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Nicholas Nada

@nixnada.bsky.social

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Some guy from Scotland. Drawing, writing, punning, apologising (mostly for the punning). All art guaranteed 100% human-produced slop

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · Jan 17

Oh look, I drew how I feel having to be out of bed

A digital drawing of a surly looking cat, drawn in the style of scratchboard, white on a black background

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 15h

How to write for men.

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 17h

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers"

Charles Petrescu, a robot. He has a grey-haired balding mannequin head with round, wire-rimmed glasses on, a washing machine for a tummy, and he's wearing a shirt, bow tie, and cardigan

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Duncan Fegredo @duncanfegredo.bsky.social · 1d

It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you! Baby steps, but still progress!
This was my favourite page, personally, as I knew all but one of the kanji, and the one I didn't know, I knew the word, so I was able to piece it all together to understand the sentence. Before you know it, I'll be reading books with more than 10 pages!

From a Japanese picture book, a dog holds a piece of meat in its jaws and lets out a scary growl

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 21h

Looking at a pronoun labeller account, and this option made me laugh because in Glasgow this would mean a person who uses no pronouns at all:

A screenshot of text saying, "hee / haw - this person uses hee/haw pronouns"

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 1d

Milestone in my Japanese learning tonight: I read a whole book in Japanese! It was a gripping tale of a hungry dog who stole some meat from a stall, ran away until he came to a river and then *spoiler alert* barked at his own reflection in the water, causing him to drop his ill-gotten gains.

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Lucy Sullivan @ Comixology C9 - Thought Bubble @lucysullivan.bsky.social · 1d

Me & my comics pal @fraserc69.bsky.social were adding our unused TFTQ page to this but the con artist AKA Frazer Brown has put that on hold for now.

Instead Fraser (good one) & I are creating a brand, spankin’ 1 pager for A1 DEADLINE so please…
BACK IT NOW!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dee...

A1 DEADLINE SPECIAL

A1 and DEADLINE, two landmark UK comic book publications ARE BACK! The heart of UK counterculture returns to print.

www.kickstarter.com

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 1d

A series of whodunnits where the sweet little old lady crime writer / amateur detective is actually the perpetrator each time, bumping off someone awful and framing someone equally bad. Miss Marple meets Dexter. We'll call it Murder She Wrought

Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 2d

a white and brown pencil portrait on tan paper, showing an older man with white hair and a long white beard. He has tired eyes and I can totally relate today

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The Wee Owl Art (Scotland) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 4d

This little mushroom landscape illustration with fairy toadstool fly agaric was added to my shop this week. A great gift idea for a lover for fairy tales or the magic of nature...
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#Mushrooms #FlyAgaric #Landscape #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #bsnm

A small colour drawing of a woodland grove filled with fairy toadstools, the iconic red and white fly agaric mushrooms. The drawing is in an illustrative style with white outline around the mushrooms.
Fly agaric is the classic fairy tale toadstool, this red and white fungus is often found beneath birch trees in autumn.
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper
5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like maybe a 3 or a 4 when I'm on my own on a good day, until I have to interact with other people and realise I'm actually an 11

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 5d

Michael! We're watching Lost Boys, Michael. Come watch it with us, Michael. Michael!

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 5d

My dad is so excited to see the @realgdt.bsky.social ‘s new Frankenstein, he ordered the artbook from the states. I couldn’t take him to the exhibition sadly.

He’s a lifelong Frankenstein fan and made a few puppets and statues of him over the years

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 6d

Luigi nervously humming along to his own game music to keep his nerve is a top-tier gaming memory for me. I love it!

Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 6d

Hallo, wieners!

Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 6d

I saw a couple round our way, their kid was too young to go trick or treating, so they'd made up the pushchair to look like the Mystery Mobile and were going around handing out bags of sweets to the guisers. Lovely way to join in!

Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 6d

The Bin Bag Draculas would be a cracking name for a band

Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 6d

Kid's costumes look so fancy these days. No bin bag draculas or toilet paper mummies out there

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 6d

Watching the original Christopher Lee Dracula movie. Lucy leaving her bedroom windows open so the vampire can get in was so me as a child. I knew vampires needed invited in, so I wasn't going to make it difficult for them

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · Oct 1

Oh, go on, since it's the start of spooky season, I drew this for you

A scratchboard portrait drawing of Frankenstein's creation, in white on a black background.

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 6d

Getting older means not recognising any of the costumes the trick-or-treating kids are wearing *crumbles to a pile of dusty bones*

Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 6d

I've got my Halloween costume sorted!

(Départ pour le Sabbat by Albert Joseph Pénot, 1910)

A black and white painting of a naked lady perched on a flying broomstick

Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 7d

Yikes. Rather you than me!

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Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 8d

Pinksky is an interesting way of presenting your Bluesky feed, for those who are pining for the fjords of Instagram, but it is a little too slavishly beholden to that Insta interface. On a site with no algorithm, removing the ability to repost others' work also removes any chance of discoverability.

Nicholas Nada @nixnada.bsky.social · 12d

Just posting this Master-piece (I warned you there'd be puns! You were warned!) to test out Pinksky

a digital portrait painting of Roger Delgado as the Master from Doctor Who, looking suave as hell

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The Wee Owl Art (Scotland) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 10d

The Wren is a tiny bird, almost round in shape with very short wings and a tail which is often stuck up vertically.
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#Wren #Birds #BirdArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #ColourPencil #PenAndInk #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

A small colour drawing of a little wren singing among the cherry blossom. The drawing shows the little brown bird sitting on a branch. The drawing has a bright pink background.
The Wren is a tiny brown bird, it's almost round in shape with a fine bill, quite long legs and toes, very short round wings and a short, narrow tail, which is sometimes stuck up vertically.
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper
5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).

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