Shadows End 🏳️‍⚧️

In studio with three panels of Parts with Appeal

First six panels of Parts with Appeal, leaning against a semi trailer in the parking lot of my studio

three panels of Parts With Appeal in my studio

last four panels of Parts With Appeal in my studio

ugh, can't find the prompt again, but this is the piece of art I'm most proud of - PARTS WITH APPEAL, a painting I made in 2003, thirteen 6 foot square panels, only shown once, purchased by super collector Mark Parker

Raven's Night 2014 | Star Wars | Death Star Drill Team (DDP) YouTube video by Raven's Night

Friends of mine who came to the club all the time.

Except for Nick Cave & Hellboy fans.

Two sketch books, one on top of another. The top is painted black and covered in tiny white drawings of vampires.

Detail of dozens and dozens of white ink on black paper vampires.

I completely forgot about my vampire sketchbook. Just drew a few a day and it filled right up.

The first #Pride was a #riot.
Silence = Death
#Kink belongs at Pride

#art #digital #illustration #queer #Trans

Mazinger U.S.A. Version - Wikipedia

Doug Rice with First Comics worked to bring early #manga to the USA. He told me about going to Japan in the 80s to help Mazinger over.

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Black and white illustration of a mecha against a square magenta background.The human looking robot holding a katana and shoulder mounted double barrel blaster while looking at the camera with a relaxed pose and sly smirk With the words DYNAMO JOE_MkI Datafile — Robosoldier Shade © 2026

The Battlin’ Behemoth!
Some fan art of Doug Rice’s Dynamo Joe.
(First Comics, 1986)

Dynamo units were the frontline grunts of the Earth’s defense against the implacable, locust-like, advance of the shape changing Mellenares.

1/2 #illustration #comics #ArtSky #SciFi #Mecha #anime #Manga

You can’t beat the classics.

That’s a beautiful piece. Excellent work!

Ningauble of the Seven Eyes

Cleaning my desktop and found this little animation I did while re-reading Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

Quote with your blue art! 🩵💙

#art #artsky

That’s beautiful. Excellent piece!

‘Out on a damn limb’: the daredevil photography of Lee Miller – in pictures A fearless war photographer, a peerless surrealist, a chronicler of Egypt and Syria … a new exhibition at Tate Britain explores how Lee Miller became one of the most urgent voices of 20th-century art

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Black and white digital drawing of a woman with short hair wearing a ring gag, her tongue out. Art by Shade, ©2025

Been out of town and around.
Did a few little fetish drawings recently for fun and to play with tablet settings.

#Kink #art #digital #illustration #queer #Trans #artsky

Five boxes of zines stacked in my studio!

The new DEVIL GIRLS zines are here! theartofcoop.bigcartel.com/product/devi...

One value of art is it's ability to critique power. Now, more than ever, we see how art is treated as a threat unless the regime controls it. Don't stop making your art, but be mindful of who wields your hand.

Beautiful work!

3 sketches in pencil: a cooked snake, a spitting snake, a long wet forked tongue. Snake tongues aren't wet like that. It's just good for showing motion and being creepy.

Working on a gorgon, so drew some snake ideas. I'll probably ink them up for fun.

Drop something ARMORED 🪖🛡️🖤

I redrew this from an old sketch.

Sailboat
(Old Town Alex, 2025)
-Shade

Hey artist! Quote with your woman art 💪

#PaperCraft #illustration #art #artsky

For a while I’ve been thinking GenAi will drive many artists to rethink their work & style.

The more realistic machine repro becomes the more expressionistic & distorted my art. Doing things badly* becomes part of the concept because it’s antithetical to what LLMs produce.
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Those are beautiful.

side note: that tool exists, and it's called "spite"

I really enjoy your mix of line and wash.

A pleather women’s cut moto jacket with distressed looking black and white Siouxsie Sioux and Siouxsie and the Banshees logo

A pleather women’s cut moto jacket with clean looking black and white, digital sketch, of Siouxsie Sioux and Siouxsie and the Banshees logo

Doing some, quick, mock-ups and just nerd-proud of myself for remembering how to do displacement masks.

Chester Simpson Sioux photo as starting point.
(This would be 100% me, not for sale.)

Wednesday’s Part A casual night out for the goth inclined What started as an Alt-80's party Now coversdark alternative music from then til now Exceptional whiskey offerings full bar • impressive beer selection No Cover Every 4th Wednesday 1104 H Street NE DC - 2nd Floor 9pm-1am • look for the purple neon outside 21+ • support us by buying drinks

TONIGHT: WEDNESD4Y’S PARTY
A casual night out for the goth inclined

Red Leader and the return of DJ Neidermeyer!
4+ decades of dark/alternative music

Little Miss Whiskeys, 1104 H Street NE DC
9pm-1am 21+