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astrid elle jo❄️(jewel of the nihil)
@ellejohara.com
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Artisanal comics written and stylus-rendered with authentic human pathos by Astrid Elle Jo

🧜🏻‍♀️ 🤖 🧙🏻‍♀️ • PNW • 51
🏳️‍⚧️ queer • trans (they/them) • ♠️ ace
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Did you know the people of the ancient world knew about pigment and that their world was very colorful?

Hollywood doesn't.
A side by side shot of a statue of ancient Greece in Christopher Nolan's color palette (left, B/W), versus its acutal color palette (right, color). The painted statue has bright red, vibrant blue, deep green, and pale yellow.
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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First art of the new solar year: My monk/waterbender Callindra. Haven't drawn her in a while.

Also my first right-handed drawing in almost 11 weeks. I think the tendonitis is healing! But OMG is that a slow process.
Callindra is a monk waterbender with a quarterstaff directing a swirl of water around her body. She's wearing her usual vestments: An orange sleeveless top, loose red trousers, leather boots with a yellow scarf tied around the right ankle, and a yellow sash (somewhat obscured by the water). She's got white hair, brown skin, and an expressionless face because she's really bad at emoting.
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Okay, this piqued my curiosity something fierce. So I grabbed the first WAV that showed up at the top of a search and dragged it into Audacity. Look at those horizontal bars at 13kHz and above. That's wild!

I can't hear it. I'm old. And I'm more interested in infrasound anyway (< 20 Hz).
A purple and orange stereo audio spectrogram between 10000 Hz and 20000 Hz displaying clear lines at a few different frequencies including 15.7 kHz
December 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Hey! I have a webcomic: Threads from the Blue Rock Tapestry. It's urban fantasy-ish and almost 500 pages (with more to come). It's full of lesbians. Hooray! I'm not presently updating it because my drawing hand has tendonitis (alas).
#comics #webcomics

Read it here: ellejohara.com/threads/
The cover image of my webcomic, "Threads from the Blue Rock Tapestry". It depicts several friends drinking by the river, and it's inspired by the Flammarion engraving.
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Episode one of The Mighty Nein was magnificent! Looking forward to more!
#CriticalRole #TheMightyNein
Fan art I made of Yasha Nydoorin and Beauregard Lionett in their early campaign outfits.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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I should try making new character art in Adobe Illustrator like this one here I made of Tetra ... EIGHT YEARS AGO?!?!
Pirate captain Tetra from Legend of Zelda Wind Waker. She's doing her trademark wink and holding out her hand as if to say, "Wanna go sail the seas with me?!"
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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More left-handed drawing practice. It's feeling less weird now to draw with my left hand.

Tendonitis in right hand is healing. Very. Slowly.
Niem, in her athletic wear, flexes for her girlfriend. Raheema, in high-heeled boots and a white dress with a gold belt, looks up into the electric pink eyes of her girlfriend. I think I might be drawing Raheema a little bit shorter every time I draw her together with Niem.
October 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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It's Portfolio Day and I'm technically an artist, but not a pro. I long ago gave up the idea that my art would earn me a living.

So now I just say, "I draw indie comics. You've probably never heard of me." I really lean into that, actually. Which is one reason why my avi is Hipster Ariel.
Kitab - Not Really Anything 1. [I lean on the sink and look at my reflection.] In my youth, people often told me I had so much potential to become somebody. Like a famous artist or something. But I have never been able to live up to this potential. Now, decades later, I understand why. For a while I thought it was Borderline Personality Disorder. But I found out what it actually is. 2. [I hold my fists up. Above each is a figure: the ADHD Creature and the Autism Creature.] It turns out one can be ADHD and autistic at the same time. That's a hard-hitting one-two punch that makes everything I try to do much more difficult and frustrating. 3. [Behind me are some folks. Two are chatting. Another two are flirting. I cannot tell the difference.] It's why I don't understand how people work. For example, I always misinterpret social cues. 4. [Around me are examples of hobbies and projects I've abandoned or left unfinished. I look very sad/frustrated.] Vintage computers; making videos for my YouTube channel; belly dance (and dance in general); my graphic novel; my homebuilt electronic wind instrument (and music-making in general); volleyball (specifically sand court) It's why I abandon hobbies and never finish what few projects my executive dysfunction actually allows me to start. 5. [I cry out in anguish as the tag on my tee shirt drives me insane.] It's why I sometimes lose my shit over something completely trivial. Like an itchy tag irritating the back of my neck. 6. [Finger guns to my reflection.] I am AuDHD. It's not a bug. It's a feature. Which is fine, I guess. I'd definitely rather be autistic than borderline. 7. [I glare over my shoulder into the camera.] I'm 50 years old now. I've always been like this. It's not going to change. I'm fundamentally dysfunctional. 8. On the bright side, I guess I don't need to feel pressured to try and become someone anymore. Because now I know that's probably not even possible. [Text on each side of my face: Certified Nobody] Witchy me in black with my hair pulled into an updo with chopsticks sits on a hovering broomstick and looks down at a visiting snake. A full moon's reflection shimmers in a mountainside lake, while a campfire keeps me nice and warm.
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Left-handed scribble of bartender Golnaz, from my webcomic.

Though it takes longer to draw, and my arm gets fatigued quickly, I'm super glad I'm able to draw with my left hand.

Digitally. I tried drawing with pencil and paper and ... oof. It's bad, y'all.
Golnaz chills with her hands in her pockets. She's got a rockabilly vibe in earthy tones, and a flame tattoo around her right forearm.
October 13, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Another "I have to learn to draw with my left hand" practice scribble. This one's with Shadowheart.
A left-handed drawing (it's more of a woobly sketch) of Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3. She's holding the ... the thing, the 20-sided die.
October 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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A left-handed drawing of Madeline.

Please note: My left hand is not my dominant hand. ... Submissive hand? That can't be right. At any rate, I'm training it to be a switch.
Madeline Acier, a character from my comic 'Threads from the Blue Rock Tapestry', holds her left index finger up and says, "Left handed drawing? Are you some kind of masochist?" She's wearing skirts, pulled up to show off the latex leggings underneath, and a corset over a square scoop neck (not the correct term) cap sleeve top that shows off her cleavage. She also wears latex opera gloves (to go with the leggings), and some industrial clompers with elevated soles because she's short.
October 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Nurse robot girl in a corset and hobble dress (and other shiny accoutrements).
Robot girl in a red/blue/white color scheme. She's got geisha-ish blue hair, a lighter blue corset over a white hobble dress, and a matching lighter blue neck corset with a red first aid cross on it. Around her ankles, wrists, upper arms, and neck are cherry red cuffs with rings. She's holding her hands up in a kind of spellcasting position.
October 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I've somehow made it to 51.
A birthday scribble I drew three years ago of myself in a purple party hat and halfheartedly puffing through one of those unrolly-outy-whistle-thingys. I've got a fork in my hand and am about to dig into a grey cake with red frosting and a single candle burning atop it. I do not look in the slightest bit amused. Text reads: Happy Fucking Birthday
September 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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A post of my best art to remind myself that, yes, sometimes I *do* know how to draw. When my ADHD allows me.
Impa (2021) - The tall and slender Sheikah warrior from The Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword stands before the Gate of Time and begins crafting a ball of energy in her hand to destroy the gate once she passes through. Witchsona (2022) - A painting of witchy me in my techno-occult indoor witch cave trying out a new spell that makes a pink Doctor Strange style mandala in front of my hand. All around me in my little lair are various accoutrements of witchiness and technology such as a laptop and a desktop computer, a breadboard and FPGA board connected to a floating crystal, tomes of arcane knowledge (such as spellbooks and a guidebook for C++), and so many other things. Fries and a Shake in Nicodranas (2022) - A Critical Role Mighty Nein AU in which college jock/nerd Beau is out on a date with her metal goth angel from hell girlfriend, Yasha. They hold hands and play footsie as they enjoy their fries and strawberry shake. In the window behind them is a lovely view of Nicodranas on the Menagerie Coast. The Lighthouse of the Wildmother towers above, and the colorful city buildings pepper the hillside. Portraits of Scanlan Shorthalt and Marian Lavorre adorn the wall of the diner. Witchsona (2025) - My annual witch selfie for Year of the Snake. Witchy me sits on a hovering broom in front of a campfire and looks down at a little snake (snek) guest who has joined me to keep warm. It's a lovely full moon night at the lakeside in the forest.
September 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I forgor how to draw. Please validate my existence by liking this art of Raheema and Niem cosplaying as Harley and Ivy that I made five years ago and still kinda like.
It's a grawing of my webcomic characters, Raheema and Niem, dressed as their interpretations of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy.
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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My Threads from the Blue Rock Tapestry webcomic characters as the Straw Hat Pirates - Part 2 (now that I've finished Thriller Bark)
#aljart #BlueRockTapestry #art #OnePiece
Roimata as Nefertari Vivi Faisal as Brook Jo as Nico Robin Aziza as Tony Tony Chopper Gabor as Franky
August 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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My Fire Nation airbender OC, Miyuki, with some old art and some brand new art. With the exact same clothes for some reason.
#aljart #art
Miyuki, trepidatious new airbender from the Fire Nation. She's a tall, skinny, muscular woman with black hair tied in a Fire Nation version of a warrior's wolf tail. The top sketch is Miyuki trying to airbend, but the wind blows away her wolf tail. On the right is a portrait in which her heterochromia is visible with a red right eye and a yellow left eye. At the center is the Air Nomad symbol of three spirals. It's Miyuki again, just as in the previous image. But now she has a grumpy face, her left hand in a fist, and her right hand is holding a charred glider staff.
August 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I'm really enjoying One Piece! Yeah, I know I'm very late to it. Whatever. Here's a scribble of Nami.
#art #aljart #onepiece
Orange-haired Nami of the Straw Hat Pirates in her Arabasta dance clothes of purple and pink and blue. She's posing with her Clima-Tact (the party one).
August 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Niem with her sword.
#aljart #BlueRockTapestry
Elf girl Niem poses with her sword. She has her eyes closed and is turned away from the viewer.
July 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Mighty Nein Mighty Nein Mighty Nein!!! I love this crew of pure chaos.

Here's a comic I made of a time when they were discussing sleeping arrangements in C2E88.
#aljcomics #CriticalRole #MightyNein
Beau (Beau-ly): I'm gonna go sleep in my own room. Just pound on the wall if you need me. Jester (confused): Wuh... You don't want to... SADNESS looms over Jester and her heart cracks in twain Jester (weakly): Yasha? Do you want to be my roommate? Yasha (with stoic kindness): Yeah, I'll be your roommate. Jester: Okay Yasha (who loves flowers): You have one of the garden rooms, right? Jester (bits of candy floating above her): Sure! Yasha: Yeah. I will come in there. Jester: Okay! Beau: Caduceus, you flying solo? Caduceus (pointing at Fjord): No, we're... Fjord (interrupting): Just you. Beau (dawning realization): Oh! *I'm* flying solo. Jester (exasperated): I thought that's what you said you were doing, Beau! Beau (pointing her thumb back toward the guys): I just didn't want to sleep with *them.* Jester (eager once again): Well then, sleep with me and Yasha. [Beau considers this in a probably non-canonical dream sequence] [Jester is the little spoon, Yasha is the big spoon, andBeau is snugly sandwiched between them on the bed. They're all smiling.] Beau: (making a good decision): All right. I'll sleep with you and Yasha! Jester (very pleased): Oh, okay!
July 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Art style experiment with Fairuza.
#aljart #BlueRockTapestry
Elf girl Fairuza rests her hand on her hip (a staple pose in my art) and points her other hand up.
July 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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The Straw Hat Pirates of the East Blue Rock Tapestry

Guess who started watching One Piece? Me. It was me.
#aljart #BlueRockTapestry
The Straw Hat Pirates Cosplay from left to right: Mitsuki as Sanji Raheema as Usopp Fairuza as Luffy Niem as Zoro Gabrielle as Nami
July 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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If you're new to drawing smut, you gotta start somewhere. Reposting my shibari comic, but this time it's the director's cut.
#aljcomics
Knot Great at Drawing Smut 1. [Sarita is in a blue latex dress, and Astrid looks like The Baroness from G.I. Joe.] S: So you're thinking about drawing some smut, but don't know where to begin? A: Yeah. 2. [Suddenly Sarita is artistically nude, with her hair draped to hide anything that might cause someone to clutch their pearls.] S: Well, start simple. Draw a nude person. A (scoffing): Tch! But nudity is so boring! 3. S (surprised): I'm sorry? Nudity is boring? A: It's like, "Here's a naked person. Wow. So neat." 4. A: It leaves nothing to the imagination. S: What about nudity with a little spice? 5. [Astrid ponders while Sarita continues talking.] S: Maybe you should try drawing kink. S: How good are you at tying knots? 6. [Now Sarita is draped in rope from a sad attempt at shibari.] A: Terrible. S: Ah. So maybe not this one then.
July 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Happy Portfolio Day! I'm not participating, so no hashtag for me. But looky look at my art and comics!
#aljart #aljcomics
Impa from Skyward Sword stands before the Gate of Time with a little ball of energy for exploding the door after she goes through. Witchsona 2025 - Witchy me in black with my hair pulled into an updo with chopsticks sits on a hovering broomstick and looks down at a visiting snake. A full moon's reflection shimmers in a mountainside lake, while a campfire keeps me nice and warm. Kitab - Character Creation 1. It's 2001. I'm talking with the DM for my session zero before the campaign. Me: This is the character I'll be playing. 2. Me: Her name is Callindra. She's a multiclass monk/rogue, and she was kicked out of her monastery by a corrupt abbot. I created this character after I had gone back into the closet. Me: Now she's just wandering the wasteland, not really knowing what to do next. 3. DM: Your character is female. Me: Yeah? 4. DM: Any reason you want to play a female character? Me (hesitating): No. Reader, there was very definitely a reason. A comic page of my Southern Water Tribe OC, Anouk. She's in her workshop carving a bone trinket of some sort. But after a stretch and a glance out the window, she's decided now it's break time. So she puts on her jacket and heads out.
July 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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I'm busy trying to rebuild a webcomic buffer. So here's some Legend of Korra screenshot redraws I made a while back.
#korrasami
Korra: He's all into that prissy, beautiful, elegant, rich girl. A dejected Korra unconsciously reveals she might have a thing for Asami despite currently fawning over Mako, while Ikki and Jinora look on. Asami compliments Korra's new hairstyle, and Korra blushes and clutches her hair in a clear indication of "I'm into you, beautiful elegant rich girl".
May 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM