I did this for 3 and a half months and it was genuinely transformative, but I need to take a break cause I don’t wanna look my subconscious in the eye anymore 👁️

Poster design & illustration for Belfast queer DJ duo Ponyhawke, and their all day Pride party! A homage to the iconic film ‘Pirscilla Queen of the Desert’ ✨ #illustration #illustrator #irishillustration #irishillustrator #posterdesign

Cover #5, and the final cover to Jeff Wheeler's Harbinger series in french 🔥

I’m currently moving from drawing on a iPad to drawing on a Cintiq, it feels more significant and existential than turning 30 did.

my brain rn but it can only handle two things at a time

As a brooding young teen I was all “ewww blonde bubbly popstars are the WORST with their pink princess bullshit” Now as an adult goth woman I’m like “I would protect the princess Sabrina Carpenter with my life”

task complete - sing karaoke

the best way i can summarize coloring advice is: fuck around and find out

My piece for a Belfast art exhibition ; “Cailleach - Divine Hag” that featured an amazing line up of Irish women artists! Prints for sale on my website 🩷🇮🇪⚔️💅✨

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠

Out now! My project ‘Rose-Tinted’ is a pixel-based typeface (x-height: 6px, cap height: 9px), that accounts for Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic variants. I hope you enjoy! --- Creative Market: creativemarket.com/wendyleftmea... Gumroad: wendymurphyonline.gumroad.com/l/rose-tinted

I’ve been writing in a journal every morning for two weeks, and wow the emotional mess that comes out of the subconscious onto the page is actually fucked up why did no one warn me

First poster of the year for Belfast queer club night Ponyhawke! 🔥✨🪩 Inspired by the stretch in the evenings, and the feeling of Spring in the distance. #illustration #illustrator #irishillustrator

Anyone can answer this, it isn't just for creatives! So if you're not a creative but still want to help protect our copyright, then you can still follow this (some tweaking to the wording will be needed of course). #illustration #kidlitart #kidlituk

To celebrate their 10th birthday The Woodworkers Bar in Belfast commissioned me to create some new glassware! The designs were inspired by their floral table pieces, & their patrons usual activities in the bar (chats, games, music, and often first dates!) 🍻💘

I really enjoy seeing Super Sonic every time I go for a silly little mental health walk ✨🦔 (and concern for the pupil-less snail)

My take on a poster for the Tank Girl movie 💣💥 Commissioned by Queen’s Film Theatre & The Naughton Gallery as part of their SCREEN/PRINT series. Was a treat to watch it on the original 35mm! #illustration #illustrator #tankgirl #jamiehewlett

Cherub spotting in Italy 👼

Woven tapestry I designed for Rí-Rá Irish Lager 🍻 Inspired by the ‘Treasured Tat’ found in pubs & homes all across Ireland 🇮🇪✨

An annoying thing I’ve noticed in arts/heritage spaces is that instead of funding the creation of art, they instead want you to run workshops on how to make that art, presumably so then more people can then not get paid to make art but give a continuing chain of workshops

Goals for 2025 : don’t smoke, don’t have a flare up, eat curry, make time to draw weird shit 🫡

I always end up reading a lot of fanfiction / manga during the weird in-between Xmas & New Years period. Gotta make sure I feel a deep sadness / heartache for fictional characters before the year is out ✨

Freelance emotions range wildly from: “I’m stagnating. The skill I pride myself in doesn’t bring me joy anymore, nor does it help the world.” to “Wow this looks great! How did I do this! I’m literally a god”

🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/sbwo...

People have been putting money in his commissary account and trying to donate money to a legal defense fund. He probably doesn't need it. But if you're moved, you can donate to OTHER prisoners' commissaries www.thecommissaryfund.org You can also request TCF funds for your incarcerated loved ones

CORPORATIONS: You don’t own this digital book/movie/album/comic/game, you have a license we can revoke at any time. We do this to protect copyright. ALSO CORPORATIONS: Copyright shouldn’t apply to us because we need free creative works to train our theftbots.

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

I’M SO SICK OF THESE GOVERNMENTS AND THESE CORPORATIONS THAT JUST TAKE TAKE TAKE AND DESTROY DESTROY DESTROY

"Who's a next ?" Seen in Hollywood, California

I’ve never been a musical girly, but I’ve had the Helluva Boss soundtrack playing on repeat literally all day and I fear it’s unlocked something

All the posters I created for Ponyhawke (Belfast’s best underground queer clubnight! ) during 2024 🩷✨🪩💃🕺💥🔥 #illustration #posterdesign

The fact that Disney bought Star Wars and bought the Muppets and haven’t done a Muppets Star Wars is a crime.

Considering everything that's going on in the world, why should you bother learning to draw hands a bit better? In my latest writing, I share why your smallest personal achievements help us build stronger communities. Thanks for sharing this one. ❤️ accidental-expert.com/p/why-bother

What a gem of an article #UX #design interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...

Been working on lots of fun bits for a local Belfast bar! First up is this poster and logo for their ‘Kick Out The Jams’ night 🫳🎹✨ I’m happy for any excuse to draw synths and aesthetic music gear fyi #illustration #irishillustrator

Genuinely think anyone can “git gud” at any creative craft they are interested in. If we wanted to actually “democratize” art we would invest in housing, healthcare, food and education as human rights. All GenAI does is make people even more financially precarious and less able to pursue a passion

"This Kingdom will fall, I've seen it in my visions" Personal artwork in an ongoing image series called "Palace Life". This one was made back in 2018.

Me when any illustrator I follow does literally anything

Garf Unit 01 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰

Book cover illustrations for these beautifully written memoirs by Seamus O’Rourke, “on the comedy and calamity of growing up in Leitrim.” 🍂 Commissioned by Gill Books!

The Function of Colour in Schools, Factories & Hospitals. Part 2. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p...

Mark O'Connell, one of Ireland's best non-fiction writers, writes about the death of Hind Rajab. This is a heartbreaking and unanswerable piece. Free Palestine. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

The official state of Israel account has posted this video, saying it is facilitating aid into Gaza. A short clip at the end of the video, claiming to show tents and shelter for Gazans, was actually filmed in March 2022, showing tents in Moldova for Ukrainian refugees. from @shayan86.bsky.social

Rafah is a city of 170,000. 1.3 million people have tried to seek shelter there. It takes up this little corner of Gaza. All of Gaza is the size of Philadelphia.

For fuck sake, writers, STOP USING AI ART. Stop using it on your book covers, stop using it in your book promos, stop using it to show what your OCs look like, stop using it as "inspiration," STOP USING IT. You want your artform respected, respect other artforms. There is no ethical use. None.

Tasty whiskey label illustration for Redacted Bottlers based on the legend of ‘The Black Dog of the Rock’ 🥃✨ #illustration