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Graeme Neil Reid

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Artist when I can be and Scottish all the time. https://linktr.ee/GraemeNeilReid

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · Sep 1

If you don't have one of my 2025 calendars you can still go help yourself to my Star Wars calendar that is free to download on my Patreon website. The September and October months are available now and you can get them to print out at home by joining my Patreon for free and the downloading the file.

Graphic showing two calendar months of September and October which feature paintings from the original Star Wars trilogy.

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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 15h

I saw Raiders was trending, and I thought...

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/p-f54lkXhbQ?...

The World Of 'The Dark Crystal' | FULL MOVIE | Jim Henson, Frank Oz | Cult Documentary Fantasy

YouTube video by Shout! Studios

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Fraser Campbell @fraserc69.bsky.social · 1d

I have about half a box of this left if you’re sold by Lesly’s lovely comments about STARCROSSED!

Lesly Julien @leswrite.bsky.social · 1d

Starcrossed is another great one shot tale by @fraserc69.bsky.social idk how you do it but I'm envious. particularly enjoyable payoff @alfiegallagher.bsky.social such a good looking book: emotional expression, scale of some scenes, swordfighting, cool ass magic and memorable characters.

Starcrossed. Epic cover with main villain in the background. Two protagonists back to back holding swords. Flanking them are characters in red( left) and yellow (right)

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 3d

Not mad busy so I’m going to do some detailed pencil sketches. First one! JOhn Constantine!

Pencil drawing of John Constantine. A ma looking tired with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. Unshaded with spiked hair and a single earring.

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 5d

The colour weathering on the door and surround is fantastic. The Roman tiles are making me think of Tunnocks Tea Cakes 🙂

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Rob Jackson @robjacksoncomics.bsky.social · 5d

Here's another row of panels from my new comic in progress robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com/2025/10/damm...

'Dammit'

Here's a row of panels from my new comic in progress.

robjacksoncomics.blogspot.com

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 5d

Emil Nolde’s Red & Yellow Cloud, 1930

large red and yellow sky a small building to the left on a horizon low in the painting

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Scoobtoobins @scoobtoobins.bsky.social · 13d

I really enjoy making pieces like this.
Ink on Bristol paper.

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 6d

I can sticker Scotlands newest old city of Dunfermline.

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, there is one older artist I know who is fantastic and his work now is still very much great but to have increased his output so drastically is alarming. He is still doing his own thing and his work looks like his but the turn around of one great painting after another is telling.

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry Tom, take care.

Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 6d

So many great artists I admire and respect but it is obvious that their ‘reference’ work on composition for pieces is coming from AI. People who would normally turn out ten great pieces a year are suddenly creating four or five times the amount and all amazing.

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 7d

50 is new 60! No wait that is wrong. Either way happy birthday youngster!

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 7d

I feel your pain, I have a similar work experience to you and have faced the same hopelessness. It seems like it will never get better and in many ways it will only just change. Be kind to yourself and take comfort that you are an incredibly resourceful creative person that counts and is needed.

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Monster Art Guy @monsterartguy.bsky.social · 7d

RIP wonderful John Woodvine. 😢
"Oh well then, a small Guinness will suffice".

#johnwoodvine #drhirsch #anamericanwerewolfinlondon

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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 8d

Don't forget I have a snazzy new book on Kickstarter right now. It's called Savage Strangehollow and it's the fourth in a series of books set in the world I created. Filled with loads of wonderful creatures!
Get yours here: buff.ly/raZbj7q
#kickstarter #watercolour #creature #Dragon

giant black dragon diving out of thunderclouds, crackling with lightning, chasing a smaller red dragon which is desperately trying to escape with its life!

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 8d

Oh I’m not doing this all again, I will abandon it all and become a ghost.

Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 8d

The urge will return, produce work purely for yourself is the key.

Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 8d

I found my ‘case worker’ quite sympathetic but yeah the whole deal is skewed and makes you feel terrible. Plus you have to basically go through it online every month declaring your earnings and deductions and then go in every few months for face to face. I hate it.

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Fake Macaw @fakemacaw.bsky.social · 10d

Lay me down where the greenery stings
#art #artsky #drawing #sketchbook #surrealism #traditionalart #inkart #inkdrawing

Ink drawing of stinging nettles and hands in striking positions can be seen emerging from the plants. Several heads are hidden throughout the drawing. In the background, a horde of figures are seen climbing over each other, reaching out to a person falling from the sky. Framing the drawing are canyon walls.

Drawing loosely inspired by the song “Nettles” by Ethel Cain

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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 18d

A nest of Pythons.

#caricature #art

Caricature of the Monty Python team, with various objects from their TV shows and movies, such as the holy grail and the dead parrot.

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Eoin Coveney @eoinc.bsky.social · 11d

Recent Alien Xenomorph A3 ink. Hunt 101 dip pen and synthetic brush with Talens Indian ink on cold pressed watercolour paper. #comics #artist #illustrator #alien #hrgiger #inkart #inking

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 11d

Forgot to 'big up' my Star Wars calendar pic for October, which you can go and download and print out for your own use at my Patreon website. It's free, you need to be a member (yawn) but that is free too.
www.patreon.com/posts/2025-d...

Painting based on a scene from the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, Two figures talk to each other in a dark hallway, behind are some steps.

A picture of a calendar showing the month of October and featuring the painting previously described.

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Horsenburger @horsenburger.bsky.social · 12d

Teletext Halloween: A is for An American Werewolf in London, where full moons, foggy moors, and cursed backpackers kick off our pixelated parade of horror.

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Graeme Neil Reid @graemeneilreid.bsky.social · 12d

New month, new calendar page. Turn them if you’ve got one!

Photograph of a calendar showing the month of October and featuring a painting of a creepy clown holding a red balloon from the film IT.

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