Tom Hunt

Octagonal-shaped body, heart as black as coal.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

@MarcoMA4PS It's been a pleasure to watch this get progressively more detailed and embellished. Well done!

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

I've accepted I'm never going to make a career from my art, but I'm proud of this little dude here.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

@SoMK Beautiful, thank you for sharing. I take it you use a mix of gouache and watercolour? And if you're using watercolour paper, do you stretch/soak it beforehand or just go for it?

[Baldemar Rivas C2E2 Artist Alley A-05 @baldemar_rivas]

An personal art piece I did for a Chicano show at @MattieRhodes

#chicano #art #ink

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@HGriffeArt I think it's Dave Gallagher.

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@KleiosCanvas @aptshadow Beautiful work.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

I imagine people as welcoming as them, as generous as Bijan, as beautiful as Asoon, as kind as Dhara subjected to this. I don't pray - that's for the bastards responsible - but I hope the people of Iran triumph against this.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

Growing up in Texas, our next-door neighbours were Iranian. They'd gotten out during the revolution. My sister and I were in their house most weekends to eat seemingly unlimited cookies and use the older kids Nintendo.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

@ksadjadpour Very moving, and upsetting. They're just kids. How can someone help to stop this?

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

They're killing these kids. It's all I can think about. Singing, dancing, the criminalisation of showing your hair for fuck sake. A book, a belief, faith, God, none are worth a single one of these lives.

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

A poignant video of the 450+ protestors killed thus far in Iran. It’s not a coincidence that many of them are remembered singing and dancing; they died protesting a regime that has criminalized both activities.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

@EmielBoven Looks fantastic!

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

Some sketches for my DnD campaign in a weird mushroom kingdom

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

'Codespeaker,' pencil/charcoal/chalk, wraparound LP

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

@conor_draws I will, got an adventure in an underground mushroom kingdom coming up, so these are perfect. Thank you!

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

@MiloNeuman Following the action is effortless, it's masterful.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

An incredible talent, and some of the first books I ever read. I know there's so much awful news, but I'm so sad to hear about this.

[The Guardian @guardian]

Shirley Hughes, children's author and illustrator, dies aged 94 https://t.co/yK3K7VogSH

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

'In a Garden at the Cool of the Day'
(Pencil, watercolour, gouache, digital touchups)
Inspired by 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' and lots of other things.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

In the meantime, I like my art just fine, and will put up a couple of pieces I'm proud of this year.

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

Honestly, I don't know. I'll always make art, and instagram has been fun, but I think I'll keep my art to myself from next year. /6

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

There's a sentiment I've read a few times on here that's something to the tune of 'don't resent the success of other artists, but be inspired by/happy for them,' but this twee sentiment usually comes from a) the already successful or b) the young. /1

[Tom Hunt @Steeltoecaps]

I don't question the point of making art. That is a silly question. But why expend the effort putting it on social media. Without the easy answer of external validation from success (money, followers, a chance of more commissions, whatever), why bother? /5