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Still working on this illustration of Ina!
finally got the colors in ヾ(≧▽≦*)o
#wip #art #illustration #InaSketch #HololiveFanart
#Fanart #DigitalArt
September 25, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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My self portrait as Mont Sainte-Victoire.
#Art #ArtofBluesky #Pastel #Drawing #SelfPortrait
Artwork by @inasketch self portrait as Mont Sainte-Victoire pastel, 9x12 inches Inspired by Cezanne's Mont Saint-Victoire, 1902-06, where my head and face become the mountain, my shoulders and bust are the foreground, appearing to be underground.
September 24, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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I almost missed Willem Dafoe's birthday!
From a Friday Night Comics workshop: "Your Celebrity Crush is in Love with You." Capturing likeness is always a challenge, especially so in five minutes per panel, with no penciling first. But no excuses! Happy Birthday, Willem!
#Comics #ArtOfBluesky #Art
Panel 1 of a four panel comic by @inasketch Ink and watercolor. Willem Dafoe says, "Do you remember when I met you?" Panel 2 of a four panel comic by @inasketch Ink and watercolor Me saying, "With Joan Jonas" ... "That was years ago." Panel 3 of a four panel comic by @inasketch Ink and watercolor Willem, looking pensive, fingers of both hands touching, says, "I've never forgotten you." Panel 4 of a four panel comic by @inasketch Ink and watercolor Willem with his arm around me, says, "Come with me to Rome!" I answer with a heart.
July 23, 2026 at 6:09 AM
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As I've mentioned, I'm rereading all my old diary comics since I'm not really making comics right now and feel bad about it. So anyway. Here's another post by Tressie that reminded me of another comic of mine...

#PleaseClap #Comics #Dementia
A four-panel comic by @inasketch Ink & watercolor Panel 1) Mom and I in the garage. She's leaning over her table saw and I'm waving my hands in a "No" gesture. The top text box reads: "Yesterday my mom couldn't remember how to turn on her table saw." Mom says, "I think it's this button right here." The bottom text box reads: "I convinced her not to use it." Panel 2) Mom and I are outside under her fuyu tree. I'm holding a long 2x4 that I'm trying to fit under a branch for support. Mom has her arms raised in a guidance gesture. She says, "Over just a little more." The bottom text box reads: "We were making supports for the fuyu's fruit-laden branches." Panel 3) I've gotten the board in place and turned to face my mom. I say, "That was hard. I want a little applause." Mom, clapping, says, "You deserve a beer." Panel 4) I'm in a grocery store, in the beer aisle, reaching for a bottle. The top text box reads: "Later that day, shopping at Tokyo Central with my daughter..." My thought bubble reads, "Hmm... Nice idea, mom."
August 18, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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inky me, a detail from the comic linked below...
#Art #Ink #ArtOfBluesky #Selfie #SelfPortrait
ink & wash self portrait by @inasketch
July 24, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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This is my contribution to the Tillie Walden discourse, from when she hosted a Friday Night Comics workshop with The Believer magazine, before SAW took it over. I look forward to reading her book.

#Comics #ArtOfBluesky #Art #Portrait #Vermont
A comic portrait by @inasketch in ink, watercolor, and color pencil of Tillie Walden as she hosted a zoom comics workshop. She is wearing a knit hat and glasses. A door and some bits of her workspace are also depicted. Under her portrait are the words: tillie walden DRAWING WORLDS THE BELIEVER
August 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Here's an encore...
#PleaseClap #Comics #Dementia
A four-panel comic by @inasketch Ink & watercolor Panel 1) Mom and I in the garage. She's leaning over her table saw and I'm waving my hands in a "No" gesture. The top text box reads: "Yesterday my mom couldn't remember how to turn on her table saw." Mom says, "I think it's this button right here." The bottom text box reads: "I convinced her not to use it." Panel 2) Mom and I are outside under her fuyu tree. I'm holding a long 2x4 that I'm trying to fit under a branch for support. Mom has her arms raised in a guidance gesture. She says, "Over just a little more." The bottom text box reads: "We were making supports for the fuyu's fruit-laden branches." Panel 3) I've gotten the board in place and turned to face my mom. I say, "That was hard. I want a little applause." Mom, clapping, says, "You deserve a beer." Panel 4) I'm in a grocery store, in the beer aisle, reaching for a bottle. The top text box reads: "Later that day, shopping at Tokyo Central with my daughter..." My thought bubble reads, "Hmm... Nice idea, mom."
September 23, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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A photo of a photo* I took in New York some time last century.
*You say "blurry," I say "soft focus" 😂😇📷

At the time I took the photo, my eye was drawn to the woman in the satiny dress in the doorway. Now all of the people look interesting to me.

#Photography
A black & white photo by @inasketch of several people waiting for the bus on a sidewalk in New York. The woman are all in skirts/dresses; two of them are wearing hats. One woman in a satiny dress is framed by the dark doorway she stands in. The two men are more casually dressed. One is wearing a baseball cap. One is yawning.
July 14, 2026 at 5:49 AM
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Self soothing by looking at my old comics on IG just now, I scrolled all the way down & saw this drawing from 6 years ago today. A positive that came out of the pandemic was a lot of online gatherings, including these #usktalks hosted by #urbansketchers I always drew the participants as I listened.
An ink & watercolor sketch by @inasketch of three urban sketchers. @robsketcherman, holding a cup of coffee, says, "We add personality!" @sketcher_ben says, "If you can't do some thing, go and learn it!" @umapaints, holding a blue shop cloth, says, "When you are failing, the process rescues you!"
July 13, 2026 at 5:43 AM
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Here's the #comic I made for the 20th anniversary.
A four-panel comic by @inasketch Black ink/fountain pen line art Panel 1) Looking up at the Twin Towers from below. Panel 2) A woman with a bicycle over her shoulder descending flights of stairs. The text reads: "one time when i worked on the eleventh floor in an art gallery on 57th street, we had to evacuate because of fire. i carried my bike down those eleven flights. i think about the firefighters who flirted with me that day." Panel 3) Philippe Petit walking on the tightrope he rigged between the two towers in August 1974. Panel 4) A woman wearing an I <3 NY shirt stand with her hands in her pockets, with the New York skyline behind her. The text reads: "from the supreme court installing bush to the towers coming down to war propaganda and torture and televised bombings and executions to conspiracy theories, america lost its mind twenty years ago and we still haven't found it."
September 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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The comic that changed it all. That time my daughters gave me advice on how to make my comics more "likable." After that, I started making four-panel squares for the algorithm, and the rest is history. :D

#Comics #ArtOfBluesky #Art
A four-panel comic by @inasketch Ink & watercolor Panel 1) A hand on the keyboard of an open laptop, with an instagram page on display. From out of frame I say, "Only 13 'likes' so far." Panel 2) My daughters, holding up one of my multi-panel comics. My younger daughter says, "People want something that's easy to read on their phone." My older daughter says, "Your panels are too small." Panel 3) A still life on a table, drawn from life, of a candlestick vase with a long-stem flower, a basket, and a bowl, with a wooden chair, and the edge of the laptop visible. A voice out of frame says, "They want something drawn from life." Panel 4) Me, drawing a comic. I say, "Okay, I'll give it a try."
July 22, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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For a few years in the early 2020s, I made a daily four-panel diary comic. For Inktober 2022, I made daily comics about my dad, who died in 2018. I'm thinking about him today and rereading these, so I thought I'd share some.
#Comics #DadJoke
A four-panel comic by @inasketch (aka me) Panel 1) A European street, a couple embracing in the distance. The text reads: "Even though he'd never been to Europe himself..." ... "One summer when I was in college, dad paid for me to go to Germany to meet up with my boyfriend." Panel 2) Me standing on a train, posing for a photo at the door as the crewperson reaches to close it (their arm echoes my pose). The text reads: "Turns out I was a rebound. When his ex-girlfriend showed up, he sent me packing." ... "I took the train to Paris and called dad." Panel 3) Me, standing in a phone booth on a Paris street, with Notre Dame in the distance. I say, "He's sleeping with someone else." My dad answers "That's okay." Panel 4) My dad, standing next to a "phone table," talking on the landline wall-phone. He says, "It's when he stays awake with someone else that you have to worry!" The text reads: "Dad jokes. Am I right?!"
June 21, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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I did it. My first diary comic in two years. I was waiting in the parking lot for my daughter, and I'd left my phone at home. So I doodled this on some junk mail with the Pilot Petit 1 fountain pen I keep in my wallet. I added color pencil when I got home.

#Comics #ArtOfBluesky #FountainPen
A four-panel comic by @inasketch Panel 1) Scene in a wildlife sanctuary parking lot. Me seen from behind, as a man facing me asks, "Do you sing?" Panel 2) Close-up of my face. Thought balloon, "There's no way this guy's heard of my band." I say, "Um..." Panel 3) Now over the man's shoulder, you can see that the hat I'm wearing is embroidered The Met. He says, "Your hat." Panel 4) The back of my head as I'm walking toward where my daughters are waiting at the car. They ask, "What did that guy say?" I reply, "He thought my hat was Met Opera House instead of Met Museum of Art." True story. I lead a fascinating life.
July 26, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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I'm still looking through all the old diary comics I've made. Here's one about meaningful gestures (and #coffee).
#comics #diners
A four-panel comic by @inasketch ink & watercolor Panel 1) My mom and her bestie in a diner booth. The text reads, "A first today: meeting my mom and her friend for breakfast at the local diner." Panel 2) Exterior sketch of Mel's Diner. The text reads, "I've had breakfast with her there many times, but this is the first time I've lived in CA that isn't at her house." Panel 3) A mug of coffee on a diner table. The text reads, "I've been trying to take a break from coffee (even passed up a latte yesterday)." ... "I knew as soon as I sat down the busboy would bring me my usual cup and I wouldn't resist. It's nice that he remembers me." Panel 4) The busboy refills my cup as I sit on the diner booth bench. I say, "Thank you." The text reads, "The coffee isn't even that good. I just love the gesture."
July 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Before I read the text of this Mike Luckovich comic, I noticed the similarity of its composition with a panel from a four-panel comic of mine that I made in a Friday Night Comics workshop a few years ago, illustrating some song lyrics we chose.
Of course I chose Townes Van Zandt.
#comics #whiskey
Panel 4 from the four-panel comic by @inasketch Ink & watercolor. A small yellow house on a hill, with one tree on the left. A figure stumbles down the hill holding a bottle and a glass. The sun is rising. The text reads, "early in the morning. ~townes van zandt" A four-panel comic by @inasketch with the text provided by lyrics from the Townes Van Zandt song, Dollar Bill Blues. Ink and watercolor. Panel 1) A man in a blue flannel shirt spilling his glass of whiskey, drunkenly stumbles into a table, sending the whiskey bottle flying. There is a chair knocked over on the floor. The text reads: whiskey be my dyin' bed Panel 2) Now he's stumbled into the bedroom where a woman is sleeping. He says, "tell me where to lay my head" Panel 3) She wakes and says, "not with me" and the text reads "is all she said" Panel 4) A small yellow house on a hill, with one tree on the left. A figure stumbles down the hill holding a bottle and a glass. The sun is rising. The text reads, "early in the morning. ~townes van zandt"
September 4, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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I had a hard time coming up with the name of the photographer who inspired this panel of my comic (for the alt text).

My brain offered Frank Capra, and I know he's the filmmaker. I realized my brain was making a shorthand of Robert Frank & Robert Capa.

#Comics #Photography #Brains #Algebra
A panel from a four-panel comic by @inasketch A monochromatic painterly image inspired by a Robert Frank photograph in The Americans, depicts two windows in a city building, with a person in each window whose face is obscured. On the left, the window shade partially hides the persons face. On the right, a large american flag covers the person's face. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "4th of July 2021."
July 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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A present in the form of a comic?
Happy Birthday, Debbie Harry!
A four-panel comic by @inasketch Ink & watercolor. There's a lot of text, so I'm gonna summarize! :D Panel 1) Me and my daughters shopping at a thrift store, a song by Blondie is playing. I say: "Hey! There's a Blondie shirt and that's Blondie they're playing!" Panel 2) I hold up the shirt and say, "I have to get it!" My 20yo daughter says, "That's an ugly picture of someone I've never heard of!" Panel 3) Later, at my 80yo mom's house, I ask her if she's heard of Blondie, knowing what she'll say: "The only Blondie I know is Blondie and Dagwood from the funny papers." I say, "No. I mean this one (singing) 'I'm in the phone booth it's the one across the hall'..." Panel 4) Text: In high school, my brother had his band stuff set up upstairs. When it was my turn at the mic, Blondie made me feel like a rock start. Image: Young me holding a mic+stand and singing, "One way or another... I'm gonna find ya... I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya..."
July 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Mekka is right of course. The woman in this old comic of mine from when covid vaccines were being rolled out is not technically my relative, but she is a racist ivermectin sipper.

Even last year when my stepdad was hospitalized w/ covid & was very sick for months, she denied it was real.

#Comics
A four-panel comic by @inasketch Ink & watercolor Panel 1) In my mom's living room. I'm standing, holding my coffee cup. Another woman is sitting on the couch. Written in cursive over the scene is: "my mom and my stepdad's sister were having a discussion that sounded dangerously political. my mom turned to me for help. so i asked our houseguest the important question that no one else had asked." I ask, "Are you vaccinated?" She responds by asking, "Are you?" Panel 2) We are now face to face. I say, "Yes." She says nothing (there's a word balloon with three dots). Panel 3) Same scene as above. I ask, "ARE YOU?" She says, "No I'm not and I never will be." Panel 4) Close up on me. I say, "At least now I know what we're dealing with." She's morphed into a maga hat, and asks, "What are you dealing with?" I say, "You're sharing a bathroom with my daughters who've only had one shot." She says, "There is no pandemic. I saw on the internet that one of the vaccines is making people sterile." I say, "I'd like to make some people sterile."
August 19, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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I'm still not making daily comics. I'm still rereading my daily comics from the early '20s. Here are two from July five years ago. Life is much harder now.

The good news: my daughter is baking bread, and we have berries with whipped cream for some red, white, and blue.

#Comics #FourthOfJuly
A four-panel morning walk comic by @inasketch Ink linework with color pencil 1) The panel is divided vertically in three. Each panel depicts a different woman I encountered on my walk, greeting me. 2) The panel is divided vertically in two. The text on the first half reads: "The playground was open, but they forgot one sign" ... "I couldn't resist." The image is me reaching up to remove the forgotten "Playground Closed Jun 28 - Jul 2" sign at the top of the slide. The second half of the panel is me walking with the rolled up sign in my right hand. In my left hand is a small grey ball. A red arrow points to it id'ing it as "tape ball." 3) A house with every imaginable flag-inspired decoration all over the house and yard. The text reads: "This very patriotic house has freeway construction + a box store in its backyard." [For some reason, I've added goofy hashtags: #tgiholidayf #besafe #besane It's probably typical of middle age that using hashtags and emojis feels ironic, until I'm just using them earnestly :D ] 4) The text reads: "Breakfast in the backyard." The image is a lovely breakfast spread on a table my mom made from a door panel with windows. My sketchbook is visible. A four-panel morning walk comic by @inasketch Ink linework with watercolor 1) A closeup of a sunflower. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "sunflower in full bloom." 2) A dog running on the grass toward a picket fence. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "a dog ran out to say hello." 3) An angled view of a sidewalk and the grass border into which someone stuck small flags. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "three flags sprouted overnight." 4) A monochromatic image inspired by a Robert Frank photograph in The Americans, depicts two windows in a city building, with a person in each window whose face is obscured. On the left, the window shade partially hides the persons face. On the right, a large american flag covers the person's face. The text, written in white pen in cursive reads: "4th of July 2021."
July 4, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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It's a lovely rainy morning in southern California. Here's a comic I made when I first moved back here. Now that I've been back for several years, the thrill of a rainy day has returned. ☔
#comics #ArtOfBluesky #ItNeverRainsInCalifornia
A four-panel comic by @inasketch Ink & watercolor Panel 1) A woman stands looking out a window. The text reads: "It rained last night." "Since I'm staying at my mom's, I instinctively went to the window to check the gutter." Panel 2) A young girl in pink pajamas looks out the window* at a car approaching the gutter swelled with rainwater. The text reads: "Growing up here, it was a big thrill when it rained enough to flood the gutter." Panel 3) The girl jumps excitedly, with arms and braids flying, when the car drives through the flooded gutter making huge waves, The text reads: "It was especially exciting when a car turned the corner." Panel 4) The woman from the first panel, now outside in a yellow raincoat, with an umbrella, doing her best impersonation of Gene Kelly's dance, splashing water with her foot along the curb, and singing, "I'm singin' in the rain..." The text reads: "After years of living in New England, it's funny to me that rain was the big weather event as a kid." *It's the same window view in panel 1 and panel 2, but my mom remodeled at some point. So the current window (panel 1) is fancy with brown wood, an almost a bay window shape, and a curtain across the bottom half. The old window (panel 2) is flush to the wall and painted off white.
September 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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A little more Hollywood magic...
A four-panel by @inasketch (aka me). Panel 1) A night room. A woman lies on a sofa watching The Marvelous Mrs Maisel on TV. The caption reads, "When I stayed up all night at my dad's, as he lay dying, I binged a TV show on mute with closed captions." Panel 2) The television fills the panel. On screen is a male character from the show standing on stage with a microphone (doing a stand-up routine). The caption reads, "The male lead reminded me of my dad and the time period was right." Panel 3) A young man in 50s style fashion washing a 50s era car. The caption reads, "When my dad moved to LA in the 50s, did he dream of being a movie star?" Panel 4) The back of a man holding a baby in front of a floor length mirror. You can see them from the front in the reflection. The caption reads, "Was he still thinking about it when he met his first grandchild?" He is saying to the baby, "Gonna go to Hollywood! Gonna be a big star!"
June 21, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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A chance to share this comic I made in a Friday Night Workshop...
A four panel comic by @inasketch Panel 1) guy on a date with a cylinder-shaped robot. He says, "I thought you'd be more attractive when I agreed to this date!" Panel 2) The robot replies, "I am a fully functional I-25 prepared to satisfy your needs. Why do men always imagine robots as sexy young women??" Panel 3) The guy responds, "But... But... Casella, Rosey, Seven of Nine, Kristanna, Fembots! I want my dream girl!!" Panel 4) The robot has shape-changed into his mother, and says, "Junior! Don't be disrespectful!" He falls out of his chair, "AHHHHHH!" The text reads, "Is that better?!"
August 1, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Funny, I made this comic about the creepy sexualizing of robots, and now it looks like the last panel was prophetic.

#comics #art
A four panel comic by @inasketch Panel 1) guy on a date with a cylinder-shaped robot. He says, "I thought you'd be more attractive when I agreed to this date!" Panel 2) The robot replies, "I am a fully functional I-25 prepared to satisfy your needs. Why do men always imagine robots as sexy young women??" Panel 3) The guy responds, "But... But... Casella, Rosey, Seven of Nine, Kristanna, Fembots! I want my dream girl!!" Panel 4) The robot has shape-changed into his mother, and says, "Junior! Don't be disrespectful!" He falls out of his chair, "AHHHHHH!" The text reads, "Is that better?!"
August 25, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Movies were my dad's love language. Love of movies is a main reason he moved to LA (escaping snow another). "Wall-E" did not live up to his movie-magic hopes for his granddaughters' first theatre experience. They'd watched "Hello Dolly" many times on dvd, though, so this moment was magic to me.
A four-panel comic by @inasketch (aka me) Panel 1) A group of adults and children standing in front of a movie theatre entrance. The text reads: "When dad took the girls to their first movie in a theatre, it was a big deal. There were ten in our party." Panel 2) A shot from above of a full movie theatre and the movie screen. The text reads: "I was nervous because the girls can easily be overwhelmed." ... "Then when the lights went down..." Panel 3) The dark theatre, and from a dark screen comes a voice singing, "Out there." From the audience, my daughters join in song, "There's a world outside of Yonkers." Panel 4) My dad, me, my two daughters in our theatre seats. They're still singing along, "way out there beyond this hicktown..." The text reads: "That was by far my happiest moment in a movie theatre." [It's badly drawn & I should redraw it, still, it captures the moment.]
June 21, 2026 at 8:20 PM