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@jpawlik.com

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30+ | nonbinary | they/them | 🇨🇦 Working on comics at https://topazcomics.com & Oh Joy Sex Toy Previously: College Humor, Disney, Bloom Married to @mparker.bsky.social https://jpawlik.com

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · Aug 1

Hey bluesky, I'm Jey Pawlik
I'm a nonbinary comic artist who makes exclusively queer comics!
Portfolio: http://jpawlik.com
Art Blog: http://jpawlik.com/blog
Webcomics: http://topazcomics.com
Support: http://patreon.com/jpawlik
Contact Me: [email protected]

Square image showing Mikael and JP from the cover of the comic Dead City kneeling down next to one another, both with worried expressions as a dark foreboding background looms behind them. The background is the city skyline of Toronto and the lights of the buildings slowly turn into eyes. Text: Dead City

Comic page, in black lines and coloured in shades of green. Panel one, Jey slams their hands down on a desk. Jey dialogue: No! Enough is enough! Panel two, Jey with their arms up in a determined pose. Jey dialogue: I've decided. Panel three, Jey running happily through a portal where on the left they are fully clothed with forms and papers flying around them. On the right they're exiting the portal with top surgery bandages on their chest, with masculine aligning clothing flying around them. Jey dialogue: This is my body for the rest of my life, so instead of self-loathing, I'm going to take action in the form of transforming my body to suit my needs instead of forcing myself to love things I don't love.

Comic page, black lines and coloured in shades of dark pinks. Title: Secret Snacking. Panel one, Darumaka from behind with the sound effect "munch" and "crunch" around her. Panel two, a loud speech bubble on the left of the panel and a surprised Darumaka from the side on the right of the panel. Her hands are up near her mouth. Her mouth is full. Daven dialogue: Maka! Panel three, Darumaka with her mouth full is running away from Daven in the background. He's yelling after her. Daven dialogue: What's in your mouth?!

Comic page, with black lines and minimalist colouring. Panel one, Lupin is in a kitchen whisking some liquid in a glass bowl. He's wearing a pink Santa hat and singing. Lupin dialogue: Oh quand j'entends sonner au ciel. Panel two, Lupin is using a ladle to pour the liquid into three tall glasses. Panel three, in a living room Lupin is handing Goemon one of the three glasses. Lupin is holding one for himself and Jigen has one as well, but is reaching off panel for something. Goemon dialogue: What is this? Lupin dialogue: Eggnog! Panel four, similar panel as to panel three but Goemon is looking concerned at his glass, Lupin is pointing to Jigen angrily, and Jigen is pouring whisky into his own glass. Goemon dialogue: Egg... as a drink. Lupin dialogue: Jigen! There's already run in it!

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay!!

I'm Nic, a queer tattooer in Toronto, ON. I specialize in illustrative tattoos of characters ✨ I love working with black ink & textured fills

Portfolio: www.sofarsogoodtattoo.com/nic
Flash book: www.sofarsogoodtattoo.com/nic-flash-drop
Booking form: forms.gle/PHNRSoBPPrvw...

Tattoo of a black dragon filled with stars on light skin

Tattoo of a celestial woman with a sun face and starry hair on dark skin.

A dragon tattoo on a shoulderblade on light skin

Three tattoos of snapshots of characters, collected on a thigh. Light skin and black and grey inks, with a pop of red.

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #portfolioday! I'm a comic artist and colourist who's worked for OniPress, Harper Alley and a bunch of indie projects.

And ff you're looking for help on a kickstarter project, I've run 3 and am great with promotion 👽

Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hey friends, my schedule is opening up and I am looking for more ✨comics and colouring work✨

Check out my portfolio here
🔸 www.megacarter.com
You can reach out to me through my website or directly at [email protected]

comic page from THE IRON BARGE, featuring a boat filled with talking animals under attack from possum and racoon pirates!

comic page from GODSLAVE, taking place inside a grand temple cover in the changing leaves of fall. The goddess Hathor holds a conversation with a fennec fox

comic page from GODSLAVE, featuring a young woman touching a lightning blade to a rain puddle. A bolt travels across the road using the puddles to attack a sphinx and a woman with iron skin.

cover for the comic TO KNOW A WITCH, featuring a teen girl sitting against the roots of a tree with a notebook and gathered flowers.

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #portfolioday ! I'm Shel, I'm an artist, art director, comicker, and more.

I do concept art, pitch package art, style guide development, and more, and I'd love to hear about your next project!

Learn more at www.portablecity.net/shel-kahns-p...

Created for Peculiar Path Inc.; A painting of a cluster of boats and ships in front of an oil rig; the centermost ship is an aircraft carrier; all have been converted into solarpunk living spaces with visible gardening and retrofitted elements. The sea is calm, the sky is blue with big fluffy clouds, it feels peaceful and hopeful and vibrant.

Created for Numizmatic Games. A sheet of black and white line and tone drawings of pieces of landforms, ready to beincorporated into a procedural environent kit; all variations on layered desert rock structures; several are fully cleaned up, the rest are a little sketchier.

Created for Chaosium. A black and white inked and toned lineup of five Gloranthan adventurers, wearing bronze age outfits and armor inspired by etruscan, scythian and sumerian clothing and technology. There are three men, alla bout the same height, with beards and long hair, and two women, one shorter in scaled maille with a braid, and one taller, in religious dress, with full etruscan hairstyle including crimped curls and a headband. All have tattoos showing gloranthan runes.

Created for Hit Point Press. A digital painting of a strange goat-like creature with needles for feet and a visibly bad attitude, leaping towards the viewer, in a landscape of strange precarious stacks of stone. Behind it, a dusk sky with a bright moon, giving it a dramatic rim light.

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 23h

Hi #Portfolioday ! I'm Vash, a concept artist and comic illustrator, with a healthy obsession for ttrpgs, scifi and weird fantasy!

✨ vashtaylor.squarespace.com

A comic page picked out in blues and reds. Its dark and foreboding. A girl sits by a campfire. She begins to cry

concept art for ambrosia sky - Dalia lays gerald to rest.

The musician Tamino, painted in blocky, muted colours

three witches stand around a cauldron, a noxious mist surrounds them. They're dressed in ornate clothing. The forest around them bares the grim evidence of their passing.

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 7h

Amiel you are such a constant source of inspiration for me, between your wonderful art, your many hobbies and just being such a good pal~

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 1d

Real talk, you should NEVER ingest topical gels like this. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea from your comment.

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 1d

Insurance companies absolutely need to start covering different forms of HRT!

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 1d

@jpawlik.com didn't get on HRT because they didn't like needles. But when they learned about T-GEL that's absorbed through the skin, they got their T-party started!
www.ohjoysextoy.com/to-a-t-gel-j...

To A T-Gel Comic by Jey Pawlik, done in cool minty green tones with heavy blacks and black linework. Jey is a nonbinary person who uses they/them pronouns, has big rectangular glasses, short cropped hair with a few greys. They wear simple clothes like graphic tees and jeans throughout the comic.

Narration: I hemmed and hawed about going on HRT* for so long in my 20s.

A younger Jey ponders and says “Maybe I could try it? A bit more facial hair and a lower voice sounds real nice.

Note: Hormone replacement therapy

Narration: At the time, the only option that was available to me was injections at a full dose.
A needle is shown front and center.

Narration: I chickened out.

Jey sprint away telling themself “Nope! I don’t think T is for me actually!!”

Narration: Years later, I watched a friend transition using T-GEL.
Jey’s friend, who’s look has been changed for privacy, says “I’m starting T but it’s not injections—and it’s been pretty great!” we see Jey’s friend’s transition from pre-T to years on T with a full beard.

Jey looks excited and says “OH! I didn’t know that was even an option, and you look so happy! Maybe—maybe I could go on T after all!

Narration: I went through a lot of hoops to get there but eventually an endocrinologist prescribed me a dose of T-Gel that I was comfortable with as a nonbinary person.

A timeline of Jey in doctors offices, filling out mountains of paperwork, being put on long waitlists, until finally their endo says “Okay, I’ve sent your prescription off.” And Jey lifts their arms up in success “YAY!”

Narration: T-Gel is a form of topical testosterone. It can come in packets, tubes, or a pump bottle that you apply according to your prescription.

Tubes, packets and the common pump bottle of T-Gel are drawn.

Jey has their hands on their hips looking defensive as speech bubbles fill the entire background behind them, berating T-Gel and saying it’s hard to use or isn’t as good as injections. Jey says “I think it’s really amazing but I’ve also seen it get a bad rap."

A pink ribbon unfurls across the bottom of the page, reading "Read the rest on ohjoysextoy.com"

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 1d

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/to-a-t-gel-jey-pawlik/
This month's OJST comic by me is up for your viewing pleasure. I want to share my love of T-Gel and how it’s been the perfect way for me to be on HRT and how grateful I am that I don’t have to use needles!
#Webcomic #Art #OJST

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Mr. Cato @thestoopidcato.bsky.social · Aug 19

KEEP DRAWING!

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Lackofa @lackofa.bsky.social · 6d

Conures! got as many colour morphs and species as I could think of in there but man there's so many of them

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

things that are ~not~ portfolio websites:

patreon
tumblr
insta
bsky
pinterest
itch
etsy
inprnt
mastodon
threads
...and so on

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

hey folks, are you an artist who would like to get hired to draw? here's one pro tip to level up your odds instantly!

...........make a ✨portfolio website!✨

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 1d

ohyeaaah! It's definitely yaoitacular!

28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 2d

AMIEL!!!

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🔪🏳️‍⚧AAHHH!miel🏳️‍⚧️🔪 @thesandlord.bsky.social · 2d

dont gimme them big ol eyes!!! #lupiniii #lupjig

a drawing of lupin and jigen sitting on crates, their legs entwined as jigen glares at lupin, who is sporting a black eye. their suits (and faces) are all beat up. lupin has a lit cigarette dangling over jigens shoulder.

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 4d

I made this comic in 2022 (before Feedly got weird with AI) and I’m currently working on making an Ukagaka Ghost for myself, so Ukagaka fans chime in on any code you like!

Maybe I’ll do an Ukagaka comic follow up.

In the mean time I also did a talk on RSS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJpu...

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 19d

Hey y'all, for something different I thought I'd share a written version of my RSS & You talk I did for the @cartoonist.coop Nib & Ink Fest

Head on over to www.patreon.com/posts/134774... or jpawlik.com/blog/09/26/1... to read the whole thing for free!
#RSS

Powerpoint slide that reads "RSS & You, a talk about RSS, what it is, and how you can use it for webcomics and more!" with a big orange RSS symbol to the right.

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Petra Erika Nordlund @pepurika.bsky.social · 5d

www.tigertigercomic.com/tiger-tiger/...
hey... tigers day!

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 5d

GODSLAVE⚡️ is a webcomic about a girl tricked into working for an Egyptian God, and subsequently in the middle of a Pantheon Family Feud.

You can read from the beginning here⚡️⚡️
www.godslavecomic.com/comic/chapte...

Illustration from the comic GODSLAVE. A young woman stands in an ancient Egyptian temple, with hieroglyphs and images painted on the ceiling, prominently featuring the god Set. A shadow in the shape of a giant cobra curls along the ceiling, with glowing white eyes. The woman stares up at the ceiling with her hands curled into fists.

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 5d

Another day, another chance to talk about my very-long-running D&D (3.5e) podcast! We've been playing this game for like 7 or 8 years now.

Stumble Quest @stumblequest.com · 5d

✨NEW EPISODE DAY!✨
✨Episode 189: Jargarita Aftermath✨

The crew rescues their friend from overpriced cocktails. #ActualPlay #DnDPodcast

⚔️Recent Episode: www.stumblequest.com
🔮Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/stumblequest

Stumble Quest

We're Stumble Quest, a D&D play podcast presented by the Killustrators! Follow our misguided adventures as an agnostic Paladin, a Good-aligned Necromancer, a Thri Kreen Druid & a kleptomaniac Cat!

www.stumblequest.com

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 4d

For anyone who is also on Pillowfort, we are already over there too! Come say hi! www.pillowfort.social/OhJoySexToy

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 4d

My second piece for OCtober, a question for Ulf today! Ulf is a loooong time OC of mine (2011) and you can find lots of old art on my art blog: https://jpawlik.com/blog/tag/ulf/

Send me OC questions this month over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/140203404
#Art #OCsky

Digital illustration of Ulf, a chubbier POC person with long hair pulled into a bun and wearing a backwards ballcap with a heavy light-coloured leather jacket. A question is asked in a speech bubble to Ulf "Ulf, what do you do when you want to treat yourself?" and Ulf asks a store employee "What new toys do y'all have?" to which the employee grins and pulls out a big box with a suggestive toy inside -- we can only see bits of what this toy might be.

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 12d

The first piece from my OCtober, we're starting with a question about Daven and what his (and Darumaka's) food is! You ask OC questions over on this free Patreon post~~ https://www.patreon.com/posts/140203404
#OC-tober #Art #AlolaDarumaka

Digital illustration of Daven from Alola Darumaka, a black man with short curly hair with a very fit physique. He and Darumaka, his pokemon, are eating spicy curry with big smiles.

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 13d

I'm doing OCtober this year, where free & paying Patrons send me OC questions here: www.patreon.com/posts/140203...

And I'll post answers every Friday on all my socials for the month of October!
#OCsky #Art #OCtober #OC-tober

Illustration with 20 original character portraits lined up in a grid with their names and pronouns above each portrait.

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