Bruce Mackay
@brucemackay.bsky.social
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Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator & Creative Director. Posting personal work, experiments & weak jokes. He/Him
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Hi #PortfolioDay

Im Bruce, an illustrator, creative director & printmaker based in Cape Town, RSA. Big fan of old goofy SFF covers & forced perspective. My digital work is heavily influenced by gouache, printmaking & sculpture.

ILLO: www.instagram.com/bad_manifesto
FA: www.instagram.com/oombruce
Illustration of a bunch of little guys. heavily influenced by Richard Scarry books. Overlapping textured colours. Digital illustration of a quiet lane. Overlapping blue and orange. Lots of stonework and shadow. Illustration of the Lord OF The Rings cover. A Nazgûl sits astride its horse between 2 red trees that make a circle. Int he background is Weathertop, the Misty Mountains and Orodruin. Overlapping risk colours - red, teal and yellow. Illustration of a spostage stamp set based on characters and landmarks in the Lord Of The Rings. If you need a description of each element please look in the media tab on my profile. Overlapping risk teal and orange/ textured.
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Bluesky should add voice note replies so that strangers can literally yell at you when they haven't understood your joke.
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If you're going to use chatGPT to do your homework, you may as well just not do your homework IMO.
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This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.
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Bluesky should add voice note replies so that strangers can literally yell at you when they haven't understood your joke.
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Me, a famous director giving an interview: "Look, AI is here to stay and the slop-hogs need their gruel"
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AFTER THE FIRE
Illustration for Muti. Exploration of life returning in the wake of a veld fire.
Illustration of various build flowers sprouting in white sandy soil after a fire. Interspersed with burnt out grass stubs and protea branches and flower husks. Furry protea seed and small insects scattered all over.
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Me, a famous director giving an interview: "Look, AI is here to stay and the slop-hogs need their gruel"
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Maybe his plan is to help bring about the Water Wars so that Mad Max 6-10 will be cheaper to make location wise.
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Damn girl, are you ConAir (1997)? Cause you've mostly aged pretty well.
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Thinking about my friend's dad who was on some of the posters for our city's covid vaccine campaign and when I asked him if the Facebook commenters bother him his answer was "No! People are idiots." Words to live by.
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#Tolktober Day 7 Galadriel.
Illustrated postage stamp of Galadriel of Lothlórien. Pouring magic water into a magic basin so she can spy on her old boyfriend/sidepiece. Overlapping orange and teal.
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Damn girl, are you ConAir (1997)? Cause you've mostly aged pretty well.
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In my “if the fruit has a seed I will plant it and hope for the best” era.
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#peachtober 02. kite
this one was probably inspired by magritte!

#peachtober25 #peachtober25kite
a white bird shaped kite in a pink sky, with foliage on the foreground
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all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
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"Well if you didn't want me to send you fake videos of your dead father you could have just said so before without embarrassing me like this."
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Friends I am looking for work!

Book covers, album art, posters, private commissions, TTRPG projects (👀), editorial, you name it

Send me an email!

✉️ [email protected]
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TBH, "You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube” doesnt really work as an analogy because like that's a skill issue bro.
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#Tolktober Day 7 Galadriel.
Illustrated postage stamp of Galadriel of Lothlórien. Pouring magic water into a magic basin so she can spy on her old boyfriend/sidepiece. Overlapping orange and teal.
brucemackay.bsky.social
TBH, "You cant put the toothpaste back in the tube” doesnt really work as an analogy because like that's a skill issue bro.