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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · May 8
Hey! I'm Matt Aytch Taylor!
I'm an illustrator and comics maker that love old boats, weird history, cowboys, space, oceans & beaches, and witches!

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A two story building, painted off-white with navy blue trim stands to the left of a one-story stucco-covered shop that once appeared to have been a convenience store and deli, but is now directing patrons to the "Surf Hut" Surfing Supplies and rental store next door. AT the front door of the two-story a wizard, happy and waving appears to in high spirits for his surf-shop. A couple of palm trees frame the taller building, as well as a large leafed plant. There's an ice machine in front of the one-story building and next to it is a drinks vending machine advertising "WIZ COLA" and the machine is filled with various bottles, drinks, and elixirs. To the right of the machine is a trash can and next to that is a board with information about the beach down below the berm that makes up this shop's location. To the right of the board is a souple of signs indicating that swimming is permittable at the beach far below. A handful of beach umbrellas can be seen far below. The water is blue and welcoming with waves rolling into shore. Behind the Buildings is a parking lot which currently holds a small yellow car and an older looking camper van from which two bikini-clad witches had hopped onto their brooms. The first witch holds her broom parallel to her body, gently lifting off in her pink and periwinkle swim attire, her matching sandals and hat are stark against the billowing clouds in the sky. The second witch has a surfboard (a rather small one) tucker under her right arm. She appears to have landed on her broom, ready to zoom down to the water. A vivid Blue horizontal landscape, for Sci-fi TTRPG "Stations and Starships" by Frigid Pigeon Inc. The central focus of the piece is a tall wedge'shaped ship half in the water and half above. On its large dorsal wing are two smaller "fin" wings to which sails are attached - one in full sheet to the wind. Around this ship in the distance are other ships, similarly designed all with different configurations of wings and fins and flying flags of all colors. Further back a sort of docking station above the roiling ocean below, from which a distant ship is leaving. In the sky far above another planet and its moon can be seen through partial cloud cover. Below the waves of the planetary ocean is teeming with all manner of life -- most notably large deep blue/purple whale like creatures that swim along side the starships floating in the water. There are also schools of fish and smatterings of jelly-fish-like creatures stretching into the far distance of the sea. A spread from my fantasy western, Hexslingers. On the left main character Katie nervously exits the scene of and an onlooking crowd. She grabs her pointed tan-colored witches hat from the ground, knocked off her head by a spell - which as also left a hole in the main body of the hat. She stuffs it onto her head and mounts her blue spectral horse, telling another figure "Doc" Thorn Willoughby, that it's "time to go." He agrees with an "mmhmm" On the right a splash page featuring a large wooden trestle attached to a cliff upon which sits a western style town. at the tip a crowd is hustlin and bustlin, all while screaming, "We're free! Justus [an evil deputy] is dead! Down with Mancers!" below heading down the path we see Katie and Doc making their escape. With three inset panels we see Katie speaking to Doc. She says, " Doc... frightful sorry 'bout yer arm" to which doc replies, "Don't fret. When we make camp I'll give it a look" Full Candlenights 2024 Poster by Matt Aytch Taylor (that's me) From left to right: Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Griffin Mcelroy having a cozy rest beneath a heatlamp-esque wing of Terry the Nondenominational Gift Delovery Dragon. The boys are enclosed in the dragon, who is curled up like a cat in a dug-out snow-bank. Justin, Travis, and Griffin and all holding steaming mugs of tea or cocoa. The snow around them has a purplish glow from the orange of Terry, while off in the distance the blue of a winter's night settles over downtown Huntington, West Virginia. Art by Matt Aytch Taylor The stars in the sky and blocky 5 point stars and a few 4 point diamonds. Above the guys and Terry are the words, "JOYOUS CANDLENIGHTS 2024" The image is watermarked with the McElroy family Logo - don't download it and print your own go buy it from the link in the post, it benefits the Harmony House which is a great cause!
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nicterhorst.com
I am once again opening commissions 🙏💖✨ busts and full illustrations are available!

ko-fi.com/nicterhorst/...
January 11, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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jesawyer.bsky.social
When you go to protests you’re going to encounter some corny and cringe people you’re not fully aligned with in various ways and I think that’s OK and not something to get Yosemite Sam mad about.
jessehawken.bsky.social Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · Oct 19
seeing some centrists complaining about "internet leftists" and inferring that "winemoms" outnumbered them at the rallies today, can you stop making this all about you man? The people, united, etc
October 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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i dunno about y'all but im getting a lot of mixed messages on how to proceed into the unknowable future.
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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rivkahlafille.bsky.social
Inking geniuses question: does anybody have any tips or resources for how to ink leather? With highlights!

One of my characters wears a black leather jacket, and I already screwed it up once.

Manga characters who wear black leather would be useful as well. Having a hard time even finding examples🥲
inks-in-progress from Five Wishes
January 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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androgynefiend.bsky.social
We got a donation today, first one in nearly two weeks! 80% of the way to our $1,800 goal! :)

Let's go! pls rt/share

www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-re...
January 9, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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sonybaloneyart.bsky.social
Character Sheet commission for @aaronradney.bsky.social of their character Arwin!

#vgen #commission #vgencommission
arwin character sheet
January 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
of course an ICE agent shooting a woman didn't "take the bait", that's a tragedy we have to Wait For The System to handle. did you hear someone broke a window? Scandalous.
jcollins.bsky.social Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 7h
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says 29 people were arrested in downtown last night during a noise demonstration at a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents: "For those that are taking the bait and causing property damage or otherwise, there are consequences. We're holding the line here all the way."
January 11, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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sarkastiklover.bsky.social
A VGen comm for mayotm.bsky.social of their OC Prince.

#art #digitalart #illustration #vgencomm
Prince, a vampire gunslinger, preparing to use blood magic to guide his bullets
January 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
Episcopalians going *hard*
clairenf.bsky.social Claire Nevin-Field @clairenf.bsky.social · 9h
“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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bennjordan.bsky.social
Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location.

Download, mirror, and reshare.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Gravy-Venntel_apps
docs.google.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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queerenigma.com
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:

Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.

Please donate what you can.

www.2harvest.org
Second Harvest Heartland | Local Minnesota, Wisconsin food bank | 2harvest.org
There is more than enough food for everyone. As one of the nation’s largest hunger relief agencies, it’s our job to make sure healthy, nutritious food gets to the households who need it. Every day, we...
www.2harvest.org
January 10, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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shawnlenore.bsky.social
Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you!

🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍
January 9, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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tyrcasey.bsky.social
This is so real, they tried it this morning in Bloomington. They stopped a man, people started honking horns, they split up to fuck with everyone else, which brought more attention and more noise, people got out of their cars and started filming, they left. They're cowards.
fiveburger.bsky.social functional moron @fiveburger.bsky.social · 5h
obviously not in the sense that it’s stopping everything, but they are being stalled so much by trying to find places where they aren’t watched, wasting so much manpower and resources on crowd control and even arresting observers they know will just get released. i am so proud of everyone
January 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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fiveburger.bsky.social
obviously not in the sense that it’s stopping everything, but they are being stalled so much by trying to find places where they aren’t watched, wasting so much manpower and resources on crowd control and even arresting observers they know will just get released. i am so proud of everyone
January 10, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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fiveburger.bsky.social
alright last thing before i try to sign off for the day- but i think part of the reason they are getting more and more aggressive, the reason they keep sending in more troops is that the community defense is working.
January 10, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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I would rather eat shit froma butt than use genai
January 10, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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hewwo pwincess i see you acidetawwy cwicked on ouw ai featuwes we awe gonna steaw youw data and now you hwave a shitty pictuwe you cant get wid of

youw wewcome 😏
January 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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company: pwease use this questionnaiwe to teww us how excited you awe fow ouw new ai featuwes
🥹
👉👈

users: we hate this actually

company: *shuts down questionnaire* awwww you awe gonna be so exswited fow the wayweye fweatueweses
January 10, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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discord took down their ai questionnaire

this means:

1) they saw how everyone hated it and how negatively all of their users feel about ai

and
2) they're gonna fucking implement shit no one wants anyway
January 10, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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markwwc.bsky.social
It's true. You CAN hire me. My editing style is very much informed by my training and work as an educator. What are you trying to accomplish? How can we best hit those marks? Where are there opportunities to extend or strengthen? All the fun stuff
kodyisover.com Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 7h
a lot of notes from Mark are him just making observations that are worded in a way my own brain would never come up with that helps me realize what it is I was trying to do/say and it makes me go "AUGH" every time

(you, too, could have Mark edit your story. go hire him)
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
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Digital fantasy art piece called "Monster Out of the Woods" by artist Sina Pakzad Kasra - a big giant facing off with three tiny armed warriors.
January 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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also nearly all of these illos have songs attached to them that i played on loop while painting them

for instance th... this one i

i was listening to... to...

na'vi river journey lmaooo

youtu.be/mc6u946VNB4?...
January 10, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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i think this set of illustrations i did last year was a turning point in my art

im so very proud of the work i did for @frigidpigeon.com
matthtaylor.com Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · Apr 9
Gonna start a thread showcasing the illustration work I've been doing for @frigidpigeoninc.bsky.social's TTRPG "Stations & Starships"

I was contracted to do landscapes for them and have been having a blast and learning a ton from my AD @runesael.bsky.social !

First up is an Oceanic Planet!
A vivid Blue horizontal landscape, for Sci-fi TTRPG "Stations and Starships" by Frigid Pigeon Inc. The central focus of the piece is a tall wedge'shaped ship half in the water and half above. On its large dorsal wing are two smaller "fin" wings to which sails are attached - one in full sheet to the wind. Around this ship in the distance are other ships, similarly designed all with different configurations of wings and fins and flying flags of all colors. Further back a sort of docking station above the roiling ocean below, from which a distant ship is leaving. In the sky far above another planet and its moon can be seen through partial cloud cover. Below the waves of the planetary ocean is teeming with all manner of life -- most notably large deep blue/purple whale like creatures that swim along side the starships floating in the water. There are also schools of fish and smatterings of jelly-fish-like creatures stretching into the far distance of the sea.
January 10, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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I've been painting some magic the gathering proxies for my partner who's been fine-tuning a Furby deck for the past couple of months

Here's a Furby Squid.

It is an abomination.
a magic the gathering squid token proxy with art by me, matt aytch taylor The art features a horrendous giant squid and furby hybrid with a purple and pink body. it is covered in spots and stripes in colors reminiscent of a wild-berry poptart - purples and blues. Or if you prefer: colors reminiscent of the VHS box for Leonard Nimoy's 1986 "Star Trek IV: The Journey Home" The furby's face is slightly obscured by shadow, its one visible eye leering, as if to say, "I am a squid and I bring your deep water ruin," or possibly, "koo-loo-doo?" The frame is open with word boxes on the top and bottom: Squid Token Creature - Squid Islandwalk
January 10, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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jin sakai is REALLY good at getting captured by mongols for scripted events huh
January 10, 2026 at 7:47 PM