Some days just feel heavy, and everything can feel like more effort than usual
Music can help shift your headspace - even a little 🎧
The right song won’t fix everything, but it can soften the moment and help you feel less alone
#mentalhealth
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.”
After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.
Color vertical photograph of Billie Holiday in a green off-the-shoulder dress, white gardenia flowers pinned in the center bodice of the dress, and 2 white chihuahua dogs in her arms. Her hair is in an updo and she wear gold stud earrings and a gold necklace. She wears 1 bracelet on each of her wrists. She appears to be looking up and to the right.
Black and white vertical photo of Billie Holiday outside the Pinkney Square housing building. There are 3 young girls surrounding her and a young man to the right. Billie wears a long sleeveless dress with a fur coat draped over her right arm and holding a metallic handbag purse.
Happy birthday to the illustrious Billie Holiday.
Adorned in her iconic white gardenia flowers, Holiday’s hauntingly beautiful voice filled rooms at jazz clubs during the Harlem Renaissance.
Superman, returned from the dead, in his black and silver suit
He is risen
At the Last Supper Jesus declares that One of you will betray me, four will get book deals.
Happy Easter
Star Trek The Search for Spock scene. Our Lord Spock is pictured in a white robe. He stands surrounded by his shipmates who are all older here than they were in the TV show. Sulu is smiling and touching Spock's chest for some reason. Uhura, Chekov, Scotty, and Bones stand close and all seem thrilled to see him, but are otherwise practicing self control and not feeling his chest. Despite being surrounded by friends, Spock is staring only at Kirk, for obvious reasons.
He is risen
The DC Metro
Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi.
The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.
Watch a video about improving your creative productivity by cutting yourself off from cheap dopamine.
I've been trying it out for less than 24 hours now (My version: No video/audio ent. or games before 8:00 PM), and gotta say: annoyed at how well it's working.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTgs...
Digitally colored and textured ink illustration of a white lion against a dark green background. In the upper left corner in art deco letters and quotations is the word Adili (which is Swahili for "just" or "righteous")
Digitally colored and textured ink illustration of a gray wolf with a light purple nose against a greyish-brown background
Digitally colored and textured ink illustration of a yellow-ochre tiger cub against a dark green background.
Digitally colored and textured ink illustration of a lion with a large tan and brown mane against a purple background.
Here are some more illustrations I made the past three months while experimenting with visual textures; three cats and a moon-moon.
A photo of a brass blade pen resting on top of a piece of bristol-board paper covered with ink circles, spirals, stars, squares, triangles, and parallel lines.
A picture of a brass blade pen resting on top of a piece of bristol-board paper with a pencil and ink illustration of a small robot.
A digitally colored and textured illustration of a small green, tan, and brown robot covered with printing dots against a dark grey cardboard background.
A picture of a paper receipt with a note written on it by the blade pen's creator Dan Berry.
I got one of @thingsbydan.co.uk 's blade pens in last week but it wasn't until today I could finally sit down and make an illustration with it. Thank you so much from across the pond! It'll be great to make art again with a dip pen!
Dad: WHAT STORY WOULD YOU LIKE TONIGHT? WE CAN READ ANYTHING EXCEPT... Calvin: THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT D: NO! NO VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT TONIGHT! WE'VE TRIED TO DECIPHER THAT BOOK A MILLION TIMES! C: I WANT THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT! D: LOOK, YOU KNOW HOW THE STORY GOES! YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE WHOLE THING! IT'S COMPLETELY UNREADABLE ! C: I WANT MYSTERIOUS GLYPHS AND SIGILS! C: WOW, THE STORY WAS DIFFERENT THAT TIME! H: (glyphs and symbols)๐๕๗๐ «aป cH=97เปิดด SonD arolfg fregroltg Totleos จารfor2riniden tazog N
Star wars
Before Star Wars, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.
He built cabinets and sets in Hollywood
to pay the bills between acting jobs.
One of those jobs put him in the same room as George Lucas.
The rest… is movie history. ✨🚀
Yoda star wars
Yoda appears in the original trilogy for less than 18 minutes.
Yet he shaped the entire Jedi philosophy, trained Luke,
and delivered some of the most quoted lines in film history.
Proof that wisdom doesn’t need screen time — it needs impact. ✨
3 panel comic Panel 1: A Pink Guy has spray painted the words “All billionaires are scum” on a blue wall. Pleased with his work, he looks at the reader and gives a thumbs up. Panel 2: An Orange Guy comes into shot and snatches the can of spray paint out of the Pink Guy’s hand. He looks angry and yells “Hey!” Panel 3: The Orange Guy has changed the message so it now reads “All billionaires are scumbag pedophiles. Both the Pink Guy and the Orange Guy give the reader a thumbs up.
get it right
Happy Snowmaggedon weekend! Not exactly the typical share but I'm quite happy with my latest creation.
A tutorial video on how to get Clip Studio Paint running on Linux with asset store support!
youtu.be/gq_6b4W_rwo?...
Digitally colored ink illustration of a sensual, light orange tigress against a yellow orange background.
Digitally colored ink illustration of a plush anthro grey wolf with a lavender nose and belly button sitting on his bottom against a dark grey-brown background with a five dollar and ninety-nine price tag dangling to his left.
Digitally colored ink illustration of an extra round, extra plump, gold and orange plush bear with a red belly button licking his lips against a warm brown background with a ten dollar price tag dangling to his left
Digitally colored ink illustration of a brown and tan woolly mammoth against a light grey-blue background.
A few color illustrations I did to experiment with applying ink/textures into my artwork, might try to do some more later this month...
#art #illustration #cartooning
![Excerpt from Wikipedia reads: "Fight against merchandising his characters
For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something that he felt would cheapen his comic through compromising the act of creation or reading.[21][22]
He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if Universal really wanted to, they could license his characters against his will, and could even fire him and continue Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out, and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work. Later he said that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.[23]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreihmgl3sxrmb5t6edpjnixyanj2rvcf43zdv46mbifhl7hdtmz5u6y)
Excerpt from Wikipedia reads: "Fight against merchandising his characters For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something that he felt would cheapen his comic through compromising the act of creation or reading.[21][22] He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if Universal really wanted to, they could license his characters against his will, and could even fire him and continue Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out, and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work. Later he said that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.[23]"
Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.
A video documentary where Hayao Miyazaki is saying "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself"
Happy birthday to the one and only, Hayao Miyazaki.
Mr. Rogers: Even though machines might move or sound like they're talking, they don't have feelings.
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
Welcome to 2026. #roaringtwenties #roaring20s #jazzage #thejazzage #johnheldjr #1920s #backtothefuture #art #illustration
The final "Calvin and Hobbes" Sunday strip consisting of five panels showing the titular duo and their toboggan in a winter landscape that is completely white. They both comment on how the world resembles a fresh piece of paper before sledding off into the infinite whiteness
A photo of an old white t-shirt with an image of Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes" being spun around by the flushing motion of the toilet he is in.
A comic strip panel showing Calvin from "Calvin and Hobbes" being spun around by the flushing motion of the toilet he is in. The bold, outlined word "FLUSH!" appears above Calvin.
"So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that magical world in the middle of the Forest, a little boy and his Tiger will always be exploring." #calvinandhobbes #comics
OTD: The Star Trek TOS episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" premiered, directed by Joseph Pevney and written by David Gerrold. It was Gerrold's first professional sale ever, and he created a classic.
#StarTrek
The Earth rising above the Moon
Good morning, Bluesky!
On this day, #ChristmasEve in 1968:
"Earthrise" as Apollo 8 orbited the Moon
📸NASA
The poster for the 2004 film "Shrek 2" showing clockwise: Queen Lillian, King Harold, Fiona, Donkey, Shrek, Gingy, Puss in Boots, Prince Charming and Fairy Godmother all around a green number 2 with the film credits at the bottom.
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Carl Sagan
Remembering astronomer Carl Sagan. (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996)
"We are all starstuff"
Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was released 34 years ago today.
Still one of the greatest successes of this saga. What a great ending.
This is goodbye.
if you're one person making a comic by yourself, don't treat yourself like you should function on the same level as comics that have multiple people working on them. your backgrounds can be squiggles and colors.
allow yourself room to be abstract with details and give yourself some grace
Schulz at his drawing table holding a sketch of Snoopy.
Today is the birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. (Nov. 26, 1922-Feb. 12, 2000.)
