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John Lee
@johnleedraws.bsky.social
Artist, Illustrator, & Educator
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Hello #PortfolioDay
I am John Lee, I'm an illustrator, and I am exhausted

Drawing has taken me around the world, it's how I make money, and it's how I'm living my life

site here: johnleedraws.com
ig here: instagram.com/johnleedraws

thank you 😇
Just a reminder that I do reportage
In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.
February 3, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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Scoffing Down That Dog
'Fatal Fury'
NEO GEO
February 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
AI is absolutely insane, beautify these slides about family separations wtf
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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bars
January 27, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Chow Yun-Fat double fisting beers inside the 7-11 [from Wild Search (1989)]
January 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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In her essay “Rhapsodies in Blue”, Paige Hirschey explores the cyanotypes of Anna Atkins: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/anna-atkins-cyanotypes/ #longreads #photography
January 20, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Our culture has such a reliance on art, mixed with so much disdain for artists' lives. Someone throws soup at a painting in a gallery or whatever and everyone acts like it's a literal murder, but that level of sympathy is for the object, almost never for the living conditions of artists.
January 19, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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To add to this, almost all of the U.S.’s problems are linked to its hatred of Black people and that it hates Black people more than it loves anyone else. Our laws and policies are largely based on making sure Black people (and sometimes other groups) don’t benefit even at the expense of others.
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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When it wasn’t a particularly Chinese moment in their lives
January 17, 2026 at 3:10 PM
man, Appleseed was on point yet again
January 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Really old one, but more like whale societal collapse
January 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY TO ME AND ERIC!

‘Clothes to Make You Smile’ released into the world today and I was so happy to hold my book launch at my local book store, bbgb. Thank you everyone in Richmond who came out to support and those who have supported me in other ways! Yay for real books! 📚 ❤️🌈
January 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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Today we commit to making New York affordable not just for artists, but for making art. We are proud to name Rafael Espinal as Commissioner of MOME as we stand with union workers and usher in a new golden age of NYC creativity.
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Before taping edges on paper, stick and remove masking/painter's tape on your pants a couple of times to remove the tack
ARTISTS: quote with some random art advice!!
January 12, 2026 at 11:57 PM
1 week in, highly recommend. Everyone in the world should do this
I'm going to my first artist residency!!!!!
January 12, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Portfolio dropoff times in the mailroom
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 10, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Sketches from the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani
January 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I'm going to my first artist residency!!!!!
January 2, 2026 at 3:39 PM
How do y'all have horse art lined up already, I've barely eaten
January 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I was about to run through a brick wall, lfg
January 1, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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I hope 2026 is kind to us all
January 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Looks like this dialogue from Final Fantasy Tactics has aged like the best wine...
September 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Ja hit a griddy, nature is healing
December 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM