Recent songs I’ve been enjoying

Frankenstein was absolutely gorgeous. @realgdt.bsky.social delivered a masterpiece! Catch it in theaters if you can.

Jordan Myrick trying her first death drop! @dropout.tv #gastronauts

Paul F. Tompkins says, “Knock it off, furries!” (As a bit)

Ooh excited to listen to the new @mattbaume.bsky.social pod with @trungles.com as the guest! www.mattbaume.com/sewers-shown...

Felt like wishing my dwarf-lovin’ bud a happy birthday, and was drawn to Vanillaware designs and loose watercolor. Happy birthday, Leo!

We have some friends coming over to (re-)watch Over the Garden Wall, and I was curious to see if Posca markers would work on stone. Behold! The valley of facts. The big one was placed outside our door. If it gets stolen, that would be the perfect coda to this art. #otgw

Hooray! My random mini dungeon zine arrived today. Plus: included ink drawing!

My final piece for #gobtober This felt like a Norman Rockwell slice of life kind of scene. 31. Pumpkin! Thanks to Juan from oddartworks.com for the art inspiration

30. Cursed! Sometimes it just feels like that. #gobtober

The first thing popping into my head when I hear 29. Lore Keeper is some stuffy old person in a room full of books. Goblins have a much stronger oral tradition. This one holds on to stories and knowledge and probably a bunch of garbage, too. Designing her was a ton of fun #gobtober

The end of #gobtober is in sight! And I’m actually all done with my drawings, too. Now to crawl back into my hole like 28. Hermit.

Last night was our first backyard fire of the season. It was perfect 🔥

I find watercolors so nice… when other people do them. 😝 anyway here is #gobtober 27. “Pest” - the single sock thief!

Man, this goblin is a pyromaniac! In choosing 25, Elemental, choosing which element to highlight was the first step. This popped into my head and thought it would be a lot of fun to highlight the chaotic nature of gobbos. Some of the outfit was inspired by firefighter uniforms. #gobtober

The winner and “Champeen” (25. Champion) of the Local Goblin Wrestling Foundation! Again, kind of had a tough time coming up with a gobbo for this one, but I was happy with the result! The oversized pants made me laugh!

😔 Woke up early to cram for a test… ugh. I thought I was done with this crap 😭

This was such a great event last night. Teddie and Jaime killed it with such a great roster of readers. Plus, the comics-reading game leveled up with live cello and lots of fake blood! Truly a lot of fun. 🤩

24. Dragon was a fun excuse to design a dragon and their rider. The goblin isn’t decked out with some major weaponry, they are on a freaking dragon! Instead I was like “how do they communicate while flying” - so a horn and heraldry came from that. And we love a standing saddle! #gobtober

I mean if the destruction of the White House isn’t the perfect metaphor for this guy… 🙄

Best album cover of the year?

23. Undead opened the door to so many possibilities. I initially went down the road of making a Chinese hopping vampire, which became Hsien-Ko/Lei Lei fan art, but it wasn’t the vibe. In the end, I focused on the goblin, the feel and mood. The creature was left vague, but menacing (I hope) #gobtober

A perfect slice of Halloween fun! Nice job, guys 🎃 🧟

I spent way too much time trying to come up with a concept for this and then punting at the last minute. I just didn’t want to wallow in the grossness, but figured it was worth sharing the less successful efforts as well as ones I vibe with. Varying levels of quality is normal. #gobtober 22 Gross

For today’s #gobtober, we have 21. Ambusher. I went with a very messy take on old-school D&D type art (first edition-y vibes). Hopefully it’s mostly readable, as I tried to capture this columned pathway lit by one torch. I love the vibes and sword-gob’s shadows really make me happy.

OMG, this lil’ Thug (day 20 of #gobtober) fought me almost every step of the way. Based off my memory of the Matt Wagner redcap goblins from his excellent Mage series

For 19. thief, I felt like I kinda did that with the Sneaky prompt, so I went in a superheroic kind of direction #gobtober

18. Guard. #gobtober A simpler drawing, focusing on the pose here and trying to emphasize the feeling of balanced weight as this gob leans heavily on their spear while dozing 😴

Another day, another gob. 17) Archer. Used a photo reference for this since bows are so complicated and was really happy with the way it came out #gobtober

Today’s prompt was Scavenger, and I immediately thought of the wonderful series Scavenger’s Reign and all the weirdness it delivered. So here is the pollination scene, starring a tiny goblin! #gobtober

Ack, forgot to post this yesterday. 15. Mutations- decided to do a little play with the prompt and made some of my favorite mutants as goblins. Thanks to Leo for suggesting Cyclops have a gob-green optic blast! #gobtober

14. Brute; or, with a little help from my little friend. I wanted to do a different body type than I did on day one, and I didn’t want to make them beastly. This gobbo is strong, curvy, likes jewelry and isn’t afraid to get help when needed #gobtober

I almost drew yesterday’s chief as a chef, but saw that the very next one was food-related, so … anyway, 13. Cook! More extreme shadows and fanciful costuming— enjoy. #gobtober

Ooh I’m excited to show this Goblin off! This guy was a big exception to the one-hour guideline I set for these but it was so much fun I couldn’t stop. Anyway, a Chief for #gobtober day 12.

When that morning light hits just right… 💖💖💖

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Eleven: bait! This piece was fun to design as simple & readable. That goblin thinks it’s their lucky day, finding that leftover hunk o’ meat. #gobtober

Wolf rider X! Day ten of #gobtober has a goblin with thighs of steel. I think my favorite detail is the spittle coming out of his mouth, mirroring his steed. Also: I’m pretty pleased with the wolf pose for not using a reference!

Here’s another fun one (?) - 9. Wizard. This one isn’t quite as successful as a Goblin, because he is so obscured, but I really wanted to do an Orko / Donald (from Fat Albert) look. Enjoy! #gobtober

8: Shaman, for Odd Artworks #gobtober. I had a lot of fun with the design, heavily inspired by Fever Ray’s first concept album.

#gobtober continued with 7. Knight. I had a lot of fun designing this one. 💚 it was interesting to lean more into the technical schematic side of things- like how the lion face in the stomach provides some visibility for the lower gobbo

6: warrior more #Gobtober fun. Keeping it simpler with just a single character in pencils

Two excellent ghost movies this weekend: 1) all of us strangers - so incredibly tender and sweet (and sad) 2) a Chinese ghost story - fun in a evil dead or big trouble in little China way 👻 ’tis the season 🎃

Day 5 of #gobtober y’all! The other end of the spectrum: Hunted This one kind of got away from me as I was compelled to do this entire scene.

Today’s Goblin prompt was Hunter, and because I grew up on Marvel comics, Kraven the Hunter and his silly, silly costume came to mind. #gobtober

I had so much fun with this one! 3. Alchemist for Odd Artwork’s #gobtober prompt list

Day 2 of Odd Artwork’s Gobtober: Sneaky

Gobtober day 1: Goblin I’m trying to take about an hour with these sketches and drawings. Tools me a bit to warm up with this one but I was kind of getting there by the end of it

Somehow I’d never seen this flick or really knew what it was about. Thanks for another bit of entertaining history, Matt! Also: the Castlevania & very sly throat goat references were sending me

We added a new bub to the family! @bearpadart.bsky.social was painting some of his figures and I picked one up. Felt right to have him pose on Jason’s shoulder