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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration

@studyofmonsters.bsky.social

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Comics, Creature Design, and Illustration. They/Them, Queer neurodivergent determined to make a happy life of drawing things. Monster and Dragon Enthusiast.

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Jan 5

Got the go ahead to start posting IKOR, a horror fantasy comic I’ve been doing in collab with writer James Dowling! Here’s the start of chapter 1!

Chapter 1 cover for IKOR, with the eponymous main character, a grizzled older man in a cloak and chainmail, with his back to the viewer as he looks over his shoulder. He’s holding a broken lantern and with a hemp cord tightly wrapped around and clutched in his other hand. The cord leads to a figure-eight rope pile that frames the lower edge of the image, alongside a smattering of plants (Tansy, Coltsfoot, Purple Columbine). Scotch thistle sprouts from within the broken lantern.

Behind Ikor, framed in a graphic upside down triangle, is a feral and staring wild hare.

Comic page: a cloaked man rides a massive antlered dog through snowy woods, leading a slight kobold man behind him by a rope.

Something is strangely hazy here…

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The dapper but rather suspicious kobold attempts to plea, bargain, and wheedle his way free!
…This would be easier if his captor didn’t seem so confused why he’s here.

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The cloaked man (Ikor) can’t quite recall why he’s captured Glib the Kobold (it’s rather hazy)… But he’s damn sure there was a damn good reason!
Glib maintains his innocence… But mysterious riders approach, interrupting the argument!

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Sep 11

That’s not where spiders go…

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you see this, share a skeleton!

Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Sep 4

Panel from IKOR that I feel stands real nice on it’s own.

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Sep 3

Big mood. Realized I’ve been in this city for a Whole Decade, On Purpose, so possibly I think? I love it here?

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Aug 23

A dragon, long and sinuous, curling its body in a figure eight, an jeweled orb suspended at the center of the knot between open toothy maw and double pronged tail tip

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s Wooper!! Woo!!!

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Aug 20

Appalachia region Fakemon! Never got around to finishing the Pooligan evo line, alas…

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Aug 19

Dragon face!

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · Jul 19

I think nearly the entire Horror genre boils down to the idea that it is worthwhile to fight until your very last breath. Even, and maybe especially, when there is no hope.

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Jul 17

Creeping canid wilderness in a trad media style

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Magistelle @magistelle.bsky.social · Jul 17

Commissions are open for the month of July! As well, I'm offering a new option of Bust commissions for $75, as you can see here at vgen.co/Magistelle !

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Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Jul 17

Weird fungus I saw on a rotting log on the way to work! Enchanted by how purple it was. It turned an off white color when I checked it on my way home.

Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Jul 17

A refined and perfect bean

Cat Caro Comics and Illustration @studyofmonsters.bsky.social · Jul 17

Quote with my woman art? My ladies are all fine creatures… Emphasis on “creature”

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Bruno Prosaiko @prosaiko.bsky.social · Jul 13

Ilustração de um elfo com uma espada encontrando um dragão magro no leito seco de um mar. O dragão encara o elfo ameaçadoramente. Há uma grande âncora com uma corrente enferrujada entre os dois.

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Evi 🌼 @evenlyevi.bsky.social · Jul 13

Days go by 🌱 #art #illustration

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

coo COO cooooOooOo

bites your shins, steals your chips

a sketch of a burrowing owlet standing tall but instead of an owl face it is a human lipless face with teeth and a tongue screaming.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · Jul 3

No amount of marketing advice or hustle culture bullshit about monetizing followers will fix the structural problems that make freelance art careers so difficult. Maybe spend more time asking why people can’t/don’t want to pay us? Why society can’t support us?

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · Jul 2

My #1 advice for new folks looking to break into comics!!!

1) Never, ever quit your day job. In fact, maintain that career for your entire life, never even thinking of it as a goal that one day you will work 'Full time in comics."

Comics will not last. Your day job will.