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Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

I bought a fountain pen! Let’s not talk about how much it cost…

December 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM

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Toucan

@diegotoucan.bsky.social

Touc the painting 🖼️ 🐦

December 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM

Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

Catalogue study

December 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM

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Toucan

@diegotoucan.bsky.social

Greeting her fans 🎉 🐢 💖

November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM

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Cartoonist Cooperative

@cartoonist.coop

if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors.

allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace

December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM

Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

Photo study from L’École Des Femmes, model unknown.
#sketch

November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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Fried Wontons

@tfrieddumplings.bsky.social

Sandwich - Horror villainesses sandwiched together after the Bride of Frankenstein takes first place at a swimsuit competition, and her competitors are really not happy.

#lumptober

#horror #Halloween #Bride #Pearl #Sadako #Ringu #AsamiYamazaki #Audition #AmandaYoung #Saw

October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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Tedbob84 🔜 Youmacon 2025

@tedbob84.bsky.social

An older @vanilleorion.bsky.social fanart sketch.
Been meaning to do more showgirl/burlesque sketches

September 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM

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Toucan

@diegotoucan.bsky.social

Touc in Autumn 🍂 🐦

September 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM

Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

Cool, I needed some bjoinery doing.

September 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM

Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

Trying to use Procreate again to practice doing portraits in pen. I couldn’t tell you what changed exactly, but ever since I got my current iPad, I’ve always felt like I’m fighting against the tools in Procreate - something about the mark making just feels off to me.

September 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM

Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

A little boat on the Thames in Oxford. Just out of shot, some Americans were being harassed by the most aggressive ducks you’ve ever met.

September 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM

Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

Me: I hate product placement in movies, it cheapens the whole experience.

Also me:

September 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM

Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

Trying to draw a Louise Brooks hairdo and actually make it look good is always weirdly challenging

September 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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Shen Comix

@shenanigansen.bsky.social

The comic is titled "My Favorite Fighting Game Archetypes:"

Panel titled "The Grappler That Barely Fits on Screen". It's a huge, extremely muscular, bald 'pro wrestler' type character with metal bands around his arms. He is so big that he doesn't even notice his opponent, a regular sized guy in a yellow karate gi trembling in his shadow. His head is also bending the health bars above them.

Panel titled "The Small Idiot With a Big Stupid Weapon". It is a girl in a predominantly pink Japanese schoolgirl uniform with with a yellow ribbon on the collar, running excitedly, a sparkle in her eyes. With both arms she is wielding a full sized heating radiator.

Panel titled "The Straight Fundamentals, No Funny Business." Is it a grey-haired older man tightening the belt of his karate gi, which has yellow patches on the arms. He has a stern expression, confident in his mastery of his craft.

Panel titled "The Funny Business". It is some kind of purple imp type guy in a pink-and-yellow jester outfit with teal pom poms attached to the 3 points of the hat. He has a bag with a metal spiky ball, a giant wacky wooden hammer, and a banana peel inside it. There's also a whoopee cushion that fell out. He is pulling a gun out of it.

August 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM

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Toucan

@diegotoucan.bsky.social

Harumi Mint (2024) 🍃🐢

August 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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amy brown

@amybrown.xyz

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM

Professor Irony

@professor-irony.bsky.social

There’s a group of old boys who sit out at the university playing cards every week, regular as clockwork. With so much focus on the isolation and loneliness older people can face these days, I find this kinda wholesome. I think one of them did have a table-flip moment this week though…