Matt 🏳️‍🌈

@mspencerdraws.bsky.social

He/Him || 34 || Trans & Queer || Full-Time Freelance Illustrator Open for Work http://www.mspencerillustration.com/ mspencerillustration@gmail.com Courtly Beasts Tarot wips at: https://www.patreon.com/mspencerdraws linktr.ee/mspencerdraws

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about A TASTE OF HONEY by Kai Ashante Wilson. An achingly tender story of love and duty, the end made all the hair on my arms stand up. Queer, lovely, immensely powerful. This is a truly VITAL novella. Our drink is Olorum.

A paperback of Kai Ashante Wilson's A TASTE OF HONEY in front of summer hydrangeas. The book is flanked by a statuette of big cat (ambiguously read as a leopard or cheetah) and a highball with a pale yellow drink.

To entice you, check out the illuminated manuscript beasties that @grimolkin.bsky.social has worked up, inspired by the books in the series. I'm still pricing things out, but I'm hoping to give all paperback backers 1 or 2 of these, or maybe a little sticker pack, if we meet the 1st stretch goal.

a bunch of derpy adorable illuminated manuscript beasties. spiders and mice and coytotes and triceratops and wolves and mushrooms and a moth and birds.Neon Hemlock x Grmolkin
plus a snake+skull illustration, upside down because it's meant to be folded over

Hear ye, hear ye! Our royals have assembled their army of lovely, loyal knights, all here at last swearing binding oaths to Sword Cross'd: The Life and Love of Knights—thank them for their service and the royals will reward you with previews of their valiant quests!

Dark blue graphic with yellow writing. There is a banner of purple, blue, and teal medieval patterned embellishments at the bottom.

Artist's profile pictures are displayed on hung shield shaped banners.

Featuring:
@flohgna.bsky.social, @dreamu.bsky.social, @mintaii.bsky.social (cover),  @d-indy.bsky.social‬, @cuartosol.bsky.social, @endrae.bsky.social, @featherfangart.bsky.social, @annalisejensen.bsky.social, @faungrove.bsky.social, @riotbones.bsky.social

Sword Cross'd: The Life and Love of Knights is on Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr, and Instagram as swordcrossdzineDark blue graphic with yellow writing. There is a banner of purple, blue, and teal medieval patterned embellishments at the bottom.

Writer's profile pictures are displayed on hung shield shaped banners.

Featuring:
@Lericsson922.bsky.social, @farky.bsky.social, @sailorartemis.bsky.social, @WillfulAbyss.bsky.social, @elasmosaurusfic.bsky.social

Sword Cross'd: The Life and Love of Knights is on Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr, and Instagram as swordcrossdzineDark blue graphic with yellow writing. There is a banner of purple, blue, and teal medieval patterned embellishments at the bottom.

Artist's profile pictures are displayed on hung shield shaped banners.

Featuring:
@octoberended.bsky.social, @qquoe.bsky.social, @mspencerdraws.bsky.social, @pictheas.bsky.social, Jong Yi, @Leeminarium.bsky.social, @morlevart.bsky.social, @nikruuu.bsky.social, @mochiwei.com, @kimsokol.bsky.social

Sword Cross'd: The Life and Love of Knights is on Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr, and Instagram as swordcrossdzineDark blue graphic with yellow writing. There is a banner of purple, blue, and teal medieval patterned embellishments at the bottom.

Merch & Spot Artist's profile pictures are displayed on hung shield shaped banners.

Featuring:
Merch Artists
@aadorah.bsky.social, @amandasmurfee.bsky.social, @pokkibon.bsky.social, @catzero.bsky.social

Spot Artists
@juunipupu.bsky.social, @mortiscausa.bsky.social, soia.jpg, @foslo.bsky.social

Sword Cross'd: The Life and Love of Knights is on Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr, and Instagram as swordcrossdzine

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I REALLY HAD HOPED TO DO MORE ART FIGHT ATTACKS/REVENGES but the end of the month turned out to be WAY busier than I anticipated when I decided to participate. STILL gonna try to see how many wonderful folks I can enact revenge upon before it ends though🤞.

From a CBC article about teaching in the time of AI. I think it's relevant to art, too. Creating is an exercise in frustration tolerance to a degree: when making something you've never attempted, that no one's attempted, there is no right answer, but process and experience will lead you to one.

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