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Old Paul
@manticore-aw.bsky.social
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Artist/Artworker. DM for commissions
#LibrumProdigiosum #Werewolfbeer designer
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QRP your Dark Art ☠️
3 cloaked Skull faced ghosts parade across a hill near the coast, a derelict building behind them Pisadiera, a sleep demon sat on your chest at night in bed, underlit by the glow of a mobile phone The Biasd Bheulach is a nocturnal shapeshifter: it bore the form of a man, sometimes of a man with only one leg. At other times it appeared like a greyhound or beast, this picture has it as all 3, attacking you from within a thin crevasse. Cover to 'Cathedral of Anguish', a Fighting Fantasy book that may or may not exist. Cover illustration is a skull faced hierophant clasping his hands inside a large, dark cathedral.
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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11pg main story, Dan Reed art. My digital copy doesn't have VISIONARIES (lol) back up story but does have ALL NEW Transformers etc
intro page to TF 183 TF 183 telling you theres a new letters page and whats on next week Transformers comic to do with the letters page
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Damn that's something that brings back memories. I think by 88 they had about 24-30 pages, only ref I have physically is this and I can't remember where it is. Was usually 12 pg TF, 3-4 ad pages and 6-8 back up US reprint of maybe GI Joe?
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
Reference
Ernest Borgnine looking really angry
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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This is still my favourite painting I did totally drunk in about 2 hours this year. Feel free to post your actor art!
Ernest Borgnine looking really angry, taken from a still of the film The Emperor of the North (1973). In the background I abstracted some train tracks.
November 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
Traditional Halloween painting for my lovely wife. Still getting used to painting on canvas but I'm well happy with this.
Acrylics on 8x10" canvas
#halloween #darkart #raven #crow
A screaming raven, or possibly a crow I forget, stands facing East on yop of an old skull with it's left eye still intact. In the background, square windows where vivid green light shows through.
November 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
Nice on 14.5k.
I'm Paul and I paint things like this:
7 of Cups Tarot: A barechested man sits with his back to us in the foreground, looking at the 7 cups. 4 are in front of a plinth, on top of which sit the other 3. Contained within, a castle, treasure, a skull with a laurel wreath, a dragon. Plinth cups: a face, a hooded figure with outstretched arms, a snake. All of this is sat above the clouds. Acrylic painting of Lily, a tiny dog looking at you with her head poking out of a bright orange Halloween blanket. In the background, a blurred living room. Knight of Wands Tarot: An armoured Knight on horseback holding a long wand, wearing a golden robe with a salamander pattern & red feathers on his helmet. In the foreground, a Salamander. In the background, some pyramids and a bright blue sky. A multitude of carved spooky pumpkins, skulls and ghosts tumble down a hillside, lit from a full moon in a dark purple sky.
October 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This is Lily, who sadly went over the stars this week at the young age of 17 bless her. Also fits Spooky Season.
Shout me if you'd like a loved one painting. #doggie #commissionsopen
Acrylic painting of Lily, a tiny dog looking at you with her head poking out of a bright orange Halloween blanket. In the background, a blurred living room.
October 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
The 2 of Wands #tarot
Two of Wands Tarot. A distinguished man stands looking west on a parapet, high above a grassy plain. He wears a hat and dark red robe, in his hands, a wand and a globe. In the foreground, a red rose and 2 white lillies.
September 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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It's been a busy week, but new cat #commission along with some other board game stuff that'll be revealed soon. If you'd like a pet painting DM or ko-fi.com/manticoreaw/...
Mum Pengiun looking after Baby Penguin Popstar: This light ginger puppy is looking up at you A painting of a Sperm Whale floats near the oceans surface 2 Mice that are in love hold hands in their cage. I painted this!
September 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
New art coming soon, meanwhile Judgement
#majorarcana
Judgement Tarot Card: An Angel with a trumpet rises above a man, child and woman. Behind the Angel circular green/orange sky rings
September 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
Quote how you paint dark skin.
Page of Cups Tarot: The Page stands on a long jetty, his left hand on his hip, his right hand holding a goblet with a Zebra Loach peaking out. In the foreground, yellow tulips. In the distance, the sea and a bright red/yellow sundown.
September 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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King of Swords Tarot card. This one for @keezyyoung.bsky.social as they reminded me my dad posed for this, inbetween his woodworking shenanigans.
King of Swords Tarot: The King sits on a square throne, his sword in his right hand held vertical, his left hand under his chin and elbow resting on his knee, as he looks purposely towards you, a gold crown on his head. butterflies abound, in the background trees and castle ruins, long bladed grass surround his throne.
September 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
QRP with something watery ⛵⛵⛵
3 of Wands Tarot: A woman in a red cape stands on a clifftop looking out to sea, holding a long wand. At her left, 2 other wands stand. In the background, 3 sailboats head west on a rough sea.
September 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Pencils for the Knight of Pentacles
#tarot #pencils #tradart
Knight of Pentacles tarot: A large armoured horse with the Knight sat on its back heads west. The Knight holds a disc with a pentacle on it, a sword on his back & his shield by his side. In the beackground, a field, and small river & bridge.
September 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The Magician Tarot V2.
#majorarcana #tarot
The Magician Tarot: A hooded man stands behind a table, a wand in his raised right hand, his left slightly outstretched, and infinity symbol on his chest. On the table, a wand, a sword, a goblet, a pentacle, some arcane papers, and a bowl of lemons. In the foreground, orange lilies and a pink rose, in the background, rosebushes and a large green mountainside rises up.
August 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Artists, quote with something dreamy ☁️
7 of Cups Tarot: A barechested man sits with his back to us in the foreground, looking at the 7 cups. 4 are in front of a plinth, on top of which sit the other 3. Contained within, a castle, treasure, a skull with a laurel wreath, a dragon. Plinth cups: a face, a hooded figure with outstretched arms, a snake. All of this is sat above the clouds.
August 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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I don't think I've posted this here, or in years. 4 of Swords #tarot with the old card border (I've redesigned that since).
#minorarcana
4 of Swords tarot: a statue of a knight lays on a tomb, its hands clasped in prayer. A sword lays by its side. Gold light shines through a crackelured Madonna and Child on the window. 3 other swords hang on the wall to the right.
August 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Evening. Here is some cool art done by me ☠️
A scan of a book that doesn't exist - an ink drawing of a Cockatrice on the left page, text on a Fighting Fantasy CYOA on the right Cover to 'Cathedral of Anguish', a Fighting Fantasy book that may or may not exist. A Hierophant with clasped hands looks down on you, elevated in a dark cathedral Visas Marr, a Sith apprentice stands with her red lightsaber lit, her hand across her chest. She wears a purple hood & dress with ornate gold trim, and a patterned grey tabard/cloak The Moon Tarot: A Wolf, a crab and a dog populate the rocky shore in the foreground, in the distance 2 huge pillars rise in front of a small village set on a forested hillside. In the night sky the 32 pointed Moon shines brightly.
August 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
Post an old illustration you still like.
This is from 1993, I sold it about 6 years ago :)
A black & white pen drawing of Kurt Cobain done in 1993 when I was 16
August 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
This
Cover to Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven. A drawing of two hands in front of a red explosion thing on a brown background.
August 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
manticore-aw.bsky.social
Cool on 500+, been a while since I did a share, so, have some art:
Knight of Wands Tarot: An armoured Knight on horseback holding a long wand, wearing a golden robe with a salamander pattern & red feathers on his helmet. In the foreground, a Salamander. In the background, some pyramids and a bright blue sky. 7 of Cups Tarot: A barechested man sits with his back to us in the foreground, looking at the 7 cups. 4 are in front of a plinth, on top of which sit the other 3. Contained within, a castle, treasure, a skull with a laurel wreath, a dragon. Plinth cups: a face, a hooded figure with outstretched arms, a snake. All of this is sat above the clouds. Ahriman, a divine being - with the body of a man, the head of a lion, and ornate colourful wings. He stands facing east ready to strike an offscreen foe with the golden Trishul in his hand. Inverted arches recede in the background, as golden flakes rain down. A portrait of Ernest Borgnine being really angry.
August 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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If you see this, post swords! ⚔️
8 of Swords tarot: A blindfolded woman with her arms crossed to hold each shoulder stands in a dark forest. She surrounded by 8 swords vertically dug into the ground. Dirty light shines from the top left behind her.
August 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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First Chapter Header page I did for #librumprodigiosum
#yokai #nightparade #tanuki
Chapter 6: The Night Parade - Yokai. Clockwise from bottom left - A Rokurokubi Geisha girl with a long snake neck holds a Chochin, background a huge skeleton Gashadokuro sits on the steps, a Ushi-Oni is atop the VI/gate, a Tanuki sits on a well roof, and a Betobetosan ghost stands. In the background, a forest with huge trees.
August 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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If you see this, post a ghost and the hashtag #Aughost
(Ghostie made by my wife)
An iridescent clay ghost with bright orange tears running from its hollow eyes sits atop a wooden cabinet, a terrarium in a bottle and some dark shapes in the background.
July 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM