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Mikey

@blockforest.co.uk

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Linocut printmaker and illustrator. Inspired by folklore, myth, horror and anything spooky! Blockforest.co.uk - website and shop, also https://blockforest.etsy.com

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 17d

I’m delighted to share the case study from Perception for the prologue sequence to Sinners.

I was commissioned to create a series of digital illustrations with the result being this eerie, linocut-inspired vision that fuses Southern folklore, ancestral storytelling, and vampire myth...

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 17h

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 18: Spell book
Old print now - did this years ago - from my absolute fav Halloween film of all time ‘Hocus Pocus’. I may have bought the Lego Sanderson Sisters house to build next week as well 😃

#halloween #linocut #illustration #spooky #horrorart #mdwc25d18 #spookyseason

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 1d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 17: Baba Yaga
Another little sketch tonight - my take on the famous house from this Slavic folk tale.

#drawlloween #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #mabsdrawlloweenclub #halloween #print #linocut #illustration #spooky #horrorart #printmaker #slavic #folklore #babayaga #mdwc25d17

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 2d

Day 16: Gnome
Little doodle tonight. Went less garden gnome and more medieval mining Earth dwelling creature hunting for treasures.

#drawlloween #mabsdrawlloweenclub2025 #mabsdrawlloweenclub #halloween #print #procreate #illustration #spooky #gnome #printmaker #mdwc25d16 #spirit #creature #treasure

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 3d

As I sold out of my original Nospurratu vampire kitty this year I decided to create another one, because no matter how hard you try, you can't keep Dracula down for long!

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 4d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 14:
Lovely Bones
I love a screaming #skull - lots of myths and legends about them, including a few tales around the UK. They pretty much do what you expect, haunts somewhere and randomly screams, sounds a bit like me.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 5d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 13: #Omen
My little ode to the horror classic of the same name of course referencing the jackal birth scene. Another film that might slip onto my watch list this #Halloween.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 6d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 12: Yokai
Probably one of the more gruesome I could have picked - the Sagari are horse spirits who get caught up in trees and then hang from them usually by their intestines and hassle travellers on the roads - quite grim!

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 7d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 11
Pumpkin
My Halloween hare all dressed up in their fav pumpkin trick or treating costume!

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 8d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 10: From my queer horror zine with Kirsty Logan - of which I have a couple of copies hanging around and then they will be gone forever!

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 9d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 9: Undead
My posing biker vamp dude from last year, currently on sale at Derby Museums Shop if they still have some stock - go check out their Dracula exhibit if you're in the area!
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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 10d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 8: Lightning Lad
The OG lightning lad - Frankensteins Monster - all loved you and offering a heart to you - who's heart though you can never be too sure. One my little love cards.

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 11d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 7: Ghoul
This ghoulish little bear is definitely not after porridge.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 12d

Yay :) so glad you like it and looks lovely in that frame. 🖤

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Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social · 12d

Newly framed art print, waiting to go on the wall. A4 art print from @blockforest.co.uk. There are just a handful left of this limited edition design. Frame from Frames.co.uk in Manchester. The frame has a really nice wood grain effect cushion moulding. Delighted with it all! Thanks :)

A framed black and white linocut print showing three cats full of character and wearing lots of spooky/occult symbols, gathered around a fire in a forest. Behind an owl sits high in a tree and a large moon peeks out between the trees. The frame is black and the portrait orientation A4 print is standing up on a red cushioned seat.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 12d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 6: Werewolf
From my horror high series, which i may still come back to sometime as I liked these slightly derpy characters. A little stoner / skater were-guy most likely bunking off school.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 14d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 5: Forest Sprite
My little Faun from last year, I enjoyed how paired back this one was compared to some of my more overly complicated work.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 14d

Thank you!! Yeah it's a little different to my usual stuff! Ha yeah it was nice they picked someone who was familiar and didn't just wing it, was a shame we didn't have time to do them all traditionally but things move fast in movie world and they did an amazing job with them digitally.

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 15d

Mabs Drawlloween Club: Day 4 - Haunting
I think it's time to start my annual rewatch of this modern horror classic. Wonder if I'll be able to spot all the ghosts this time around.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 16d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 3: Witch
My first little witch print ever I think. Who doesn't want a push on a swing from the devil.
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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 16d

Mabs Drawlloween Club Day 2:
Your Familiar My little witchy kitties will always be my favourite familiars - only a few of this print left now and still one of my best I think.

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Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 17d

It's spooky month and I'd usually be throwing myself at drawlloween but not got the time this year 😅, so instead you're getting a retrospective of my last 6 years of participation (all available on my shops)!

Here's my spooky intro, a little self portrait hidden in my Overgrown Cemetery print.

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 17d

😀 thanks, yeah it was a dream to work on.

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 17d

Thank you! Was very pleased how the sequence came out! And glad you liked it - it's a great film isn't it!

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 17d

So glad you liked it! The team over at Perception did such an amazing job and I had such fun coming up with the illustrations.

Mikey @blockforest.co.uk · 17d

It was and thank you! 🖤 I was so pleased with how it came out, the guys who put the sequence together were just masters at recreating the style and it looked so good on screen. I'm so glad you liked it!