Returning to Bluesky to report that in the park I saw a cat in one of those backpacks, a fluffy fella named Puchka who “loves his walks”. This message is for Puchka, I hope you’re having a wonderful day

Me as a baby / don’t ask if you don’t really wanna know the answer

I moved flats last year and this is my chosen palette scheme when I have free rein: 💛💙💚❤️

The new Crow & Craig comic, “Foraging for Fame”, is free to read on my public Patreon - and apologies to #foragetok www.patreon.com/posts/152789...

Been doing some plot-puzzling

Another comic on my public Patreon! I’m uploading ones that show my progress in comics since 2024 www.patreon.com/posts/152463...

This is now a Stan account for The Undeniable Isadora Duncan

Guess who’s been on Wikipedia

I finished a new ‘Crow & Craig’ comic and it’s on the indie shelves at Gosh Comics!! There’s also a mini version of the original comic for £2 ✨ The series is about a corvid (Crow) and cryptid (Craig) trying to live a peaceful life in the woods, unbothered by human nonsense (usually)

Rumbled by a fortune cookie [insert the theme music to ‘The Americans’]

One of my earliest newsletters was all about the Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner landscapes nataliebsketching.substack.com/p/looney-lan...

I’m working on a one page comic (turning out to be at least 2 hours work for a single punchline lolol) and the landscape sketches are clearly inspired by my studies of Looney Tunes!

I re-did an old comic as a sticker design. Support shrivelled up artists

The only medication I need

Loot that drops after defeating me:

Can someone explain why, in my free time, I play games to simulate extremely stressful work

My Hourly Comics Day comic is now up on Patreon for free! I’ve literally just made my creator page, so I hope everything works www.patreon.com/posts/150565...

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Picking up my fucking digital bindle yet again

ngl I’m pleased with my from-memory drawing of the characters of Black Books (from my Hourly Comics Day comic). Bernard, Manny and Fran are burned into my mind’s eye

I’d love to find more artists using Patreon as a blog! I’m planning to move my free Substack over there but first need to learn how it all works…

Oooooh

Hourly Comics Day 2026! 8-9am: coffee, Moira Rose, sun, shower

Tomorrow is Hourly Comics Day and it’s my first one with an iPad! Making comics is so much easier digitally but why does it feel a little like cheating the challenge?? I need to pretend like it’s ink

:((

Well that explains it

I came across a cosmetic brand called “Youthtopia”, like they want to be a remake of Logan’s Run

Free comics! Most of my 2025 short comics are now collected in a single page on my Substack for easy reading. Observations about daily life, London life, and “misc”. Enjoy! nataliebsketching.substack.com/p/comics-2025

In this scenario I’m seeking the middle ground

Last summer I pulled my socks up and finished a 4 page comic for The Observer’s Graphic Short Story Prize. It was a brilliant learning experience and I’m glad to share it with you now, for freeee nataliebsketching.substack.com/p/which-lond...

Do you draw? Are you in/near London? Join on 1st Feb for an Hourly Comic Day hangout! www.instagram.com/p/DTfDkAUDMuL/

This sounds so fun! Hourly Comic Day is on a Sunday and I would love to arrange a daytime get together here in London Town

Honest advert

Shit I spelled my own name wrong in the tag. I have to change it to Natali now 🫡

I’ve never experienced this dream but if I do I want to never wake up

This comic is subtweeting a family member

You can’t always predict which ones will have a gnaw on your feet

Viscous

Babe are you okay you’re listening to the companion podcast to Craig Mazin’s HBO series about Chernobyl again

The most common casualties in London

I suspect that ‘oval pizzas in rectangular boxes’ are a UK supermarket thing and may not be universally relatable, but this goes out to anyone who’s ever been in an M&S Food

In lieu of a comic, here are a couple of winter-woods sketches I’ve been doing in watercolour and watercolour pencil. This is Looking At Trees Club

crow bar

“What would it take to get you to join a cult?”

No thoughts just bugs

These are all real

London Underground stations

Small talk nightmare

I sometimes put on a German radio station while I work, to keep up my language skills. Boy Germans like English swear words, which are *meaningless* to them