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Adam, chaos embodied, scheming. Loosening things up still.
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I've been very inspired by Ronald Searle lately and I'm trying to capture some of his looseness in my own art. Here's my character Major Cuthbert Douglas, aide-de-camp, coming down hard on poor Private Perkins again.
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Realised I never followed this up with the sequel.
Less than a decade later in 1986, and Sidney's totally changed the line-up - welcome Renรฉ, a London lad who's named himself after the Story of O, to bass duties in a new, acid post-punk era. Some fans say he's Baz's 'replacement'โฆ rude. ๐ธDig the red cowboy boots though.
No comics about Renรฉ yet, but they're coming, one day.
My boys Sidney and Baz here are in a late 70s punk band. The post-Mersey beat, St Helens lads (though Sidney's a Geordie). Sidney's the singer, Baz plays bass. Bassists do have a certain look, don't they?
You can read my first comic about Sidney here on Tapas.
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To go with my last Cuthbert, here's the twunk he's convinced to hang on his every word: Algernon Nightingale, a pretty face, hot body, and a sucker for punishment.
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#illustration#artists on tumblr#queer artist#digital art#margins#cuthbert#algernon#queer oc#historical fiction#historical oc#victorian oc#1800s fashion#1850s#2025#nevernever#no ai art
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A new one, a portrait of my oc Cuthbert, sliding across the theatre lobby into the DMs of a twunk near you (what's the 19th century equivalent of DMs? Conversation cardsโฆ?)
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An older drawing of Graeme spiced up with True Grit's Riso pack. A beautiful summer spent at the Roman Baths.
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You like big boys, right? Yeah you do. Dutchie, summer 1968.
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Spent a couple of hours running Glaze today so have some art again. Here's Graeme in his final year at Edinburgh Academy, early 1960s, before his parents realise they have to bribe him to get him to go to uni. Procreate, MaxPacks & TGTS.
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You have no idea how good Rรณan is at drawing gravity in his figures. For a bit of fiscal support, you will be impressed (and give 'em a follow anyhow!).
opening sketch comms
i need to pull together some scratch
paypal: [email protected]
ko-fi: cheap commissions option
send $10+ and a name of a character and I will send a sketch of that character to the email address used to make the donation. you may request one character per multiple of $10 you donate. (e.g., donate $40, you can list up to 4 characters)
sketches will look something like this:
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Starting to make more posts like this on my sideblog about the language of flowers. It's been lots of fun researching them.

Monkshood
Knight-errantry
Aconitum napellus L. (1753)
The sentiment of knight-errantry likely requires some explanation for contemporary readers - it means to wander around in search for a quest, living the mercenary life of a knight of olden times, and from this arises the sentiment of chivalry, implied by knight-errantry.
Knight-errantry, too, implies a sort of foolhardiness; a kind of wild idleness that seeks adventure, seeing the quixotic as romantic, the danger as valour, and overlooking the potential pointlessness of a quest for the perceived valour, or that this is one's calling, and indeed purpose, regardless of its folly.
The first entry I have assigning knight-errantry is Henry Phillips' Floral Emblems. Phillips' entry quotes poet โผ๏ธ Charles-Louis Mollevaut, and paraphrases his passage:
Horrible, sur sa tรชte altiรจre, L'Aconit, au suc malfaisant, Comme s'il s'armait pour la guerre, รlรจve un casque menaรงant; Horrifying, on its haughty head, The aconite, with its poison, As if arming itself for war, Raises a menacing helmet.
The monkshood, says Phillips, 'rears its threatening helmet as if to protect the gayer favourites of Flora', and thus is the emblem of a knight.
Read more here on Glossa Hortensia:
Image source: Illustrations of Medical Botany, Joseph Carson, illustrated by J.H. Colen, Philadelphia: R.P. Smith (1847) via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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Revisited this naughty number - Baz and his girlfriend Josie, stocking ripping from Kinktober many years back - this year with the new Rizzcraft set from True Grit Texture Supply to good, if a bit extra, results. More to come.
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#illustration#graceland#artists on tumblr#basil#id in alt text#josie#2024#true grit texture supply#kinktober#stocking ripping#kinktober 2020#2020#1980s
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Exploring old school comics colouring with my boy Sugar. I learned a lot here, but there's a lot I still need to explore. ๐๏ธ Procreate with True Grit Texture Supply's KraftTone pack.
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My boys Sidney and Baz here are in a late 70s punk band. The post-Mersey beat, St Helens lads (though Sidney's a Geordie). Sidney's the singer, Baz plays bass. Bassists do have a certain look, don't they?
You can read my first comic about Sidney here on Tapas.
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This week, I've been fascinated by type specimens, issued by type manufacturers for printers to use in their publications.
I'm in the process of laying out a website for some original fiction set in the mid-19th century, and I can't believe I didn't think to look to these in the past. They're really incredible.
Often in small units that can be combined to bigger designs, I'm struck by the potential for these in the hands of digital artists. There are, of course, already plenty of such artists who have turned them into stamps or vectors for people to use, but I did not realise these were the origins.
I've made a small list of some of my favourites on archive.org here, but the linked one - MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan Co's collection from 1891 - is one of my top faves. Please enjoy.

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@whatcoloristhatcat I'd like to make a proposal to your humble community by way of my tabby housemate jimmy: babka tabby
free jimmy (with his bro Brian) as tribute:

(babka credit)
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