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Nick Tankard

@nicktankard.bsky.social

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Bloke & sometime Illustrator (I illustrated The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, published by Vintage Classics). You will always find me on the allotment at parties. Bradford, UK. nicktankard.co.uk for prints, originals and portfolio.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · Sep 8

My illustrations for The Woman in Black are now available as signed giclee prints. You can view them on my website nicktankard.co.uk I’ll also be making the original illustrations available here on Bluesky, watch this space…The illustrations are in the hardback edition published by Vintage Classics.

A grid of black and white illustrations I made for The Woman in Black by Susan Hill.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 1h

I know, I can’t wait! (but I will) 🎃 👍🏻

Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 6h

Entertainment all the way! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 6h

Same. I’d LOVE to illustrate it. I’m a nobody so it won’t happen but I’ll do it for myself…one day.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 6h

Yep, I can’t wait. I love those two books, especially Dark Matter.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 6h

Here’s the great lady herself (doing a Homer Simpson for some reason.)

A smiling lady with a maroon top and white hair, she’s holding a copy of her new book RAINFOREST. She is disappearing into shrubbery.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 6h

The new ghost story by Michelle Paver is out RIGHT NOW! My birthday is Halloween 🎃 and I’m going somewhere suitably spooky (and it has a lovely bookshop) so I MUST resist purchasing it before then 😩👀👀👀👀👀👀👀😩

The cover of RAINFOREST by Michelle Paver. An illustration of a rainforest, brightly coloured flowers, tropical bird, snake, frog, skull. Darkness beyond.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 6h

For these spooky times from the times when I felt capable of doing spooky illustrations

An illustration of a black cat taking a stroll around a suburb of America at Halloween. Pumpkins, white sheet ghosts outside wooden houses and a crow looks down at it all from the roof of a house. A starry sky. Black crosshatch pen and rolled printmaking ink on white paper. Pencil drawing outlines underneath the ink.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 6h

Band names right there. Ace artwork 👍🏻

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

This is my stop. See you in a bit 👍🏻

The view out of a stationary train window, nothing but green fern like leaves very close up to the window.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 7h

Poor Donald, too dim (greedy & selfish) to see that his powerful position offers him the greatest chance of all to be loved. To do more good than others have the capability to do, not for the good of himself or his pals but for the wider world. There’s time yet, even Ebenezer turned things around.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Andrew. Very much enjoying The Imagined Life. I love Daunt Books, London is great for bookshops. All the best with your new book 👍🏻😉

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 🙏🏻

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you, The Beautiful Sausage. You’re such a force for good for illustration & illustrators. I’d like to thank you on behalf of us all for promoting our work and offering encouragement, it’s much appreciated, keep up the great work! We’ll see if I can get my act together 👍🏻😉

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

This is my stop. See you in a bit 👍🏻

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 5d

-Thread-
Paint Brush
6th of the #Emberlings of Oct.
Originals £35 (plus post) each, in UK because people should be able to afford human art.
Message or reply to claim. First come, First served. She is A5. All will be collected in a book with words by @taliskimberley.bsky.social. #witchsky

Witch riding a paintbrush in front of a tracery moon. Raven along for the ride. Pencil on toned paper with White paint and chalk.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

It’s definitely playing a role in my lack of desire to do anything creative. It’ll pass at some point. I hope you’re back to writing and feeling better, Fiona x

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely, it’s been a year & a half for me but today I just woke up thinking “perhaps that’s it?” If it is, it is. I’ll find something new…and just continue to wait patiently. All the best to you 👊🏻

Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

I was also working in a bookshop when the proof of the second Book of Dust came out, I did exactly the same as you and I didn’t enjoy it. I think I rushed it just so I could feel like I’d read it before anyone else. I am a fool.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

I reckon a chainsaw and an old tree trunk would be a good fit at the moment!

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

In the end I realise none of it matters, nobody is desperately waiting for what I make next, it’s just a nuisance. The world is full of troubling stuff, making artwork was an escape. I’ll stick my head into some books for a while.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a great idea but I worry that I’ll just come out with the same old stuff. Perhaps I just need to let go of it all and come back somewhere down the line when me and my hands are ready to? 🫤

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

I will say that (thankfully) it doesn’t stop me being interested in work by others, I still love seeing what people are doing out there, I’m rooting for everyone else!

Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

I think I’m just going to have to accept that I’m not interested in being creative. I think I’m done with it.

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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve woken up wondering if I will ever make new illustrations, I’ve absolutely no desire to at all. Thoughts happen but the hands ain’t interested. Strange strange times.

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