moult

is it tea time yet

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

well yeah? always?

Jen’s writing does not have much in common with Nabokov’s, but she once read that he wrote his novels on index cards while sitting in his parked car and thought that sounded good. in jeneral her process is very analogue (up until Huw scans the week’s drafts with his phone In Case Of Loss)

why did i decide to play cards with myself

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

they get all the luck

(our good fortune to have yinglets is thanks to Valsalia!)

reviewing this morning's footage

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

on the tram home

mo-alt: sheeptaur

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

not feeling particularly harelike of late (or not much liking my harelike traits) so trying on the soft woolly thing to see if it fits better. and the extra legs thing

table diner

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100

of course my car is going to be fine, who’s going to steal it?

this large fox of foxtober belongs to Dex! have enjoyed seeing them this month and wanted to draw them

indicates

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Xin has the good grace to appear amused by the thing that the artist lacked imagination to draw

a birthday gift (which i have been very late to finish and post) for Xin!

standard

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0100

🏳️‍⚧️

gonfalon

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0100

looking for adventure

Mon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100

hatchday cards must have wordplay and reference to hobbies

for and of Avi!

braid composition

Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Shandy bouncing a few ideas off a colleague; maybe it develops into a new proof, maybe not, they’ll see

commission for Raeth! adamas are a closed species by ghostekey

mo-alt: yinglet

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

yingletsona! features: startle, forktooth, fluffbum, eat walnut, very much tail, powerful need to wrap limbs in materials (unknown why)

the yinglet species was created by Valsalia!

Julius Caesar, Siddons Playhouse, 2001

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

‘Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a colossus! And we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves!’

some horses! (2/2)

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

apologies to Spike, i don’t think i did so well with you, but i didn’t want to leave you out

some horses! (1/2)

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

have wanted to draw the mane 6 for a while!

weekend shop

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

carrying the groceries home is trivial when you’ve got four backs between you

(not necessarily canonical for Vitaly and Faisal. i just keep thinking ‘why not taur’)

every morning

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

‘yeah, course, why would i spend hours in therapy and take all those pills when all i need’s this.’
‘but you do feel better?’
‘vague affirmations and palm-to-palm action. fix me right up. [sighs] yes. slightly.’

crunch crunch

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

winter walk. clockwise from top left: Jen, Phaedra, Huw and Ida

(another wallpaper, this time for my phone, though it’s a bit visually busy for that)

what is this?

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

the greetings card i sent out in 2023! (this year’s has, i hope, found its recipients by now)

happy holidays everyone.

Beth and Heath (Picotron version)

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

rather than make games in Picotron, i make wallpapers to motivate myself to make games in Picotron. this makes sense

Picotron users are welcome to use this as their own wallpaper - the .p64.png cartridge image is here, and documentation of Picotron customisation is here. in some themes it may appear inverted: in that case, open the cart and swap the colour mappings in the code view

worldly

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

worldly, but still cute

sketch by me, kindly inked and coloured by Xin herself!

'i'll have you!'

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

when your wife (R) loves getting into fights, and loves pretending to get into fights with you (even though neither of you would ever), and loves you

sig_ill - the g.c.s.

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0100

imaginary acts single #3

lossless downloads at bandcamp

Clock-Mouse - How They Run

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100

non-summer sounds. bring a geiger counter, an EMF meter and a warm coat

lossless downloads at my bandcamp (plus old unrelated but vibes-compatible song repackaged as the b-side, as is traditional)

audio credits:

R04-45-Long Bells.wav by craigsmith, Creative Commons 0 license

photo credits:

‘Duga_radar_station_within_the_Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone,Ukraine(03).jpg’ photo by Alexander Blecher, CC BY-SA 4.0 license
‘Haworth Churchyard’ photo by Carol Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0 license

fox, furze, flower, flour [commission]

Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0100

brush-tails rush trails

the puncture can wait [commission]

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

it’s a nice night, isn’t it? sometimes it takes an obstruction to bring you into the moment

commission for ElSeven! Madeline is their character

Tidy Pile - Cupples

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

hopefully the first in a series of singles by fictitious acts

high-quality download free at my currently very sparse bandcamp

an unguarded moment [commission]

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

‘Ah… Caught me reading on the LORD’s words of love. No, don’t you worry, friend, I hoped I’d see you. Come to me.’

commission for Xin Jin Meng! the Revd. Dalrymple Mothersbaugh is her character

daisies

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

context-free cute matilda

big cat big commute [commission]

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

commission for Labov, character belongs to him!

eye contact is hard [commission]

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

but seeing you is still good

commission for Robyn - character is hers!

the greenest dragon [commission]

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

commission for kaoru - character belongs to them!

reception formal

Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

agatha is a courteous hostess

hiii

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

kip being kip

i promise to never wear a jacket again the rest of my life

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

maura bet alex no-one at this party would know what his costume was. she is down a meal out, because exactly one person at this party knows what alex’s costume is

ha he!

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

stephen and dinah, in their turn, will guess that ida is ‘capitalist joker’

the lemming condition

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0100

‘you may say you have seen ways out, signs to heaven, gifts given you by the grace of a kind and providential god - but i say to you, who among us can know when we enter this world whether we are to live or to die, whether our lives and deaths are needful or superfluous, and whether what we go to when we leave for the next world is worse or better than what we find in this?’

oh no!

(a doodle from a while back)

an air in baraboro

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0100

her name is catherine

(from wonder boy in monster land)

you're a work in progress

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0100

formal experiment with blank subject

refresher course

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100

xin brushes up on her piano skills with tutor viv

birthday gift for xin jin meng!

avi after artemisia

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100

she creates

(after artemisia gentileschi, ‘self-portrait as the allegory of painting’)

birthday gift for avi!

the nepo babies

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100

they aren’t, but they think calling themselves that is funny

some revived old characters

'judas iscariot', probably

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

jean’s sunday morning is studying richard dawson live performances at 0.25× speed to work out How He Does That

3 bed freehold semi, conveniently situated

Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

ferdinand is good at his job but anthea has heard it all a dozen times before

'isn't that her from that thing...

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

‘…who i went to that party as?’
‘er, yes!’

dinah, who is always trying to raise stephen’s fashion game, bought him the rose gold macbook as a birthday gift a couple of years ago. almost immediately he installed arch on it and plastered the case with stickers. a successful marriage takes compromise

slow dance

Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

huw and jen, making the best of it

just 2 girlz

Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

who are having a good time

seafront ride

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

eyes on the road, davy, goodness me

spacebun

Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

always forget to put my snacks back in the grav field when i get deeply into holo-sketching. time to clean the oxygen filters again

sample of the cameo commissions i’m doing for eumorphica, a new tabletop rpg: i draw your character, it goes in the game and you get the game. check out their kickstarter for more and to pledge (i promise i will not get cake on yours)

taurtumn

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

i think with four legs, a winter coat and an autumn wardrobe coming in, and a latte and a copy of anaïs nin’s collages to hand, they can be forgiven for looking pleased with themself

halloumi and roasted cauliflower

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

matilda teaching prue to cook, because prue will eat beans on toast seven days a week if it’s just her

doughs, oils, marinades, anything where you get your hands dirty, are particularly good for prue because they get her back in touch with her inner child, something she struggles to do otherwise

cross country

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

S2 stature class (large canids and felids, small ungulates)

1978

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

the roebuck, king’s road

(it’s now a cocktail bar, brasserie and private member’s club, which gilbert considers ‘a disgrace but bleedin typical’)

bernard (right) was a chelsea bird at this time, gilbert (left) not so much since SEX closed down, but he’d go anywhere for bernie

some cool photos of those days

semi-modular

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

thinks: i haven’t understood anything he’s said for the last five minutes. waveshaper? cross-modulation? what? … what kind of music-makers’ meet-up is this?

prompted by watching the modular synth documentary i dream of wires. viv is ver intuitive and all about knowing one instrument, however basic, inside out, so when they meet the type of guy who begins with tech and has a studio lined with eurorack modules it’s… interesting

un film de phèdre

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

phaedra makes slow films

talking late

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

‘You get kids whom no-one at home listens to, no-one at school listens to, and no-one in the community - well what community - and all these ghouls online, who seem to be there for them and aren’t and whom we’re abandoning them to. If there’s one thing I want to do as deputy head it’s genuine listening. Making the time for it, making the kind of environment where it’s possible.’

the inadvertent double-booking of the last visit went well so they did it intentionally this time round

in the aeroplane of conversation, sibyl and polly are engines and edie and prue are wings - if sibyl is out of action (as she usually is by this time in the evening) polly can 100% propel the chat on her own. (so polly can listen, it’s just not her primary function right now)

and edie’s an opossum again, having cycled through rat and rabbit. hopefully this metamorphosis sticks

DCIM_7330

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

‘Enough photos of my ass! Yeah, I know it’s fascinating, but walk ahead and get me from the front next time.’

maura’s italian holiday with alex

guests of honour

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

telling tales from the trenches about dealing with the saturn’s quadrilaterals, nintendo’s censors etc

DCIM_4993

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

stephen (centre) with brothers charlie (left) and rufus (right), ambushed by camera at a family get-together. they do not get on, but some of them are better at pretending than others

heyyy

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100

just bal and su cuddles (they/them and she/her respectively)

friend group integration

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100

maura introducing alex to two of her friends - julie, lobby journalist for the sentinel, and gio, philosophy lecturer at royal college - and wondering whether they’re really as interesting to him as she assumed they would be

the poets

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100

i think they’d get along

(the thing that i genuinely hope for most from deltarune chapter 3 is that we get to hear more poetry from catti)

deltarune’s catti by toby fox and team; night in the woods’ selmers by scott benson (i think?)

tea, a drink with jamming, full stop

Sat, 24 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100

the only stimulant i want is a nice cuppa, and maybe a biscuit

(they do covers but bread is a little soft for their tastes)

full (of) english breakfast

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100

phaedra (she/her), replete

voyager

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

beholding the vistas

fan art of the eponymous heroine of cerulean’s very good webcomic hain and the half coin!

to work

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

birthday fan art of xin jin meng (character belongs to them), here about to defeat many boxes

solving

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

giving typically thoughtful consideration to the game they’re streaming

fan art for tarah! character belongs to them

trans comradeship

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

- Right. Two down, three to go. Stretch before you do anything else.
- Heh, this is tough going, whoof. I’d be on the floor by now if you weren’t here.
- You’re doing great. My first two weeks here were hell. But you get stronger.

for pride 2022; colour scheme based on the trans pride flag

lesbian guidance

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

- It’s 8 o’clock. The sofa beckons. Does Ms Tweetybirds have any internet fights in progress?
- I’ve nearly won! … Yes, Ms Fussyhooves, I’ll put it away.
- Good.

for pride 2022; colour scheme based on the seven-band lesbian pride flag

gay consolation

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100

- Anyone who says a thing like that to you… They don’t know you. They see only something from their own minds, out of their own foolishness. They say their words and go and think themselves big and they don’t think of you again. But the people who love you, they love you because they see you, they love you because they know you. They know you are worth loving. And they will always be here, today, tomorrow, forever.

for pride 2022; colour scheme based - not sure how successfully, but i tried my best - on the gay men pride flag

wilf and floyd

Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100

wilf (he/him), old english sheepdog and floyd (they/them), stalwart wren mk2, best friends forever

i thought it was about time at least one of the old cars that tootle through my output was granted sentience

phaedra

Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100

phurther phaedra phashion photography

(these pop up from time to time because she’s usually near the top of my mental stack when i’m doodling and i like to finish up the nice ones)

champion

Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100

paucinia hasn’t been invited to a tournament for a long time (people tend to forget paucinia’s there) so the council has to make some effort to discuss who’ll represent them, even if the answer is obviously brigid

clockwise from far left: morton (wolf), beatrice (spaniel), agatha (afghan hound), ken (border collie), brigid (badger), phyllida (cat-skunk? i think?), four unnamed extras and benno (chihuahua)

brigid turning up to this meeting in chain mail isn’t meant as a power move, she just wants to give them confidence she’s ready and tooled up for the job

morton isn’t disputing their choice so much as he’s arguing that paucinia ought to decline on principle any invitations to tournaments because they’re regressive glorifications of militarism. beatrice: well yeah, but it’ll be fun, we ought to get out of the castle more often

agatha carries a torch for brigid and is heartstruck by her bravery (rightly, tournaments are dangerous). ken is mightily relieved that it’s not him, but only because jousting etc is a huge faff and keeps you away from the beer tent

for phyllida it adds a fun new dimension to her ongoing flirtation with brigid. which is kind of irony-laden and mostly to tease others, since they both know brigid’s chaste and unbothered and doesn’t pick up those kind of signals anyway

and benno finally has something to tell in his dispatches home

(the extras, well - they’re starved of gossip and this is all very exciting for them)

hello folks, good to be back making art again!

costumes plundered from the waterhouse and leighton wardrobes, plant cuttings taken from burne-jones and morris’s gardens. i wanted to do a piece with lots of characters and the kind of flat quasi-perspective you see in some tapestries and murals. and i think there’s some interesting kinship between furry self-indulgence and pre-raphaelite self-indulgence (or i just like them both)

long night?

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0100

to have the grace to maintain one’s deportment and apparel even though you’re really extremely tired

commission; character belongs to Lucius!

pencils ready?

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0100

the prof brings some old-school gusto to his lectures

commission; character belongs to Forepawz!

crate dig success

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0100

commission; maron belongs to elseven!

xcellent july mufti

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100

(experimenting with lineless work)

Xin belongs to her gracious self

picnic

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100

[gripping, sustained account of intra-riding-school rivalries]

that has to be a six

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100

whoops!

colour feels 3

Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100

centering

colour feels 2

Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100

pushed under

colour feels 1

Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100

on top of it

trusted stylist

Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100

Candice and Okabe are starknight321 starknight321’s characters - thanks for the commission!

Dance and Distinction

Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100

We were met at the Dance by Captain Regency of whom you have heard so much, and who in person does not disappoint, far from’t — forgive me Sister I am yet Aflutter — such a Gentleman! in Form and Substance both — and such Drollery but only such as a Nicety of Manner would permit —

blessed tomato children

Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 +0100

thanks to Neoscottie for the commission of their character!

knight lessons 2: equestrianism

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

‘No why don’t you ride your horse in the way you think best and I’ll simply do the same with mine thank you.’ ‘Benno, you’re four feet off the ground, you’re not in any - ’ ‘Thank you!’

oh hello :)

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

thanks to Raeth for the commission of their and Delak’s characters!

photos of programmers

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

(why is a next-gen console mag deploying an eddie money reference? deadlines, i guess)

relocation relocation relocation

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

thanks to ormur for the commission of his character!

seamsting

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

kip seamsts? kip can seamst?

roses

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

prints ‘n’ patterns phaedra

books!

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

the joy of discovering cool computer science books in your boyfriend’s personal library, the pain of struggling to understand their content (or his enthusiastic explanations of it)

oh i just throw it on when i'm around the house

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

night

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

insomnia’s silver lining is that she gets to be there for this

knight lessons 1: sparring

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0100

‘On guard! … No, don’t drop it, Benno, you need that.’

facts to note about benno: a) he’s not a child, he’s (like his compatriots) just small; b) he’s not traumatised by past experiences with swords, he’s just cowardly

benno is from a superrich supercorrupt imperialmercantile state, and a kind counsellor got him sent to distant paucinia as an ambassador because he was clearly too good and pure to last long at home (where overt violence is seen as rather gauche and people tend to die elegantly of food poisoning, falling out of windows etc)

paucinians by contrast are totally sedentary and peaceable. brigid was a feared mercenary as a younger woman; she settled in paucinia in later life, and has adjusted to their use of weapons only for sport and ceremony, but still sometimes takes the game a bit too seriously

remember

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0100

together in a moment

fivey

Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100

fivey fox, from fivethirtyeight’s 2020-prez-elect-forecast

(‘probabilistically’ is a real word, i checked)

original character designed by Joey Ellis!

boop beep boop. beep booeep 3

Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100

S: hellooo!!!
E: now why’s it doing that. hang on
P: doesn’t matter. how are you?

boop beep boop. beep booeep 2

Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100

maura is a Professional who has been doing remote interviews for months (‘what does a restaurant critic do when they’re all shut?’); alex enjoys operating in the space between ‘doesn’t know how to do it’ and ‘deliberately doing it wrong’

boop beep boop. beep booeep 1

Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 +0100

F: i dunno. sorry. i’m not fun right now.
S: You don’t have to be fun. It’s good to hear from you. That you’re still in one piece.
F: yeah, cohesion is maintained.

spring look

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0100

maxi frieda

inktober 2019 #31 - frieda

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

the sleep of the just

inktober 2019 #30 - frieda, dinah and stephen

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

- just to be clear: i have no idea who i’m supposed to be.
- i have tried to explain.
- i know, my brain just files it as Stephen Nerdy Shit. … i mean, i look cool as hell, i’m not complaining.

inktober 2019 #29 - dinah and ffion

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

they successfully did an office thing

inktober 2019 #28: ffion and george

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

G: flipping heck. one minute we’re having a nice day out, the next she goes all beryl burton on me.
F: sorry! got a bit carried away. … beryl burton?

inktober 2019 #27: chloe and george

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

trying to make sense of [CRAFT ACCESSORY] for [GAMING PLATFORM]

inktober 2019 #26 - chloë and vitaly

Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

is this where is the LAN party?

inktober 2019 #25 - vitaly and faisal

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

moral support for difficult conversations

inktober 2019 #24: vitaly, faisal and chivers

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

charmed!

inktober 2019 #23 - albie and carolyn

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

ooh i think that could be The One it has sparkles

inktober 2019 #22 - caroyln and jen

Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

loving your stroke! so clean

inktober 2019 #21 - jen and huw

Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

so, um… not a good day, then

inktober 2019 #20 - prue and huw

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

the shift at the citizens advice bureau helping people with their benefits is voluntary; the hangover from last night is not

inktober 2019 #19 - prue and matilda

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

awkward but promising first date

inktober 2019 #18 - polly and matilda

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

hello polly! matchmaking again

inktober 2019 #17 - suhana, gurmeet, polly

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

parents’ evening

inktober 2019 #16 - gurmeet and jean

Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

crunch time is daily progress update time

(magical invisi-monitor because i didn’t think the composition through, whoops)

inktober 2019 #15 - jean and ida

Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

having a drink, talking it out

inktober 2019 #14: clemence, jean, ida

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

this isn’t just ‘creative differences’, is it

inktober 2019 #13 - ida and trina

Sun, 13 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

relax, keep a straight wrist and all will be well

inktober 2019 #12 - allin, noah, trina

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

- ok folks. we sure about this?
- yeah! do it!
- 100%.
- [prolonged clicking] … it is done.

the band push the button on rebranding from THRONES OF PESTILENCE to TUNA BREATH

inktober 2019 #11: davy and allin

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

um er if you could make it out to my wife myra that’d be grand thank you so much!

inktober 2019 #10: gilbert, davy, myra

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

the look is approved

inktober 2019 #8 - claudia and viv

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Tip 1: use a plain, uncluttered backdrop to make your item stand out.

inktober 2019 #7 - edith and claudia

Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

passing place on single-track roads == claudia chat opportunity == edith’s personal purgatory

inktober 2019 #6 - edith and sibyl

Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

whoops!

inktober 2019 #5: frances, sibyl-as-king-lear

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

ay, every inch a king

inktober 2019 #4: frances and maura

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

you meet the most fascinating people at these social democrat fundraisers

inktober 2019 #2: frieda, alex, huw

Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

at least one of you has a sense of humour

inktober 2019 #1 - frieda

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100

halloween parties, yes please

high tempo

Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0100

andante, non presto… oh dear.

thanks to Forepawz for the commission of his character!

what

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Can’t you see they’re busy?

A gift piece for and of Xin Jin Meng.

corner stars

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0100

at the intersection of Rock and Roll

thanks to Zomgshiny for the commission of his and Zack Gray’s characters!

global aerophonics

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0100

They don’t make the t-shirts any more, but they still make the music.

Thanks to Zedonk for the commission of his character!

urban rides

Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

🦝🛵

thanks to Ness for the commission of his character!

defending the canon

Sun, 26 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Loretta: No, you can’t ship Starflower Sparkledance with Midnight Mistwalk, this issue establishes they’re canonically rivals and anyway it wouldn’t make sense!
Libra: [does not care]

Firefox and Calorie’s characters respectively; thanks to Firefox for the commission!

at the workbench

Tue, 21 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

that’s some……… dam good workmanship! [studio audience groans]

thanks to Mike Grace for having me draw his character!

booking it

Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

so many books to shelve, so little time

thanks to Ormur for the commission of his character!

he says this at every glyndebourne

Sun, 19 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

- I honestly don’t know why we keep coming back. Why on earth mount a Donizetti if you haven’t the singers?
- Oh fiddle faddle, Piers, I saw you during “Spargi”, that was not the face of a suffering man.

ffion fashions

Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

ffion is also in the process of getting more serious about fashion

ffion cycliste

Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

ffion has got serious about her cycling since we last saw her

statuesque

Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

well, they aren’t made of stone

boop

Wed, 08 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

mystery drink in the cup, mystery friend in the phone

hellooo

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

- Sorry we’re late! Hop in!

voicings

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

E over G mu major??? viv is not totally sold on it

at the garden centre café

Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

when your partner (south) double-books a visit from her old friend (north) on the same weekend that you (east) book a visit from your daughter (west), and you all go to the garden centre because that’s what there is here

sean's doing that thing again

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

- Wait, is that - Sean! what are you - SEAN DON’T - oh god take over will you Tilly NO SEAN STOP!

cleaning

Sat, 15 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100

wash the hut

how do i plants

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100

water them more? or less? i don’t know

ida and jean

Thu, 13 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100

singing, strumming, loop pedal, sorted

sibyl, alex, frances

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100

The old gang, probably at an election night party in 1983/1987/1992 (haven’t quite retconned that yet). Sibyl is talking up Labour’s chances, Frances is a supporter but has been on this ride a few times, and Alex isn’t 100% clear which party is which yet.

2017 holiday card

Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

the holiday card I sent out in 2017!

Shurik and Vince [commission]

Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Commission for 7foxfire, of Shurik (who is too shy to make friends with Vince) and Vince (who hides from friendship in flirting, and should probably knock it off).

Ormur [commission]

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

icon commission for Ormur!

Poetfox [commission]

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Avatar commission for Poetfox, whose fiction you should consider reading (I’m a fan of her Dragon Moms series but there’s much more).

Tape & Tora

Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

‘Look at this garbage. What is this?’
‘Oh no, it’s my dreaded apple slicer.’
‘There’s no easy way to clean it!’
‘I clean it all the time.’
‘Impossible. I hate this thing.’
‘Just leave it in the sink.’

Commish for firefox of his bickering couple Tape and Tora (with thanks to him for the dialogue).

Inktober 2017 #31: Moult

Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

do a little dance / dress up like a skull / get down tonight

Inktober 2017 #30: Bryn and Anne

Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Cooking Time With Bryn and Anne

Inktober 2017 #29: Dinah and Stephen

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Ready to go out!

Inktober 2017 #28

Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

(guess who didn’t want to draw furry art today)

Inktober 2017 #27: Nathalie

Fri, 27 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

- There’s nothing wrong with your essay per se, it does what it sets out to do very well, but I’d like to see you engaging with the text in other ways. Psychoanalytic readings are really valid and useful, but they aren’t the Key to All Mythologies.

Inktober 2017 #26: Prue

Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

The Spirit leads Prue to speak at the meeting for worship.

Inktober 2017 #25: Miles

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

‘I guess some would call it clinging to childhood glories. Maybe there’s some truth in that. But for me it’s like, when you’re part of something that big, that young… as you grow up, it comes to seem more real than your actual childhood. What I do now with the foundation, taking kids up who’d otherwise never get to see the world from above… I want to give them something real, not just on a screen. And it makes me feel a little more real too.’

Inktober 2017 #24: Ffion

Tue, 24 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Ffion’s idea of fun is riding a one-speed bike to the top of the nearest hill. (Do not try this if you do not have ostrich legs.)

Inktober 2017 #23: Omicron E. Giannakos

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Three-p working lunch with Omicron in the mine canteen: pasty, pop, potential ergonomic improvements to the main gallery.

Omicron is your genial colleague (koboldeague? sorry) in Avi Yinglet’s Hit the Motherlode, a fun and clever take on clicker games. It’s currently in development, but an early version is free to play.

Inktober 2017 #22: Xin Jin Meng

Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

This month only: xinjinmeng xinjinmeng as the Drum Major in Berg’s Wozzeck. ‘Wenn ich erst am Sonntag den grossen Federbusch hab’, und die weissen Handschuh!’ Get your tickets now.

When not treading the boards Ms Xin maintains the (occasionally NSFW) xinjinmeng.tumblr.com

Inktober 2017 #21: Bear, Skink, Horse and [New_Customer]

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

bear, skink, bread horse brown, and, er… are you okay there, sir? (oh well, he seems happy enough.)

fan art of declan mccarthy’s characters!

Inktober 2017 #20: Gina and Reggie

Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

- OK we’ve GOT to go on THAT one.

fan art of gatogato’s gina and reggie!

Inktober 2017 #19: Edith

Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Set me free
Let me never feel, let me never feel, let me never fear anything
Set me free
Like we never kissed, like we never touched, like we never did anything…

Edith is still grieving.

Inktober 2017 #18

Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

anxiety

Inktober 2017 #17: Frank and Viv

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Frank and Viv Film Viewing

Inktober 2017 #16: Laura and Randall

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Randall is an author (mostly of literary history), Laura is his editor.

Inktober 2017 #15: Davy and Myra

Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

can’t even wait for a bus without someone nicking your chips

Inktober 2017 #14: Polly

Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

‘It absolutely is practical for the sort of thing a Pre-Raphaelite woman needs to do - looking out of stained glass windows, falling asleep in arbours…’
‘Having a float in a river…’
‘Yes exactly!’

Inktober 2017 #13: Sibyl and Edith

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

bigger isn’t always better, Sibyl

Inktober 2017 #12

Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

light show for shy band

(I inked ¾ of this before I realised that silhouettes and thrown shadows together don’t make sense - is this back projection or overhead projection? - but never mind)

Inktober 2017 #11: Jess

Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

- Gareth has the support of his MPs, his party and the public. He wants to get on with delivering an effective opposition, and I fully support that.
- So you don’t personally endorse him.
- I think I’ve made my position clear.
- … All right, I’ve got what I need, thanks Jess. Your folks well?
- Very well, thank you. Your Ariane’s taking her A-Levels, isn’t she?
- Just got her results. 4 As.
- Aha! Tell her not to overachieve or she’ll end up here.

Inktober 2017 #10: Dan and Alex

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

‘You look great!’
‘I look like Harry Nilsson.’

inktober 2017 #9

Mon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

date idea: visit country house, look at antique farm machinery

Inktober 2017 #8: Huw and Jen

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

- Breakfast in bed!
- Yeah. Where else are we supposed to eat it? Outside?
- Al fresco, I could see that.
- In February. Molto fresco. Troppo fresco. … Ugh, why am I such a bear. Sorry. Thank you.
- Eh. Tough times. It’s all right.

Inktober 2017 #7: Vi and Kip

Sat, 07 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Vi has been showing Kip how to cover her admin duties for a few hours now. It doesn’t seem to be going in

Inktober 2017 #6: self-portrait

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Bun gotta run.

Inktober 2017 #5: Su and Bal

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

‘Oh bugger, my wings were in the way. Can we take another?’
‘Your wings are NEVER in the way.’

Inktober 2017 #4: Bernard and Gilbert

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Two gay birds in a boat.

Inktober 2017 #3: Maura

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Maura is a food critic.

Inktober 2017 #2: Claudia

Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Try some, buy some.

val moult's reflections out now

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

christgau called me a wimp and gave me a C-! after I hired a string section and everything. i’m very upset

2016 holiday card

Sun, 25 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

the holiday card I sent out in 2016!