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Matt Graham | Art & Commentary
@nothingfrequency.bsky.social
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🖤 elder emo | Snowy Toronto, Canada

Relearning art after several lifetimes away.
Sad girls, skate girls & music-drenched moments.
Sketches and studies on the way to artist alley.

I already know I'm awesome. I bet you are, too.

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The Baroness from Cobra / GI Joe.

You can tell I just like throwing ink around on paper even when digital. Teaching myself all the Procreate methods and toys, might go back and color this.

#oc #sketch #digitalart #comics #gijoe #drawing #illustration
A digital Inc illustration of The Baroness from GI Joe. There's a red square behind the figure.
February 6, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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The battle station, between midnight and 1, Feb 2026.

Flipping through some old sketchbooks from the past 2.5 years and there are some recurring themes.

No order to this except this end of the colour wheel, but the left is two years old from Year One.

"Hnn", as Batman does.
Scattered sketchbooks. Top left three women in color pencil. Top middle a woman in colored pencil saying he left me on read. Top right a woman in a parka. Bottom left and astronaut woman's side eyeing you. Middle center a woman smoking asking where did our love go. Middle right and in different record store clerk staring at you and snapping her gum. It's all colored pencil and paper.
February 5, 2026 at 6:03 AM
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"This is the Baroness. Don't ever turn your back on her. Unless she's dead."

"Even then, I'd search her for grenades."

The Baroness sketch and figure from GI Joe. Well, Cobra. That ruthless terrorist organization that wants to take over the world.
Colored pencil sketch of The Baroness from GI Joe and her Hasbro Classified figure.
February 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Even a mistake is better than nothing.

Craig Thompson, Blankets

#oc #comics #illustration #punk #emo #traditionalart #drawing
Colored paper on pencil of a girl bunkered down in her winter jacket because it's cold.
February 3, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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"Now you know. And knowing is half the battle."

This post isn't about GI Joe.

Snake Eyes in commando gear. Can't have Scarlett without Snake Eyes.

#SnakeEyes #Comics #Classified #Sketchbook #GIJoe #Illustration
GI Joe Classified Snake Eyes action figure next to a sketch of Snake Eyes
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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"Now you know. And knowing is half the battle."

Scarlett is my first cartoon love and I've never drawn her until now. It was GI Joe Day on Sunday.

#Comics #ComicArt #GIJoe #Scarlett #Nostalgia #ArtSky
A GI Joe classified retro Scarlett action figure next to a colored pencil sketch of Scarlett in profile
February 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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I know it's strange
another way
to get to know you
You'll never know
unless we go
so let me show you

Experimenting with colours. Digital markers on ink.

#oc #drawing #art #illustration #punk #indie #millennial
February 1, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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$10 got you in the door, but the heartbreak came free and fast.

Old world underground, where are you now?

#oc #DigitalArt #Illustration #Drawing #Comics #IndieSleaze #IndieRock #Metric #Sketchbook
Digital ink illustration of a Polaroid of a young woman at a dive venue in the 2000s.
January 30, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between." - Sylvia Plath

Process from my digital experiments.

She needs a name.

#OC #ComicArt #InkedArt #BlackAndWhiteArt #CharacterArt
#NoirArt #MoodyArt #IndieComics
Digital inks of a frustrated woman.
January 29, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy. - Henry Rollins

Art block, doing something new.

#oc #sketchbook #digitalart #coolgirl #punk #illustration
Brunette girl blowing a pink gum bubble and serving side eye
January 27, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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"Knowing it's real means you gotta make a decision. One, keep denying it. Or two... do something about it."

Alias Investigations' Jessica Jones.

#oc #JessicaJones #ComicArt #NoirArt #FanArt #TraditionalArt
Blue pencil sketch of Jessica Jones
January 26, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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"What can I say? I flunked the written."

Happy birthday, Buffy Summers.

(Yesterday.)

#OC #BuffyTheVampireSlayer #BuffySummers #90sTV #ColoredPencil #ColouredPencil #TraditionalArt #PortraitArt
Coloured pencil (Prismcolour Black Cherry) portrait of Buffy Summers the Vampire Slayer to commemorate her birthday.
January 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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It was here in today's warm ups that my neck mandated I go out and buy an easel.

Right now.

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Colored pencil hand studies Coloured pencil sketches of women.
January 19, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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"In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!"

Roughing some ideas.

#OC #drawing #SailorMoon #MagicalGirl #Sketchbook #RetroAnime #SailorSenshi #90sAnime
Coloured pencil illustration of Sailor Moon in my style.
January 16, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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The only thing they have to fear is you.

The New Mutants' own Magik.

Procreate.

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Digital ink portrait of Magik from New Mutants.
January 14, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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Jul '25. This was pulled from my eidetic memory from an episode of Yellowjackets, then I wandered. I feel like alcohol markers and watercolor suit my line work and style. I just love the mess in creating.

Love heals scars love left.

#oc #Sketchbook #ArtRetrospective #Throwback #Process #drawing
Ink and alcohol marker illustration of a woman with a black guy and bleeding. It's an analogy for romance.
January 14, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Warm ups, but now I want sushi.

Sorta looks like she's wearing a t-shirt.

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Girl tonguing her teeth and the Punisher.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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June '25. Character sketch of Lacey from my story I Bleed In Electric Colours. Started liking what I was doing with ink around this point.

Will revisit.

#art #inkdrawing #sketchbook #penandink #lineart #artarchive #sketchbooktour #skateboard
January 11, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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You're my butterfly
Sugar
Baby

Procreate Psylocke sketch. In the mood for 90s X-Men energy.

#Psylocke #XMen #FanArt #ComicArt
Digital sketch of Psylocke of the X-Men with her psychic butterfly aura.
January 10, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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May '25. Wanted to capture streamer intimacy in a portrait with the 4th wall break. Also an excuse to do headphones and develop my smoky coloured pencil thing.

Views best with Midwife's cover of Glycerine.

#SketchbookTour #ArtRetrospective #ArtProcess #ArtistsOnBlueSky #ProgressOverTime
Coloured pencil portrait of a woman in headphones looking at you.
January 9, 2026 at 12:11 AM
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"Pain lasts, kid. It's how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management."

The Maxx and Julie. Only on MTV Oddities. Based on Sam Keith's popular comic book.

A little fan art.

#fanart #comicart #comics #characterart #artistsonbluesky #sketch
Coloured pencil sketch of The Maxx and Julie from the comic and MTV Liquid Television show. Word balloon has Julie saying, "Eerybody's got to take responsibility for their own life, y'know", which is a quote from the material
January 8, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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April '25. I'd been developing these multi colour portrait triptychs forms few months. It's a nice warm up or rest. Always enjoy hearing how certain portraits grab people.

I draw them all counterclockwise from the bottom, lefty hack.

#oc #traditionalart #artvsartist2025 #sketchbook #illustration
Red, blue, purple coloured pencil portraits of three women smoking and checking a cell phone. Text says, "Those trusty chords to pull me through."
January 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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March '25. I like to draw my characters and scenes as candids, maybe a holdover from 00s Internet life.

Jessica was trouble: in your Top 8, on your AIM, PC4PC, precision editing Warped band CD-Rs, 3AM texts.

Heartbreaker. 💔

#oc #art #traditionalart #millennial #drawing #poppunk #artvsartist2025
Blue coloured pencil illustration of a young woman glancing at you from across the party. She's the reason you know Taking Back Sunday.
January 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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February '25 favourite. All ink, this piece exudes line quality and confidence. Also got a few fire emojis and "Let's goooo" for her.

Amy is reacting to Yellowcard's Only One at Pac Sun.

Here I goooo
Scream my lungs out

#oc #art #traditionalart #millennial #drawing #poppunk #artvsartist2025
Ink pen illustration of a happy young woman with her hair up, wearing a flannel jacket and tank top.
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Flipping all my sketchbooks back to January 2025, this is my favourite of the month. One of the first where I treated coloured pencils like regular lead or charcoal for a life-illustrative approach.

Very "A Movie Script Ending" to me.

#oc #art #drawing #illustration #traditionalart #indiemusic
Green coloured pencil illustration of a sad girl.
January 5, 2026 at 5:58 PM