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Alex Plante 🐀👑

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little canadian rat goblin woman (she/they) https://www.aplante.com/welcome 🔹illustrator/comics/murals 🔹IG/FB: @alexplantewpg 🔹patreon/ko-fi/cara: @alexplante Agent: @stephaniewinter.bsky.social #art #comic

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · Sep 3

Ahoy hoy!!

I'm Alex, a Canadian illustrator on the Prairies.
I do a lot of landscapes, cartoons, comics, and murals, and I sell prints and stickers and stuff! I love colours and shapes! You can't beat em!

🧵 >> comics and murals

shop/blog/portfolio: aplante.com
patreon: patreon.com/alexplante

power lines going down a back lane, silhouetted against a pink and purple twilight sky. the trees and houses along the lane are all cast in blue shadow. the colours are laid out in a way that suggests the bi flag. very bisexual lighting. a street lamp glows, and some birds flying in the distance.

retro risograph-style purple and gold digital illustration of ingredients to make mushroom soup. mushrooms, knifes chopping onions and garlic, broth, lemon juice, etc.

an warm illustration of bald hill at riding mountain national park in manitoba, canada. a cliff juts out into a sea of orange, yellow, red, and green trees. in the foreground is a single rocky platform with a mama bear and her cub.

Digital gouache painting of Sam reich from game changer on dropout standing at his little rainbow podium but make it a little golden book. “I’ve been here the whole time…”

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 49m

New signed sharky comic prints available in my shop

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Scott A. Ford @scottaford.bsky.social · 7h

🎶 How the gentle wind beckons through the leaves 🎶 🍂 Finished my #overthegardenwall inks! I wanted to capture a woodcut/woodburn illustration aesthetic which fits the vibe of OTGW so well and let me reconnect with my linocut printing days from art school (eons ago). Now onto the colours!

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 17h

yes we’re all aware of your perception of “normal”

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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 17h

It’s Saturday here, so I am once again tapping the sign to remind you that my DMs are open to all new comics creators looking for feedback or advice on writing, art or the industry at large!

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 17h

morning ted here have a weird duck

a duck standing upright on its legs like a person with the world’s worst posture

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 19h

yeah i have to set all that up still. i just noticed in the process that my own website isn’t backing up properly either i gotta fix that

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 19h

yeah that was one of the reasons tbh i already know how it works and i really wanted to see if i could recapture some of the vibe of the old days.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 19h

i ABSOLUTELY considered this ahhahahahah

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 19h

honestly just went with old school phpbb because it was the path of least resistance to install hahaha

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 20h

ok i bought a really stupid domain for cheap and installed the forum software lmfao. i’m gonna start slow while i’m still figuring it out, send out a handful of invites to some mutuals who expressed interest after the ssl kicks in and will open it up wider once i’ve gotten it set up for reals.

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 22h

i do think i wanna make that art forum though, and maybe just soft launch it quietly to a handful of mutuals for a little while until i have a better idea of where to go with it. i am in a good position to host it, i’d just need a domain.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 20h

i will NOT

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 21h

i did it lol it is done

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 21h

oh my god

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 22h

i know if only i wasn’t drowning in the depths of BOG BRAIN

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 22h

“hey alex is it because a surprising number of artists you’ve admired for a lot of years expressed interest and now you feel like you have to reel em in while the gettin is good”

look…
…
…
…maybe.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 22h

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 22h

even still i’m like “i could probably just knock off a couple of the easy tasks before bed…”

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 22h

god i’m so mad i have tried so so SO hard to avoid burning out like this. AND YET. >:|

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 22h

begrudgingly accepting that taking the afternoon off to watch star trek and play video james despite my intense simmering anxiety over the unconquerable to-do list was probably the right move.

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

i hate the taste of my own medicine. discostang.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

direct eye contact. unblinking.

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

yeah i think that’s what i’m gonna do. maybe do an olympus run too.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

i hate the taste of my own medicine. discostang.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

i’ve just reached that stage of burnout where i’m like. mad. lmao. the anxiety of not being able to move at speed is just turning into anger hahaha. maybe i just need to go like. read some prose books or something. maybe i have to stop looking at art and comics entirely for a bit.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

i don’t know what to do with my hands

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1d

have been forcefully talked into giving up on work and taking the rest of the day off because apparently “sitting in front of a blank screen having a panic attack” doesn’t count as “being productive” and allegedly “work will still be there on tuesday” or something stupid like that.

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