Time strips your illusions and hands you something better When I was younger, I thought life events happened to me. Now I see they happen through me. Like storms through a forest. You don’t stay the same tree. You bend. You lose branches. You grow moss in weird places. Sometimes lightning hits and…

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Slow Art in a Fast World Something that has lived on my to do list forever is publishing my kids book, Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet. As you can see, I’ve created an entire universe of merchandise, t shirts, mugs, pillows and stickers, but you know what I don’t have? The book. The one thing…

From Dream Creatures to Homegrown Realness I’ve always had a fascination with the octopus, a kind of beauty horror combination, so it’s no wonder they make regular appearances in my dreams. Their ability to camouflage, solve problems, and just how utterly alien they are fascinates me. People seem…

From Tape Drives to the Creative Takeover I’m drawing a brocket deer, tiny, shy, and endangered, and it hits me how much it feels like artists today. Both live in worlds where everything is sacrificed to the god of money and convenience. Forests get bulldozed, attention spans get mined, and…

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Afraid of Flying, Afraid of Falling: Art, Ethics and Avoidance I keep making patterns. Forests of patterns. Kaleidoscopes of creatures. Crowns spinning into infinity. This new crowned eagle t-shirt pattern is bold, rhythmic, a little hypnotic. The kind of shirt that quietly says, I notice things…

Crowned Eagle Wallpaper This crowned eagle wallpaper gives my obsession with nature’s hidden patterns a new digital form, feathers becoming rhythm, crowns becoming symbols, and repetition turning into meaning. It’s a 1/1 piece. No copies, no factory vibes, just one strange, beautiful rebellion…

Time to Create a Seemingly Meaningless Bat Real art doesn’t wait for perfect conditions. It grows in micro moments. In the car. Between jobs. While the kettle boils. In those quiet five minutes before sleep when your mind finally loosens its grip and lets something real through. If you can learn…

We’ve Dropped the Ball with the Yangtze Finless Porpoise The Yangtze Finless Porpoise is one of the strangest, rarest, most quietly magical animals on Earth and one of the most endangered. It is the only known freshwater porpoise in the world, living exclusively in China’s Yangtze River, a…

The Only Smart Way to Spend Lottery Money (If You’re an Artist) Time to make art without squeezing it into the cracks of exhaustion. Time to explore ideas that don’t have an immediate ROI. Time to fail gloriously in peace. Which brings me to my latest dream journal artwork mug: Free Hugs — where…

Can a Tapir Teach What Self-Help Books Can’t? This tapir illustration came from my Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet take on the #Inktober prompt “trunk.” Yes, elephants are the obvious choice, and I adore them, especially after seeing baby ones swim like wrinkly little submarines of joy. However i…

What’s wilder — your walls or your family traditions? Some people hang soft pastels and polite florals in their lounge rooms. I hang wild animals that look like they’re about to chew through the wall and escape into the house. My latest artwork, Wolverine Wallpaper, is exactly that kind of…

A Contagion of Creativity - Buy Hypno Bat Stickers - It all started back when NFTs were booming and everyone was suddenly a digital artist, a collector, and a crypto prophet. I minted my first ever NFT, a Hypno Bat, and sold it for $20. Twenty bucks. Not life-changing money, but mentally? That was…

C is for Crowned Eagle — and this one marks a turning point for me. - 1/1 NFT on Zero One 1 AVAX - This illustration came out of #Inktober, from the simple act of drawing every day whether I felt inspired or not. The prompt was “crown,” and this lovely eagle emerged, but more importantly, my style…

Visual Dream Journal — Day 133: “Big Trouble” This dream drags up old memories of being a kid and fishing in places I definitely wasn’t supposed to be fishing. Not because it was dangerous. Not because it hurt anyone. But because somewhere, some adult decided that joy in the wrong postcode equals…

Is Your Leadership Style… Tarantula Hawk? Show off your love for unique and uncommon animals with this playful "I'm an Uncommon Animal" Tarantula Hawk design! When someone asks, "What uncommon animal are you?" you can proudly answer, "A tarantula hawk!" Did you know the tarantula hawk has one of…

Potato Power – My Visual Dream Journal – Day 132 I was in a massive cathedral with stained glass so high I don’t recall seeing the floor. Below me, some bloke on a dodgy ladder was throwing potatoes at me. Not a rock. Not a brick. Potatoes. Which somehow made it more sinister. At first it feels…

I’m an Uncommon Animal – Wolverine T-Shirts Shop Now Not your average cute critter, this design features an original hand drawn Wolverine that will appear in my kids book More Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet, paired with the words “I’m an Uncommon Animal,” made for outsiders, wild spirits, and…

My attention’s like a jumping spider—leaping from one idea to the next Jumping Spider Wallpaper NFT now available on Zero One andycmarshall.com/2024/11/19/m...

From Graphic Recording to YouTube Success: @raheemnelsonart.bsky.social Creative Journey | Fork in the Road Podcast andycmarshall.com/2025/10/18/f...

Dreaming of a Digital Detox Day 131 of my visual dream journal probably connects more than I first realised to how I’ve been thinking about the way I communicate online. Lately I’ve been working on deleting all social media apps from my phone. Not quitting the internet, not disappearing from…

Nature’s Art Gallery Featuring the Tarantula Hawk I’ve just finished a new artwork, and I’m still deciding whether I’ve captured something quietly magnificent or something no child should ever meet on the page. The Tarantula Hawk is not a gentle creature. Even drawn in soft psychedelic colours, it…

Blending In, Standing Out, and My Visual Dream Journal She towers above the crowd, head and shoulders rising like a silent signal that she doesn’t quite belong. Her posture calm, her expression unreadable, at first glance she’s just another figure, but the world around her seems to shrink in…

I’m an Uncommon Animal – Dodo Bird I’ve just dropped a new t-shirt: the I’m an Uncommon Animal dodo edition. A little extinct bird that once strutted around like it owned the world, now gone. A tragic but fitting mascot for our modern creativity: easily distracted, overrun by convenience, and at…

Speed painting your way out of perfectionism and finding your style with Mark Sib - Fork in the Road Podcast youtube.com/shorts/Loras...

Don’t Let Your Creativity Go the Way of the Dodo Meet my Dodo.I originally created this little extinct oddball for Inktober, but it’s since taken on a life of its own… ironic, I know. The Dodo will likely flap its way into my next kids’ book, More Uncommon Animals of the Alphabet. There’s…

Taking my Inktober pen and ink illustration of my Wolverine to the next level in procreate. Still experimenting with styles and colours but I’m kinda liking the way this one is looking. #inktober #inktober2025 #inktobershredded #wolverines #penandinkart #procreate #uncommonanimals

🔥 One poem a day. One drawing every morning. @srchappell.bsky.social turned daily effort into a published book. I turned mine into art that’s transforming my career. Discover the full story - The Power of the Creative Challenge”on Patreon www.patreon.com/posts/143028...

Catching up on Inktober, this is my illustration for the prompt - Vacant Can you guess why?

Streaming & Survival: Virg on Becoming a Thriving Artist in the Digital Age | Fork in the Road Podcast

Finding your artistic style by painting what you feel | Mark Sib Fork in the Road Podcast youtube.com/shorts/CIrSu...

Inktober Day 28: Skeletal

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Vlogging without the cringe. Raheem shares why he doesn’t talk to camera in public—opting instead for cinematic b-roll and seamless voiceover storytelling that keeps his videos impactful and comfortable to film. @raheemnelsonart.bsky.social Fork in the Road Podcast youtube.com/shorts/btNw3...

Inktober Rivals: Tiny Mosquitoes and the Everyday Rivalry of Making Food vs Making Art Some rivals you can reason with. Others you can’t even see coming. Enter the mosquito, humanity’s deadliest enemy. Forget lions, sharks, or snakes… this tiny airborne vampire has taken more human lives than…

Authenticity isn’t a trend, it’s the entire strategy. Working only with brands that are part of your real creative process is how @raheemnelsonart.bsky.social builds trust and impact | Fork in the Road Podcast youtube.com/shorts/bdcMt...

Arctic Fox vs. The Artist: Inktober Day 19 and the Cold Truth About Why I Won’t Quit (Even When It Makes No Sense) Meet the Arctic fox, the true master of survival at the edge of the world. This small predator is built for extremes, with fur so insulating it’s been recorded as the warmest of any…

Inktober Day 18 – Deal: The Daily Drawing Deal That’s Changing My Art and Helping Save Animals In the coral kingdoms of the reef, one tiny creature runs the most important business under the sea: the cleaning station. Meet the Cleaner Shrimp, nature’s underwater negotiator. The deal is simple:…

Raheem Nelson @raheemnelsonart.bsky.social on why niching down can limit your story. Sometimes the real magic happens when you combine EVERYTHING you do on one platform—especially YouTube. | Fork in the Road Podcast youtube.com/shorts/Un5V_...

Inktober Day 17: Ornate When it comes to intricate design, nature’s got the edge. Meet the Ornate Box Turtle, a North American original dressed in golden lines and dark spirals — like a living mandala carved by sunlight and soil. Each marking is a fingerprint of survival, a story etched over…

From Graphic Recording to YouTube Success: Raheem Nelson’s Creative Journey | Fork in the Road Podcast

Inktober Day 16: Blunder Ah, the Dodo — nature’s most famous “oops.” Once strutting proudly across Mauritius with not a single predator to fear, this plump, flightless bird had no idea that humanity would turn out to be its ultimate blunder. Within less than a century of our arrival, it was gone,…

Inktober Day 15: Ragged - Ragged/Tooth Shark Art Auction - proceeds go to Australian Marine Conservation

#Inktober Day 14: Trunk - Tapir Art Auction - Proceeds go to @rainforesttrust

Inktober Day 13: Drink #Inktober

Inktober Day 12: Shredded If you’ve ever watched An American Werewolf in London and winced through that transformation scene, skin tearing, bones cracking, pure primal chaos, you’ve already glimpsed the spirit of the Wolverine. It’s nature’s own were-creature: short, stocky, and absolutely…

Inktober Day 11: Sting Meet the Tarantula Hawk, part beauty, part nightmare, all purpose. With a sting ranked among the most painful in the natural world, this wasp doesn’t fight for sport. It paralyzes a tarantula, drags it underground, and lays a single egg inside the still-living host. When the…

✒️ Inktober Day 9: Heavy 🦭 Meet the Southern Elephant Seal — the heavyweight of the southern seas. Four tonnes of muscle, blubber, and unapologetic gravity. These giants haul themselves ashore each year to bellow, battle, and remind the rest of us what presence really means.

🖊️ Inktober Day 4: Murky 🌊 Meet the Yangtze Finless Porpoise — a ghostly smile breaking through the murky waters of China’s mighty river. Once common, now critically endangered.