Nicholas Straight

In the depths.

Found this letter from my dearly departed grandmother. She was so lovely, her birthday is coming up in a week. It looks like she gave me an early gift this year.

I’m fucking furious, they continue to murder Minnesotans. ICE needs to be removed and abolished now!

A little Hornet appreciation art before I embark into the thumb blistering bug maze that is Silksong!

So sorry to hear, poor little one. 🥺

Wizard’s Mind Bomb!

“As the orvids darted about the arid sky, circling the soon to be carrion. The infection continues to bloom in every living creature and it reeks of spiced honey.”

Ha! It’s definitely being brought “out to pasture”

Working out the color.

There’s definitely something wrong with their thyroid. Little work in progress.

Pro tip: You technically do not need to spend money on food at the Minnesota state fair. Plenty of Sweet Martha’s cookies to scrape off the road all around the fair campus.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Labubu is just the illicit love child of a Monchhichi and that creature from Where the Wild Things Are.

Reed Richards finding an “important” object.

Just Benny from the block.

Yeah okay, the Thing is very fun to draw. #wip

don't forget to draw a little bit for yourself today

Ginger - the Crust Punk Pomeranian!

Kenzie photobombing Alma.

Some other cute illustrations I’ve made lately.

Made some axolotl stickers for work!

Lil toned paper drawing.

Still finding time to work on this illustration.

The Andor series finale was outstanding. Now I kinda want a Ken Burns documentary show of just talking heads going on about the fall of the empire and the reconstruction of the galactic republic.

Thank you!

Friend’s dug!

Fun fact: Alvin Straight was my grandfather’s cousin - we never really talked about it. I think he was slightly embarrassed by the notoriety.

Dug.