The Traitor & The Wretch is a grim fantasy with a surprisingly tender romance between two minor villains trying their best to outrun their terrible fates. Written by me Illustrated by @skulkingfoxes.bsky.social Cover art by @fusspot.rip With editing by @cknightwrites.bsky.social

For my friends in Iowa, I’ll be tabling at the Van Meter Visitor Festival this Saturday! Come out and celebrate Iowa’s very own cryptid. You can get tickets upon arrival or right now at www.chadlewisresearch.com/shop but be careful, they might sell out!

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

Market prep is so exhausting tell me why I just spent 3.5 hours hand stamping blind bags and I'm not even done yet 😭

train-crossed lovers 🚃💕

Finally got the prologue and first chapter of my webcomic drafted!! Hoping to get the prologue pages done and ready to post by end of September 🤞

A queer wedding gift #commission - my client’s friends are getting married this week!! Congrats to the brides, so happy to be part of their big day 🌈💕 #ArtSky #QueerLove #LesbianWedding #Illustration

I've never run a single ChatGPT prompt. Not once, not even to see what it said. I've never generated a single image, either. And I have no regrets about this. I don't need to do it to know that I don't want to.

Some new stickers, all your favorite Little Guys!! Mothman, Fitz, and… that Spider Guy, too 🕷️ #artsky #artshop #smallbusiness

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Fun fact: aliens are queer! Show off your extraterrestrial encounter with these silly pride stickers I made 👽🌈 #artsky #artshop #lgbtq #prideflags #stickershop

A #commission for my client's daughter's birthday!! 🎂🥳 I had a lot of fun with the prompts "reading comic to small dragons" and "enjoys Pokemon". So happy to be part of her special day! #commissionsopen #artsky #kidlit #illustration

My sticker photographing assistant for today was Very Helpful as you can see (he tried to lick all of them) #morkie #artshop #artbusiness

Learned about a cryptid called the Hugag recently, still thinking about them… weird moose thing with no knees, so true 👍

Some little illustrations of dogs reading to use up the last paint on my palette. #art

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Apparently Adobe popped to Bluesky like a flower in Spring. And then ended like that.

Team Duck, Chick or Chicken? 🦆🐔🐤 Clay pins perfect for Spring are waiting for you on the shop! ✨️ www.inestheunicorn.com

Every time I plan a booth layout I make a digital collage mock-up first, I think they’re funny (and also very helpful!!) This one is for a cryptid themed event in September - gotta fill those holes with new work over these next few months 💪

Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜

It’s here!! My first ever Book Birthday!! You can now find Avery and the Fairy Circle"" In actual, real life stores!! I hope you all enjoy this sweet little story of fairies, botany, and friendship and I can’t wait to hear what you think! bookshop.org/p/books/aver... #art #kidlit #newrelease

I realized lately that I’m bothered by the lack of word count info in book spaces. Page count is harder to understand when I’m gauging length/reading time Page count can change based on format, word count is always the same - I wish listings had word count alongside page count is what I’m saying 😭

The more I draw Moth the better I get!! I’m learning the way he is shaped. When people say “draw something over and over to improve” they mean it lol I’m excited to do this exercise for Bigfoot and Nessie, too!! #webcomic #cryptids #mothman

the teeny tiny

Artists feel pressured to make new art too quickly at the moment. Normalise artists fucking disappearing for months. Just walk off into the woods for a year and come back with a single sketch. It’s good for you

Slowly realizing that a lot of my characters are non-binary in a "doesn't really care about/relate to gender" sorta way This is entirely me projecting, I just didn't get it until recently lol

“The Nymph caught the Dryad in her arms.” 🍃✨

Just spent all day making a font for my webcomic (to make lettering faster) and improving two old fonts of mine, it was exhausting but worth it!! 🫠 Calligraphr my beloved, shout out to that funky little font making site

Humblewood oldies: some mapach inks!

My biggest storytelling flaw has always been wanting to say too much, esp in a comic format 😭 I’m trying to shave some scenes down rn while scripting bc the intro bits are simply too long and at this rate it’ll be 75 pages before we even get to the 3rd main character and start the actual premise-

i love when i look at a window and find a cat there #arttag

If you make rest something you can only do when everything is done, you'll never rest, and you'll never complete anything. Life is a constellation of cycles and there's always going to be something to work on. Rest is part of how you take care of you so you can take care of the rest.

Describe your ideal life:

I can't believe I have to say this. Setting aside a whole fuckton of politics, Deepseek is STILL generative AI, STILL uses stolen data (OpenAI's data is stolen), and STILL causes all sorts of environmental issues. Don't use it. Not even for a joke.

The character designs in my upcoming cryptid webcomic are very simplistic, so I wanted to test how expressive they can get - it’s been lots of fun!! Here are some I’ve done of Mothman (aka Moth) so far <33 #webcomic #mothman #cryptids #cryptidart #wip

I hope when alien archeologists uncover me and my wife's remains they mention what good friends we are on our museum plaque.

My beanie babies <3

Hello friends, I’m making some fake book covers for my portfolio and the first thing that came to mind was “Sherlock Holmes and the Great Muppet Escapade” 🕵️‍♂️🐸💥 Which I imagine is some sort of middle grade crossover adventure, would you guys read it?? 😂

You're not going to be able to draw everything perfectly in your comic, ur gonna have weird looking cars or buildings, or hands- And i want you to know that's fine Readers spend seconds per panel- as long as things are clear narratively, keep going! Dont get stuck on making every panel a masterpiece

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

Good news!! Anyone from anywhere can now buy and download a digital copy of my queer illustrated short story book, “Tropes: A Queer Romance Zine” 🌈📚✨ It’s got two #WLW stories, one #NBLM story, and 30 spot illustrations + 3 full color pieces!! 🎨 #booksky #queerbooks (link in replies)

Thinking very lovingly about the Mothman standee I made for markets <33 He is my fav little guy

I think we should go back to when books for adults had illustrations in them, too. I've been reading the Sherlock Holmes stories and I get so excited when I reach an interior illustration!!!

Hello! I'm Taylor, an artist interested in character design and concept art who also is experimenting with sculpture. I hope to post lots of my work here!💖

You aren't an artist if you put words into a computer program and post the resulting output as if you did something. That's not what art is. You have no craft. You've done no work. You've engaged no creativity. You're nothing. Tagging that shit as art of any kind is just lying.

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

Something I worry about when I've been unintentionally staring at someone for 10 minutes whilst dissociating

Tag urself shrimp edition :]

For my undergrad thesis, I wrote and illustrated three short stories centered around queer romance!! This book celebrates my favorite fanfiction tropes and was a joy to work on 📚✨🌈 #writersky #booksky #lgbtq #artistforhire www.rachelhendel.com/product/trop...

Researching for my webcomic, Cryptid World Tour. What is your favorite niche #cryptid?? Any continent, gimme some leads for cool creatures!!