Josh Rushing

Illustrator and comic artist with a BFA in Studio Art. Will be opening commissions in the near future. I also produce artwork for my YouTube channels, which you can find below.

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Remember that concept artwork I posted a little while ago? Well, that project never came to fruition, but the creature design was adapted to another film, and I designed the poster for it! The final cut of the film is still in editing, and I’ll be sharing that when it’s done, but here’s a clean no-text version of the poster!

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Some concept work I did for a friend’s short film that was supposed to go into production around the time a certain virus suddenly halted everything

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John Lennon portrait from photo reference

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I tend not to post unfinished work on here, but I liked this one enough in its half-finished state to share it. This was intended to be the cover of a Queen playlist I was working on, and eventually I might get around to finishing it

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These are some cheat sheets I made earlier this year for some friends who were struggling to understand certain lessons in their Drawing 101 class. It was fun to return to some of the basics and condense them into easily-digestible visual aids. My friends told me these were incredibly useful, so maybe they’ll be useful to some people on here.

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Another painting of another one of my girlfriend’s dogs. She likes dogs.

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Over the past couple years, I’ve been painting a lot of gifts and commissions for family and friends, and I’ve decided to post some of them here, with permission of course. First is a painting of my amazing girlfriend’s dog (well, one of them). 

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Here are some Beatles studies I did earlier this year. I have a few Beatles-related projects bouncing around in my head that may or may not manifest themselves at some point in the future. 

And while I’m outing myself as a MASSIVE Beatlemaniac, I might as well plug my Spotify playlists. First is my Complete Beatles Discography playlist, which covers their entire career front to back, in (mostly) chronological order. Then there’s my more recent Top 100 playlist, which is the end result of a 6-month journey to research and study each and every Beatles song ever recorded. Then I ranked my 100 favorite Beatles songs in order from best to... well, less best, and made a playlist out of it. I recommend the first playlist if you’re interested in following the Beatles’ long and winding career in a convenient format. The second playlist works very well as a general “best of” compilation.

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Self portrait from the toonme challenge that swept through Twitter a little while ago.

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WIP portrait of John Lennon I’m currently working on!

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Some dog sketches I did a little while ago

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here. Don’t wanna spend this post addressing my absence, but just know I’m still around and still drawing :v

I saw Bohemian Rhapsody over the weekend, and boy, it was an experience. I’ve been a pretty big Queen fan for years, and the main criticism I have of the movie is that it had to end. I would have watched two more hours of those performances, personalities, and drama.

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Thumbnail I drew for RushtheFort’s Demon’s Souls series, featuring Casca from Berserk.

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Thumbnail I drew for RushtheFort’s Splatoon 2 series.

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I made a new banner for my YouTube LP channel, RushtheFort. The old banner was 3 years old and starting to show its age, so Todd and I decided it was time for an upgrade.

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I felt a strong urge to draw my favorite superhero

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Is me