THE BEARDLY BEN

Illustrator, animator and designer based in Cape Town. Bisexual. Draws werewolves, monsters, fantasy and D&D stuff. Addicted to coffee. Dog and cat dad. Heavy metal is neat.

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Is it just me or has there been an insane increase in spammy replies and bots on this hellsite lately?

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A week has come and gone, so time to release it from patreon!

The Night Belonged to Us (working title) Pg.01/--

If you want to read the other pages that are up on the P site, consider supporting me: www.patreon.com/bengeldenhuys

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The Night Belonged to Us (working title!) Page 3! Read it now on Patreon: The Beardly Ben's Patreon Link is Here, pls Click :)

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Page two is up on Patreon! Read it here

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Over the last few weeks I've been chipping away at a short little queer fantasy comic based on some of my D&D characters.

It has no name yet and pages will be posted to patreon a week before posting to socials. If you want more, please consider supporting!

Link to read the first page of the comic

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Happy #pride from all my D&D bois!

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You can, in fact, wishlist our silly coffin carrying game on Steam! In fact, it would help us greatly if you did so we can gauge interest 😁

store.steampowered.com/app/4508230/...

Have some cool art as well to sweeten the deal 😎

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Dungeon bread. Barny and Senshi are very much on the same page.

This has been sitting in my WIPs for almost a year and I'm finally glad it is done!

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Griffin snapped.

From MBMBaM 812: https://youtube.com/shorts/2l6ZazA3ho8?si=Qf4pHWYYuM6j__7Y

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Ko-fi doodles for March!

Thanks to everyone who bought some of these, you all are the best <3

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comicfury needs financial help

one of the best free-to-host comic websites, comicfury, is in need of financial assistance to keep up with the demands of running a website. <- this is the forum post explaining the situation and how to help!

for a minimum of $5 a month, you can help keep comicfury afloat and keep webcomics free for all :) comicfury has existed for so many years that its hard to imagine a world without it! please consider donating if only for the sake of keeping webcomics alive.

i have no relationship to comicfury outside of a respectful awe of their ethos and mission. they are essential to keeping comics online in the hands of people free of corporate influences. please help keep it that way.

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As someone who's about to make a webcomic using this site, please show your support!

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Hello don’t mean to sound rude or disrespectful,can I ask you a question?

Hey there!

Sure thing. What's the question?

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So I may have gotten a little carried away... This has been sitting in my WIPs folder for almost a year and I finally decided I'd finish it.

I hope you like this angry bogan snake man as much as I loved drawing him!

This is a direct reference and homage to Frank Frazetta's "The Tempest"

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Ko-fi doodle stream is now live!

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So I'll be doing ko-fi doodles again due to provisional tax shenanigans that I have to pay in advance. More info in the link above. I'll be streaming the drawing these on twitch until the goal is reached. Thanks for your consideration! Here are some previous doodle examples:

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Another moody noir piece of Burjack for #goblinweek. This took bloody ages!

Heavily edited background sourced from Unsplash

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And here's a little timelapse of my most recent Burjack illustration.