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ABD Illustrates
@alexbdent.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 Queer comic artist and all-round nerd 🏳️‍⚧️ He/Him 🎂 28
✏️ Storyboard Artist for "Fantasy High" on Webtoon!
📖 "Draw Like An Artist" book is out now!

(Pls don't Edit/Reupload my art)
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🩵 Chillin 🩵

A warm-up doodle of my Ice boi Eira ✏️❄️
I’ve been trying to cram in as much behind-the-scenes storycrafting time as possible lately while juggling a bunch of freelance work and family stuff, so this was super refreshing to draw! 🤹✨

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart | #Heartless ]
a coloured digital sketch of Eira, a young man with white hair and a scar over his right eye, wearing casual clothing and looking away from the camera a black and white digital sketch of Eira, a young man with white hair and a scar over his right eye, wearing casual clothing and looking away from the camera
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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💛 *puts my protag in the cube* 💛

Very proud of how that shoe turned out ngl 👟✨
Trying to figure out a pose to fill the space for this one was rlly fun! I'm trying to build the habit of using vector layers for my inks atm as well 💪😤

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart | #Heartless ]
A digitally inked black-and-white manga illustration of Heartless, a young boy with black-sclera eyes and messy hair, crouched and posing to fit himself within the square canvas while looking at the viewer. His right shoe is closest to the camera, and his left hand is on his cheek. A work-in-progress digital sketch of the previous piece (a manga-style illustration of Heartless, a young boy with black-sclera eyes and messy hair, crouched and posing to fit himself within the square canvas while looking at the viewer. His right shoe is closest to the camera, and his left hand is on his cheek.)
September 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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💛 #Heartless & Flint ❤️‍🔥

Drew the lads while re-organising my Clip Studio Brushes! I normally have a hard time staying a bit more on the loosey goosey side like this when I’m inking, so I hope I can keep this kinda energy up! 💪😤

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart ]
A black-and-white, manga-styled headshot drawing of Heartless, a round-faced boy with black-sclera eyes and messy hair. He seems to have something to say. A black-and-white, manga-styled headshot drawing of Flint - a muscular young man with dark skin, short black hair, and a few small scars - sporting a casual smile as he looks away from the viewer.
August 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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🌙 Diana 🌙

Been roughing out some sketches of the Heartless cast in their youth recently – rlly happy with how this one of Diana turned out! 🤠

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart ]
a digital sketch of Diana; a sharp-eyed young woman with dark skin, a black braid draped over one shoulder, and a loosely sketched cowboy-ish outfit.
July 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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🏹 BO & ARO 🗡️

This dynamic duo are the stars of a short full-colour comic I worked on with @derekvsong.bsky.social, which is exclusively available as part of Lifeline Comics’ latest LGBT+ comic anthology, "Aces and Aros"! Check it out below! 👇

🖤🩶🤍💜 LINK: kck.st/3SU1LQ5 💚🤍🩶🖤
a colored digital illustration of Bo, a nervous archer in a green cape, clutching his Bow to his chest; and Aro, a confident rogue with dark clothes and a long red braid, looking into the camera. a promotional graphic for the "Aces & Aros" kickstarter campaign, featuring a trio of Variant covers for the comic anthology.
May 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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🖤 POV: Pondering crime over the morning paper 🖤

A long overdue lil' Creed doodle that somehow managed to capture his vibe better than some of my much more detailed drawings of him sgdkfjsfgh--

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart ]
a digital sketch of Alastor Creed, a gaunt man with shoulder length black hair, staring coldly at the viewer with dark eyes. His mouth is covered by the hand he's leaning his face on, as he holds a newspaper in the other.
May 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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💖Some Alchemy (and #Heartless) doodles that I forgot to post here! 💖 Silly? Glam? they have the range I fear ✨

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart ]
A cutely-styled digital sketch of Alchemy Valentine and Heartless, in monochrome pink and yellow respectively. Alchemy is leaning on Heartless' head as he stands in front of her with his hands on his hips. Both wear proud / mischievous expressions as they look into the camera. A digital sketch of Alchemy Valentine, in monochrome pink. Their hair is up in a heart-shaped bun and they are dressed glamorously with a feather boa
May 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The #FantasyHigh #Webtoon just dropped so now's as good a time as any to finally update my bio 👀🎲

The first few chapters are already up and I'm so excited for folks to see the whole team's hard work!! Gogogo! 💖 -- www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/fa...
April 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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💛 Sketches 💛

A buncha #Heartless doodles from last month that I forgot to post! (Mostly of Murphy) 🐈‍⬛✨

I’m getting a clearer grasp on what I want Heartless’ ghouls to look like but I’m still not 100% sure whether they work with his color scheme 💀

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart | #CostumeDesign ]
Colored digital sketch of Heartless - a boy with messy blond hair, sporty clothing and blacked-out eyes - leaning on a floating skull and smiling. Simple black and white doodle of Heartless and his black cat, Murphy. Heartless is lifting Murphy into the air happily while Murphy holds his paws out. 3 simple black and white doodles of Murphy the black cat: trotting happily with a toy fish in his mouth, turning with his eyes open wide, and curled up fast asleep. Simple black and white doodle of Moira, a little old lady with big round glasses, petting a purring Murphy
February 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Another #characterart #commission I worked on in December! Being able to play around with different pen settings and screentoning methods for these was such a joy ✏️💖

Bright the farmer - (and his chickens!) - belong to @weaselbites.bsky.social ! 🐣✨

(follow my #Vgen for alerts when slots open) (^^)/
Black and white manga styled artwork of Bright; a young man with white hair and a dark cowboy hat, leaning on a shovel while smiling at the chicken perched on his arm. A fence and some dozing baby chicks can be seen around him.
January 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Posting some more of the #characterart #commissions I worked on last month!

This year I’m hoping to open up one or two slots a month as-and-when I have the time to do so - you can follow my #Vgen page to be alerted when slots open! (^^)/

(Caedes here belongs to Zenzess on instagram!) 🪽✨
Anime-style character illustration of Caedes, a handsome man with a blue and black color palette and large wings which spread out around him as he bows with a wink and holds a dagger behind his back.
January 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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💛 Training Gear 💛

Some alt fits I doodled for the Heartless Crew a while back and forgot to post! Very rough ideas for what I imagine they might wear to train / work out, plus a couple more fashion-forward fits for the gals. ✌️✨

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart | #CostumeDesign ]
December 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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✨ My #Vgen page is now open for #characterart #commissions! ✨

I’ve tried to make as many slots available as I think I’ll be able to manage throughout December – here’s looking forward to working with y’all! (^^)/

🍁 vgen.co/ABDillustrates
December 1, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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🧡 Lance 🧡

I’ve been bitten by the “I need to draw my OCs or I’ll explode” bug once again 😔🙏 It’s been too long since I’ve drawn Lance - but I have a much clearer idea of who he is and what he’s about nowadays, so I tried to put plenty of attitude into this one! ⚔️🐉

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart ]
A black and white sketch of Lance: a bare-chested man with three black stars across his chest and two-tone hair falling over his eyes, looking roughed-up with a jagged sword in hand and a smirk on his face.
November 27, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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🤍 Lorelei 🤍

Another example piece for my #Vgen page! Lorelei has such a light palette that trying to apply tones to her in this kind of manga style is a bit of a unique challenge for me lol ✨🪶

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart ]
November 16, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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🃏 Bandy 🎭

Making some sample pieces for my #Vgen page and also ended up making some slight changes to Bandy’s outfit! It feels so nice to work in this black and white manga style again 🥰

[ #Art | #MangaArtist | #OCart ]
November 14, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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First proper post, hopefully I’m doing this right! ✨

I’m Alex, a queer #ComicArtist and #CharacterDesign -er! You can normally find me over on YouTube or Instagram, but I’m looking forward to buildin’ a home here on Bluesky too! (^^)/

#MangaArtist #Illustration #Art #OCart #Fanart
October 22, 2024 at 6:12 PM