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Ryan “TK” Cicak
@ryantk.bsky.social
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California-based Artist, Writer, and Performer.
Cats, Comics, Coffee, Cthulhu.
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Heartbroken about Claude’s passing. A true San Francisco icon. Much love to his caretakers at
@calacademy.bsky.social
An illustration of Claude the albino alligator, late resident of California Academy of Sciences and beloved San Francisco icon. Claude is shown in the negative space between fields of gold and pink. There is a heart with his name in the corner. An illustration of Claude the albino alligator, late resident of California Academy of Sciences and beloved San Francisco icon. Claude is shown in the negative space between fields of gold and pink. In the corner is written his caretakers’ nickname for him, “Swamp Puppy.”
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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The Bride of Frankenstein 2025.

Happy Anniversary to #TheBrideOfFrankenstein! I wanted to do something special for her, and the opportunity to combine it with some #FrankensteinGDT fan art was irresistible. So here is #MiaGoth as #ElizabethHarlander, as well a spooky take. @realgdt.bsky.social
An illustration of Mia Goth as Elizabeth Harlander in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. She wears her bridal dress, and is framed against a purple and green background. An illustration of Mia Goth as Rlizabeth Harlander in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, but modified to look like a more traditional undead Bride of Frankenstein. Her wedding dress is bloodied like the end of the movie, and her long red hair has shocks of white at the temples. Her eyes are milky, and her skin has the same porcelain creaminess that Jacob Elordi’s monster has in the movie. The background is bloodied red and a lightning bolt sets an ethereal glow around her figure.
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Had to hop on the #FrierenMeme. I always struggle with this angle, but I’m pleased with how it turned out!
#Frieren
An illustration of Frieren looking up. An illustration of Frieren looking up; the perspective is wonky.
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Saw the @turasatanaofficial.bsky.social documentary TURA! with a Q&A hosted by @peacheschrist.com and loved it. Had to honor her with a little sketch. #FasterPussycstKillKill #TuraSatana #Varla
A digital drawing of Tura Satana as Varla from Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! A Japanese-American woman with bangs, wearing a low-cut catsuit type outfit with rolled up sleeves and black leather gloves.
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The Maestro @realgdt.bsky.social himself on AI.
A drawing of Guillermo del Toro smiling, above the phrase “I’d rather die,” his response to an inquiry about using generative AI.
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Happy Halloween!! My favorite holiday by far. Here’s some spooky art I’ve made this year! I want to return to this Lady Killer series.
A cartoony illustration Ellen for Nosferatu 2024. She is in blue against a red background, Orlok’s shadowy hand reaching across her face. An illustration of Carrie from her eponymous movie. Framed by a flame, she is dripping blood and wide-eyed. An illustration Sugar Hill, framed by a skull. She is in a low cut white jumpsuit, and looks furious. An illustration of the witch from VIY, framed by her floating coffin.
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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This still feels like a #wip, but since I’m about to go see @realgdt.bsky.social’s #Frankenstein, I’m excited enough to post it!
The phrase “Only Monsters Play God” in red text on a dark red background. Various images from #GuillermoDelToro’s #Frankenstein2025 fill the letters; the first “o” holds a woman in an ornate coffin. The “o” in “monsters” has the Medusa head from the water tower that forms Frankenstein’s lab. The “a” in “play” has the monster’s silhouette, while the “y” in the same word has the monster in a Christ-like “Y” pose. The “o” in “God” holds the doctor himself, holding a vial of glowing green liquid.
October 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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15. Vampire
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #Vampire #CyberpunkVampire #NoAI
An illustration of a cyberpunk vampire, with glowing syringes on the side of his face.
October 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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14. Lovely Bones
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #BrideOfFrankenstein #Cyberpunk #NoAI #LovelyBones
An illustration of a cyberpunk Bride of Frankenstein, connected by blue wires to glowing green diodes, her skeleton glowing green from within. She is framed by a yellow rectangle which is glitching out.
October 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Happy #PortfolioDay!!

My name is Ryan, and I draw monsters. Sometimes I draw pretty femme people, and sometimes they’re the same thing. I love horror and folklore and character design!
A folk horror interpretation of the Brode of Frankenstein, The Stitchwork Girl wears a gauzy dress and has thick, visible sutures on her limbs, as well as across her chest and mouth. Flowers parade up her beehive hairdo, which is also full of twigs and sticks. A seductive, full-bodied red succubus looks over her shoulder at the viewer. She is framed by a heart. The main characters from Cassandra Khaw’s novela The Salt Grows Heavy. A person with delicate features wears a plague doctor costume; they clutch the vulture-like mask to their chest as they recline. They have pale blue skin and delicate scars dot their face. They are held by a person with long hair and a voluminous fur coat, with pale green skin, bulbous yellow eyes, long fingers and visible fangs. The two gaze at each other lovingly. A crocomaid - a mermaid whose lower body is crocodile instead of fish. She swims upward, framed by a rectangle with bubble cutouts. Her dark hair flows in a halo around her head.
October 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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13. Pumpkin
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Pumpkin #Cyberpunk #NoAI
An illustration of a racer with a large, oblong helmet bearing a jack i’lantern face.
October 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Quite with your monster art.

The beauty is in the monstrous.
A folk-horror inspired interpretation of the Bride of Frankenstein, called the Stitchwork Girl. She wears a gauzy dress, with thick stitches around her joints, across her chest, and around her mouth. She has a beehive up-do adorned with flowers and shot through with twigs. There are rolling hills and a windmill behind her.
October 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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12. Yokai
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Yokai #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkYokai #KuchisakeOnna #DoYouThinkImPtetty
An illustration of a cyberpunk Kuchisake-Onna, the slit mouthed woman. A woman with a shaved haircut looks at the viewer. She wears a glowing gas mask/revreather, underneath which,glowing circuitry crawls from her mouth. On her back is a pair of enormous scissors.
October 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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11. Omen
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #Omen #NoAI
An illustration of a computer monitor and keyboard. The monitor is displaying “666” while a glitching digital skull appears floating above it.
October 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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10. Dark Water
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #NoAI #DarkWater
An illustration of a humanoid deep water drone. It has an elongated head, humanoid arms and eel like tail. Its fins and several spikes along its arms are glowing.
October 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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9. Undead
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #Undead #NoAI
An illustration of a skeleton, lit from within, hooked up to wires, and saturated in glowing binary code. It is framed by a green coffin shape.
October 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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7. Ghoul
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawllowernClub2025 #cyberpunk #ghoul
An illustration of a cyberpunk ghoul; a desiccated corpse in silhouette. Neon lights are glowing inside its skeletal frame, while wires and electrical diodes seem to hold it together.
October 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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6. Werewolf.
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #Werewolf #CyberpunkWerewolf
A cyberpunk werewolf against a blue circle. The werewolf has glowing tubes and lines at its joints, and metal enhancements on its head and over its eyes.
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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5. Forest Sprite
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Cyberpunk #ForestSprite
An illustration of a cyberpunk drone against a pink circle. The drone is a sphere with translucent/holographic wings and green lights.
October 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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4. Haunted.
#Haunted #Haunting #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #MabsDrawlloweemClub #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkGhost
An illustration of a man and his ghost. The man is mostly in silhouette, with cyberpunk implants. Behind him is a translucent ghost with digital glitches. They are framed by a green rectangle.
October 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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3. Witch
#MabsDrawlloweenClub #MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #Witch #Cyberpunk #CyberpunkWitch
An illustration of a cyberpunk witch; a woman in a beanie and jacket with pink glowing circuitry across her face and vials of magic elixir being pumped into her back. She is silhouetted against a yellow triangle and projecting a black hologram in front of her.
October 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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2. Familiar

#MabsDrawlloweenClub2025 #MabsDrawlloweenClub #Drawlloween #Cyberpunk #Familiar
An illustration of a cyberpunk cat, with vials of glowing goo attached to its back and implants on its neck, against an irregular yellow rectangle. Text reads “Familiar”
October 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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1. Spooky Intro
#MabsDrawlloweenClub2025
#SpookyIntro #Drawtober #Cyberpunk
An illustration of a cyberpunk person, a barcode on their forehead and neck, and tubes coming out of their head.
October 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Was thinking about doing a nice #BrideOfFrankenstein piece for her 90th anniversary!
But which one?
The Stitchwork Girl, my #FolkHorror interpretation?
My years-old guess at what a @realgdt.bsky.social Bride might be?
The classic @universalmonsters version?
Or something new?
Lmk in the comments!
The Stitchwork Girl. A pastoral scene with a wondmill and rolling hills in the background. A woman sits in the foreground in a gauzy shift, stitches apparent at her joints, neck, and chest. Her hair is in a wild beehive, adorned with flowers and full of protruding twigs. Isabella, my idea of a Bride of Frankenstein in the style of Guillermo del Toro’s #DevilsBackbone and #PansLabyrinth. Jessica Chastain as a woman floating ethereally, though her neck, leg arm, right leg, and feet are flayed to expose her muscle underneath. She wears a floaty dress, tattered by fire and lightning. The right side of her face is an emaciated rictus, her eye socket full with clockwork. Metal bracework adorned with scarabs holds her skinless limbs, and she wears a wooden corset. A black and white illustration of the classic #UniversalMonsters Bride of Frankenstein, uplift and screeching. #UniversalHorror The Brides of Frankenstein. Elizabeth and the Bride of Frankenstein locked in a loving embrace. Elizabeth has short blond hair and is dressed in a light top embroidered with flowers. The Bride wears a dark, angular dress with dark floral embroidery.
August 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Study of Naya Kotko’s work.
Digital drawing of a woman in a long fur coat, wearing a cowl with bat wing ears.
August 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM