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Kyle ✏️
@touchingdoodles.com
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I like to create reluctantly cheerful characters and put them in weird comics

✏️ artist, illustrator, life drawing obsessive, and comic maker. All hand made in Sydney, Australia.

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Kyle ✏️ @touchingdoodles.com · Aug 12
All the cardboard mushrooms I made for game of shrooms 2026
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[responding to trash talk during pick up basketball game] my wife has a bad back so I doubt that happened
September 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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September 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Hall of Echoes - for Magic: The Gathering's Reality Fracture

This painting took me quite some time to wrap my head around. The description my art director Sarah Wassell sent me was very abstract and hard to visualize, but I'm very happy with how this turned out in the end.
A floating orb of iridescent liquid metal surrounds a star - the edges of the orb turn into hands reaching for the star. In the background we see floating towers
September 16, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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i’m at the galleria dell’accademia in florence doing my favorite bit: every time we pass by a depiction of jesus i point and say “damn, that guy just can’t catch a break” everyone hates it
September 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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A crayon artist sits with their legs crossed in a chair next to a wall they have covered in dinosaur illustrations. They are wearing overalls and a bandana. They exude the confidence of an artist who has seen their vision to completion. However, like many creators, their vision is not shared by everyone. They are confronted by a man in a sweater vest, “Heard you been drawin dinosaurs on my walls.” The artist replies, “You heard right.” Artist’s note: I try to do my drawings quickly so they maintain that spontaneous feel I’m going for (something we’ve discussed in previous posts). For this one I ended up redrawing the artist’s pose and subtle facial expression over and over again until it felt right.
September 16, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Ballpoint pen on paper. A man in his PJs is tucked into his bed. He's upset because the bed has been lifted off the ground by a pack of small, mischievous creatures. We can only see 9 of them in the image but there are likely many more since they're all working together to lift the heavy bed frame. As the creatures run with the bed they chant, "hup hup hup hup hup hup hup hup hup." The man in the bed wants no part of this. "Put me down. No more hups," he says. It's unclear where they are going or what is happening. There is no punchline. There is little to no context. You're either with the hup team or you're out. Thank you for reading these.
September 12, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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The image is of a four panel comic. In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?” In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”. In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure. In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
September 5, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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June 24, 2023 at 12:54 PM
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Sketch dump #artpost
September 5, 2026 at 4:25 AM
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Ballpoint pen, colored pencil, and copic gray marker on paper. A man sits at the table with a painting easel, painting supplies, and a small bowl of fruit. As he paints on the canvas he speaks to someone on his landline phone, “Had a dream that a witch told me to start painting - - yeah, doin’ a little fruit bowl thing.” Artist’s note: I probably should’ve painted the colors in this one rather than used colored pencil. Whatever the witch represents in his psyche he is wise to listen to her.
September 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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Two men clap their hands in rhythm as three small fairies float through the air playing music on their woodwind instruments. In the foreground, we see a sign in the grass that reads, "Do not clap-along." It's unclear what the consequences will be for disregarding the sign but it's likely that there will be a punishment.
September 1, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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Three panel comic. Panel 1: an exhausted detective leans over his desk with a spread of paperwork and folders. He says, “I’m in too deep. Where is the Spaghetti Man?” Panel 2: on a photograph littered among the evidence, a single small drop of marinara sauce drops with a “plip!” Panel 3: viewed from below, the detective examines the drop of sauce with his finger. Behind him, in a ceiling corner, a rotund chef with a mustache - presumably the Spaghetti Man - holds himself like a spider against the walls.
September 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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“Cowboy Roll” • Pen, colored pencil, and copic gray marker on paper. A lone cowboy sits atop a hill in the foreground. He yells out to his colleagues “last one” before rolling down the hill like a silly boy. When he reaches the bottom he sits up and says “just one more.” In the background of the piece we see two other cowboys on their horses and a 3rd horse eating grass. It’s likely these cowboys have been waiting here for sometime. Artist’s note: I like the line work and expressions in this one. I try to keep most of my drawings as single panels so creating movement and time-lapse in one frame is a good challenge.
August 31, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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One of my little mushroom characters lying on a bed of lemon thyme. It's a cardboard cutout of a sharpie and copic marker illustration.
A photo of an artwork. A slightly worried looking mushroom character is lying on a bed of lemon thyme with beautiful afternoon light hitting it. The small thyme leaves are casting tiny shadows on the figure. The mushroom is a cardboard cutout of a sharpie and alcohol marker illustration. #art #illustration #mushroom #mushroomart #gameofshrooms
August 26, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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A small child with a bowl cut offers his horse, Applejacks, a carrot. The boy shares the good news that his father has pointed out that he and the horse have a similar haircut. "Pa says we got the same cut, Applejacks." I think we can all agree that father is correct.
August 28, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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A man angrily says "DEBATE ME!" A baby responds "GA." The man shouts "APPEAL TO EMOTION!" The baby, angrily says "BA." The man retorts "AD HOMINEM"
August 26, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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One of my little mushroom characters lying on a bed of lemon thyme. It's a cardboard cutout of a sharpie and copic marker illustration.
A photo of an artwork. A slightly worried looking mushroom character is lying on a bed of lemon thyme with beautiful afternoon light hitting it. The small thyme leaves are casting tiny shadows on the figure. The mushroom is a cardboard cutout of a sharpie and alcohol marker illustration. #art #illustration #mushroom #mushroomart #gameofshrooms
August 26, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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Got to say hello to some pied cormorants and a spoonbill on my walk today
August 26, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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"one day the sadness will end but i dont think todays the day" david lynch
August 25, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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August 22, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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August 21, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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maybe you should spend less time worrying about being called "spreadsheet people" and more time spreading it in the sheets for people
August 21, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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People tell me they like suits but don't have occasions to wear one. You can wear a suit to court, funerals, and religious services. Doesn't have to be your trial, friend's burial, or religion you believe in. Go to random trials, attend a stranger's burial, join multiple religions. Try it sometime.
August 20, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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August 20, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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I’m seeing a lot more people sketching out and about in Sydney recently. Bueno.
August 20, 2026 at 2:06 AM