun with a blade runner reference.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Man, I was so hyped up yesterday from ECCC I roughed out like 20 pages. Conventions are a magic place full of wonderful people.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Had a request for a panicked Jimmy Olsen. Here he is! I think we can all relate.

Jimmy Olsen is losing his shit. Metamorpho is like, “uh, jim?”

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

First day of ECCC down. Talked to so many great people, got some portfolio advice, and even got to talk to David Finch for a bit about art. Not a bad day at all. Time to slam hams these next two days and come back sunday with more cool samples to show off 👏

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Got to hang out with Peter Han and Dong Ho Kim today. No big deal. I feel like my brain has been dunked into an ocean of knowledge

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Id love to hear from pros on working with other scripts. Since ive ever only done my own stuff, I usually just write it out like I would a novel, maybe put a couple notes for a splash page idea, but thats about it. I wonder if other artists would enjoy that level of free interpretation or not.

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Ely @thesolarchive.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If yall arent using figure skaters for your poses, what are you doing?

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