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hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. i'm lee and i'm anillustrator/graphic designer/comic booker/dreamer peace x ☾ portfolio ☼ email

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Do you have the app '20 lines'? It's really good for practicing very short stories, sharpening your skills, generating new ideas and sharing them. I swear i'm not advertising the app, i just started using it and thought it may be of interest to you and your followers. My username is Ellewriter on there, if you want to find my profile. But i'll just add in advance, that my writing is NSFW and my sense of humour is not to everyones taste. Thanks. Let us followers know if you add a profile!

hiiiiiii have never heard of the app but i'll give it a go, for sure! do you have a tumblr? you can pm me if you dont want to announce it to the world :)

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hi everyone

firstly, HAPPY NEWW YEAARRRR! (insert a firework here)

secondly, apologies for seemingly vanishing off the face of the (cyber)earth for months. long story short. i was ill for months, still kinda am, it wasn't too pretty. but, more importantly, it actually gave me a lot of time to think, and then think some more. to grow, re-arrange my thoughts, transform my mind a little more, and learn to anchor my day-to-day state of mind in a place of calm and contentment. so whilst there hasn't been so much as a half-step and a shuffle along my path of art and creativity, i feel like i've gone hundreds and hundreds of miles down another path and found myself in a whole new refreshing place. 

thirdly, as a result of the events of "secondly" (refer above), i'm literally bursting with ideas at the moment, bursting in all directions; for my comic, idea for ANOTHER comic, idea about how to resurrect a previously DEAD comic, as-well as a bunch of finished piece multimedia illustrations i wanna fire off. And as the cherry on top, I'm gonna be working on an animated music video this month! And designing cards (and hopefully some prints) for a pretty well known local Artsy shop!

To 2015, onwards and upwards guyyyys

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:( so i pretty much spent october going between non-stop working and non-stop being ill, so haven't had much time to draw anything of my own

:) but now things are getting back to the norm and i got time to squeeze in a doodle, one of my sukeban girls. i'm thinking of doing more of this kind of stuff and getting some t-shirts put together but i'm still undecided, so lemme know if anybody would be interested in this kind of stuff?

ps: it's a transparent background png woo

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IIIT;'S OCTOBERRRRRRRR 

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randomly sketching beween jobs today and storm came out, fave superhero since a knee-high 

ps angelabassett4storm

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Hi, i love your work. Would you consider creating a really hot looking girl for your comic who is actually a male to female trans girl? She's slim, reasonably flat chested. She's some kind of assassin 'hit women' who deals with the pain of never being loved as a woman. She really messes with minds of other characters but also readers as she is attractive and confuses their sexuality. Maybe she works as an escort but is actually hired to kill her clients, maybe at the point of 'realisation'. X

that's certainly a pretty fully formed character idea you have there, i wouldn't want to steal it from you! why not have some fun with it yourself, make a few drawings, see what comes of her! 

as for including male to female trans characters in my comics, that's practically a certainty. i plan on my cast of characters to be made up of a wide variety of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, lifestyles and so on. so watch this space! 

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more character development stuff for my "cyberpunk" comic

this guys name is Dio. in his younger days he was a rebel/freedom fighter, but his childhood love, lifelong friend, and wife was killed during "the war" and has since retired from the battlefield and instead makes a living as the head of a security/bodyguard/bouncer business. his reputation alone is enough to make people not fall on his, or his employees, bad side. he loves poetry, guns, fitness, kicking ass, and roses as they remind him of his wife. he wears his wife's wedding ring around his neck, always. 

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here's another coloured character design, this is of the same lady i've posted a couple of times here already, feel like i'm finally starting to get her right

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i drew a whole bunch of character designs for my cyberpunk-ish comic over the past couple of days, so just scanned them all in and i'm gonna start experimenting with colours. here's the first which i just finished slapping some colour on

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LEON and MATHILDA are available for pre-order. Run of 50 of each. Full colour on A3 310gsm. £15 each, or both for £25, plus postage. Get in touch if you wanna grab one/both!

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some unused doggy kitty heads i did for a commission

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some unused nurse concepts for a commission 

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more character development art for my upcoming comic

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hiiiiiiiiiiii i know, i know, i'm like, a week late with the leon prints. i've ended up getting stuck in a colouring rut, so i'm going at it slowwwly. but in the meantime, here's two developmental arts of two characters from one of my forthcoming comics

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This is a new iteration, the list has been scrapped for the old ‘reblog and’ post.

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"Is life always this hard, or just when you're a kid?" "Always, like this." final tease for these pieces. the final full colour prints will be unveiled/available to buy on monday, but for now, here's the final lineart to tide over the weekend. i probs coulda saved it all until monday for a big "ta daa", but fuckit, whatever ay! hashtag yolo n that

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sneak peak sketch of my next portrait...