Jay Reynolds

Portland artist, aging geek, and cat-farmer.  My success in those three venues varies wildly. Call me Jason if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

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#inktober Day One: Poisonous. A Grung hunter stalks the jungles of Chult, their skin toxicity a lethal deterrent to predator and prey alike. I'll be trying to complete the @jakeparker #inktober2018 list this year (swipe for the list); I looked at some other lists and just like how open this one is, though I will be trying to theme the art after Dungeons & Dragons. After a few years of getting halfway through and running out of steam, and reading some tweets from other artists, I'm going to try and keep it low pressure. I have a day job, I have commissions to complete and non-art commitments to maintain.. if I fall behind, I fall behind, and I may even try combining more than one list prompt into the same sketch. Good luck, Inktoberists! #art #comics #illustration #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #chult #grung #grungrunglung #tombofannihilation #poisonous #frog (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoZnwVRh6g9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eaoh029kp5u5

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#concept of Casper the Friendly Ghost, for my dark, gritty, grim-dark dark-grim reboot. "As his name indicates, he is a ghost, yet he is quite pleasant and personable." (Wikipedia entry) #art #comics #illustration #conceptart #monster #ghost #casper #copic #copicmarkers #death #deathisnottheend (at Rose and Thistle Public House)

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Gone as far as I care to with the hellhound. The Dr. Ph. Martin's white covered my ink mistakes on the elevated paw well enough, but did not react well to water color. I suspect it might do better with a thicker, less wet medium but as it stands I covered it with a joke. Swipe for the inks and shadow. #art #comics #illustration #watercolor #copic #pentelbrushpen #hellhound #hell #waynebarlowe #barlowesinferno (at Rose and Thistle Public House)

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Colored version of Kup from Transformers The Movie; I had a hard time matching his blues and greys, and even after I got them where I wanted them he looked flat so I added some red bits. #art #comics #illustration #transformersthemovie #transformers #kup (at Portland, Oregon)

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Terrain! A superhero who can manipulate weather and soil to grow produce, a fun commission for @sugarbearjaymes #art #comics #illustration #superhero #watercolor (at Rose and Thistle Public House)

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Can't sleep. Drew a beholder while watching #criticalrole on YouTube (listened to the episode C2E23 today at work). Mainly inked with a Copic Gasenfude brush pen; still struggling with brush pens but in a way it's teaching me to let go more and be a little more "sloppy" rather than fuss over every line as I would with a Micron or Tombow. #art #comics #illustration #beholder #eyeofthebeholder #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #copic (at Sullivan's Gulch, Portland)

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Pigpen concept for my gritty grimdark reboot of Peanuts. #art #comics #illustration #copic #ghost #demon #concept #dnd #dungeonsanddragons (at Portland, Oregon)

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SPHINX!!! Happy Pride, everyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈 #art #comics #illustration #venturebros #sphinx #shoreleave #fleetweek #portland (at Portland, Oregon)

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Sketch for the day; Ghost concept art for my soulless grim-dark reboot of Pac-Man. #art #comics #illustration #copic #ghost #pacman #dnd #dungeonsanddragons (at Portland, Oregon)

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Last day of May and I manage to finish a #mermay bit. Art has been few and far between; the day job Consumes All Energy. Wanted to do a humpback/mammalian mermaid... It's supposed to be a benevolent encounter with the diver but it's hard to make baleen look friendly. This is a smaller version (9x6) of a larger version (11x14) I started on toned paper. I seldom destroy pieces but after struggling through inadequate work space, paper curling with moisture, and generally just hating the whole thing, I had a full art-fail meltdown and crumpled it up. #art #comics #illustration #mermaid #humpbackwhale #humpday #copic #copicmarkers (at Portland, Oregon)

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Drove through Molalla today for work and witnessed a front-yard confederate flag on a pole, and no fewer than five “OreGUNian” monster truck stickers, so today I felt a bit inspired to finish this piece. Started not long after the Parkland shooting, in response to (and in support of) the student protests against the NRA. To hell with the NRA, and to hell with machine-gun obsessed patriot prayer ass-nozzles; you don’t need it. #art #comics #illustration #fuckthenra #fucktrump (at Portland, Oregon)

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My halfling rogue, Rusty Ruskettle, just made 6th level and I really enjoy the voice and character. I've an eighth level tiefling druid, Grendel, that I kiss the hell out of... But I can't stop obsessing over the idea of a dragonborn monk, Nameless. Finally sketched him out based on a miniature I put together on @heroforgeminis and decided against the usual dragonborn head-frills. I was thinking of the kensai subclass, with focus on the quarterstaff. He is linguistically mute, and communicates via limited ASL combined with growls and whistles kind of like Dragonbait from Forgotten Realms. There is clearly not enough D&D in my life but I've no room at this point. #art #comics #illustration #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #dragonborn #monk #heroforge #copic (at Rose and Thistle Public House)

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I was too late to the protests, but walking through downtown I was pleased to see so many people with signs voicing the need for reasonable change in gun law. Conversely, it's hilarious to me how much of a fit gun-fetishists are throwing; I suppose if my entire identity were wrapped up in owning a machine gun and that was the most interesting thing about me I'd be mad too, but as it is I'm hoping we can see some positive change so schools can go back to just having fire drills and not active shooter drills. #art #comics #illustration #marchforourlives #fuckthenra (at Portland, Oregon)

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Ash Maiden of Hell's Legion. I dunno, doodle for the evening. #art #comics #illustration #hell #dnd #dungeonsanddragons (at Portland, Oregon)

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Completed commission of a D&D character, in combat with a dire tiger. #art #comics #illustration #dnd #dungeonsanddragons (at Sullivan's Gulch, Portland)

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Quite late with a piece referencing the wonderful moment when @ramsiegel ‘s Nott the Brave straight-up murder-killed a baby manticore. I was driving for work at that moment during the @critical_role podcast and couldn’t stop laughing for a minute. Also, happy #internationalwomensday !!! #art #comics #illustration #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #goblin #rogue #manticore #dndbeyond (at Portland, Oregon)

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Manticore on the attack! Inspired by the wonderful #criticalrole which I have been enjoying while driving for work.#art #comics #illustration #manticore #dnd #dungeonsanddragons