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Rek Bell

@kokorobot.ca

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Rabbit that pickles and draw from aboard a sailboat. Published Oquonie, RabbitWaves, Busy Doing Nothing, etc. Salish Sea 🇨🇦 FR/EN Personal website: kokorobot.ca My studio: https://100r.ca Mastodon: https://merveilles.town/@rek

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · Apr 11

I previously had my Mastodon account bridged to this platform, but thought I'd give hanging out here a shot, as opposed to having my posts mirrored.

About me: I like to draw on paper, I live on a sailboat in the Salish Sea, I love seabirds, making comics, and fermenting vegetables.

a sketchbook open to a page filled with panels for a comic. The art is drawn using pencils and a ballpoint pen, and featured two pointy-eared characters walking through the woods.

a sketchbook page showing illustrated sea birds having a conversation using the phonetic alphabet.

a self-published book named Wiktopher, the cover features a giant, long legged creature walking in the desert on all fours. A small sailboat(sandfin) is sailing in the sand, going in the opposite direction.

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 1d

Made a button for Rabbit Waves, should you want to link to it ^^!

Find it here: rabbitwaves.ca/site/about.h...

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 3d

How to find north, south, east and west using celestial bodies.

See the rest of the explanation on Rabbit Waves:
rabbitwaves.ca/site/celesti...

#celestialnavigation #sailing #art #solarpunk

A star compass showing where all of the stars rise and set, including the sun. By memorizing the rising and setting positions of many stars sailors can find out where they are in the world. They act as a compass.
List of stars and their constellations: Caph II (Cassiopeia), Merak (Ursa Major), Capella (Auriga), Deneb (Cygnus), Vega (Lyra), Castor (Gemini), Polluz (Gemini), Alcyone (Taurus), Arcturus (Bootes), Alderbaran (Taurus), Regulus (Lego), Altair (Aquila), Betelgeuse (Orion), Procyon (Canis Minor), Mintaka (Orion), Rigel (Orion), Spica (Virgo), Sirius (Canis Major), Minkar (Corvus), Formalhaul (Piscis Austrinus), Shaula (Scorpio), Canopus (Capina), Becrux (Southern Cross), and Acrux (Southern Cross).

For those in the northern hemisphere, the most important star is Polaris(North Star). It burns bright in the sky and sits directly in the north (within 1 degree of the celestial north pole).
If you can find Polaris in the sky, then you know where north is. Polaris stays where it is while the rest of the stars move overhead. If you look north following a compass you'll find Polaris.<br>How do you find Polaris without a compass?
1. Find the Big Dipper (part of Ursa Major)
2. Use the Big Dipper's pointer stars to find the Little Dipper (part of Ursa Minor).
3. Polaris sits on the tail end of the Little Dipper.

A graphic showing the little dipper, with Polaris at the end of the laddle, with a line leading straight towards the big dipper and its two pointer stars, Dubhe and Merak.
Finding the Big Dipper first is easier because it is bright and big. The Little Dipper is somewhat dim and more difficult to locate.
Polaris is part of a group of stars named The Little Dipper, shaped like a bent laddle.
If you follow Merak and Dubhe, the 2 stars making up the farthest edge of the Big Dipper's bowl in a straight line, you'll find the Little Dipper.

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 4d

Working on some pixel art for a re-work of Donsol(card game). This project is going to be my focus in the coming weeks :>.

100r.ca/site/donsol....

#game #indiegame #indiedev #pixelart

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 8d

Me too XD... best I can do is creepy cute art *deflates*

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 8d

Just learned about it! Excited to read through it all :)... your characters are so wonderfully expressive ^^.

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 8d

that's so awesome :>...

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 8d

I just released a new Rabbit Waves page, on using celestial bodies as a compass.

Featuring lots of cool info and illustrations! So happy with this page ^____^. Hope you'll all like it.

rabbitwaves.ca/site/celesti...

#art

a drawing featuring a rabbit aboad a turnip shaped sailboat at sea, loking up at the night sky at some asterisms overhead. The big dipper, the little dipper, cassiopeia, etc.

Reposted by Rek Bell

Helvetica Blanc @helveticablanc.bsky.social · 9d

Just a reminder, for no particular reason, that I have a website, RSS feed, and a free monthly email newsletter!

(I also have a weekly newsletter through patreon where you get alll the good stuff!)

helveticablanc.com

Helvetica Blanc ✤ Artist and Symbol Enthusiast

helveticablanc.com

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

Carole Cadwalladr has just launched The Nerve. I was hoping she would have an outlet other than Substack for her journalism work.

Very pleased to see this.

www.thenerve.news

The Nerve

Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech

www.thenerve.news

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

^_______^ thx Cab <3

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

omgosh, this is so perfect. Love the rabbit that stamps out the shapes XD... the movement is just too good.

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

i just learned what Labubu was a few days ago, it is crazy to me that I hadn't heard about it until now.

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

100%. In this same line of thought I find it very irritating that i can't get some friends to watch fantastic animated series like Scavengers Reign, it's aimed at adults, but many won't give it a chance because "it's animated"... it is indeed very insane.

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

Mastodon has been my main platform since 2018, I still love it there, but I opened an account here a few weeks ago to connect with more artists, and hell, can confirm that arriving somewhere new is haaaard.

I feel like such an outsider XD...

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

Trying to carve a place for yourself on a new platform is such a challenge. I understand why people don't want to start over elsewhere when the platform starts having problems.

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

those teeny wings ^^

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 9d

An illustration for a page that I am finishing up and that I will release very soon :>...

#art

an illustration featuring a gull and a rabbit, sitting on crates and talking while drinking something warm. The rabbit says that the brightest star in the sky is Sirius. The gull replies with See-ree-us? On the side are drawings of the two stars, sirus(1st!) and canopus(2nd!)

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 11d

VC-funded communities are liable to enshittification, they have to start making money sometime and that's usually when it gets worse for users.
I just started using BlueSky to connect with artists (Mastodon doesn't have as many artists), so its sad to see this fuckery happening yet again, so fast.

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 11d

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Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 11d

I bite you, you bite me.

#art

a serpent like creature with heads at both ends, in the first drawing the bottom head is biting the body, saying "om nom- no", while the other head says "Stap!" In the other drawing, the top head is now biting, saying "Myoun!" while the bottom head screams "AAA!"

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 12d

Blessed Be the Hero

(silly comic from my archives)

#comic #art

a short comic featuring humanoid dogs. In the first panel, the dog sees someone struggling to free a car from the snow. The dog walks over and starts to help, "Feelin' so guuud!" they say. The dog begins to help pushing the car, "Helping others! YEA!" they say, grinning while pushing. Suddenly they stop, in a panic, "OMG! It's NOT moving! We're going to die out here!" The other dog next to him says, "You can leave like... anytime." In the last frame, in a closeup, the helping dog is being very dramatic, sweating and laying limply over the bumper of the car "I've got NOT arm strength!" they yell. The other dog is annoyed and says, "Plz leave."

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 13d

I am horrified by it, but I also... want to sit on it? Ahh XD...

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 13d

At Design Fiesta no less! Such a great space! Hope there are lots of attendees :)

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 13d

Glad I haven't seen that particular ad yet ^^;;

Browsing YouTube with an adblocker is a godsend, it's gotten so so baaaad... (i occasionally have to browse without one. So much garbage and disinformation). Some ads also are like, 15-30 minutes long now??

Rek Bell @kokorobot.ca · 13d

I didn't get to make any new comic pages this summer :<, I had too many other projects to complete, but I've been sketching the characters themselves a lot.

Here are a few Hakazi faces.

#oc #art

drawings of the face(3 states) of a character named Hakazi, with pointy ears, and large dark eyes. The first face shows Hakazi grinning while frowning, "Cause I got pointy ears, right? Ray-sist." he says. In the second face, he is standing, wide-eyed, smiling a bit awkwardly, trying to look innocent with pale pupils due to light being shined into them while dark out. In the third face, he has been surprised from the back, he looks behind him, a bit fearfully.