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Bruce Mackay
@brucemackay.bsky.social
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Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator & Creative Director. Posting personal work, experiments & weak jokes. He/Him
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · Jul 8
Hi #PortfolioDay

Im Bruce, an illustrator, creative director & printmaker based in Cape Town, RSA. Big fan of old goofy SFF covers & forced perspective. My digital work is heavily influenced by gouache, printmaking & sculpture.

ILLO: www.instagram.com/bad_manifesto
FA: www.instagram.com/oombruce
Illustration of a bunch of little guys. heavily influenced by Richard Scarry books. Overlapping textured colours. Digital illustration of a quiet lane. Overlapping blue and orange. Lots of stonework and shadow. Illustration of the Lord OF The Rings cover. A Nazgûl sits astride its horse between 2 red trees that make a circle. Int he background is Weathertop, the Misty Mountains and Orodruin. Overlapping risk colours - red, teal and yellow. Illustration of a spostage stamp set based on characters and landmarks in the Lord Of The Rings. If you need a description of each element please look in the media tab on my profile. Overlapping risk teal and orange/ textured.
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Jimmy Makepeace @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 2h
Hello #Portfolioday

My name is Jimmy Makepeace and I am an illustrator and sometimes animator based in Bristol UK.
A woman rides on the back of a dragon with a bow and arrow over a blasted landscape. A barbarian stands surrounded by skeletons in a throneroom backlit in red A sleep paralysis demon sits atop a burned out tank against a crimson sky Elric of Melnibone is gently pushed forward into the future by an unseen breeze, he's stood atop a boat surrounded by candles
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alex moore @notanotheralex.bsky.social · 2h
hey #portfolioday! i’m an illustrator storyboard/comic book artist probably best known for my work w/ Dungeons & Daddies. would be more than happy to hear about any pin-up and cover projects you might need a hand on 👀

[email protected]
cargocollective.com/alexmooreill...
#art #comics #dnd
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 2h
Me: "I have auditory dis-regulation. Too much noise upsets me!"

Also me: "Oh yay, my favourite band where the vocalist makes distorted pig noises has a new album!"
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 6h
Happy to say that my fixation on darning socks hasn’t lasted long enough for me to get around to actually doing it :)
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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 18h
Aferah, for a personal project, 2017
Aferah, an illustration by Eleonor Piteira of a woman in profile standing on a desert. Framing her head is a gold sun like a halo, and her long dark hair becomes the night sky behind her, with two pale moons among the stars. On one hand she holds a 4 leaf clover and on another a gold cup tilted down, a gold river pouring from it.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 21h
Almost done :)
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 6d
WIP #Tolktober25
Work in progress illustration featuring the Witch King of Angmar astride his fell beast. The Mountains of Mordor in the background. Sky lit by Orodruin's eruptions. The guys are sitting on a ruined citadel dome. Some unfinished orc and rubble silhouettes are all around the base of the citadel. LOTR
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d
NGL I mostly follow Postcards From The Past to steal colour palettes...
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d
HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d
I once worked on a children's book about the locations in the Magic Orphan films (before author's terf era) & I think the amount of effort the designers put into the props was a large part of what made the world so exciting. This Wonder Man merch is such a spectacular failure in world building.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · Aug 21
KITCHEN SINK
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 2d
This is actually a perfect example of how using AI robs you of any authenticity. It just looks cheap and fake and doesn’t read like retro sci-fi art at all.

Also using the same face/angle for both things is soooo lazy lmao. 👎
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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d
Guess I’m not watching WonderMan.
nerd_talks_show 6h Marvel employees were asked whether the 'WONDER MAN' poster for the in-universe movie was created using Al. "Its artwork made by artists but touched up by Al," which was clarified with "so, really Al-assisted Photoshop work," and the response was "yes." (via: searcher_gold | X)
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 13d
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Oil on felt monoprints. Replicas of some old instax photos I took of my favorite bridge in Hong Kong. 8.5x5.5cm. #printmaking
Photograph of 2 tiny monoprints. Greyscale oil based prints on paper. Images are from underneath a big bridge in Hong Kong. Prints are sitting on a water damaged wood veneer surface.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 2d
We didn’t need another Tron movie we need another Reboot(1994) that will teach the kids of today that playing video games can kill the sentient beings inside the computer and that going on the internet will cause you to age exponentially.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d
NGL I mostly follow Postcards From The Past to steal colour palettes...
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 1d
HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 2d
This is actually a perfect example of how using AI robs you of any authenticity. It just looks cheap and fake and doesn’t read like retro sci-fi art at all.

Also using the same face/angle for both things is soooo lazy lmao. 👎
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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d
Guess I’m not watching WonderMan.
nerd_talks_show 6h Marvel employees were asked whether the 'WONDER MAN' poster for the in-universe movie was created using Al. "Its artwork made by artists but touched up by Al," which was clarified with "so, really Al-assisted Photoshop work," and the response was "yes." (via: searcher_gold | X)
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 2d
We didn’t need another Tron movie we need another Reboot(1994) that will teach the kids of today that playing video games can kill the sentient beings inside the computer and that going on the internet will cause you to age exponentially.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 3d
TBH If I ever had to “pivot” there’s a good 50% chance it’ll be plumbing.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · Jul 22
NAZGÛL
Illustrated postage stamp from Middle Earth. Image is of the Witch King of Angmar astride his fell beast. with some of his friends as silhouettes amongst the clouds. Colours are overlapping teal and orange with a yellow soft light adjustment layer. Lord of the Rings. Ive ben workshopping a joke about "looking for a Nazgûl to settle down with" for a while but haven't quite nailed it yet.
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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 3d
IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR!

That's right- it's #tolktober, run by the mighty @rogueprintco.bsky.social

I'm delighted to join in once more, with day 10- ISILDUR

Doing a grotty textured companion piece to my Mordor last year, a man in shards, destroyed by his need for the ring

#art
isildur a man in shards with sword and ring
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𓉸 Rogue Print Co. 𓉸 @rogueprintco.bsky.social · 7d
PRE-ORDER for volume 3 of A MIDDLE-EARTH is now live.

100+ pages 50+ artists

Bigger than ever

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100 pre-orders and I wear the Legolas wig at thought bubble ✨
A MIDDLE-EARTH Vol 3 PRE-ORDER AND GET TWO EXCLUSIVE A5 MINI-PRINTS! The cover features Bag End with Samwise trimming the verge at dusk - cover art by Anna Stead
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 3d
In my "Let the weeds grow in the crack" era.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 3d
"We were going to award it to Mr Trump, but Bibi asked us not to."
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 4d
If I was the Nobel Committee I would give the prize to Greta, then say that Trump was in the running but lost it because of his failed ceasefire deal in a way that makes him lash out at Netanyahu out of pettiness/spite.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 6d
WIP #Tolktober25
Work in progress illustration featuring the Witch King of Angmar astride his fell beast. The Mountains of Mordor in the background. Sky lit by Orodruin's eruptions. The guys are sitting on a ruined citadel dome. Some unfinished orc and rubble silhouettes are all around the base of the citadel. LOTR
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · Jan 27
Cuttings.
An old style exploration for MUTI.
Illustration of some plant cuttings in glass containers. Mostly overlapping greens and purples on a white background.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 3d
In my "Let the weeds grow in the crack" era.
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 4d
Bluesky should add something like the Alt-Text reminder, but to go like: "Hey bro, are you sure you want to post this tedious joke about that one guy?"
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