SongXiao and A-Qing with the spirits of ShuangHua and FuXue (my OC design) #mdzs

Did you know that I make custom fonts that imitate hand lettering, and that you can pay me to make one for you? thingsbydan.co.uk/fonts/ like this one I made for @lucysullivan.bsky.social

One of last month's nsfw patreon posts. Really really happy with the lighting on this one. #tyreecomic #nsfw

also shout out to @rayday.bsky.social for figuring out a fantastic way of lettering it. Like serious. Big brain moment.

It's time to start treating the direct market as what it actually is--books for a niche audience that don't reflect the general public. Nothing wrong with a niche audience! Essence magazine readers are a niche audience. RuPaul's Drag Race has one too. The DM doesn't contain the default reader.

“I dont think my art is good enough to make this comic/webtoon/visual novel/game” You should make it, because even if your art isnt where you want it to be, the constant practice you gain while working on a project will rapidly improve your skills as oppose to just waiting

NÃO existe aprendizado meramente passivo. aula NÃO é entretenimento. aprender REQUER ESTUDAR – e estudar se faz, em grande medida, LENDO E ESCREVENDO. dá trabalho, gera ansiedade, é cansativo. mas a real é que o verbal escrito é uma TECNOLOGIA ÚNICA para a construção de conhecimento COMPLEXO.

sempre a mesma ladainha culpando o professor. querem fazer crer que a educação de nível superior tem que se tornar um showzinho de mágica para "capturar" ADULTOS que ESCOLHERAM estar ali. o que essa alegação quer é reduzir educação a algo puramente instrumental, de modo a tornar o prof substituível.

Love this, we need more companies doing this.

The film was built entirely by hand, from watercolor backgrounds to multiplane underwater scenes to needle-pricked paper and inverted paint techniques, without any CG. www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

Starweb.

✨ quote repost with your art that has stars ✨

The full illustration I did for @taplingzines.bsky.social "We've Always Been Here" The zine depicts queer couples throughout cultures and history and I had the honours of portraying a Japanese lesbian couple in an underground bar during the 80s✨ #queer #lesbians #illustration

Was going through my unused editorial sketches folder from the last few years, found some stuff that I wish had been used. Always a reminder that your favs likely won't be chosen, but that's the name of the freelance game! Hoping to make some new art soon🧡

some of 2025 b/w comms yayy

Sketch for Dualcaster Mage 🖤 #art #sketch

@portaltohades.bsky.social my four apocalypse (lady) knights.

HAZESHIFT IS LIVE ON WEBTOON ORIGINALS!! www.webtoons.com/en/romance/h... #webtoons #hazeshift #comics

ʚଓ⋆ My very first Hualian fanart ʚଓ⋆ ♡ / ↻ — are appreciated😌 #tgcf #天官赐福 #huacheng #XieLian #HuaLian #heavenofficialsblessing

mmm... poomang.com/en/t/smooth_...

Okay so if you guys wanna do the honors. help.ko-fi.com/hc/en-us/req...

Here are Dave and David's full unedited comments for those interested:

I always smile when I remember this 900 year old Sam & Max fanart, carved into some old twelfth century church in england

魂祈梦请

Sylph songstress

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

We're now over 75% of the way to our goal! 🎉 If you want an art book filled with beautiful celebrations of queer history throughout the world, pledge now for your copy! Let's make sure we fund and can bring this project to life 💕 ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

Blue Winter Birds 💙❄️

Tell us your favourite... tree: weeping willow flower: white zephyrus /any wild flower season: winter, tho it's not so cold here 🥲 tea: lemon balm coffee: strong. no sugar time of day: around 9am, sunrise genre: fantasy, scifi, historical, crime, romance dessert: dark chocolate & homemade ones

Pleased to be on this list with so many other amazing artists!!! 💚💚💚

╢Personal work and characters╟ Gotta make do when you are an apex predator but also tiny. #zlatomir #goldendernee #krowfacedart #monsteroc

6: Bongo Antelope centaur! #monstermarch

NOOO! I've already read all comics/manhuas/mangas/manhwas I follow! I planned to read comics all night, and now I don't know what to do! (my asd + adhd's screaming in despair) Gotta sleep a bit.

help a fucking amazing artist out whos dealing with the awful medical system 😭💖 toss them so much money and well wishes!!

Wait, that was the 2025 mascot, the new is even hideous lmao esctoday.com/203910/orf-u...

Dear God, my eyes

I come up to you. I boop your nose. I say to you "Excuse me sir (gender neutral) please back this queer art project that is a light of hope in these dark dark days."

And so many wild flowers 😻💜

Horses 💜

Color tests!

#xielian #tgcf #aviart dressed him properly

wow!!

3 and a half months later......anyway 3/300 #tgcf #xielian #aviart

Alright, updated post after speaking w/ a neurosurgeon. Currently I mostly need help affording transportation to various appointments and saving up for multiple surgeries. I will link the post explaining the full situation of what's going on with the IIH in the reply. I apologize for asking again.

Me: YAY Friday evening! Gonna sketch something while relaxing and maybe read some comics. My body/barin: No, you won't. *Throws fibromyalgia with migraine* Gods, I have the right to be happy and healthy too! What did I do wrong this time? Just what did I eat? Was it that 1 cup of sugarless coffee???

I think about this a lot.

Some girls for a new comic …

To y'all young artists out there, take in comfort that your "poorly drawn" picture has more copyright protection than some GenAI slop piece. Thanks to the latest Supreme Court ruling against GenAI, it's a major victory for us artists.