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@blockforest.co.uk

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Linocut printmaker and illustrator. Inspired by folklore, myth, horror and anything spooky! Blockforest.co.uk - website and shop, also https://blockforest.etsy.com

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 22d

I’m delighted to share the case study from Perception for the prologue sequence to Sinners.

I was commissioned to create a series of digital illustrations with the result being this eerie, linocut-inspired vision that fuses Southern folklore, ancestral storytelling, and vampire myth...

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 19h

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 22: Lantern
Another yokai - this one the classic lantern ghost - Chōchin'obake - sadly there are no known stories about them, they just appear in Japanese pictures starting in the 1800s.
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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 1d

One of my many Gillman illustrations, a little linocut bookmark. How they keep the books from getting wet is beyond me though. www.blockforest.co.uk/products/gil...

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 3d

Toad
A little old toad reading by candlelight, such an old print now - I did this back in 2019!

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#drawlloween #mabsdrawlloweenclub #halloween #print #linocut #illustration #spooky #horrorart #printmaker #toad #reading #bookworm #books #mdwc25d20

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 3d

then my work here is done! So glad you like it! 🖤

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 4d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 18: Spell book
Old print now - did this years ago - from my absolute fav Halloween film of all time ‘Hocus Pocus’. I may have bought the Lego Sanderson Sisters house to build next week as well 😃

#halloween #linocut #illustration #spooky #horrorart #mdwc25d18 #spookyseason

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 5d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 17: Baba Yaga
Another little sketch tonight - my take on the famous house from this Slavic folk tale.

#drawlloween #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #mabsdrawlloweenclub #halloween #print #linocut #illustration #spooky #horrorart #printmaker #slavic #folklore #babayaga #mdwc25d17

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 6d

Day 16: Gnome
Little doodle tonight. Went less garden gnome and more medieval mining Earth dwelling creature hunting for treasures.

#drawlloween #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #mabsdrawlloweenclub #halloween #print #procreate #illustration #spooky #gnome #printmaker #mdwc25d16 #spirit #creature #treasure

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 7d

As I sold out of my original Nospurratu vampire kitty this year I decided to create another one, because no matter how hard you try, you can't keep Dracula down for long!

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 8d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 14:
Lovely Bones
I love a screaming #skull - lots of myths and legends about them, including a few tales around the UK. They pretty much do what you expect, haunts somewhere and randomly screams, sounds a bit like me.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 9d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 13: #Omen
My little ode to the horror classic of the same name of course referencing the jackal birth scene. Another film that might slip onto my watch list this #Halloween.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 10d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 12: Yokai
Probably one of the more gruesome I could have picked - the Sagari are horse spirits who get caught up in trees and then hang from them usually by their intestines and hassle travellers on the roads - quite grim!

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 11d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 11
Pumpkin
My Halloween hare all dressed up in their fav pumpkin trick or treating costume!

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 13d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 10: From my queer horror zine with Kirsty Logan - of which I have a couple of copies hanging around and then they will be gone forever!

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 13d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 9: Undead
My posing biker vamp dude from last year, currently on sale at Derby Museums Shop if they still have some stock - go check out their Dracula exhibit if you're in the area!
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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 15d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 8: Lightning Lad
The OG lightning lad - Frankensteins Monster - all loved you and offering a heart to you - who's heart though you can never be too sure. One my little love cards.

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 15d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 7: Ghoul
This ghoulish little bear is definitely not after porridge.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 16d

Yay :) so glad you like it and looks lovely in that frame. 🖤

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 16d

Newly framed art print, waiting to go on the wall. A4 art print from @blockforest.co.uk. There are just a handful left of this limited edition design. Frame from Frames.co.uk in Manchester. The frame has a really nice wood grain effect cushion moulding. Delighted with it all! Thanks :)

A framed black and white linocut print showing three cats full of character and wearing lots of spooky/occult symbols, gathered around a fire in a forest. Behind an owl sits high in a tree and a large moon peeks out between the trees. The frame is black and the portrait orientation A4 print is standing up on a red cushioned seat.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 17d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 6: Werewolf
From my horror high series, which i may still come back to sometime as I liked these slightly derpy characters. A little stoner / skater were-guy most likely bunking off school.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 18d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 5: Forest Sprite
My little Faun from last year, I enjoyed how paired back this one was compared to some of my more overly complicated work.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 18d

Thank you!! Yeah it's a little different to my usual stuff! Ha yeah it was nice they picked someone who was familiar and didn't just wing it, was a shame we didn't have time to do them all traditionally but things move fast in movie world and they did an amazing job with them digitally.

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 19d

Mabs Drawlloween Club: Day 4 - Haunting
I think it's time to start my annual rewatch of this modern horror classic. Wonder if I'll be able to spot all the ghosts this time around.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 20d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 3: Witch
My first little witch print ever I think. Who doesn't want a push on a swing from the devil.
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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 20d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 2:
Your Familiar My little witchy kitties will always be my favourite familiars - only a few of this print left now and still one of my best I think.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 21d

It's spooky month and I'd usually be throwing myself at drawlloween but not got the time this year 😅, so instead you're getting a retrospective of my last 6 years of participation (all available on my shops)!

Here's my spooky intro, a little self portrait hidden in my Overgrown Cemetery print.