Pencil Mark's
@pencilmarks.bsky.social
Artist, Creator, writer of things, wrote some cartoon shows in a past life.
Many portraits to show, some have a social point.
Come step into my mind and see what happens when an artist bites the big one.
Silence isn't as golden as they say it is.
Many portraits to show, some have a social point.
Come step into my mind and see what happens when an artist bites the big one.
Silence isn't as golden as they say it is.
Ozzy Forever
#HandDrawn in pencil over 22 days
"Forty or fifty thousand voices singing back your words.
All along, that's what I was chasing.
It was the best drug I ever took."
#Art 🎧🦇 #MusicSky #OzzyOsbourne #PencilArt #Metal #Rock
The child? That's Ozzy when he was 4
This is the cover of a book
#HandDrawn in pencil over 22 days
"Forty or fifty thousand voices singing back your words.
All along, that's what I was chasing.
It was the best drug I ever took."
#Art 🎧🦇 #MusicSky #OzzyOsbourne #PencilArt #Metal #Rock
The child? That's Ozzy when he was 4
This is the cover of a book
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Ozzy Forever
#HandDrawn in pencil over 22 days
"Forty or fifty thousand voices singing back your words.
All along, that's what I was chasing.
It was the best drug I ever took."
#Art 🎧🦇 #MusicSky #OzzyOsbourne #PencilArt #Metal #Rock
The child? That's Ozzy when he was 4
This is the cover of a book
#HandDrawn in pencil over 22 days
"Forty or fifty thousand voices singing back your words.
All along, that's what I was chasing.
It was the best drug I ever took."
#Art 🎧🦇 #MusicSky #OzzyOsbourne #PencilArt #Metal #Rock
The child? That's Ozzy when he was 4
This is the cover of a book
Don't ever think charismatic power and getting people to do bad things hasn't been done before.
What captivates me about this era is how they feared "witches" and not the ones pointing the finger or those committing heinous acts. It's still happening.
#Booksky #Witchfinders #Witches #Witch #Wicca
What captivates me about this era is how they feared "witches" and not the ones pointing the finger or those committing heinous acts. It's still happening.
#Booksky #Witchfinders #Witches #Witch #Wicca
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Don't ever think charismatic power and getting people to do bad things hasn't been done before.
What captivates me about this era is how they feared "witches" and not the ones pointing the finger or those committing heinous acts. It's still happening.
#Booksky #Witchfinders #Witches #Witch #Wicca
What captivates me about this era is how they feared "witches" and not the ones pointing the finger or those committing heinous acts. It's still happening.
#Booksky #Witchfinders #Witches #Witch #Wicca
I started life in the early 1970's Glam Rock was in the charts and the Hippie era was still around but fading.
Thing about the 1970's was we knew the future would be aspirational. 2000 would bring us flying cars, moon bases, space disco... And yet we're here.
Dammit I want the 1970's future world!
Thing about the 1970's was we knew the future would be aspirational. 2000 would bring us flying cars, moon bases, space disco... And yet we're here.
Dammit I want the 1970's future world!
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I started life in the early 1970's Glam Rock was in the charts and the Hippie era was still around but fading.
Thing about the 1970's was we knew the future would be aspirational. 2000 would bring us flying cars, moon bases, space disco... And yet we're here.
Dammit I want the 1970's future world!
Thing about the 1970's was we knew the future would be aspirational. 2000 would bring us flying cars, moon bases, space disco... And yet we're here.
Dammit I want the 1970's future world!
And the #Ozzy portrait continues... pretty much in the dark because of cloud. I work in natural daylight only, winter is a challenge.
OK, so there's now a plan with this book and it will lead me to new #portraits next year.
#MusicArt #OzzyForver #OzzyOsbourne #Art #RockMusic 🎧 #Metal #RockGod
OK, so there's now a plan with this book and it will lead me to new #portraits next year.
#MusicArt #OzzyForver #OzzyOsbourne #Art #RockMusic 🎧 #Metal #RockGod
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
And the #Ozzy portrait continues... pretty much in the dark because of cloud. I work in natural daylight only, winter is a challenge.
OK, so there's now a plan with this book and it will lead me to new #portraits next year.
#MusicArt #OzzyForver #OzzyOsbourne #Art #RockMusic 🎧 #Metal #RockGod
OK, so there's now a plan with this book and it will lead me to new #portraits next year.
#MusicArt #OzzyForver #OzzyOsbourne #Art #RockMusic 🎧 #Metal #RockGod
Day 14 of drawing #OzzyForever and the top half of this #portrait is almost finished. Daylight has been awful, couldn't see to draw for a lot of the short day.
Part of a larger picture, a cover for a book of music stars who've inspired me.
#OzzyOsbourne #Ozzy #Art #MusicArt 🎧 #HeavyRock #RockGod
Part of a larger picture, a cover for a book of music stars who've inspired me.
#OzzyOsbourne #Ozzy #Art #MusicArt 🎧 #HeavyRock #RockGod
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Day 14 of drawing #OzzyForever and the top half of this #portrait is almost finished. Daylight has been awful, couldn't see to draw for a lot of the short day.
Part of a larger picture, a cover for a book of music stars who've inspired me.
#OzzyOsbourne #Ozzy #Art #MusicArt 🎧 #HeavyRock #RockGod
Part of a larger picture, a cover for a book of music stars who've inspired me.
#OzzyOsbourne #Ozzy #Art #MusicArt 🎧 #HeavyRock #RockGod
Filmed this afternoon after a marathon session of drawing Ozzy's hand.
It's working but cloudy days and dwindling light hamper progress. Also, hands are not fun to draw but this is for a personal book cover project.
#Ozzy #WorkinProgress #PencilArt #Art #MusicArt #OzzyForever #OzzyOsbourne
It's working but cloudy days and dwindling light hamper progress. Also, hands are not fun to draw but this is for a personal book cover project.
#Ozzy #WorkinProgress #PencilArt #Art #MusicArt #OzzyForever #OzzyOsbourne
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Filmed this afternoon after a marathon session of drawing Ozzy's hand.
It's working but cloudy days and dwindling light hamper progress. Also, hands are not fun to draw but this is for a personal book cover project.
#Ozzy #WorkinProgress #PencilArt #Art #MusicArt #OzzyForever #OzzyOsbourne
It's working but cloudy days and dwindling light hamper progress. Also, hands are not fun to draw but this is for a personal book cover project.
#Ozzy #WorkinProgress #PencilArt #Art #MusicArt #OzzyForever #OzzyOsbourne
Somehow I'm not surprised. My art page on there was started in 2013 and it's become a bad mobile phone game where you pay or die trying. Every post is you must "Boost Posts" Combine that with people just not talking 'cos their own reasons and the world becomes silent
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Somehow I'm not surprised. My art page on there was started in 2013 and it's become a bad mobile phone game where you pay or die trying. Every post is you must "Boost Posts" Combine that with people just not talking 'cos their own reasons and the world becomes silent
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
And a new #portrait takes shape although this one ain't easy!
Yes, I'm drawing #Ozzy again, the reason is I'm creating a book based on my music portraits and I need to show work in progress. I didn't take photos along the way of the last four #OzzyOsbourne portraits I drew over the summer. #Art
Yes, I'm drawing #Ozzy again, the reason is I'm creating a book based on my music portraits and I need to show work in progress. I didn't take photos along the way of the last four #OzzyOsbourne portraits I drew over the summer. #Art
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
And a new #portrait takes shape although this one ain't easy!
Yes, I'm drawing #Ozzy again, the reason is I'm creating a book based on my music portraits and I need to show work in progress. I didn't take photos along the way of the last four #OzzyOsbourne portraits I drew over the summer. #Art
Yes, I'm drawing #Ozzy again, the reason is I'm creating a book based on my music portraits and I need to show work in progress. I didn't take photos along the way of the last four #OzzyOsbourne portraits I drew over the summer. #Art
Currently watching this.
Thoughts: If slasher films are an allegory of real world events and films such as Saw and Hostel happened as a direct result of what was happening in the real world. When are we getting the horror version of an insane leader, morons in red hats and evil cops?
Thoughts: If slasher films are an allegory of real world events and films such as Saw and Hostel happened as a direct result of what was happening in the real world. When are we getting the horror version of an insane leader, morons in red hats and evil cops?
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Currently watching this.
Thoughts: If slasher films are an allegory of real world events and films such as Saw and Hostel happened as a direct result of what was happening in the real world. When are we getting the horror version of an insane leader, morons in red hats and evil cops?
Thoughts: If slasher films are an allegory of real world events and films such as Saw and Hostel happened as a direct result of what was happening in the real world. When are we getting the horror version of an insane leader, morons in red hats and evil cops?
Sending a huge amount of respect and thanks to @realgdt.bsky.social for adapting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Just returned home from the cinema.
Liked the subtle nod to Elsa's Bride costume with Elizabeth's wedding dress.
The portrait of Colin Clive? That took 6 days to draw by hand in pencil.
Liked the subtle nod to Elsa's Bride costume with Elizabeth's wedding dress.
The portrait of Colin Clive? That took 6 days to draw by hand in pencil.
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Sending a huge amount of respect and thanks to @realgdt.bsky.social for adapting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Just returned home from the cinema.
Liked the subtle nod to Elsa's Bride costume with Elizabeth's wedding dress.
The portrait of Colin Clive? That took 6 days to draw by hand in pencil.
Liked the subtle nod to Elsa's Bride costume with Elizabeth's wedding dress.
The portrait of Colin Clive? That took 6 days to draw by hand in pencil.
Halloween films no one really mentions any longer and it's a shame because this is one of the best ghost stories combined with a who dun it ever filmed.
#Halloween #LadyinWhite
In also fits very well as a double bill with (answer in the comments)
#Halloween #LadyinWhite
In also fits very well as a double bill with (answer in the comments)
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Halloween films no one really mentions any longer and it's a shame because this is one of the best ghost stories combined with a who dun it ever filmed.
#Halloween #LadyinWhite
In also fits very well as a double bill with (answer in the comments)
#Halloween #LadyinWhite
In also fits very well as a double bill with (answer in the comments)
#Halloween #Ghostie says something naughty and if you can't say it with words, use your hands. I'd say he's got a potty mouth but I don't think he can speak.
A model I bought last year that now has pride of place on a book shelf. I still aim to paint him in glow in the dark paint.
#Ghost #Boo 🎃
A model I bought last year that now has pride of place on a book shelf. I still aim to paint him in glow in the dark paint.
#Ghost #Boo 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
#Halloween #Ghostie says something naughty and if you can't say it with words, use your hands. I'd say he's got a potty mouth but I don't think he can speak.
A model I bought last year that now has pride of place on a book shelf. I still aim to paint him in glow in the dark paint.
#Ghost #Boo 🎃
A model I bought last year that now has pride of place on a book shelf. I still aim to paint him in glow in the dark paint.
#Ghost #Boo 🎃
Fun with wind ups in honour of the Great Pumpkin who will come tonight with toys for everyone who believes.
#Halloween 🎃 #WindUpToys #Clockwork #HappyHalloween
#Halloween 🎃 #WindUpToys #Clockwork #HappyHalloween
October 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fun with wind ups in honour of the Great Pumpkin who will come tonight with toys for everyone who believes.
#Halloween 🎃 #WindUpToys #Clockwork #HappyHalloween
#Halloween 🎃 #WindUpToys #Clockwork #HappyHalloween
It's time.
#Halloween #HandDrawn 8 Days (2014)
One of the early pencil portraits I worked on and back when social media meant that you could actually talk to film makers. #JohnCarpenter himself talked AND this portrait is now autographed by Tony Moran. #MichaelMyers
#PencilArt #HorrorSky
#Halloween #HandDrawn 8 Days (2014)
One of the early pencil portraits I worked on and back when social media meant that you could actually talk to film makers. #JohnCarpenter himself talked AND this portrait is now autographed by Tony Moran. #MichaelMyers
#PencilArt #HorrorSky
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It's time.
#Halloween #HandDrawn 8 Days (2014)
One of the early pencil portraits I worked on and back when social media meant that you could actually talk to film makers. #JohnCarpenter himself talked AND this portrait is now autographed by Tony Moran. #MichaelMyers
#PencilArt #HorrorSky
#Halloween #HandDrawn 8 Days (2014)
One of the early pencil portraits I worked on and back when social media meant that you could actually talk to film makers. #JohnCarpenter himself talked AND this portrait is now autographed by Tony Moran. #MichaelMyers
#PencilArt #HorrorSky
Sometimes you've just got to watch the Halloween classics even if it means getting an expensive Blu Ray player that runs locked Region A
America did Halloween better than the UK in the 1970's so the first time I saw this classic was last year on this disc.
America did Halloween better than the UK in the 1970's so the first time I saw this classic was last year on this disc.
October 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Sometimes you've just got to watch the Halloween classics even if it means getting an expensive Blu Ray player that runs locked Region A
America did Halloween better than the UK in the 1970's so the first time I saw this classic was last year on this disc.
America did Halloween better than the UK in the 1970's so the first time I saw this classic was last year on this disc.
From a book I own that details the #WitchTrials it was written by an unknown victim.
While I love the #Halloween season 🎃 and celebrate #HorrorMovies all year part of Halloween now moves away from the Great Pumpkin and remembers the invisible women who were tortured for being a #Witch & #Wicca
Read.
While I love the #Halloween season 🎃 and celebrate #HorrorMovies all year part of Halloween now moves away from the Great Pumpkin and remembers the invisible women who were tortured for being a #Witch & #Wicca
Read.
October 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
From a book I own that details the #WitchTrials it was written by an unknown victim.
While I love the #Halloween season 🎃 and celebrate #HorrorMovies all year part of Halloween now moves away from the Great Pumpkin and remembers the invisible women who were tortured for being a #Witch & #Wicca
Read.
While I love the #Halloween season 🎃 and celebrate #HorrorMovies all year part of Halloween now moves away from the Great Pumpkin and remembers the invisible women who were tortured for being a #Witch & #Wicca
Read.
Just a quick question for anyone knowing these things 'cos I don't.
Is #Substack a decent platform for artists? Running as a secondary to this page
When I draw portraits I research the subject and while I still sort of run a FB page, it's become dead to me. Heart been broken too many times by people
Is #Substack a decent platform for artists? Running as a secondary to this page
When I draw portraits I research the subject and while I still sort of run a FB page, it's become dead to me. Heart been broken too many times by people
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just a quick question for anyone knowing these things 'cos I don't.
Is #Substack a decent platform for artists? Running as a secondary to this page
When I draw portraits I research the subject and while I still sort of run a FB page, it's become dead to me. Heart been broken too many times by people
Is #Substack a decent platform for artists? Running as a secondary to this page
When I draw portraits I research the subject and while I still sort of run a FB page, it's become dead to me. Heart been broken too many times by people
"Has any man before ever offered his bride the gift of eternal life?"
Kharis: The Mummy's Ghost (1944) #HandDrawn #PencilArt 14 Days.
The scene where #Kharis crashes through glass, it's real glass, #LonChaneyJr has blood pouring from his chin
#HorrorSky #Halloweeen #Art 🎃🎬📽️ #UniversalMonsters
Kharis: The Mummy's Ghost (1944) #HandDrawn #PencilArt 14 Days.
The scene where #Kharis crashes through glass, it's real glass, #LonChaneyJr has blood pouring from his chin
#HorrorSky #Halloweeen #Art 🎃🎬📽️ #UniversalMonsters
October 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Has any man before ever offered his bride the gift of eternal life?"
Kharis: The Mummy's Ghost (1944) #HandDrawn #PencilArt 14 Days.
The scene where #Kharis crashes through glass, it's real glass, #LonChaneyJr has blood pouring from his chin
#HorrorSky #Halloweeen #Art 🎃🎬📽️ #UniversalMonsters
Kharis: The Mummy's Ghost (1944) #HandDrawn #PencilArt 14 Days.
The scene where #Kharis crashes through glass, it's real glass, #LonChaneyJr has blood pouring from his chin
#HorrorSky #Halloweeen #Art 🎃🎬📽️ #UniversalMonsters
From an episode of #MastersoftheUniverse #HeMan this morning on DVD.
Hmmm! Delusions of grandeur, wants to be king, ends up in a mood when things don't work out for him, surrounded by incompetent sycophants and lackeys.
Now am I talking about #Skeltor or...
Hmmm! Delusions of grandeur, wants to be king, ends up in a mood when things don't work out for him, surrounded by incompetent sycophants and lackeys.
Now am I talking about #Skeltor or...
October 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
From an episode of #MastersoftheUniverse #HeMan this morning on DVD.
Hmmm! Delusions of grandeur, wants to be king, ends up in a mood when things don't work out for him, surrounded by incompetent sycophants and lackeys.
Now am I talking about #Skeltor or...
Hmmm! Delusions of grandeur, wants to be king, ends up in a mood when things don't work out for him, surrounded by incompetent sycophants and lackeys.
Now am I talking about #Skeltor or...
After drawing #Ozzy so many times over the summer. This #HandDrawn #PencilArt took 19 days I'm now staring on an artwork book that covers my #Music #Portraits 🎧🎃🎶🤘
Pencil Mark's comes from a pitch book I created in 2024 to send out to agents, I'm using the same layout.
More music art to be drawn
Pencil Mark's comes from a pitch book I created in 2024 to send out to agents, I'm using the same layout.
More music art to be drawn
October 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
After drawing #Ozzy so many times over the summer. This #HandDrawn #PencilArt took 19 days I'm now staring on an artwork book that covers my #Music #Portraits 🎧🎃🎶🤘
Pencil Mark's comes from a pitch book I created in 2024 to send out to agents, I'm using the same layout.
More music art to be drawn
Pencil Mark's comes from a pitch book I created in 2024 to send out to agents, I'm using the same layout.
More music art to be drawn
Presenting a comforting little B-Movie from the 1990's where a recently discovered corpse returns home, rises from the dead and punishes, corrupt politicians, tax cheats and all those that aim to make America great again.
When you hope fantasy becomes reality just in time for Halloween.
When you hope fantasy becomes reality just in time for Halloween.
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Presenting a comforting little B-Movie from the 1990's where a recently discovered corpse returns home, rises from the dead and punishes, corrupt politicians, tax cheats and all those that aim to make America great again.
When you hope fantasy becomes reality just in time for Halloween.
When you hope fantasy becomes reality just in time for Halloween.
With Kharis now somehow finished I'm at a loss regarding the next subject.
There's room for one more before the Xmas season (again!) and producing cards that never get sold, but the next one? Possibly horror, possibly classic Universal Monsters, maybe protest art again?
Film time tomorrow though.
There's room for one more before the Xmas season (again!) and producing cards that never get sold, but the next one? Possibly horror, possibly classic Universal Monsters, maybe protest art again?
Film time tomorrow though.
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
With Kharis now somehow finished I'm at a loss regarding the next subject.
There's room for one more before the Xmas season (again!) and producing cards that never get sold, but the next one? Possibly horror, possibly classic Universal Monsters, maybe protest art again?
Film time tomorrow though.
There's room for one more before the Xmas season (again!) and producing cards that never get sold, but the next one? Possibly horror, possibly classic Universal Monsters, maybe protest art again?
Film time tomorrow though.
More #WorkInProgress on a drawing of #Kharis that is taking a lot longer than I expected.
Music is Let's Twist Again (Mummy Time is Here) by John Zacherle.
Not sure who or what to draw next, this will be finished soon.
#Art #HandDrawn #HorrorSky #HorrorFilm #UniversalMonsters #TraditionalArt
Music is Let's Twist Again (Mummy Time is Here) by John Zacherle.
Not sure who or what to draw next, this will be finished soon.
#Art #HandDrawn #HorrorSky #HorrorFilm #UniversalMonsters #TraditionalArt
October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
More #WorkInProgress on a drawing of #Kharis that is taking a lot longer than I expected.
Music is Let's Twist Again (Mummy Time is Here) by John Zacherle.
Not sure who or what to draw next, this will be finished soon.
#Art #HandDrawn #HorrorSky #HorrorFilm #UniversalMonsters #TraditionalArt
Music is Let's Twist Again (Mummy Time is Here) by John Zacherle.
Not sure who or what to draw next, this will be finished soon.
#Art #HandDrawn #HorrorSky #HorrorFilm #UniversalMonsters #TraditionalArt
Dear god!
All that history and that satanic orange stain thinks he has the power to destroy a beautiful architectural building that has stood for over a century??
When's the impeachment happening? Has anyone got the balls to do anything?
This is akin to destroying Buckingham Palace.
All that history and that satanic orange stain thinks he has the power to destroy a beautiful architectural building that has stood for over a century??
When's the impeachment happening? Has anyone got the balls to do anything?
This is akin to destroying Buckingham Palace.
October 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Dear god!
All that history and that satanic orange stain thinks he has the power to destroy a beautiful architectural building that has stood for over a century??
When's the impeachment happening? Has anyone got the balls to do anything?
This is akin to destroying Buckingham Palace.
All that history and that satanic orange stain thinks he has the power to destroy a beautiful architectural building that has stood for over a century??
When's the impeachment happening? Has anyone got the balls to do anything?
This is akin to destroying Buckingham Palace.
Kharis is already running into about 11 days. Lost track of time but thankfully on #Bluesky I can show some drawing with music on.
The song is Midnight Monster Rag by Jack & Jim
How many more days? Not sure. Bandages are an unanticipated challenge.
#Kharis #Halloween #Mummy #UniversalMonsters
The song is Midnight Monster Rag by Jack & Jim
How many more days? Not sure. Bandages are an unanticipated challenge.
#Kharis #Halloween #Mummy #UniversalMonsters
October 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Kharis is already running into about 11 days. Lost track of time but thankfully on #Bluesky I can show some drawing with music on.
The song is Midnight Monster Rag by Jack & Jim
How many more days? Not sure. Bandages are an unanticipated challenge.
#Kharis #Halloween #Mummy #UniversalMonsters
The song is Midnight Monster Rag by Jack & Jim
How many more days? Not sure. Bandages are an unanticipated challenge.
#Kharis #Halloween #Mummy #UniversalMonsters