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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL
@rachelordwayart.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, letterer, poster of silly stuff. She/her.

Email @ [email protected]

Portfolio, shop links, commission info, & links to other social media @ https://rachelordway.com/

#art | #comic | #commission | #lettering | #sketch
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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 23d
I try to challenge myself with every #comic , so I went all-out with the action choreography and #lettering (hand-drawn SFX + digital dialogue and balloons)

#traineryellow #pokespe #pokemon

Commission info: rachelordway.com/commissions/

Buy the zine: ko-fi.com/s/2d027b0f18

(2/?)
A black-and-white comic page. Yellow smiles, clenching their fist, then points dramatically in the air, declaring, "Okay! Today we're definitely going to catch a Pokémon!" They're "surfing" a life preserver across the ocean, out from Vermilion Harbor. Yellow's clutching a fishing rod and Pikachu crouches on the float beside them. Yellow rears back, preparing to cast the fishing rod, looking nervous. Yellow murmurs to themself, "All right...if we play it smart, no one has to get hurt...so just stay calm—" The lure at the end of the fishing rod, a Pokéball, splashes into the water. A moment later, Yellow is pulled halfway off the life preserver by a giant YANK on the fishing line. Pika pulls Yellow back, and the fishing rod flies out of Yellow's hands. An angry Dragonair erupts out of the water with a BLOOSH, then slams its tail down onto the life preserver, breaking it in half (KRUNCH) as Yellow and Pika leap into the ocean. Yellow is treading water, Pika crouching on Yellow's hat, growling and emitting sparks of electricity (ZZT ZZT). Yellow frantically gasps, "Pika, no! The water will conduct the electricity! Try to draw its attention with Quick Attack while I—" Pika has already leapt into the air as they realize Dragonair's horn is glowing, charging up for an attack. PSHOOOOO! Dragonair shoots a laser beam directly at the spot Pika was just in—but Yellow has grabbed Pika's tail and slammed Pika down into the water, both of them going under and holding their breath. Yellow and Pika surface for air, Yellow thinking to themself, "Dragon Rage? That doesn't make sense—" Dragonair's tail stabs into the water, barely missing Pika, who's quickly yanked out of the way by Yellow with a cry. Yellow and Pika frantically swim away, Yellow thinking, "Dragonair sightings are rare because they usually run away. What would make this one attack so aggressively?" The Dragonair flies into the air, swooping in front of Yellow and Pika, blocking their way. But looking at it head-on, Yellow realizes Dragonair's pulling the fishing rod around with it, the rod's Pokéball lure stuck in Dragonair's mouth. Yellow leaps toward the fishing rod as it whips past, yelling, "Pika! We have to get the lure out of its mouth!"
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schweizercomics.bsky.social
The image in my header is a drawing from a trip to north Wales, where I hiked up to the top of that mountain where Merlin saw the red and white dragons fighting.
I fell off the top of said mountain, but not very far (broke my easel, though).
Image is a watercolored drawing of hill with a windswept hawthorn tree on top, stones and rocks, some winter grass, and a man in no shoes painting at an easel, a pipe in his mouth. There is a label with a white dragon and a red dragon framing it that says "Dinas Emrys - Gwynedd/Snowdonnia 6 April 2023." Other arrowed labels say "the foundations of the ruins of Vortigern's tower," "The hidden glade with the dragon pool," and "spot where, discalced, I took a pretty rough tumble, slipping on the wet grass and doing some mischief to my hand and ribs."
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Some quick art of my new centaur Pathfinder character, Cinthy, for her game token. Alas, her horse half is not visible.
digital drawing of a very pink Uma cowgirl with a pink open collared shirt over a green fringed bikini top. The shirt is tied under her big booba. She also has a long pink three-toned braid with flowers in it. She's holding a flintlock pistol and winking cutely.
December 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
The book version of Erik remains my favorite because he's such a funky little weirdo
(though of course I'm using the 1925 film designs)
#ThePhantomOfTheOpera #sketch
A page of cartoony pencil sketches of the 1925 silent movie version of The Phantom Of The Opera. 1: Christine, looking unnerved, looks down and holds her hands comfortingly against her chest. There's what looks like a wedding ring on her left hand. She mumbles "He horrifies me...but I do not hate him." In one corner, a small cartoony Erik has an exaggeratedly ponderous thinking face, stroking his chin as he thinks "...I can work with that." In another corner, a small cartoony Raoul (a young white man with slicked-back short hair and a small mustache) sobs enormous tears, wailing "But Christiiine...!" 2: Two sketches of Erik wearing his "Masque of the Red Death" masquerade costume, a very swashbuckle-y outfit with a feathered broad-brimmed hat, a skull mask, and a long cape draped over his shoulders. We see him from the front, posing like a model, one hand on his hip and the other swooshing the cape out dramatically. Then we see him from the back, still posing like a model, but now we can see that the words "Don't touch me" are embroidered on the back of his cape. 3: A 3-panel comic. 3a: Ledoux and Erik argue loudly, Ledoux gesturing with one hand, Erik with both hands in fists at his sides. Ledoux insists "Christine is your PRISONER! She does not LOVE you!" Erik spits back "SHE DOES TOO! I'll PROVE it!" 3b: Erik nuzzles up to Christine, clasping her hand between his and pressing his face to it, gazing mournfully up at her with sparkling sad puppy-dog eyes. He asks "Cwistine…? You wuv me, don't you…?" Christine's standing awkwardly straight and says through a tightly clenched smile "Of c-course, d-dear..." 3c: Erik has jumped up to embrace Christine cartoonishly with both arms AND legs wrapped around her, triumphantly yelling back at a tired Ledoux "See?! I told you!" Meanwhile Christine cringes away from Erik and sweats, muttering "oh god oh man"
December 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
Some Claude Rains #ThePhantomOfTheOpera cus he's so ~Relatable~
(feat. Susanna Foster as Christine)
#sketch
A page of pencil sketches of the 1943 film version of The Phantom Of The Opera, starring Claude Rains as the Phantom Erique Claudin and Susanna Foster as Christine. Erique is a broad-shouldered man in his 50s with gray hair swept in waves to his right, wearing a tuxedo and (as the Phantom) a smooth sculpted mask that covers the upper half of his face from hairline to nose. 1: Erique wearing his mask, seen from slightly below, glaring coolly off to one side. 2: Erique without the mask, his face lined with age and anger, gritting his teeth and hunching his shoulders with frustration. 3: Erique and Christine, a pretty young woman with blonde hair in carefully arranged curls, wearing a ballgown and elbow-length gloves. Erique has her wrist in his hand, as if preventing her from touching his mask, nearly face to face with her as he pushes her against a wall, screaming in anguish, "I did it for YOU, Christine! Why won't you LOVE ME?!!" Christine looks frightened and disturbed, cringing away from him. 4: As if a moment later, Erique and Christine are identically posed, but Christine is touching her chin with her free hand, eyes raised as she thinks in confusion, saying "Who are you...? Wait, did you play the cello or something...?" Erique is stunned, tears running down his face in hurt frustration.
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Reposted by Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL
schweizercomics.bsky.social
#COMPANIONSofCHRISTMAS: Mrs. Claus!

Mrs. Claus was once better known by her given name, Alba. She was the nymph of the silver fir tree, a captain in the retinue of the goddess Artemis, and she first met Saint Nicolas when he came to do battle with her Lady. 1/
Watercolored drawing of a woman with white braided hair wearing laplandish buckskin and a cloak made of fir tree branches.
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
While looking up the Pink Panther Strikes Again scene where Herbert Lom plays the organ in a very Phantom-like way, I discover Herbert Lom PLAYED the Phantom in a 1962 film version…which begs the question…how far down the rabbit hole will I go…how many times will I re-consume the same dang story
December 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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idoodleonmargins.bsky.social
Mad dash to get merch made and ready for AWA coming up real soon! #kpopdemonhunters #huntrix #howitsdone
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
“obsessively doodle #ThePhantomOfTheOpera” was not at all on my 2025 bingo card, but it’s nice to feel the urge & joy of obsessively doodling again

#sketch
A pencil sketch of the Lon Chaney version of The Phantom Of The Opera, a balding skull-faced man wearing an opera cloak. He’s drawn cartoonishly small in the background of a cropped-off drawing of a woman, with a funny-looking expression of intense thought, eyes closed and a hand on his chin as he thinks “… I can work with that.”
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
Me: What was the name of that musical…they made a movie with Johnny Depp—

My brain: Edward Scissorhands

Me: NO

Me: The…the guy that killed people…the Barber of Seville…? Wait! “The demon barber of Fleet Street”?!

My brain: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

Me: NO!!!
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
OK, so, the Phantom Of The Opera novel sets up the “Angel of Music” concept with a beautifully-written backstory about Christine’s relationship with her late father, a violinist who told her stories about an Angel of Music visiting musicians and elevating their talent, so her belief in The Angel…
December 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
The Phantom of the Opera is there inside my mind, apparently
#sketch #ThePhantomOfTheOpera
A cartoony pencil-sketched 2-panel comic of the 1925 Lon Chaney version of The Phantom Of The Opera. Panel 1: Christine, a young woman with dark curly hair dressed in a fancy gown, stares bewildered up at Erik, a tall man wearing a tuxedo and large bow tie. His face is covered by a half-mask sculpted and painted like a human face, with a veil coming down from it to cover the mouth. Erik poses sternly, shaking his finger at Christine as he tells her, "The number one rule is, don't touch my mask." Panel 2: Erik and Christine are in exactly the same poses, only now Christine is clutching his mask and Erik's face has been revealed, with sharp cheekbones, sunken eyes, fang-like teeth, and a missing nose. Erik says, "What did I JUST f***ing say?!"
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
I’m reading The Phantom Of The Opera for the first time & I’m obsessed with the fact that Erik wrote “also the Opera Ghost gets his own private box and an allowance of 20 francs a month” into the Opera’s business charter & keeps writing the new owners sternly worded letters when they don’t deliver
December 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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schweizercomics.bsky.social
I'm gonna post a lot of things I have for sale and in stock today, so bear with me, I don't do it often!
My most recent art book, A DREAM OF SWORDS, is the result of my visiting sword collections to sketch them in Paris, Leeds, Vienna, NYC, Graz, Cleveland, etc.
crogan.bigcartel.com/product/dream
A Dream of Swords
A handsome hardcover collection of 130 monotoned watercolor drawings from the arms holdings in museums that Chris visited in 2023 and 2024,...
crogan.bigcartel.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Blambot's biggest sale of the year is finally here! Use code CYBERWEEK at checkout for 25% off your orders from Dec. 1st to Dec. 8th 2025! blambot.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
Everything in the @papercutzgn.bsky.social online shop is 50% off right now (digital AND physical), so now’s a great time to check out Flash Gordon Adventures!

papercutz.com/product/flas...
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Looky here! Got the first batch of books from the printer!

Still time to place your order! Get the book now at ko-fi.com/s/cdec8cd7c7
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
Another Chicken Run x Enchanted #art #commission! The first two are here: bsky.app/profile/rach...

I'm still trying to get comfortable with a G-pen...I'm at that dangerous point where I keep thinking I'm good enough to get lazy and I'm absolutely not, haha

Comm info: rachelordway.com/commissions/
A photo of a black-and-white cartoony art piece. Ginger from the movie Chicken Run is dressed as Giselle from the movie Enchanted, with a poofy layered ballgown, tiara, and piled-up curly hair. Rocky the rooster is dressed as Prince Edward, with poofy sleeves, decorated leather boots and gloves, and a cape. They're standing facing each other, holding hands and gazing lovingly into each other's eyes.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
A li'l Ukyo in anticipation of the next episode~
#art #Ranma #Ranma1/2 #らんま⁠
A cartoony illustration of Ukyo from Ranma 1/2, drawn in a mashup of the series' various styles. They're an athletically built Japanese teen with waist-length brown hair, wearing a white ribbon like a headband (more like a traditional Japanese shopkeeper than a feminine bow), a short-hemmed and short-sleeved blue-violet kimono, and a cross-body bandolier belt filled with tiny spatulas. Ukyo strikes an aggressive pose, smirking confidently at the viewer and hefting a giant spatula as a weapon.
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
Help back Kate Carter Adventures (the Indiana Jones-esque globetrotting, supernatural adventures of a Hollywood stuntwoman) and get a bunch of other cool comics! Also one of mine or whatever

(The campaign is for issue 7, but all the previous issues are available as add-ons!)
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
An interesting read that not only aligns with my complaints about how “people used to talk more online,” but introduces good points about how current social media is unwelcoming and even openly hostile to new artists.
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
Revisiting The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy yet again and it’s so deeply ingrained in me that it’s always funny to get new perspectives on it. Like as a kid I thought the name Ford Prefect was funny cus it sounded weird, but the joke is that an alien in disguise named himself after a car
November 16, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Final cover reveal (+ preview pages in next post) for my #Pokemon #commission #comic "To Catch A Dragonair"!
#TrainerYellow #Pokespe

I wanted to try designing a wraparound cover, and I'm really happy with it!

Comm info: rachelordway.com/commissions/

Buy the zine: ko-fi.com/s/2d027b0f18

(1/?)
A cartoony color comic cover featuring characters from Pokémon: Yellow, Pika, and Dragonair. Yellow is a small preteen with short blonde hair, wearing a floppy straw hat and a cowboy-like outfit. Yellow is standing on a floating life preserver on the ocean, being rocked by the waves, trying to maintain their balance as they clutch a fishing rod that seems to have hooked an angry Dragonair (a sleek, beautiful sea-serpent-like Pokémon). The Dragonair's head is as big as Yellow's whole body and it glares at Yellow, its horn glowing with light as it prepares an attack. Pika, Yellow's Pikachu (a small yellow electric rodent), leaps angrily off Yellow's hat towards the Dragonair. It's like a moment frozen in time.
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
A little late for Halloween, but here’s a #watercolor #art #commission of #ArchieComics characters dressed like #WillyWonka characters! I dunno that I’ll ever feel like I “truly understand” watercolors, but I definitely got a little closer to it.

Commission info: rachelordway.com/commissions/
A cartoony watercolor illustration of Jughead, Betty, and Veronica from Archie Comics dressed as characters from the 1970s movie version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Veronica in the center is dressed as Violet Beauregarde in blueberry mode, clenching her fists and pouting angrily at Jughead, who's dressed as Willy Wonka and smirking down at her, leaning his arm on her head. Betty is dressed as an Oompa-Loompa, curiously poking Veronica's blueberry body and saying "Huh...I always thought of you as more of a Veruca!"
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
rachelordwayart.bsky.social
I (finally) took some new photos for some video-gamey products that are (finally) in my shop! (Finally!)

You can check em out here: ko-fi.com/rachelordway...

#art

#pokemon #pokespe #traineryellow

#mario #bowser #koopalings
A photo of a printed comic. The book has a cartoony color comic cover featuring characters from Pokémon: Yellow, Pika, and Dragonair. Yellow is a small preteen with short blonde hair, wearing a floppy straw hat and a cowboy-like outfit. Yellow is standing on a floating life preserver on the ocean, being rocked by the waves, trying to maintain their balance as they clutch a fishing rod that seems to have hooked an angry Dragonair (a sleek, beautiful sea-serpent-like Pokémon). The Dragonair's head is as big as Yellow's whole body and it glares at Yellow, its horn glowing with light as it prepares an attack. Pika, Yellow's Pikachu (a small yellow electric rodent), leaps angrily off Yellow's hat towards the Dragonair. It's like a moment frozen in time. The title "To Catch A Dragonair" appears in arched, blocky lettering at the top of the page, mimicking the classic Pokémon logo in yellow with a dark blue outline. Yellow-and-blue text at the bottom reads "a fancomic by Rachel Ordway." A photo of a bright, colorfully cartoony image of Bowser and the Koopalings goofing around on the Koopa Troopa Beach stage from Mario Kart 64. Towards the middle of the image is a rope volleyball net tied between two palm trees. Larry is in midair bumping a volleyball, cheered on by his teammate Lemmy, who's balancing on his bouncy ball. Bowser Jr is also in midair, reaching out to spike the approaching volleyball, cheered on by his teammate Roy, who's pointing enthusiastic "finger guns". Bowser and Morton are cheering excitedly from the sidelines, jumping up in the air. Iggy runs across the sand past them, tauntingly holding up Ludwig's wand, as Ludwig angrily chases after him. BoomBoom and PomPom are snuggled together on the sand, shyly nuzzling their heads together and holding hands. Wendy is tanning in a beach chair beside them, lifting heart-shaped sunglasses to smirk at them.
November 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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perfectstormpub.bsky.social
We just made our goal!!! Now, time to start thinking of stretch goals... Come join us to find out what they are!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rob...
Kate Carter Adventures #7
We are back with yet another Kate Carter adventure!!!
www.kickstarter.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM