ABD Illustrates

🏳️‍🌈 Queer comic artist and all-round nerd 🏳️‍⚧️ He/Him 🎂 28 🍂 ARTBLOG 🍂 LINKS 🍂 ✨📖 My First Book is Out! 📖✨

[abd-illustrates]

It’s Finally Here…!!

After more than a year in the making; my biggest project yet is all wrapped up! This year has been putting me through the absolute wringer up until now, but getting to hold this book and see folks getting their own copies in the mail and from their local shops has been easily one of the best times of not just this very wacky year, but probably my whole life 🥺😭💖 I never wanna stop making stuff, and I sincerely hope that this book might be able to help all of y’all who share that spirit 💪❤️‍🔥

📖 BOOKSTORE LINKS:

Amazon | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble | Blackwells | + more!

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

i am Thinkimg . about the Character. and listening to a Song. i a m sure this will not have repercussions

[abd-illustrates]

🎬 Bi The Way I Am 🎬

This pride month I’m happy to share that I recently worked on a full-colour slice-of-life comic written by Mae Grenade as part of Lifeline Comics’ latest LGBT+ comic anthology, "Bi Bi Bi"; which features more than 20 stories by queer authors covering all corners of the Bi experience! 🥳🎉 The Kickstarter is live until July 3 2026 and has a bunch of bonus perks to peruse including digital editions, print editions, pins, bundles, and more!

💙💜🩷 Go show the Kickstarter some love! 🩷💜💙

[dietranch]

friend

[sylvies-kablooie]

whether you call it an "AMV", an "edit", or a "fancam", all of us, across generations, want the same thing: videos of The Character set to music. and i think that is beautiful ❤️

[funpression]

sometimes you dont eat fruit for awhile and then you eat some fruit and you're like oh fuck its fruit

[reddherring777]

me: yeah, so one of your most famous works is actually just that commission of a woman that you kept. Honestly, it's less of the piece itself that lead to its fame and more the mystery surrounding it, so I was hoping you could clear that up the decayed corpse of Leonardo Da Vinci that I resurrected: Hai detto che hanno chiamato una tartaruga che combatte il crimine con il mio nome?

[treasuredplanet]

I think that when you're overstimulated you should appear kind of grayed out and no one should be able to interact with you like a locked character in a video game

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

I've always thought it's too bad that disco is the only kind of dance that comes with an artifact. It's compelling that disco has a Ball. I want to know what secrets will be revealed if I gaze into it. There should be a hip-hop Cube. A ballroom Amulet. A swing Diadem.

[abd-illustrates]

A Cha-Cha Slide

[purepathologist]

iron lung is good because on one hand it's like "hey if there was an ocean of blood and we threw a guy down there would that be fucked up or what" but also it's about humanity and the want to survive and the need to survive and what is worth the cost of a life but it's also about the inhuman treatment of criminals and where we draw the line but it's also about simon saying "it's bigger than me" during his self sacrificial act for humanity it's also about "you deserve your freedom. i'm sorry i can't give you that." it's about oh my god i love cosmic horror it's about seeing such an incredibly beautiful and artistic and human and independent film prevail it's about everything and it's about what you are when you're left at the edge of nothing. so yeah the movie is ok

[neenarchive]

why would u want disgusting characters

the best stories will always present you with a weird little freak i hope this helps

[6irlpet]

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life

[henstomper]

imposter syndrome is so funny like fuuuuck i hope nobody finds out im tricking people into thinking im competent by knowing things and doing them

[parasiticheart]

i sent my gf a tumblr ask and she didnt post it so i called her a bad person ATLA?

[panel2princess]

no you Are Not the last airbender, sorry

[cowboysmp3]

there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living

[void-theorist]

I love Dungeon Meshi because every (main) character has a version of this. Every character is deeply affected by something they have no way of fixing or changing, but they're all still drawn together by love, passion, and kindness

[abd-illustrates]

💚 River 💚

Another piece I drew while prepping my Vgen page recently! River’s design has changed a lil’ since I last posted her 👀🦿

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[abd-illustrates]

✨✏️ Comms Coming Soon! ✏️✨

A couple of sketches I inked recently as examples for my Vgen page! I've been doing a lot of sketching lately so getting to do clean linework for these was real fun ❤️‍🔥💖 (ALSO! I can now confirm I’m gonna be opening a batch of commission slots on Feb 1st at 8pm UK time! You can follow my Vgen page to be notified as soon as slots open✌️)

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