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🦝 I’m a cartoonist who likes to draw animals with swords! | Pixel Artist and Animator for the future indie game, Blackmask⚔️ Website: mastafran.com LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/mastafran Blackmask: https://blackmaskgame.com/

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · Jul 8

#portfolioday

I'm an indie cartoonist, animator, and on good days, game developer creating pixel art for upcoming indie games.

If you wanna commission me, send a dm or check out my website!
www.mastafran.com

Green monochrome pixel illustration of an anthropomorphic raccoon wearing a large jacket, the camera looks over his shoulder to see a female anthropomorphic jackal wearing an eye patch long coat, ruffled neck collar, a sword and standing with a cane.

Monochrome green pixel illusion of three anthropomorphic animal characters. Left is an an anthropomorphic female goat with a silly beard. Middle is a anthropomorphic female sheep carrying a travel sack on his back and a mini sword. Right is an anthropomorphic pig in overalls tipping his hat to the camera.

Pixel art background layout mockup for the game Blackmask, displaying an interior room of broken stone pillars and bricks with an anthropomorphic raccoon standing among them

A green monochrome pixel art mock ups of a forest environment in Blackmask game to demonstrate a potential day and night system The player charcacter, Cole Blackmask stands on the left. The image is a compilation of two variants of the same image. The top image depicts a forest environment in the day time with large, thick tree trunks behind bushes and foliage. The bottom image depicts the same forest environment in a dark forest with large, thick tree trunks behind bushes and foliage.

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TamLin123 @tamlin123.art · 1h

kobold with an atlatl (spear-thrower)

#tober2025

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Jol @jolco.bsky.social · 5h

Doing some quick studyslop

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💜 Izzi8bit 💜 @izzi8bit.bsky.social · 1h

Thinking about that episode of Community where it was all pixel art and thinking about how I would go about the designs. Here's Jeff Winger.

Mine looks less comedic, but Joel McHale was jacked as shit as the show went on.

Jeff Winger from the pixelated episode and then my interpretation of the same character

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Richard @rihkessler.bsky.social · 2h

Hey #PortfolioDay !

I am Richard. I love to imagine cities and environments. My passion is aritecture, nature and colours. I tryy to maintain paintery style and positive feeling.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 4h

How can I make a Joe Rogan joke about this?

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 5h

yeah, he's been on my personal folders of "Great Box Art and Movie Poster Illustrations." I wish I could've met him at a convention or something.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · Jul 8

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 5h

The era has sort of ended but this really puts a nail to coffin of painted movie poster art.

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BAM @bamccray.bsky.social · 7h

RIP Drew Struzan

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 6h

WHAT?????

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 7h

A fun find: Hokusai used background motion lines about 200 years ago in this page from one of his books of picture stories. This is the oldest example of these that I know of, and interestingly manga tend to use these more than other types of comics (See corpus in: www.visuallanguagelab.com/poc)

Man flying on a giant fish with background motion lines in a woodblock print from an illustrated picture story from Hokusai

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 10h

I don't care.

Mastafran @mastafran.com · 19h

many of my attempts feel like a failure to launch at times.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 19h

thanks

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Green Screen Videos by Murdoink @murdoinkgs.bsky.social · 6d

Beavis "this place sucks, we should go somewhere else" Butt-Head "uhhh, every other place sucks too" green screen

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KHAN 可汗 🔜 TwitchCon 2025 @yungkhan.bsky.social · 1d

13/31 Sitcom #TitTober2025

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

This is the time where you need to Rainbolt it up and flex on the children!

Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

I'm not even gonna get into my ongoing feelings of not being a good enough artist compared to other artists who've made more meaningful work in less time than me. I can't let the existential dread kill me.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

I'm in the eternal battle not fall into the "I suck" trap when it comes to writing and editing various scripts and drafts ideas together as a narrative. Gotta remember that it's unfair for me to compare my lack of experience with writers who've been writing as long as I've been drawing.

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EXTINCTIONERS CENTRAL @ebonyleopard.bsky.social · 1d

Pharobus on the cover of Extinctioners 10.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 1d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

You too, will fold like laundry when you need to remember a coworker's name!

Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

If you think pronouns are hard to remember, wait until you get to Proper Nouns!

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Mastafran @mastafran.com · 1d

I focused first on human designs at the start. Later, I decided to study drawing animal more to vary up my skills and I started having more fun designing and learning about animals. I could stand to catch that bug drawing buildings, but it always feels miserable drawing architecture.

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Rhythm Bastard @rhythmbastard.bsky.social · 2d

Iiiiiit's FIGHT NIGHT for #fightober! The two pieces for my YCH:

@argootter.bsky.social vs. Thrash in the squared circle and @axegrinderleif.bsky.social vs. Vinchenzo in the dohyo!

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