My hourly comics from Sunday! #hourlycomicday2026 #hourlycomicday #hourlycomics #journalcomics #hcd2026

I spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs easier, even if it's just used in "very early ideation stages." Zero said "yes." Most said it made their job harder. I learnt a lot about concept artists. You should too!

Really enjoyed learning some new folklore while working on these Perchten ornaments! #schiachperchten #schönperchten #percht #perchten #yulelore #ink #folklore

Just finished reading “Buffalo Hunter Hunter’ by Stephen Graham Jones last night. Whoa! Gripping from start to finish, extremely well done, makes me curious for more Western Horror. Thanks to @komara.bsky.social for the excellent rec! #fanart #bookart #buffalohunterhunter #procreate #macpaint

New bits for the Cookeville ART Prowl this weekend: my “Merry Mari Lwyd” illustration as a print or on cards as well as an L Frank Baum sticker sheet. I’ve also restocked my card/print designs from last year and my Edgar Allen Poe sticker sheets. #marilwyd #krampus #yulecat #lfrankbaum #poe

Drew up some Treat Bags for a few of my favorite tricksters. #halloween #trickortreat #paperbagart #monsters #crayonart #markerart

A real swing and miss with this new Affinity announcement. Canva takes the biggest selling point for many artists using Affinity “We don’t have AI nonsense” and says “But what if we added A BUNCH of AI nonsense!” Sure makes me glad I bought the old licensed version before they sold it off.

Playing around with some texture brushes and decided to sketch my favorite Bug Boyz, Zuckuss and 4-LOM. (No-one shake my head canon of them as grouchy gruff dad and exuberant wiseass son.) #zuckuss #4lom #starwars #bountyhunters #empirestrikesback #fanart #blackandwhite #procreate #macpaint

I’m pretty excited for the #nashvillecomicartsfestival this weekend! I’m tabling with my buddy @cached.bsky.social and right next to @nekoemo.bsky.social in what I’m sure will be known as the “Little Cookeville” region of NCAF. Swing by to see us and check out all of the wonderful comics!

Progress pics for a new art game experience I’m working on with @cached.bsky.social Be sure to come by our table at Nashville Comic Arts Festival this Saturday if you think you’ve got what it takes to Escape! #3dprinting #artgame #spaceman #ghost #procreateart #nashville

Had a blast with my new Dr Venture costume last night at Dragon Con. Speed suits are the fashion of the future, such freedom, such versatility! Way better for dancing, too. #dragoncon #drventure #hankventure #teamventure

Dragon Con time for the Jones Boys!Not looking forward to wearing a three piece wool suit in Atlanta heat, but I am stoked to see some cool costumes and share some comics and stickers. #dragoncon #indianajones #lastcrusade

I’ve got a new brick print! “LetGo” is a 6”x8” print with a limited run of just 25 copies, debuting this Friday at Art Round Tennessee’s First Friday at CPAC from 5-8 pm. Come by and say hi if you’re near Cookeville! #artroundtennessee #cookevilletn #localart #blockprinting #brickprint #lego

A creekside porch in the NC mountains is a pretty great place to read and sketch some Tolkien, if you happen to get the chance.

I’ve been building up my sketch cards for FCBD and found myself with a touch of Mutant Fever. #fcbd #sketchcards #markerart #xmen

My first chunk of Hourly Comic Day drawings. It’s a good feeling to be caught up! I love seeing how folks all around the world have intersecting and diverging moments. #hourlycomicday #hourlycomicsday #hcd2025 #hourlycomicday2025 #hourlies #journalcomics #ink

Tomorrow is Hourly Comic Day! Hands down, my favorite annual art challenge. Here are my pages from last year. I don’t know how many Feb. 1sts I’ve chronicled, but it’s well over a dozen, and these little books are some of my most treasured possessions. #hourlycomicday #hcd2024 #journalcomics #ink

The best part of sending out mail is getting to doodle all over the envelopes. #envelopeart #fantasyart #wizardwednesday #markerart

Sending some prints to a friend, they mentioned their kid is into wizards and glowing orbs, so I brought my best Van Art game for a bonus piece. (process pics below) #fantasyart #ttrpg #osr #wizard #orb #markerart

I’ve been playing a lot of Stone Shard lately and really needed to draw my knight errant, Arna der Vyrne. She has seen…some stuff. #stoneshard #fanart #fantasyart #osr #knight #blackandwhite #procreate #ttrpg

Maybe I’ve had a more picturesque drawing spot in the past, but I’ll be dammed if I can remember when. Kings Beach, you are a wonderful and gorgeous town, you’d better believe I’ll be back. #laketahoe #ink #coloredpencil #drawingoutside #woodtoad

A cozy hobbity hole, ink and colored pencil on tone paper.

Some more redrawn Warlord proxies. I’ll be at Dragon Con this weekend and have a few spares to give away, reach out if you’d like to snag one. Thanks to the original artists for their inspirational work: Carl Frank, Llyn Hunter, and William O’Connor. #warlordccg #warlordsagaofthestorm #procreate

This is particularly weird to me, having lived through the Golden Age of Webcomics. It wasn’t even democracy, it was complete anarchy. We made so many comics and some of them were terrible and some were gloriously weird and nobody stopped us. Nobody is stopping anyone now! You can just make a comic!

Having a blast redrawing old Warlord cards for proxy practice decks for friends. Looking forward to the return of this game! Thanks to Carl Frank, William O’Connor, and Jonathan Hunt for such fun original art for these characters. #warlordccg #gameart #fantasyart #procreate

In need of a weird wizardly dungeon for an upcoming session, I played around with a random design using my Chessex Dungeon Die. To give some extra flavor, I tossed a HeroQuest die as well to randomize size, and worked up a quick d6 table for doors. #osr #ttrpg #dnd #dungeonmapping #dice

Some solar/lunar themed monsters and heroes for Eclipse Day. #osr #ttrpg #dnd #fantasyart #digitalart #procreate #blackandwhite #vampire #werewolf

A ragamuffin witch with some heavy (but oddly unintentional) Tom Baker vibes. Process video over on IG: www.instagram.com/mattknieling/ #dnd #fantasyart #osr #ttrpg #witch #procreate

Played around with the Shadowdark book’s mapping tables, ended up with a fun one page dungeon. Beware, all who seek out Scalga’s Tomb! #shadowdark #rpg #osr #dnd #fantasymapping #dungeonmapping #ink

What started as a monster doodle ended up as a real yokel looking beholder-kin. #dnd #beholder #fantasyart #osr #rpg #digitalart #procreate

A bit of quick and gritty nautical mapping for an upcoming rpg session. What dark mysteries will be found on this drifting ship… #spoileritsdraculas #rpg #osr #dungeonmapping #dnd

A goofy looking fighting man. (timelapse vid over at IG) #dnd #osr #fantasyart #digitalart #procreate