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Mateus [ Thian & Zarvin ]
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Artistic & Autistic - « Giving Hell a new paintjob »
🎲 RPGs | 🕹 Videogames | 📖 Comics | 🖊️ Drawings | 🌌 Existential Dread

Read THIAN & ZARVIN: https://tnz.webcomic.ws/
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What would you give for paradise?

#TnZ #analoghorror #cyberpunk #scifi #comics #art
A cartoony fake ad for a sim called "Sanctuary", showing a beautiful woman wearing a red dress and long hair in a ponytail smelling a rose and smiling to the viewer. Behind her is a relaxing scenery of a sunset on a beach with palm trees and flowers. The slogan next to her says "You will wish you could stay FOREVER." With the text at the bottom showing: "A geyer sim by AEtheric Co. only on the AE-Booth." The whole image is slighty glitched out.
January 13, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Hello, #portfolioday!

I'm Mateus, a cartoonist based in Portugal, currently looking for work, mostly around character design, illustration and/or backgrounds. If anything catches your eye, let's talk!
Art piece showing snowy mountainscape over a lake. A small fishing boat is in the middle of the water. Height chart showing a diverse cart of sci-fi cartoon characters from the series Thian & Zarvin. Large book cover for Thian & Zarvin, showing two cartoony characters, an asian emo girl with black hair underdyed teal, and a tan guy with black hair pulled back except for a blonde tuft and wearing a songkok, walking behind a small pink and green robot that's leaking something on the floor. Behind them is a collage of floating heads and machines in tones of purple. Vaporwave style poster for a finctional band called RBF (Resting Beach Face), featuring two musicians floating along on a broken machine over a polluted elevated sea, a black man with large dreadlocks playing a bass, and a punk white girl with a large mohawk singing to a microphone. Behind them is a mushroom cloud pretending to be a beautiful sunset, being framed by palm trees.
January 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Quite proud of the 4 pages I finished sketching. Here's a snippet.

#TnZ #comics
Two panel sketches. In the first one, a young asian woman with short hair is shaking uncontrollably, and angrily, looking at a glass in front of her. "You bitch!". The other panel is an older woman with long flowy hair in a long mullet, wearing some kind of sci-fi business suit. She's smiling while about to take a sip of her drink. "That's an odd way to say "cheers!""
January 12, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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The Bench

3/3
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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The Bench

2/3
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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The Bench

Rough comic based on a feeling I've had all my life. Maybe you can relate. I could polish this better but I think it being drawn like this kinda makes sense?

1/3
#comics
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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#TnZ tease of the new character Khaleefa

ref by @theposearchives.bsky.social
#comicoop #comics #art
Cartoon drawing of a moody scene where a tall woman with large styled hair sits on a floating chair with an authoritarian look. She rests both her feet on a table in front of her. The whole scene is in shades of purple and some blue accents.
January 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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real depiction of me trying to convince people to check out my book tbh
Cartoon of me on the floor face down with my face melting into the floor doing the terminator thumbs up with the text "I finished the comic" over me
January 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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experimental digital paper craft trees
#art
Four trees in a line, an oak, a birch, a pine and a palm, all stylized and rendered to look like they were made from paper craft materials.
January 8, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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CONGRATS! I'm so glad this project got the funding it deserved!

Here's some funny panels from Thian & Zarvin
#ComicArtTrain #ComixCleric #TnZ
Thian tied up on the floor of a dark alley next to two guards, saying: "Really? You're just gonna leave me here like this with these two... Ugh... Chivalry's dead" while Kurtz runs away Two guards on either side of an entrance, the first says: "Djahear somne leaked atrovxn's armpit?" The second one replies: "Nuay, dru! can't be fryll..." while someone sneaks past them. Thian looking down Gyoza's camera, heavily distorted by the perspective. Thian saying "Shoulda put more than one encryption layer on your drone, dumbass. Cheap-ass agents these days." While typing frenetically on her portable hub with her tongue out
January 5, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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I'll throw Thian into the ring, but only in spirit, because she's aroace so no luck in dating her.

💚: extremelly smart; great taste in music; honest; selfless and resourceful; massive library inside her head
🚩: nihilistic; mysanthropic; drug addict; rude; way too honest sometimes;

#TnZ
Drawing of an asian emo girl with short black hair underdyed teal, wearing a short dark red sleevless jacket and a black skirt over tight leggings. She looks to the viewer with an extremelly tired and apathic resting bitch face. The same character lying on her back in bed holding a green liquid and hallucinating shapes over her. Cartoon drawing of an asian emo girl with short back hair sitting on a poofy couch handling a small dinosaur sculpture with both hands with a sad expression. The same character holding a vile with red liquid and saying: "Promise to stop coming after us and I won't report you, Kurtz."
December 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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landscape collage test
Digital collage of textures made to look like plains and mountains
December 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I'm going to experiment a LOT more with art in 2026
Collage of textured shaped depicting a tall woman with long ginger hair wearing jeans and a brown shirt and boots
December 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I tried the demo the other day, it's nicely done! Couldn't draw the full body because the images were cropped on my screen unfortunately.
Page of a sketchbook showing several figure drawings
December 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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some crofts

#laracroft #tombraider #riseofthetombraider #squareenix #art #fanart #videogames
Cartoon drawings of Lara Croft from Rise Of The Tomb Raider, a brunette woman with a ponytail wearing winter alpinism gear and a bow and arrow, in multiple action poses.
December 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Oldie, but I don't think I ever posted this one here.
Cartoon panel of myself saying "I subscribe to the old concept of muses. I got some of my own! Let me show you..." Panel of me saying "There's the brave, hopeful one..." Next to a female creature with dark skin, white hair, a golden floating crown, no legs and playing a golden harp. Me saying "The dark and angry one..." Next to a female creature with pale skin, a black mohawk, punk makeup, piercings and spiked bracelets and choker playing an electric harp. Me saying: "And there's the... uh... other one!" Next to a female creature with pink hair and wearing pink lingerie holding an oddly sex-toy-shaped harp with one hand while doing the shush sign with the other.
December 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Thian & Zarvin is a whimsical sci-fi comedy about two neurodivergent dorks trying to survive in a dystopian future.

The first issue is online: tnz.webcomic.ws

#MeetTheWebcomic #ComixCleric #TnZ #comics #comicoop
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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This year I'm not celebrating Christmas. I'm instead celebrating Dark Christmas, which is the same except you think about the people you've lost and the dreams that were crushed.

Happy Holidays!
A festive wreath but drawn in tones of black and silver.
December 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Quick one tho, but I can't pass on a chance to draw cute characters and support the online cartoonist community. Check these guys out!

#art #DTIYS #comixcleric
Cartoon drawing of a short girl wearing a yellow robe, black boots and with red hair pulled back. She is holding a staff with the head shaped like a comic speech bubble with the Comix Cleric logo on it.
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Artists! Quote with your favorite piece of the year!

Mine's this one, that wasn't recieved as well as I'd hope, but I'm still proud of the vaporwave mushroom cloud and the execution.
Vaporwave style poster for a finctional band called RBF (Resting Beach Face), featuring two musicians floating along on a broken machine over a polluted elevated sea, a black man with large dreadlocks playing a bass, and a punk white girl with a large mohawk singing to a microphone. Behind them is a mushroom cloud pretending to be a beautiful sunset, being framed by palm trees. Text above them in blue says "RBG"
December 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Thanks for the space! Happy Winter Solstice!
Art piece showing snowy mountainscape over a lake. A small fishing boat is in the middle of the water. Large image of a figure wearing mountaineering gear treading through the snow on a rugged mountain during a snowstorm.
December 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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There ya go, last one!

#art #tadc #theamazingdigitalcircus #characterdesign
Drawing of a woman with a bob wearing warm clothing and holding a smartphone with the flashlight on. Next to her is a small jester figure with large eyes
December 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Just a horse girl...

#art #tadc #theamazingdigitalcircus #characterdesign
Cartoony drawing of a ginger girl wearing overalls, garden boots and a checkered shirt, with her hair pulled back and with a forced grin on her face. Next to her is a small figure of a ragdoll with red hair and purple dress.
December 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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This jerk gives me absolutely NOTHING to work with here but oh well

#art #theamazingdigitalcircus #tadc #characterdesign
Cartoony drawing of a man with stubble holding a mischeivous smirk with crossed arms wearing a backwards cap, hoodie and gymn pants. Next to him is a small cartoon purple antropomorphic rabbit with pink overalls and large smile.
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Real sad Gangle didn't pursue an art career and settled for fast food instead...

#art #tadc #theamazingdigitalcircus #characterdesign
Cartoony drawing of a chubby brunette woman with round glasses wearing a skirt and sweater as well as a beret and holding a sketchbook against her chest. Next to her is a small cartoon figure made up of a theatre mask and red ribbons.
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM