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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23

@kellymckernan.bsky.social

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fine artist ✧ freelance illustrator ✧ audhd goblin ✧ advocating for artists ✧ they/them baddie ✧ trans rights are human rights ✧ on a quest to see every color ✧ 🚫AI ✧ linktr.ee/kelly_mckernan

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hey #portfolioday, I’m Kelly McKernan (they/them), a fine artist and illustrator painting in watercolor and acryla gouache. My work is inspired by dark fantasy, art nouveau, surrealism, and pop culture. I enjoy creating art for books, comics, games, editorial, and galleries.

www.kellymckernan.com

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 14h

Previous years:

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 14h

My 4th NYCC is complete! What an amazing 4 days that was!

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 19h

The final day! Move-out outfit.

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 1d

Literally my only bad interaction this far!!

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 1d

It’s ok, I asked him to put my art down because I felt disrespected and didn’t want to sell it to him anymore.

Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 1d

The face I make when you try to haggle me AFTER I tell you my prices are set and I’m a single mom.

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 2d

New York Comic con day two!

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 1d

Alley artist day 3 lewk

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 2d

Oooof. I lost a $180 sale because it declined after the guy walked away. 🫠

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 2d

Alley artist lewk

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 2d

A little something to take the edge off #nycc #artistalley

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 3d

Hey comic con artists! If you’re not writing your booth number on your business cards, you’re losing sales.

Share to save an artist!

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 3d

I’m at @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social in the artist alley at table F-23! Come say hiiii! 💜

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 2d

New York Comic con day two!

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. I’m blown away by the support today at NYCC!!

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 3d

I’m at @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social in the artist alley at table F-23! Come say hiiii! 💜

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 3d

Hey comic con artists! If you’re not writing your booth number on your business cards, you’re losing sales.

Share to save an artist!

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 3d

NYCC artists/exhibitors! Does anyone have 10-20 clear bags I can buy off you that are 11”x14” or larger??

Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 4d

Hilarious that Southwest asks passengers to volunteer to check carry on items for free on every flight now that we have to pay for checked bags now. I just had to pay $180 because one of my 2 bags was 8 lbs over. I couldn’t find my luggage scale at 3 am this morning. 😭

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 5d

Ohhh shit I still haven’t finished my K-Pop Demon Hunters and I leave for NYCC at 5am tomorrow. AND I’m having a printer make fluorescent prints to deliver by Friday. Am I insane? Hell yeah.

Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 5d

Artists making fan art of IP they haven’t even interacted with really confuses me.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 5d

opening your inbox like you are checking in on some kind of refrigerator mold experiment

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 6d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 6d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 9d

Bucket list item achieved! It’s real!

Huge thanks to @heavymetalofficial.bsky.social and editor R.G. Llarena for bringing me on for this Ruptura variant!

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Kelly McKernan 🔜 NYCC F-23 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for hiring real human artists 💜