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Alex Plante 🐀👑

@aplante.com

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little canadian rat goblin woman (she/they) https://www.aplante.com/welcome 🔹illustrator/comics/murals 🔹IG/FB: @alexplantewpg 🔹patreon/ko-fi/cara: @alexplante Agent: @stephaniewinter.bsky.social #art #comic

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · Sep 3

Ahoy hoy!!

I'm Alex, a Canadian illustrator on the Prairies.
I do a lot of landscapes, cartoons, comics, and murals, and I sell prints and stickers and stuff! I love colours and shapes! You can't beat em!

🧵 >> comics and murals

shop/blog/portfolio: aplante.com
patreon: patreon.com/alexplante

power lines going down a back lane, silhouetted against a pink and purple twilight sky. the trees and houses along the lane are all cast in blue shadow. the colours are laid out in a way that suggests the bi flag. very bisexual lighting. a street lamp glows, and some birds flying in the distance.

retro risograph-style purple and gold digital illustration of ingredients to make mushroom soup. mushrooms, knifes chopping onions and garlic, broth, lemon juice, etc.

an warm illustration of bald hill at riding mountain national park in manitoba, canada. a cliff juts out into a sea of orange, yellow, red, and green trees. in the foreground is a single rocky platform with a mama bear and her cub.

Digital gouache painting of Sam reich from game changer on dropout standing at his little rainbow podium but make it a little golden book. “I’ve been here the whole time…”

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 25m

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 15m

lol skill issue

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 23h

last night I got to go to a single release party for my pal Doug McArthur (whose album art I drew earlier this year) and set up at the merch table to sell prints of it alongside my regular stuff. I realized I forgot to share it so here it is! #art

a cartoon illustration of a man in a denim jacket and jeans playing a lute and singing while walking down a path next to a river winding through foggy green hills. the hill on one side has birch trees with little pink leaves, and some pink mushrooms upon which a little white and black cat is perched. the other side has prickly, mostly bare evergreen tree trunks with the occasional needled branch. In the foreground there are ferns and glowing pink flowers. Another little black and white cat with ziggy stardust lightning bolt markings is nestled in among them. in the far background hiding behind a hill and some trees is a large blobby black shape with white pinpoint eyes. on the left among the ferns is a giant raven. a tiny nuthach meeps on a birch tree on the right.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

spent a bit of time tinkering on this today. I'm still setting it up and figuring things out, but if any mutuals would like a link to join, shoot me a DM!

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 6d

purely to gauge interest, i have a question!!

i’d need to figure some stuff out, but i’ve been feeling the absence of these kinds of art forums on a visceral level for years.

HYPOTHETICALLY. if. IF. i looked into setting up a professional art forum like this, would any of my peers be into it?

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · Dec 13

once again i am dreaming of an approved-members-only php forum for professional/high-caliber artists that is read-only to the public because honestly you've all had it too good for too long

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 38m

also me as a friend (if i am sam or off-screen brennan, you guessed it, depends on the day)

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 47m

me as a friend (if i am hand or dog depends on the day)

3 panel comic of a dog holding a frisbee

1. "pls rewards of being loved??"
2. hand comes to take the frisbee, angry dog "NO mortifying ordeal of being known!!!"
3. close up on angry dog face for emphasis "ONLY rewards of being loved!"

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 50m

god, this year. everything just constantly happening so much. i don’t think i would be surviving emotionally without my friends. extremely lucky to have the level of honesty, vulnerability, protection, and care that i do in my relationships. being Seen is fucking horrible but maybe worth it? ugh.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 57m

NO!!

a gif of a boy running with the words " a knife " behind him

ALT: a gif of a boy running with the words " a knife " behind him

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 14h

proof i was funny even 10 months ago i guess i've just always been like this

screenshot of a snippet from a bsky thread from 10 months ago

Ted: "PUDDING IS A COURSE"

Alex: "I think you'll find it's actually quite smooth"

(it got 3 likes, which is a travesty imo)

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1h

more hell

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1h

welcome to hell

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1h

yuhyuhyuh!

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1h

for my own entertainment purposes i would like to see worse

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1h

can you tell them to stop

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 1h

people are supporting your good behaviour?

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 9h

alex we made a server specifically for productivity tracking together where you post what you accomplish every day. don't lie in public where i can see you

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 11h

i knew you'd be on the correct side of things i knew it in my heart and soul

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

why limit it to comics this is just universally upsetting

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

wow this is somehow worse than ted's response

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

yeah but now i don't have to have a tiny crumb of guilt about it

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

perfect that means it's fair game and i can yell about you behind your back and it's your own fault if you miss it

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

i do also plan on opening it up more i just don't want to be overwhelmed at first lol

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

also open to comics/comics writers, other kinds of arts (thinking of pals who do metalworking and ceramics but with a more visual bent, that kind of thing)

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

i don't trust him

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

spent a bit of time tinkering on this today. I'm still setting it up and figuring things out, but if any mutuals would like a link to join, shoot me a DM!

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 6d

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · Dec 13

once again i am dreaming of an approved-members-only php forum for professional/high-caliber artists that is read-only to the public because honestly you've all had it too good for too long

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