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Ryan “TK” Cicak

@ryantk.bsky.social

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California-based Artist, Writer, and Performer. Cats, Comics, Coffee, Cthulhu. 🚫 AI 🚫 Hate

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Dec 13

Taking a big swing this January on the new apps; the big return of my Monster Mash January Challenge! Please join me in making some art based on 31 of the fiercest femmes in cinema history! I’m a chiller on the challenges; all media welcome (no AI!). I’ll make some low-impact lists, too.

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 1d

14. Lovely Bones
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #BrideOfFrankenstein #Cyberpunk #NoAI #LovelyBones

An illustration of a cyberpunk Bride of Frankenstein, connected by blue wires to glowing green diodes, her skeleton glowing green from within. She is framed by a yellow rectangle which is glitching out.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #PortfolioDay!!

My name is Ryan, and I draw monsters. Sometimes I draw pretty femme people, and sometimes they’re the same thing. I love horror and folklore and character design!

A folk horror interpretation of the Brode of Frankenstein, The Stitchwork Girl wears a gauzy dress and has thick, visible sutures on her limbs, as well as across her chest and mouth. Flowers parade up her beehive hairdo, which is also full of twigs and sticks.

A seductive, full-bodied red succubus looks over her shoulder at the viewer. She is framed by a heart.

The main characters from Cassandra Khaw’s novela The Salt Grows Heavy. A person with delicate features wears a plague doctor costume; they clutch the vulture-like mask to their chest as they recline. They have pale blue skin and delicate scars dot their face. They are held by a person with long hair and a voluminous fur coat, with pale green skin, bulbous yellow eyes, long fingers and visible fangs. The two gaze at each other lovingly.

A crocomaid - a mermaid whose lower body is crocodile instead of fish. She swims upward, framed by a rectangle with bubble cutouts. Her dark hair flows in a halo around her head.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 2d

13. Pumpkin
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Pumpkin #Cyberpunk #NoAI

An illustration of a racer with a large, oblong helmet bearing a jack i’lantern face.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 3d

Quite with your monster art.

The beauty is in the monstrous.

A folk-horror inspired interpretation of the Bride of Frankenstein, called the Stitchwork Girl. She wears a gauzy dress, with thick stitches around her joints, across her chest, and around her mouth. She has a beehive up-do adorned with flowers and shot through with twigs. There are rolling hills and a windmill behind her.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 3d

12. Yokai
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Yokai #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkYokai #KuchisakeOnna #DoYouThinkImPtetty

An illustration of a cyberpunk Kuchisake-Onna, the slit mouthed woman. A woman with a shaved haircut looks at the viewer. She wears a glowing gas mask/revreather, underneath which,glowing circuitry crawls from her mouth. On her back is a pair of enormous scissors.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 4d

11. Omen
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #Omen #NoAI

An illustration of a computer monitor and keyboard. The monitor is displaying “666” while a glitching digital skull appears floating above it.

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Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 5d

Daniel Warren Johnson rules

Absolute Batman choking out an ice agent by Daniel Warren Johnson

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 6d

The only kind of climate change I can approve of 😌

Two big red cats circle a terrified hog encased in ice. The cat's tails are flames and melt the ice partially, exposing some pig butt and giving it a singe. "Uh-oh Step-Pig, I'm Stuck...!" ok I made the joke for you so you don't have to. Hot ham smoke emits from the pig and spells "BECOME AN" and melted ice on the bottom spells "ICE-FREE ZONE"

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 5d

10. Dark Water
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #NoAI #DarkWater

An illustration of a humanoid deep water drone. It has an elongated head, humanoid arms and eel like tail. Its fins and several spikes along its arms are glowing.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 6d

9. Undead
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #Undead #NoAI

An illustration of a skeleton, lit from within, hooked up to wires, and saturated in glowing binary code. It is framed by a green coffin shape.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · Oct 17

o̶n̶e̶ ̶f̶l̶e̶s̶h̶,̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶e̶n̶d̶

colored piece, fanart of Harrow from Harrow the Ninth
she's floating into the black space, holding a giant sword close to her chest, frowning in anger and sadness, tear rolling down her face painted as a skull
she's surrounded by many skulls with "IX" on their forehead, and ribcages, and bones

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 8d

7. Ghoul
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawllowernClub2025 #cyberpunk #ghoul

An illustration of a cyberpunk ghoul; a desiccated corpse in silhouette. Neon lights are glowing inside its skeletal frame, while wires and electrical diodes seem to hold it together.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 9d

6. Werewolf.
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #Werewolf #CyberpunkWerewolf

A cyberpunk werewolf against a blue circle. The werewolf has glowing tubes and lines at its joints, and metal enhancements on its head and over its eyes.

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Marcia @marciaillust.bsky.social · 10d

curious. anyway,

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 10d

5. Forest Sprite
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #ForestSprite

An illustration of a cyberpunk drone against a pink circle. The drone is a sphere with translucent/holographic wings and green lights.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 11d

4. Haunted.
#Haunted #Haunting #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #MabsDrawlloweemClub #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkGhost

An illustration of a man and his ghost. The man is mostly in silhouette, with cyberpunk implants. Behind him is a translucent ghost with digital glitches. They are framed by a green rectangle.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 12d

3. Witch
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Witch #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkWitch

An illustration of a cyberpunk witch; a woman in a beanie and jacket with pink glowing circuitry across her face and vials of magic elixir being pumped into her back. She is silhouetted against a yellow triangle and projecting a black hologram in front of her.

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 13d

2. Familiar

#MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #MabsDrawlloweenClub #Drawlloween #Cyberpunk #Familiar

An illustration of a cyberpunk cat, with vials of glowing goo attached to its back and implants on its neck, against an irregular yellow rectangle. Text reads “Familiar”

Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · 14d

1. Spooky Intro
#MabsDrawlloweenClub2025
#SpookyIntro #Drawtober #Cyberpunk

An illustration of a cyberpunk person, a barcode on their forehead and neck, and tubes coming out of their head.

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Sweeney Boo @sweeneyboo.bsky.social · 23d

Buttercup and Bubbles #powerpuffgirls

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Spoopy Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · Sep 12

I still ask that you check out my non social media options to look at my arts. I have a free patreon tier.

Orange cat in the garden. Bubble says “confront and destroy god.”

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 28d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Sep 8

I think about this a lot.

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caitlin🎀 @caitlinfilms.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Ryan “TK” Cicak @ryantk.bsky.social · Aug 31

Was thinking about doing a nice #BrideOfFrankenstein piece for her 90th anniversary!
But which one?
The Stitchwork Girl, my #FolkHorror interpretation?
My years-old guess at what a @realgdt.bsky.social Bride might be?
The classic @universalmonsters version?
Or something new?
Lmk in the comments!

The Stitchwork Girl. A pastoral scene with a wondmill and rolling hills in the background. A woman sits in the foreground in a gauzy shift, stitches apparent at her joints, neck, and chest. Her hair is in a wild beehive, adorned with flowers and full of protruding twigs.

Isabella, my idea of a Bride of Frankenstein in the style of Guillermo del Toro’s #DevilsBackbone and #PansLabyrinth. Jessica Chastain as a woman floating ethereally, though her neck, leg arm, right leg, and feet are flayed to expose her muscle underneath. She wears a floaty dress, tattered by fire and lightning. The right side of her face is an emaciated rictus, her eye socket full with clockwork. Metal bracework adorned with scarabs holds her skinless limbs, and she wears a wooden corset.

A black and white illustration of the classic #UniversalMonsters Bride of Frankenstein, uplift and screeching. #UniversalHorror

The Brides of Frankenstein. Elizabeth and the Bride of Frankenstein locked in a loving embrace. Elizabeth has short blond hair and is dressed in a light top embroidered with flowers. The Bride wears a dark, angular dress with dark floral embroidery.